Workshop Strand 2 : Stow Studio Space
Saturday June 10th, 2023 : 15:00 – 16:00
Overview
Can unorthodox music pedagogy inform visual art teaching? This participatory, hands-on workshop invites visual artist-teachers to engage in collaborative learning using strategies of sound-focussed enquiry more usually deployed by curious musical practitioners. This practical workshop will encourage artists to embrace ‘not knowing’ by using unfamiliar musical languages exploring collective and synergetic sound making. Our aim is to build a new composition in under 60 minutes using both structured, and improvisational banging, strumming, shaking, uttering and plucking. Together we will celebrate this collaboration across disciplinary boundaries by exploring novel and emancipatory possibilities that may encourage creative and pedagogic change. Come and make some noise with us, be part of the band. It might even be fun.
Speakers
Siôn Parkinson
Siôn Parkinson is an artist, composer, vocal performer and writer. Trained as a sculptor at Central Saint Martins College and The Slade School of Art, for the last decade his work has centred on experimentation with the human voice, electronic and acoustic instruments for soloists and chamber ensembles. He was an Amanda Burton Scholar at the Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE), University of Leeds, where his PhD explored the figure of the stinkhorn fungus as a way to consider sound in relation to foul smells. Siôn's music and moving image works have been broadcast on television and radio, including BBC4, 6Music and BBC Radio 3.His book Stinkhorn will be published by Sternberg in autumn 2023.
Ross Sinclair
Ross Sinclair is an artist, writer and musician who is Professor of Contemporary Art Practice at G.S.A. based in the Department of Sculpture and Environmental Art. He is best known for his ‘Real Life’ research project initiated when he had the words REAL LIFE tattooed in black ink across his back, at Terry’s Tattoo parlour in Glasgow, 1994. Almost 25 years later in 2017 he produced a solo show at Shanghai Himalayas Museum, in liaison with Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, titled Real Life is Dead/Long Live Real Life where the tattoo was enhanced to now state, "Real Life is Dead" He is a member of the band The Soup Dragons who will be reconvening live and in the studio later in 2023 after a 30 year hiatus.