Event overview
In the first of our EAVI seminar series 2016, sound artist Brandon LaBelle sets forth The Sonic Agent (Part 1: The Invisible and The Overheard).
EAVI group are delighted to host a series of seminars by renowned sound artist and theorist Brandon LaBelle.
These seminars focus on sound as a platform for practices of social engagement: the series is aimed at developing a socio-political view onto sound, and will attempt to map out how it may provide generative means for enriching the complexity of what it means to live together.
In this first seminar, Brandon discusses the idea of specific “figures” or sonic agents, beginning with the figures of “the Invisible” and “the Overheard”. The second session, on 5 May 2016, will focus on two further figures - "the Weak” and “the Transient".
Considering sonic experiences through these agents will allow for narratives of acoustical relatedness, in particular ones that may move us from the major narrative of political crisis and disenfranchisement to collectively explore new expressions and possibilities for agency, empathy, secret association, and insurrection. Through the seminars, we can move from a space of theoretical sharing to collective work, using sound to engage with various pertinent social and political themes together.
The seminars are free, but there is a limited number of spaces, so please book. We encourage participants to attend the full series in order to get the most out them and become active participants.
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Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist working with sound culture, voice, and questions of agency. He develops and presents artistic projects and performances within a range of international contexts, often working collaboratively and in public.
His artistic work has been presented at Liquid Architecture, Melbourne (2015), NGBK, Berlin (2014), Whitney Museum, NY (2012), Image Music Text, London (2011), Sonic Acts, Amsterdam (2010), A/V Festival, Newcastle (2008, 2010), Instal 10, Glasgow (2010), Museums Quartier/ Tonspur, Vienna (2009), 7th Bienal do Mercosul, Porto Allegro (2009).
Also a prolific writer, his books include Lexicon of the Mouth: Poetics and Politics of Voice and the Oral Imaginary (2014), Diary of an Imaginary Egyptian (2012), Acoustic Territories: Sound Culture and Everyday Life (2010), and Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art (2015/2006). He is the editor of Errant Bodies Press and Professor at the Bergen Academy of Art and Design, Norway.
brandonlabelle.net
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
Adam Parkinson is a musician, curator, programmer and post-doctoral researcher. Alessandro Altavilla is a sound designer, artist and composer working in cinema, games and interaction design.
EAVI is the Embodied Audio-Visual Interaction research unit at Goldsmiths. Based in Computing, we focus on music; looking at ways of creatively using new technologies, and investigating the field of sound studies, whilst organising workshops, gigs and other events. eavi.goldsmithsdigital.com
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 4 Feb 2016 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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