Benjamin Smith’s evolving multidisciplinary practice brings together listening, portraiture, sound, print and the material traces of place to ask how a community might compose and transmit its own cultural life. Black Classical, 2026. Artist’s book by Benjamin Smith & residents of East Cleveland. Conceived as an expanded book, the publication extends beyond the printed page through sound, portraiture, recorded voices and collective encounter—one movement within an evolving composition shaped...

Expansive Practice Ben Smith is an artist whose broad, interdisciplinary work spans sound and composition, film and moving image, social engagement and analogue technologies, often operating at the intersection of storytelling, memory and place. His approach is rooted in listening, collaboration and exchange, creating frameworks in which voices, memories and encounters accumulate and are transformed into new cultural forms. Working with a distinct openness to form, he builds projects that...

Introduction: Radical Presence in East Cleveland In a moment when phrases like ‘community engagement’ and ‘creative placemaking’ are widely circulated but often shallow in practice, Loiter emerges as a radical intervention. Based in East Cleveland, a city long impacted by redlining, deindustrialisation and infrastructural neglect, Loiter isn’t a typical non-profit, a gallery, or a consultancy; it’s a philosophy of presence. Founded on principles of cultural preservation, refusal of erasure,...