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Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) is a research centre of the University of the Arts London dedicated to the exploration of the rich complexities of sound as an artistic practice.
Our main aim is to extend the development of the emerging disciplinary field of sound arts and to encourage the broadening and deepening of the discursive context in which sound arts is practised.
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Event: Sound Arts Lecture Series – Spring 2023
12th January 2023 - 16th March 2023
Full details on Sound Arts Lecture Series – Spring 2023…Event: En una solo toma: Salomé Voegelin
7th December 2022 - 7th March 2023
Full details on En una solo toma: Salomé Voegelin…Event: Iran Protests – Women Life Freedom
26th October 2022 - 26th February 2023
Full details on Iran Protests – Women Life Freedom…Event: A Jineology for Iran | Web Exhibition at MOCA London
1st November 2022 - 31st March 2023
Full details on A Jineology for Iran | Web Exhibition at MOCA London…Event: Writing & Art technē Conflux #3: Marina Vishmidt
10th February 2023 - 10th February 2023
Full details on Writing & Art technē Conflux #3: Marina Vishmidt…Event: Writing & Art technē Conflux #4: Daniela Cascella
3rd March 2023 - 3rd March 2023
Full details on Writing & Art technē Conflux #4: Daniela Cascella…Event: RUBBISH MUSIC // YOUNG BARBICAN WORKSHOPS
12th March 2023 - 12th March 2023
Full details on RUBBISH MUSIC // YOUNG BARBICAN WORKSHOPS…
Research Feature: Sound Art as Public Art: performing the civic between listening and being audible
In this presentation Salomé Voegelin proposes that Sound Art, whether gallery based, or site specific, in nature or within the built environment, places us in a very particular way within what Chantal Mouffe considers the ‘democratic paradox’, and what Étienne Balibar calls within the notion of ‘égaliberté’, since it always engages the listener in the agonistic conflict between individual freedom to hear the invisible material in the formless shape of her auditory imagination; and the demand of equality, of a collective hearing, that aspires consensus and a shared vocabulary of what that formless form might be.
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Member Profile: Julia Schauerman
Julia is proposing a new and potentially valuable method for creative practice to understand, reflect upon, and communicate major issues in this time of political and environmental challenge.
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News: Social Listening
This project led by Hannah Kemp-Welch borrows protocols for listening from sound art practice, for use as methodologies for socially-engaged arts. ‘Social listening’ is proposed as an essential starting point for work that seeks to initiate social dialogue. During this project, students listened together and separately, comparing experiences and examining their ‘listening positionalities’.
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