Dub Epistemology
Audio Essays & Listening Sessions (2026 - ongoing)

Dub Epistemology is a series of hybrid talks and live audio essays that treat sound as both archive and method. Holmes’ recent work foregrounds movement, repetition, and re-performance with an interest in histories that circulate, mutate, and persist through listening, replay, and versioning.

‘Blues Epistemology’, is a concept coined by Clyde Woods which argues for a research vision that allows us to see connections between culture and political economy, to help situate the multiple ways those who are socially evicted can build power, below the radar. By exploring Dub, the Caribbean and Britain through a similar lens, Dub Epistemology proposes active, critical listening as a way of knowing - an approach for mapping place differently, connecting time periods and geographies, and re-inscribing histories that are felt, as much as they are heard. Dub provides a framework for listeners to think relationally (through versions, riddims, samples etc. as citational practice.)


Iterations of Dub Epistemology so far have included;

Luton Carnival in the 2000s, Special Collections x Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (March 2026)

Versioning the City, Spike Island, Bristol (March 2026)