Political Aesthetics in Sound Art: Gender and Feminism

Political Aesthetics in Sound Art: Gender and Feminism

We are proud to present a talk and perfromance, by Iris Garrelfs and Cathy Lane, on gender and feminism in sound art. The talk will be chaired by Emily Bick, deputy editor of The Wire magazine. Part of the Sonic Waterloo sound art festival.

| Free Entry.
| No booking required.
| All welcome.

Iris Garrelfs // irisgarrelfs.com

Iris Garrelfs works on the cusp of music, art and sociology across improvised performance, multi-channel installation and fixed media projects. Her work has been included in major institutions worldwide, for example Tate Britain, National Gallery London, Royal Academy Of Arts London, Visiones Sonores Mexico, Palazzo delle Esposizioni Rome, MC Gallery New York. Residencies have included Grizedale Art, Institute of Modern Art Celje (Slovenia), Onassis Cultural Centre Athens. She currently is Senior Lecturer in Sonic Arts at Goldsmiths University of Arts, London and commissioning editor of the open access journal Reflections on Process in Sound.

Cathy Lane // cathylane.co.uk

Cathy Lane is a composer, sound artist and academic. Her work uses spoken word, field recordings and archive material to explore aspects of our listening relationship with each other and the multiverse. She is currently focused on how sound relates to the past, our histories, environment and our collective and individual memories from a feminist perspective. Books include Playing with Words: The Spoken Word in Artistic Practice (RGAP, 2008) and with Angus Carlyle In the Field (Uniformbooks, 2013), and On Listening (2013). Cathy is Professor of Sound Arts and University of the Arts London and co-director of CRiSAP (Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice), University of the Arts London.

Big Debbie // http://bit.ly/2umlfj7

Big Debbie was originally based in San Francisco, CA in 2012 by Sergey Yashenko, strictly as a bedroom recording project. Within a year these 4 track recordings surfaced in a form of limited cassette and vinyl releases on such labels as Cochon, Teen Action and Danish Skrot Up. Midheaven Dsitribution described it as "Driving drum machine beats and repetitive fuzzed out, sludgy bass lines with some tape manipulated vocals that croon, whisper and growl mostly in English. Foggy, hypnotic, haunting and dancy at times.

Sharmi Basu // sharmi.info

Sharmi Basu is an Oakland-based South Asian woman of color creating experimental music as a means of decolonizing musical language. She attempts to catalyze a political, yet ethereal aesthetic by combining her anti-colonial and anti-imperialist politics with a commitment to spirituality within the arts. She is an MFA graduate from the Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College in Electronic Music and Recording Media and has worked with Fred Frith, Roscoe Mitchell, John Bischoff, Pauline Oliveros, Chris Brown, George Lewis, Laetitia Sonami, Jesse Drew, Bob Ostertag, Jesse Drew, Dr. Nalini Ghuman, Maggi Payne, and more. Her workshops on “Decolonizing Sound” have been featured at the International Society for Improvised Music, the Empowering Women of Color Conference, and have reached international audiences. She specializes in new media controllers, improvisation in electronic music, and intersectionality within music and social justice.

Supported by the Arts Council England.
Curated by IKLECTIK & Unpredictable Series.