bill daggs

bill daggs’ multidisciplinary practice employs listening as an act of resistance, memory as an act of defiance, and sound as a conduit for healing. Through sonic investigation, sound system and electronic music culture, daggs explores sound’s effects on communities in densely populated areas, its affects on public spaces, and amplifies these places as seminaries of play, improvisation, and mending. 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

‘riddems that pluck the strings that ping my beating ting like, bim!’, Studio/Chapple, London

2023

‘Allegorhythms’, Metroland Studios, Metroland Cultures Commission, London

2018

‘A Place That Reeked of Deja Vu’, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London

DUO EXHIBITIONS

2025

‘open [mic] confessions’, with Abbas Zahedi, Camden Art Centre, London

2018

‘The Pestle Hit The Hide’, with Motunrayo Akinola, The Wick Exchange, London

PERFORMANCES

2026

Imperceptible Clouds - Improvs Greatest Hits, The George Tavern, London

2025

Imperceptible Clouds - Hundred Years Gallery, London

Floods in Fires (with Shepherd Manyika) - ‘back2back: Sound Clash’, V&A East, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London

ECO [The Extracorporeal Orchestra] - ‘Nocturn Live’, 17 Little Portland Street, London

2024

Imperceptible Clouds - The Old Church, Stoke Newington, London

[Closing event for] ‘riddems the pluck the strings that ping my beating ting like, bim!’, Studio Chapple, London

2023

‘all watched over by machines of tight embrace’, Lewisham Arthouse, London

‘Siblingship pt.II’ for Hospital Rooms, Groucho Club, London

‘Next Movement / The Cypher’, Metroland Studios, London

‘Siblingship pt.I’ for Thorp Stavri, Hypha Studios, London

‘Taking It Back’ (as part of John Costi’s Solo exhibition, ‘Found Football Difficult), South London Gallery, London

‘Ghost Notes’, Fold Gallery, London

‘NC Live – Listening’, South London Gallery, London

2022

‘Waiting With (Sonic Support)’ [as part of Abbas Zahedi’s Frieze 2022 Artist Award], Frieze Art Fair, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS

2025

‘Future’, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Marylebone, London

2024

‘One Nation Under A Groove’, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, Marylebone, London

2023

‘Carousel’, Photobook Café, London

‘2 For 1’, Hypha Studios Stratford, London

‘Dancing In Outer Space’, Studio Chapple, London

2022

‘New Contemporaries 2022’, South London Gallery, London

‘New Contemporaries 2022’, Humber Street Gallery, Hull

'Les Animaux Modeles', ROSL, London

2021

'Prologue', Perlona Common Room, Shanghai

2020

‘Friday Night VisiEN5’, EN5 Gallery, hosted by John Costi (online)

‘Do Knot With Er’, LUX Moving Image (online)

AWARDS AND PROGRAMMES

2022

Metroland Cohort: Peer-To- Peer, London

WORKSHOPS

2023

‘Metroland Young Associates’ with Shepherd Manyika for Metroland Cultures

‘Birmingham Stories’ with Max Porter for The National Literacy Trust & Faber

‘Sounds of Silence’ with Shepherd Manyika for The British Library

2021

'Sounding The Archive’ for The Borough Road Collection Archive

DISCOGRAPHY

2024

‘(dreams of) Jamaica 5.10.24’ - bill daggs (digital)

‘something that angers hell’ - bill daggs (digital)

2023

‘Allegorhythms’ - bill daggs (digital / cassette}

‘FOR / FOUR PORTALS _60.B_’ - bill daggs (digital)

2022

‘If The Rain Stops, Don’t Think That We Gave Up On You’ - bill daggs (digital)

2021

‘IUTSUANITLRSALOW’ (LP) - bill daggs (digital)

2011

‘O:ZN’ (LP) – DefDFires (digital / CD)

‘Being Watched’ (EP) - DefDFires (digital)

2009

‘Mumbling Source’ (LP) – bill daggs (FKA Prymary Source / Pryme) & JJ Mumbles (digital)

2007

‘..a prelude’ (LP) – DefDFires (digital / CD)

2002

‘Basementality II’ (LP) – Underground Alliance (CD)