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Theory feeds practice feeds theory feeds practice
Event details
Sound artist and cellist Gaia Blandina and oboist Niamh Dell are both in the very final stages of practice research PhDs here at the University of York, making minor corrections after having submitted their work and successfully navigated their vivas. Their fields of practice and methods are very different, but both have put critical theory – again, of very different kinds – to work in their projects. Theory has fed their creative thinking and helped frame their research, but the artistic outcomes have shed new light upon the theory, too. In this seminar, they will explore the productive nature of this relationship.
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- Meeting ID: 974 1147
- Passcode: 030134
About the speakers
Gaia Blandina and Niamh Dell
Gaia Blandina is a sound artist and a cellist. Her work explores non-methods across multiple areas of artistic and academic enquiry. These include improvisation, devising, cello playing and object-making. Stemming from the exploration of nomadic thinking and an interrogation of concept-driven practice through philosophy, her work is developed across disciplines and in collaboration with other musicians, writers and artists.
Niamh Dell is an oboist who specialises in contemporary, complex and experimental repertoire. She has a particular interest in collaborative compositions that explore novel sound production and performance techniques, and works that renegotiate traditional modes of virtuosity and relationships to musical material.
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Federico Reuben
Senior Lecturer
Contemporary practice research cluster lead