Experimental sound and drawing workshop
In this experimental workshop, artist Sophie Seita will invite participants to develop their own graphic scores by drawing sounds they hear, feel, or imagine. Graphic scores are alternative notations for sound and movement. The afternoon will include listening meditations, drawing/writing to recorded music, and making sounds with everyday objects and then capturing these sounds through drawing and writing; or inventing scores for real or imagined bodies and voices. Bring any objects or materials for sound-making and drawing-writing. All ages and languages welcome, no prior experience needed. The prompts and imagery used will be open-ended, playful, sensory, and adaptable.
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For about a decade, Sophie Seita has worked with language as a sensuous, sculptural, and sonic material, translated and moulded into live performances, performative objects, publications, sound pieces, drawings, and textiles. Recent exhibitions, performances, talks, and workshops have found a home at Kafkárna (Centre for Arts and Ecology, Prague), Ruta del Castor (Mexico City), Athens Experimental Lit and Performance Festival, Mimosa House, Café Oto, UP Projects, Flat Time House (all London), Rupert (Vilnius), Nottingham Contemporary, Index (Stockholm), Grand Union (Birmingham), Matt’s Gallery, Kunsthalle Darmstadt, diffrakt (Berlin), and elsewhere.
Seita teaches in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and recently held residencies at Akademie der Künste (Berlin), Studio Voltaire (London), Britten Pears Arts (Snape Maltings), and Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island).
