Noisy Spaces: Embodiment, Technology and Public Space (2025)
Contrasting (but not contesting) Mark Fisher’s analysis of the modern device as a “portal to cyberspace”, this work looks to interact with questions of physical embodiment as it relates to technology. Using computers as a lens to exploring political and personal agencies within spaces, sounds and actions.
During the workshop, she’ll be exploring technology as it relates to collective sound making (through exercises taken from the London Community Laptop Orchestra), taking students through a history of London’s experimental collective performance scene of the 1970’s and how those methods can be adapted and applied to our current art culture. Through this lens, she’ll be situating and deconstructing the laptop as a tool for collective performance, looking at a relationship with the device that has us looking outwards rather than inwards.
The workshop is open to all, regardless of skill level, experience with sound / coding or understanding of arts and technology discourse, all you need is a laptop.
Prior performances have been held at University College London Slade, The Koppel Project (London), and University of Manchester.