ResearchWorks: Radical Listening – listening, creative practice and research
- 5pm
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About this event:
- Category:
- Interdisciplinary | Platform / Discussion | Research | ResearchWorks
- Event type:
- Booking required | Free | Online
- Admission:
- Free, registration required
- Location:
- Online
Event information
Speakers: Victoria Karlsson, Emily Orley & Jon Mayse
This collaborative ResearchWorks session comes out of a shared interest in 'listening' in various contexts within the speakers' creative practice and research.
In this session they will take as a starting point a creative piece (their own or one that inspires them) and tease out how it relates to the idea of 'radical listening' within their practice and research.
Instead of thinking of listening as a passive state of ‘taking things in’, in this talk they want to imagine and explore listening as something that can be both active and radical - feminist, queer, political and/or disruptive.
About the Speakers
Victoria Karlsson is an inter-disciplinary artist and researcher, working across sound art and performance. In her practice, she explores cultural aspects of sound and listening, and she is particularly interested in intersections between sound, listening, queer theory and affect.
In her practice-based PhD research degree from CRiSAP, UAL, Victoria investigated experiences of 'inner sounds', which she defines as "sounds we hear in our minds, similar to, but different from, an inner voice." Through her practice, she explored experiences of inner sounds through performance, visual and text scores, and sculpture. Her research investigated our cultural attitudes and beliefs about inner sounds, and what insight those beliefs can give us into our broader relationships with sounds and listening.
Emily Orley is a London-based artist, writer, researcher and educator, working with performance, audio-visual material and text. She is interested in exploring ideas around memory, maintenance and solidarity, as well as investigating ways to un-fix notions of time and place. Always open to new forms of experimentation, she is inspired by lively discussions, new encounters, and unlikely assemblages.
As a practitioner-researcher, with a mixture of academic, artist and physical theatre training, she is a firm believer in breaking down the false binaries that separate practice and theory, making and thinking, and writing about making. She might call this practice creative-critical.
At the moment she works at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where she is Programme Leader on the MA in Collaborative Performance Making and Research Lead for Production Arts.
Jon Paul Mayse makes concerts, amongst other things. His research is interested in how we listen to music, from Quiet to Smelly Music. He founded Stomping Ground, SubPatch, and Live/Wire Electroacoustic Opera Festival and runs the Guildhall New Music Society. He has produced performances ranging from chamber concerts to dance and devised theatre at Resolutions Festival, Tête-a-Tête Opera Festival, Oslo Fringe, Klang Festival (Helsinki), and independently. His compositions have been commissioned/performed by the JACK Quartet, CHROMA, Britten Sinfonia & Mark Padmore and the Hermes Experiment and have won international awards, including the Luigi Nono Composition Prize. He co-curates ResearchWorks.
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.
