These are scores - Workshop with Irene Revell


Gender of Sound invites Irene Revell for a workshop that brings together collective reading, group discussion and performance to explore the score anthology publication Womens Work (1975–1978).

Womens Work [sic] is a collection of multi-disciplinary textual, instructional and propositional performance scores by twenty-five women, edited and self-published in New York by Fluxus artist Alison Knowles and composer Annea Lockwood over two printed issues. With its decisive feminist framing, the collection presents a significant challenge to the male-dominated history of the avant-garde performance score and in turn a formal challenge to the feminist art movement of the 1970s that tended to focus on more visual media.

The workshop is open to anyone, with no prior experience necessary. You are welcome, though not obliged, to bring any instrument or sound-making device of your choosing.

This event is part of Research Week 2019 and will be held in Hus 28 on the waterfront behind the main building. More info here: https://www.facebook.com/events/568844343618894/

Irene Revell is a curator and researcher based in London. Much of her work since 2004 has been with the London-based organisation Electra. She has also been a member of the collective that oversees the Cinenova feminist film and video collection since 2006. She is Visiting Curator on the MA Sound Arts at London College of Communication where she now holds an AHRC TECHNE award for practice-based doctoral research at CRiSAP

Gender of Sound (KFoU 2017) is an artistic research and development project led by artists Susanna Jablonski and Cara Tolmie that explores past, present and future debates on the position of gender, performativity and resistance within sound. Attempting to find ways to listen together with specific emphasis on how we might perceive music through a frame of gender, the project hosts an ongoing series of “Listening Sets” and “Listening Sessions”. These events endeavour to find a collective language to reflect upon what we hear, how it affects our bodies, its poetic dimension, its political and cultural implications and how this might relate both to personal and collective experience.

När: 25 januari 2019 09:30 - 25 januari 2019 12:00

Var: Royal Institute of Art / Stockholm

Arrangör: Cara Tolmie och Susanna Jablonski

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