CRiSAP Panel at Women in Revolt: radical acts, contemporary resonances Conference

Cathy Lane is an artist, composer and academic. She works primarily in sound, combining oral history, archival recordings, spoken word and environmental recordings to investigate histories, environments, our collective and individual memories, and the forces that shape them. She is inspired by places or themes which are rooted in everyday experience and is particularly interested in ‘hidden histories’ and historical amnesia and how this can be investigated from a feminist perspective through the medium of composed sound. She is interested in what other people hear and don’t hear and the stories that they tell about these listenings. Most of her work is in the form of gallery installations, concert pieces, books, and essays. She is Professor of Sound Arts at University of the Arts London and directs Creative Research in Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP), a UAL research centre.

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Louise Gray writes on music and sound art for The Wire and other publications. Her interest in the sonic knowledge created through dialogue came out of doctoral research, which used in-depth interviews with five post-1945 female composers, each one working in a different transmission of music and sound art, as a way of understanding the methods and networks necessary to create work. Her recent writing has focused on ways of listening in the works of Eliane Radigue, Annea Lockwood and Pauline Oliveros. Louise also teaches on the BA and MA Sound Arts courses at LCC, University of the Arts London, completed her PhD with CRiSAP in 2019 and is part of the CRiSAP research community.

Tomoko Hojo is a sound artist working within the fluidities between sound, music and performance. Recently she has developed a series of archival projects around Yoko Ono in Tokyo, London and New York. She has an ongoing collaborative project with Swiss sound artist Rahel Kraft. She also co-ordinates and performs as part of the Tokyo-based Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater. In 2016–17 she was a visiting researcher at CRiSAP, and in 2019 she co-organised the Tokyo edition of Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism.Tomoko Hojo is a sound artist working within the fluidities between sound, music and performance. Recently she has developed a series of archival projects around Yoko Ono in Tokyo, London and New York. She has an ongoing collaborative project with Swiss sound artist Rahel Kraft. She also co-ordinates and performs as part of the Tokyo-based Ensemble for Experimental Music and Theater. In 2016–17 she was a visiting researcher at CRiSAP, and in 2019 she co-organised the Tokyo edition of Sound::Gender::Feminism::Activism.

Annie Goh is an artist and researcher working primarily with sound, space, electronic media, and generative processes within their social and cultural contexts. She co-curated the discourse program of CTM Festival Berlin 2013-2016 and is an editorial member of Feminist Review since 2022. She is Course Leader of BA Sound Arts at LCC, UAL and a member of CRiSAP (Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice).

Shortwave Collective is an international, interdisciplinary artist group, brought together by an interest in feminist practices and the radio spectrum. The collective’s approach aims to create an inclusive and collaborative tech-based learning environment, which attends to gendered education gaps. Recent commissions include Living Radio Lab (2023), an open studio for DIY making and public programme at Struer Tracks Biennial (DK); and Constellations of Listening (2022), a 22-hour broadcast on the theme of radio-listening for Radio Art Zone (LU). Shortwave Collective are: Alyssa Moxley, Brigitte Hart, Georgia Leigh-Münster, Hannah Kemp-Welch, Karen Werner, Kate Donovan, Lisa Hall, Maria Papadomanolaki, Meira Asher and Sally Applin. Hannah, Lisa and Maria are all part of the CRiSAP Research community. 

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Irene Revell (chair) is a writer and curator who works with artists across sound, text, performance and moving image. She is an RCA Postdoctoral Researcher on Aura Satz’s Preemptive Listening project. With Sarah Shin she is editing a book on feminisms, sound and listening (Silver Press, 2024). Much of her curatorial work has been with Electra and she is closely involved with collections including Electra’s Her Noise Archive and Cinenova: Feminist Film and Video. She recently completed her doctoral thesis, Live Materials: Womens Work, Pauline Oliveros and the Feminist Performance Score at CRiSAP where she has been the affiliated curator/lecturer on the MA Sound Arts since 2014, and part of the CRiSAP research community.