This one-day workshop is led by Iris Garrelfs and will provide you with an introducton to exploring site specificity through sound, as a sense, a socially engaged method for exploring sites and communities, and an artistic medium. We will prioritise our ears through exercises and a sound walk, and explore how we can collect, curate and communicate site. Collecting site may include recording environmental sound, interviews, or sounding architecture; curating site looks at creating a unified work from the material; and communicating site explores strategies to employ in site-specific performance or installation. This workshop will focus on the aspect of collecting site, firstly by familiarising ourselves through listening, then recording interviews, environmental sound, collecting objects and other materials. We will briefly look at curating and communicating site

Iris Garrelfs is a site-responsive sound artist active across performance, installation and fixed media. Through listening she explores relationships with the world; her understanding of place includes people who, through their ideas or presence, participate in creating it. Work establishes experiences, environments for listening and has been compared to artists such as Yoko Ono, Henri Chopin, Joan La Barbara, Meredith Monk and Arvo Part. Pieces and performances have featured internationally, including the Onassis Cultural Centre (Athens), fRUITYSPACE (Beijing), Gaudeamus (Amsetrdam), Barbican Centre, National Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, International Computer Music Conference, Royal Academy Of Arts. Elsewhere she is the commissioning editor of the online journal Reflections on Process in Sound and she lectures on Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths, University of London.

In conjunction with the exhibition [city]Frequency by Maike Zimmermann at APT Gallery.

Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England

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