13th Dec 2018 10:00am-7:30pm 

This workshop is offered as part of a TECHNE Conflux, an extended training, development, exhibition or performance programme which aims to enhance research or intellectual skills, or facilitate the sharing of expertise amongst doctoral students in the arts and humanities.

Location: Studio 5, Jubilee Building, University of Roehampton, London SW15 5PJ

Book in: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/art-performance-the-sonorous-tickets-49854073877

On the 13th of December we are coming together to study the sonorous, which begins as the OED reminds us in giving out, service to the work, gift in circulation and capability. The sonorous moves towards the re-sounding, the noisy, and calls on us to be listeners, full, rich, strong and harmonious practitioners with style.

'Speculative practice’ and ‘Practice-as-research’ often involve inter / trans / co-disciplinary investigation. They demand that we bypass the scarcity model of research which suggests outcomes prematurely. This is too often a model that constricts artists, scholars and researchers in their critical enthusiasms and in their black practices of intelligent excess. Indeed, to sound out interdisciplinarity as Joseph Roach, Fred Moten and Daphne Brooks among others suggest, is not to engage in clunky switching to ‘other’ disciplines, but to pay careful attention to irreducible, unavoidable crossings between spheres of understanding.

Art, Performance & the Sonorous is the second in a series of six intensive study days over two years, hosted by the University of Roehampton and University of the Arts London. The days are designed for creative arts and critical theory candidates at doctoral level, and are open to TECHNE researchers and associates at all TECHNE partnership institutions and other interested PhD researchers within those institutions.

Each intensive day combines seminars, workshops and talks and hosts an international guest theorist or artist. Each day is organised around key concepts in interdisciplinary thought that impact upon the study of art and performance: materiality, the sonorous, mobility, the common, temporality and labour.