Event overview
Postgraduate student Bea Redweik showcases her work: Songs as Process / Practice as Movement
‘The idea of the book, which always refers to a natural totality, is profoundly alien to the sense of writing.’ – Jacques Derrida
This multimedia performance installation is a presentation and continuation of unfinished work. It marks the culmination of Bea Redweik’s postgraduate practice research project (MMus Creative Practice) ‘Songs as Process / Practice as Movement’. Asking the question ‘How does not finishing affect the process of making?’ this research aims to complicate the idea of a work being a fixed thing – the recording. Through valuing, interrogating and affirming process in song-based music, we may interrupt our understanding of artistic practice. Maybe the work is the making – and practice is continuous, is movement.
With a focus on the everyday and an emphasis on anti-mastery, Bea Redweik entered a self-experiment (from 1 July 2021 to 15 August 2021) instantiating her songwriting practice 5 days a week and filming the entire process. Five songs emerged as sites of exploration, yet they do not represent completion; they remain open, changeable.
To show artistic practice as multimodal and rhizomatic rather than linear, these five songs will be further explored as part of this multimedia performance installation: a live songwriting session that is interwoven with video material showing process from this summer’s self-experiment.
5 process songs:
I wish I had a garden (vocals and guitar)
Here (vocals and guitar)
Fever (vocals and guitar)
Honesty (vocals and piano)
More Time (vocals and guitar)
In line with COVID guidelines, mask wearing is encouraged and the room will have a max capacity of 20 persons (in masks) with 1.5 metre distancing at any one time. If the venue is full when you arrive, please wait till there is a vacancy.
Please be aware that filming will be in process.
*Title taken from Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 8 Sep 2021 | 3:00pm - 5:00pm |
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