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Creative Labs
artists, curators, theatre-makers, animators, filmmakers, creative inspirers and MediaActive staff discussing, sharing, exploring...
common ground...next steps
During the creative labs sessions the following areas of common ground seemed to suggest potential 'next steps' for both MediaActive and their potential partners, creative collaborators: curating and presenting - both offline and online; performance and creative media - using a combination of sound (including live music), animation and film...
...to be continued!
...to be continued!
sharing creative practice (a selection)
"...reference books as a biographical insight to a creative, curatorial, practice..."
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Adrian has worked as a Curator for numerous museums and galleries across the UK, including, for ten years, as Curator of Exhibitions, Education and Outreach Programmes at Tate Liverpool. An experienced musician and performer, since 2014, Adrian now leads professional music workshops in a variety of community settings. KEYWORDS: curating, socially-engaged, (music) performance |
"...capturing a human's experience of being in the world..."
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Samantha is an award-winning animated documentary maker and researcher, and Senior Lecturer in Animation at The University of Wolverhampton. Her teaching is in the areas of ideas development, experimental and innovative animation, and combining research and practice. Check out Samantha's website here KEYWORDS: animation, experimental, collaboration |
Creative Lab Animation Programme
As part of the Creative Lab, Samantha put together an Animation Programme - you can watch it by selecting the image below
"...species of the world unite..."
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Laura is a visual artist and filmmaker who has recently moved back to Shropshire from New York. Laura's practice is very performative and often about human communication and relationships to place - the mediation of this practice through video and film is key... Take a look at some of Laura's work here KEYWORDS: encounters, habitats, play, human-animal relationship |
"...wherever something stands, something else will stand beside it..."
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Richard's interests sit between music (composition), art history and contemporary art practice - the last two formalised by way of Postgraduate Certificates in Social and Cultural Theory and the History of Art, as well as a Masters Degree in Fine Art. He also has particular interest in artist moving image. In the context of the latter please visit MediaActive's Inspirations webpage - a curated space for past and present contemporary sound and moving image work, which feeds into MediaActive's professional practice / collaborative work... KEYWORDS: hermeneutics, art theory, sharing, slowness |
"...success means you don't have to pay it any attention any more..."
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Arron is one half of R&A Collaborations - the latter was born out of an open submission for the Craft Council UK's 'Power of Making' Exhibition. With their new found love of all things crafty, they soon realised that there were some fascinating stories to tell from makers about what drives them to do what they do.The films they make aim to capture the subject's personality and get across the reasons why they do what they do...have a look at some of R&A's films here KEYWORDS: creativity explorer, listening, learning, sharing |
"...the philosophy of inclusive arts practice..."
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Hannah trained at the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama gaining a Master's Degree in Theatre Practice. She has worked as a theatre maker since then creating work with and for children, young people and adults. Visit Hannah's arts organisation's website here KEYWORDS: theatre, inclusive, communication, collaboration |
"...new technologies as artistic and communication medium..."
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Mandy is an independent consultant, curator & visual arts producer, she's also a National Adviser for Arts Council Wales. Find out more about a recent project Mandy led on - Portraits Untold - an ambitious and unique project 'exploring and celebrating the diversity of our common humanity through a series of four live portrait sittings with high profile sitters in well-known venues taking place in summer and autumn 2016 across the UK' KEYWORDS: digital, diversity, networks |
"...once again I fall into my feminine ways..."
Richard, Mandy and Sue all discussed and shared their love for this seminal work by Ragnar Kjartansson. 'The Visitors' is a nine-screen audio visual installation, which seems to combine elements of artist moving image with live performance. That is, though the audio and visuals are pre-recorded, for a visitor, experiencing the work feels like the best live music gig ever - so sad when the screens are switched off (one by one), and the 'concert' ends...select the image above to view a short video of the installation
Action Research...the Duncan Speakman sessions...
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Duncan Speakman is a composer and sound artist. He creates narrative sound led experiences that engage audiences in uncontrolled public and private space. He regularly creates bespoke work internationally including installations on trains in Guangzhou, loudspeaker symphonies in New Zealand, audio walks in Saitama, and sound installations in Porto; he has also recently developed a number of hybrid print/digital experiments.
His current research is in the relationship between locative urban audio experiences and contemporary ecology, wrapping the questions in melancholy and romance.
He set up and directed the arts collective Circumstance from 2010 – 2017 with Sarah Anderson and Emilie Grenier, later joined by Tom Abba. He continues now as a solo artist and researcher. Find out more about Duncan here
His current research is in the relationship between locative urban audio experiences and contemporary ecology, wrapping the questions in melancholy and romance.
He set up and directed the arts collective Circumstance from 2010 – 2017 with Sarah Anderson and Emilie Grenier, later joined by Tom Abba. He continues now as a solo artist and researcher. Find out more about Duncan here
experiments in sound...
...there used to be...you can see...I can see...
located binaural sound recording - Museum at Sleap Airfield
(wear headphones to get the full effect of the binaural recording)
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