SPATIAL LISTENING
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort at Goldsmiths CCA and its playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct, Alex De Little presents Spatial Listening.
This one-day series of listening events stems from an ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
Participatory Installation: 12pm–7pm
Spatial Listening Workshop: 4pm–5pm
Performance Intervention: 7pm–8pm
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
Throughout the day, a participatory installation will foreground these potent sonic modes, capturing real-time speech and movements within the gallery space. An artist-led spatial listening workshop, building from breathwork and bodywork, will enact a series of engagements with the architectural spaces of the CCA. The evening will end with a performance intervention by the artist, further introducing, recycling and layering sound to activate the installation.
Curated by Priscilla Lo, Susana López Orozco and Emilia Radmacher (Goldsmiths MFA Curating)
Book tickets for the Workshop here.
Book tickets for the Performance Intervention here.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
As a response to Pilvi Takala’s solo exhibition On Discomfort at Goldsmiths CCA and its playful negotiation of invisible social codes of conduct, Alex De Little presents Spatial Listening.
This one-day series of listening events stems from an ongoing project that seeks to create sonic relationships between individuals and their architectural environments.
Participatory Installation: 12pm–7pm
Spatial Listening Workshop: 4pm–5pm
Performance Intervention: 7pm–8pm
De Little’s collective, multi-part experiment invites audiences to participate in sounding and listening as an alternative methodology of knowing, understanding and relating. As a perceptual tool, listening transforms the architectural environment from a visual landscape, rendering it instead as a dynamic time-space whose contours are perpetually modulated by sounds as received by listeners.
Throughout the day, a participatory installation will foreground these potent sonic modes, capturing real-time speech and movements within the gallery space. An artist-led spatial listening workshop, building from breathwork and bodywork, will enact a series of engagements with the architectural spaces of the CCA. The evening will end with a performance intervention by the artist, further introducing, recycling and layering sound to activate the installation.
Curated by Priscilla Lo, Susana López Orozco and Emilia Radmacher (Goldsmiths MFA Curating)
Book tickets for the Workshop here.
Book tickets for the Performance Intervention here.
BIOGRAPHIES
Alex De Little is a sonic artist and researcher based in Leeds and London, UK. His practice encompasses installation, composition, performance and workshops; it is concerned with the interrogation of listening as a way to understand environment, self, and social relations. Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, and the Hepworth Wakefield. Alex completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Leeds. He is a member of CAVE (Centre for Audio-Visual Experimentation) and an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research.
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