ResearchWorks: Listening as Political and Ethical Practice
- 5pm
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About this event:
- Category:
- Guildhall De-Centre | Interdisciplinary | Platform / Discussion | Research | ResearchWorks
- Event type:
- Booking required | Free | Online
- Admission:
- Free, registration required
- Location:
- Online
Event information
Co-hosted by Guildhall De-Centre for Socially Engaged Practice and ResearchWorks
This joint De-Centre / ResearchWorks event with Nell Catchpole and Leslie Deere will be formed using a collaboratively created text score. Leslie and Nell will examine their respective Practice as Research through themes drawn from Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (eds. Irene Revell and Sarah Shin), considering how listening practices are shaped by—and can challenge—dominant power structures and exploring how intentional, politicised listening can create space for transformation and care.
This performative presentation will activate their different gong playing practices as a call for active listening. Using gongs as a way into an ‘expanded’ listening, they will invite the audience into a shared space of sonic attention—foregrounding listening as a participatory, ethical, and relational act, a site of accountability, reciprocity, and potential solidarity.
About the Speakers
Leslie Deere
Leslie Deere is an internationally exhibiting artist, performer and published author. Her current multidisciplinary work investigates embodied sound making, affect and immersion. She is engaged in research looking at the potentials of arts-based extended reality experiences as creative new forms of therapy. She has recently released a book chapter on VR performance from the 90s to now published by Springer and will contribute to a book in 2025 on altered states in audiovisual art. Leslie, BA Hons Sonic Art, MA RCA, PhD, is a classically trained dancer with a background in the performing arts and is a Postdoctoral Researcher at Guildhall School.
Nell is an environmental sound artist, composer, educator, and researcher. Her sound art focuses on the socio-ecologies of her local landscape in Teesside. Recent work includes ‘Unbeaten Valley’ commissioned by MIMA in NE England; ‘Teesmouth’ for BBC Radio 3’s ‘Sounding Change’; and ‘Transported’ as Artist in Residence for the Most Creative Station programme. She is Co-Director of Sonic Arts Week festival in NE England and is currently a PhD researcher at Newcastle University.
At Guildhall School of Music & Drama, Nell runs experimental curatorial project, Unfinished with Jan Hendrickse and co-directs music/visual arts project, MAP/making with Sophie Clements (Royal College of Art).
What is ResearchWorks?
Guildhall School’s ResearchWorks is a programme of events centred around the School’s research activity, bringing together staff, students and guests of international standing. We run regular events throughout the term intended to share the innovative research findings of the School and its guests with students, staff and the public.
