This practice-based workshop will explore the many ways we might activate and experience our voice, both as a physical organ and philosophical concept of expression and sensation across multiple mediums (including writing, performance, video, sound, sign language, creative captions, audio description). Firmly rooted in a studio environment of experimentation, play, and curiosity, the workshop will draw on theoretical texts about the voice as much as on embodied techniques, based on Feldenkrais, Deep Listening, the Lichtenberger® Method for Applied Physiology of the Voice, Gaga, Body-Mind-Centring, to offer a non-hierarchical and playful learning space. This combined somatic approach foregrounds highly differentiated sensory perception and accessible and imaginative prompts rather than any strict technique, and thus functions as a much broader experimental and experiential pedagogy.
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You are encouraged to register for both Touching Language workshops (workshop 2 is 22nd March, 2-4pm), but may register for one or the other.
About Sophie Seita:
The Touching Language workshops arise out of Sophie Seita’s current artist research project Touching Language, which explores experimental queer writing in and as performance in the visual arts, through collaborative research, multi-sensory practice, creative access, and pedagogical experiments. It also coincides with and draws on Seita’s research residency at Studio Voltaire (February-April 2025).
Sophie Seita is a London-based artist and researcher whose practice is grounded in language and performance but swerves voraciously into other mediums, such as sound, video, textiles, drawing, and installation. Recent work has found a home at diffrakt (Berlin), Ruta del Castor (Mexico City), Mimosa House, Matt’s Gallery, Café Oto, Flat Time House, Rupert (Vilnius), Nottingham Contemporary, Grand Union (Birmingham), FAC (Athens) and elsewhere. They have received grants and awards from Arts Council England, the Canada Council, British Council, DAAD, Creative Scotland, amongst others. Seita recently held the 2023-2024 Werner Düttmann Fellowship at Akademie der Künste, Berlin. She is Director of Critical Studies on the BA Fine Art Extension Programme, Deputy Director of Research, and Lecturer in Fine Art (Studio Practice) at Goldsmiths, University of London.