About

Joshua-Michele Ross is a conceptual and sound-based artist whose work centers on time, ecology, and the restorative power of listening. 

In an age whose primary metaphor is “the newsfeed” modernity is marked by our dislocation from embodied time and place. “Users” distractedly scroll mobile devices and fret over disasters half-a-world away. We are awash in digital information whose effects upon us - more often than not - are anxiety, chronic distraction, division, and dis-ease. 

Ross is interested in creating experiences that have centripetal force; bringing us into wider forms of community, centering us in the here and now, and introducing narratives that engender desire, hope, and empathy.

Against a visually-dominated world, Ross uses listening as a disarming medium for revelation, enchantment, and increased connection with the more-than-human world.