Workshop at Middlesex University this Thursday! Middlesex University Music Cognition & Communication Lab
In this lecture, we will explore a connection point between space and artistic work, focusing on mixed-media compositions and sound installations. Created as spaces for micro-societies to evolve, these works reflect power relations and social action through conversations between participants, and collective decision-making. The main discussion will develop around the compositions We Should Burn This! (2018) and Click to the Dark Side, We Have Cookies (2022), which were used as apparatuses for leading participants to discuss, take decisions, and act, in order to investigate the potential for social action and change through the arts. We will also explore the role of physical space and place, group behaviour and discussion as part of the performance, and the potential application of the above-mentioned design in social psychology research, and education, as well as prospective methodologies for creating and researching these compositions/’spaces’. During the second part of the lecture/workshop, we will create a short performance using objects and simple musical instruments applying the ‘composed space’ design to a subject which will be introduced for discussion at the beginning of the workshop (second hour). The purpose of this lecture/workshop is to encourage participants to create interdisciplinary connections between their profession and creative processes and raise questions about the potential application of those ideas in an educational framework.
