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Phd septEMBER session

Saturday, 30 Sept 2023

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SESSION MODERATED BY ANDREW FREIBAND
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Sunday, 1 oct 2023

SESSION MODERATED BY BRITTA FLUEVOG

phd workshop
records of virus and healing
With zeerak ahmed

What is it that you hold? Your living body is a vessel that stores and shares. It is a host of fluid languages, stories and live sonic archives that have the ability to record, grow, spread, and even alter meanings. In this course we will explore sound as a virus that threatens our existence as well as the antidote needed for our survival.

Through selected readings, sound works and independent exercises, we will consider elusive forms of past, present and future information that our sounding body has the capacity to access and distribute. In our exploration, we will delve deep into the dual nature of music and lyrical content, examining how they can act as a viral force, rapidly spreading emotions, ideas, and cultural movements across local and global societies, while also serving as a healing balm for the human spirit during times of crisis. Together we will highlight the transformative power of sound art as it transcends barriers and serves as a radical tool for creative connection.

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phd workshop
systems thinking for artists
With andrew freiband

Systems Thinking for Artists is a presentation, workshop, and dialogic discussion group that will introduce artists to basic concepts of “systems science” and consider what kind of a systems scientist each of us already is through our own artistic practices.

What is the substance of the stocks and flows that artists are attuned to as they work? Can we map and name the feedback loops and systems mechanisms that we employ either intellectually, intuitively, embodiedly, or otherwise as we engage in our artmaking?

Participants will be guided through collaborative exercises in mapping each of their knowledge and practices, and the systems of which they may be a part. We will leave off here, with the observation that each of our artistic practices are providing a use to some system or another - is it the use we aspire to?

In other words: this is one of those ‘Business for Artists’ seminars, but in this case we know that ‘business’ as currently understood is destroying our planet, oppressing most of humanity, and dismantling our most essential social structures. The aim for this course then is to be a hot air balloon ride to a very high place, from which we might discern the systems within which we labor, and devise strategies for altering them.

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