Wild Energies: Live Materials 2022
Wild Energies: Live Materials
A three-day online event focusing on and around the work of artist composer Annea Lockwood
27-29 April 2022, Online
Presented by CRiSAP
This three-day online event presents new and existing research and artistic responses to the rich variety of the work of composer and sound artist Annea Lockwood.
Annea Lockwood’s career stretches over seven decades and three continents from her origins in New Zealand to her studies and early artistic career in London in the 1960s and 70s to her current long-term residence in the US. Always ahead of the mainstream, her work is mingled within many histories of sound and musical experimentation: these include early experiences at Darmstadt, the London avant-garde including the Destruction in Art Symposium, Fylkingen’s Text-Sound festivals, presentations at The Kitchen in New York in the 1970s; collaborative friendships with artists that include Hugh Davies, Pauline Oliveros, Alison Knowles, Christina Kubisch, Ruth Anderson, Bob Bielecki, and Liz Phillips. Throughout, her work has always retained a unique autonomy that defies singular contexts.
Although probably best known for the Sound Map works that resulted from her intense engagement with the Hudson (1989), Danube (2005) and the Housatonic (2012) rivers, and her complex associations with pianos (Piano Transplants: Piano Burning [1968], Piano Garden [1970], Piano Drowning [1972], Southern Exposure [1982]) her intimate, detailed, playful and generous relationships with sound can be heard in all her work whether for concert, installation or in collaboration with other artforms. She has worked with students, women’s groups, other artists and composers, instrumentalists, and choreographers yet the variety of output is united by its invitation to listen intently and, through that, to think differently.
For Wild Energies: Live Materials, a peer-reviewed selection of international artists and scholars, who responded to a call for works and papers, will present a mix of video, sound, performance, workshops and scholarly papers grouped together under the overarching themes of Rivers & Tributaries; Ecologies & Entanglements; Voice & Intimacy; Collaboration & Care; and Methods & Materials. CRiSAP researchers will present their individual research, and Annea Lockwood will be in conversation with fellow artist and friend Hildegard Westerkamp.