Master Class SOUND SCULPTURES: Thinking Extra Sensory as an Artist by Steven Warwick

Description

“Are you an artist looking to add a sonic/aural element to your practice? Do you want to think extra sensory as an artist, developing heightened perceptual abilities that transform how you experience space, time, and creative material? This course is a five day intensive course which will be held at Berlin Art Institute. A class like this seldom occurs, and is for the curious. Warwick’s own practice is wildly diverse and redefines preexisting notions of what it is to make art. Using sound as sculptural material that shapes space, constructs narrative, and creates entirely new dimensions of meaning in artistic work. It serves as a point of departure to provide a cutting edge discursive framework, you will learn both how to make sonic work and also how to be able to theorise and articulate your unique perspective in this sonic world. 

The Sound Sculptures masterclass focuses on connecting disparate strands of sound art, experimental music, performance theory, and contemporary visual practice alongside praxes such as field recording, digital manipulation, spatial audio, and live sound performance to take you on a journey which will help you question your own preconceptions about sound and enrich and expand your ongoing artistic vocabulary. There is a focus in this class of being present in a space, together, learning something in real time, and allowing yourself and the class to unfold in the present moment. By coming to the BAI classroom context, Warwick will present something not available online and so esoteric, a singular thinker who seamlessly bridges artmaking, sonic, performance and writing fields, you will be uniquely enriched by this experiential and experimental learning programme. 

In Warwick’s own practice, he creates assemblages of performance, image, sound and language across various media, including video, sound, performance, sculpture and installation in various formats of exhibition making, theatre, performance, concerts, book length essays, criticism and electronic music. He has released albums on the PAN label, lectured at Cal Arts, CSM London Vienna Art Academy, and exhibited at the ICA London, Quai Branly Museum Paris, SMK Denmark, Issue Project Room NYC, KW Institute for Art Berlin. He has also co-authored Fear Indexing The X Files w Nora Khan (Primary Information, 2017) and Notes on Evil, recently published by Floating Opera Press.” (Text by courtesy of Steven Warwick)