A RIH-funded interdisciplinary research project: Practice-as-Research: Producing Knowledge Through Participatory Creative Practice

Date: Friday, 8 November 2024
Venue: Music Room, Eaton HK, 4/F, 380 Nathan Road, Jordan, Kowloon
Time: 19:30 – 21:00

Ecologies of Participation (EoP)  Research Collective was initiated by Yim Sui Fong (Assistant Professor of Fine Arts), Melody Yiu (Research Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Ashley Lee Wong (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. The research initiative aims to develop practice-based collaborations between the creative arts, architecture and media and cultural studies.

For this panel discussion, on “Sound as a Medium for Participation”, we bring together artists and scholars including Brandon LaBelle (sound artist and theorist, and artistic director of Listening Biennial), Ryo Ikeshiro (sound artist and Assistant Professor, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong) and Dayang Yraola (curator and Associate Professor at the Department of Theory, College of Fine Arts, University of the Philippines) to explore how sound and artistic practices contribute to new collective understandings of our cities and urban environments.  

Speakers:   

Brandon LaBelle is an artist, writer and theorist living in Berlin. He is also the founder and artistic director of The Listening Biennial and related Listening Academy. His work focuses on questions of agency, community, pirate culture, and poetics, resulting in a range of collaborative and extra-institutional initiatives, including Communities in Movement (2019-2023), Oficina de Autonomia (2017), The Living School (with South London Gallery, 2014-16), The Imaginary Republic (2014-19), Dirty Ear Forum (2013-21), Surface Tension (2003-2008), and Beyond Music Sound Festival (1998-2002). In 1995 he founded Errant Bodies Press, an independent publishing project supporting work in sound art and studies, performance and poetics, artistic research and contemporary political thought. His publications include: Dreamtime X (2022), The Other Citizen (2020), Sonic Agency (2018), Lexicon of the Mouth (2014), Acoustic Territories (2010, 2019), and Background Noise (2006, 2015). His most recent book on sound studies, Acoustic Justice (2021), argues for an acoustic model by which to engage questions of 
social equality.   

Ryo Ikeshiro is an artist, musician and researcher who explores the possibilities of meaning and context through sound and its materiality in relation to digital audio and technologies. His work includes installations and live performances using immersive audiovisual environments, field recordings and generative works. He has participated in exhibitions at the Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, South Korea, and M+ Museum of Visual Culture, Hong Kong, and he is a contributor to Sound Art: Sound as a medium of art, a ZKM Karlsruhe/MIT publication. He is an Assistant Professor at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. 
https://ryoikeshiro.com  

Dayang Magdalena Nirvana T. Yraola, PhD is a curator and a scholar based in Manila. Her curatorial foci are exhibiting interstitial art and collaborative productions. Her research includes ecology of art practice, archive as method, and listening cultures. Her most recent curatorial project is “For The Record”, an open studio for archiving sound art practice, which also included sound camp with artists and scholars from Manila and Hong Kong. This year, she received the University of the Philippines Chancellor’s Prize for Most Outstanding Teacher, the highest accolade for academic personnel in active service, for her contribution in teaching, creative work, research and extension service within and beyond the University.  

About EoP

Ecologies of Participation (EoP) Research Collective was initiated by Yim Sui Fong (Assistant Professor of Fine Arts), Melody Yiu (Research Assistant Professor of Architecture) and Ashley Lee Wong (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies) at The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 2024. The research initiative aims to develop practice-based collaborations between the creative arts, architecture and media and cultural studies. 

Website: https://substack.com/@eopcuhk  
IG: https://www.instagram.com/eop.cuhk/
Enquiry: 1155197846@link.cuhk.edu.hk 

Supported by The Research Institute for the Humanities and The Faculty of Arts at The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Venue supported by Eaton HK.