How do we listen? How do we experience and use subtext? What is the relationship between sound, text and image? Based on Freya’s own practice and explorations this 2-hour workshop will guide you through a series of participatory exercises to explore these questions. Absolutely no experience needed – just curiosity and willingness to take part.
About Freya
Freya Johnson Ross is an artist, writer and researcher whose practice is focused on sound, multimedia installation and interdisciplinary listening – and how this relates to methodologies for knowledge production. Her work has addressed the politics of listening and the ethics of making and using personal and institutional archives. The process of translation and interrelationship between sound, text and moving image often sits at the centre of her approach. She is also increasingly preoccupied with the way we experience our psyches in the digital, post-internet, hyper-capitalist context in which we live. That is: something often fragmented and simultaneously riven and bound together by a huge volume of audio-visual ephemera. She is currently making work that captures this, as well as that can offer alternatives and ways of interrupting it – for example through meditative processes of slowing.
From Glasgow, she has studied at the University of Cambridge, Wimbledon College of Art, and the University of Sussex, and during 2020-21 took part in The Syllabus – an alternative learning programme led by Wysing Arts Centre. She has taught at universities including University College London, De Montfort, and Sussex, and had work shown, published and broadcast by SPAM Press, Pilot Press, CCA Glasgow, Cafe OTO, BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM among others.
She curates the podcast series women read – each episode a different woman reads aloud the opening chapter of a book that is significant for them. Listen and download from spotify, apple podcasts or anchor.
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