Bodies of Sound / Cosmic Scores: Reading, writing, performing text scores

What is a text score? Performed in and through individual and collective bodies, what sort of subjectivities and relations can be produced within the space of the score? What kind of bodies – sonic, cosmic, human, social – can be read, written and performed? Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024) editors Irene Revell and Sarah Shin lead this afternoon workshop focusing on the text score as a speculative feminist medium. 

In the first part of the afternoon, we will collectively read text scores, including a selection from Bodies of Sound by Ximena Alarcón, Elena Biserna, Maria Chavez, Tomoko Hojo, Nat Lall and Anna Raimondo. Through the lens of feminist and allied politics, Irene Revell will lead the discussion drawing on her research into historical and contemporary text scores as structures that organise bodies and hold space for both singular authorship and collaboration, and distributed forms of labour. 

In the second part of the afternoon we will collectively perform a selection from Sarah Shin’s Cosmic Scores, which bring together the cosmic and the embodied through the instructional as poetry, to feel inner paths to outer space. This will be followed by writing and performing new scores in small groups. Please note no prior performance or writing experience or performance is necessary. 

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BIOS

Sarah Shin works with poetic cosmologies, dreams and myth. Her practice gathers writing, research, publishing, curation, performance and dialogue to engage expansive ways of knowing. A serial collaborator, recent projects include The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K Le Guin, an exhibition at the Architectural Association and publication edited with So Mayer; Bodies of Sound, a book and curatorial series with Irene Revell; Mirror, a polymorphous world-building act with Sammy Lee that unfolds from a mythic world across performance, exhibition, tarot and games; and with Mark Lowe, Concrete Poetry, an architecture, narrative and design practice. She directs Spiral House, a new imprint, and is among the founders of Silver Press and 5D, an artistic collective for unified inquiry into many knowledges. 

 Irene Revell is mostly a serial collaborator. She teaches on the MFA Curating at Goldsmiths, and Co-Leads the Scoring Warnings AHRC research project at CRiSAP where she is Senior Lecturer in Sound Research. In 2019 with Primary Information she re-published the Womens Work text score anthology co-edited by Alison Knowles and Annea Lockwood (1975 - 1978). With Sarah Shin she edited the anthology book project Bodies of Sound: Becoming a Feminist Ear (Silver Press, 2024) and eponymous ongoing series for Spiral House.