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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Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose work swims in the muddy waters of language and is informed by deep listening, critical opacity, queer abstraction, and a playfulness that’s both rigorous and pleasurable. Often working collaboratively, she’s expanding and deepening her ongoing decolonial and queer project with the musician and conductor Naomi Woo, to give voice to untold queer archives, alongside other international artists, academics, activists, gardeners, designers, and writers, as part of The Hildegard von Bingen Society for Gardening Companions. Most recently, this took the form of a fictional gardening talk show called bingenTV; a solo exhibition at Mimosa House; and a multi-layered encounter in the wetlands of Xochimilco, Mexico City, in collaboration with the organisation Ruta del Castor, the artist Carolina Caycedo, and numerous international artists, activists, farmers, and researchers. Seita teaches in the Art Department at Goldsmiths, University of London, and currently holds the 2023-2024 Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. Her latest book is Lessons of Decal, a collection of experimental essays, out now with the 87 Press.