The De Beauvoir Labs
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The De Beauvoir Labs are a series of public interdisciplinary collaborations; fashioning undervalued skills into hybrid tools to collectively rethink utopian enterprises. The format of the Labs is open to take any form: a text, workshop, discussion, performance, song, diagram, or manifestation of an (im)practical object. Labs have included a participatory performance with a writer and a recorder instrument player; a workshop with a yodeller and a knitter; a coffee morning with a neuroscientist and a Turkish coffee reader; and a walk with a scent designer and a former community nurse. DOCUMENTATION and INFO below on
Portunalia This collaborative event marked the eve of Portunalia, a neglected festival that honours the Roman god of doors, keys and livestock. As part of De Beauvoir Labs, it was the first speculative and interdisciplinary attempt to revive undervalued skills through collective effort. Over the course of the afternoon a score and lyrics were produced, by way of painless input on the part of gallery visitors, and the song was performed at 5:30pm by all women recorder troupe, the Dolly Mixtures. Led by artist Lisa Skuret and writer Sally O’Reilly, the score was generated through data produced via gallery visitors keys, a variety of domestic kitchen scales, the textual affects of rooms, and misplaced personal effects. After the event, a music stand and a recorder were installed in the gallery at PEER as part of the current exhibition. Visitors to the gallery were welcome to throw their ‘keys to the wind’ in offering by playing the communal score. 16 August 2014, 2pm-6pm at PEER Gallery 97 & 99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL Map The De Beauvoir Labs form one strand of Communal Materials; Or, Evolution Isn’t Fast Enough a speculative project by artist Lisa Skuret. Supported by Arts Council England.
Documentation from Portunalia:
 Excerpt from score
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Learning in Public
I was invited to take part in TheParallelShow #4: a day long performance research group at Tate Britain initiated by Frans Van Lent (Willem de Kooning Akademie, Netherlands). Read more
Learning in Public
I was invited to take part in TheParallelShow #4: a day long performance research group at Tate Britain initiated by Frans Van Lent (Willem de Kooning Akademie, Netherlands). Read more
Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness
I have two commissioned texts: ‘Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction’ and ‘Messy Listening’ in the artist publication Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness. The publication launch was part of Fig-2 (48/50:Seth Ayyaz) at ICA London with the generous support of Arts Council England. Read more
Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness
I have two commissioned texts: ‘Four Figures (low resolution) and a Technique of Extraction’ and ‘Messy Listening’ in the artist publication Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness. The publication launch was part of Fig-2 (48/50:Seth Ayyaz) at ICA London with the generous support of Arts Council England. Read more
Messy and Material: Listening Laboratory
Comissioned as part of Fig-2, I installed a speculative laboratory within the ICA building in London. A research event located somewhere between an experiential group, a live score, and a performance that drew from interdisciplinary and multimodal methods of ‘listening’. Read more
Messy and Material: Listening Laboratory
Comissioned as part of Fig-2, I installed a speculative laboratory within the ICA building in London. A research event located somewhere between an experiential group, a live score, and a performance that drew from interdisciplinary and multimodal methods of ‘listening’. Read more
Full of Noises
Listening to buildings and writing objects.
An event somewhere between an artist’s talk, a performance and a group exercise. Lisa Skuret will install a fictional, temporary research lab in the Art Gene building at Full of Noises.
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Full of Noises
Listening to buildings and writing objects.
An event somewhere between an artist’s talk, a performance and a group exercise. Lisa Skuret will install a fictional, temporary research lab in the Art Gene building at Full of Noises.
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A Call from the Library
A performance installation and live sound composition – ‘listening to’ and ‘playing’ the public library as a building, concept, utopian project, and space of knowledge production. The ‘score’ was Read more
A Call from the Library
A performance installation and live sound composition – ‘listening to’ and ‘playing’ the public library as a building, concept, utopian project, and space of knowledge production. The ‘score’ was Read more
Composing Differences at MoMA PS1
A week long research project and events programme organized in collaboration with MoMA PS1, and e-flux. The project brought together artists, curators, and researchers from France and the United States who establish new art platforms, explore tactics of knowledge production that promote the circulation of knowledge, and experiment with art as an agent of social change. Read more
Composing Differences at MoMA PS1
A week long research project and events programme organized in collaboration with MoMA PS1, and e-flux. The project brought together artists, curators, and researchers from France and the United States who establish new art platforms, explore tactics of knowledge production that promote the circulation of knowledge, and experiment with art as an agent of social change. Read more
Live Diagramming: Configuring the Potential
Commission to create a response to the Merlin James exhibition at Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art in London. For the commission, I extended my performance, ‘Live Diagramming’, through a collaboration with sound artist group AWC.
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Live Diagramming: Configuring the Potential
Commission to create a response to the Merlin James exhibition at Parasol Unit foundation for contemporary art in London. For the commission, I extended my performance, ‘Live Diagramming’, through a collaboration with sound artist group AWC.
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Audio-fictions
Five sound pieces that draw on and interweave thinking from fields of knowledge including physics, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Read more
Audio-fictions
Five sound pieces that draw on and interweave thinking from fields of knowledge including physics, neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Read more
Ibraaz Magazine interview
Interview: ‘The Islamic Sonic-Social’ with Seth Ayyaz; Interview by: Sheyma Buali Published on Ibraaz Magazine online in relation to ‘Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness’ part of Fig-2, at ICA London. The Islamic Sonic-Social (Parts 2 & 3) Part
Ibraaz Magazine interview
Interview: ‘The Islamic Sonic-Social’ with Seth Ayyaz; Interview by: Sheyma Buali Published on Ibraaz Magazine online in relation to ‘Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness’ part of Fig-2, at ICA London. The Islamic Sonic-Social (Parts 2 & 3) Part
TheParallelShow publication
I have two texts on performance as research in publication, TheParallelShow, ed. Frans van Lent, Mondrian Fund and Municipality of Dordrecht, Jap Sam Books, 2018. The book was launched with the performance, Visual works by Verbal means, at The Kunsthal,
TheParallelShow publication
I have two texts on performance as research in publication, TheParallelShow, ed. Frans van Lent, Mondrian Fund and Municipality of Dordrecht, Jap Sam Books, 2018. The book was launched with the performance, Visual works by Verbal means, at The Kunsthal,
Forest Fringe at Somerset House
A three day gathering on memory, Europe, resistance, and survival.
I have been invited to speak about gestures of resistance as part of day 3: Resistance.
In a moment of growing crisis it feels to important to us to try and think about resistance. About gestures of resistance and spaces of resistance. About the relationships that currently exist between art and activism, and how to build new ones. Read more
Forest Fringe at Somerset House
A three day gathering on memory, Europe, resistance, and survival.
I have been invited to speak about gestures of resistance as part of day 3: Resistance.
In a moment of growing crisis it feels to important to us to try and think about resistance. About gestures of resistance and spaces of resistance. About the relationships that currently exist between art and activism, and how to build new ones. Read more
Texts
Dark (Trees) 1989-2012, 2013
Written as part of my commissioned ‘Live Diagramming’ performance at Parasol Unit.
Messy Listening, 2015
Published in Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness (Fig-2, ICA, 2015).
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Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness – discussion
The focus of the conversation will revolve around the sound works presented across the week at the ICA and will range across notions of cognitive opacity/translucency, and the concept of ‘listening without a listener’, to the problematics of an ‘Islamic sonic-social’ and practices of not knowing. Read more
Listening Through a Beam of Intense Darkness – discussion
The focus of the conversation will revolve around the sound works presented across the week at the ICA and will range across notions of cognitive opacity/translucency, and the concept of ‘listening without a listener’, to the problematics of an ‘Islamic sonic-social’ and practices of not knowing. Read more
Texts in Action
I work with text in my practice, for example, scores, fiction and live writing. Generated through site residency, performance or action research, these texts are published through various means including sculpture, live composition, performance, installation, and voice. Read more
Texts in Action
I work with text in my practice, for example, scores, fiction and live writing. Generated through site residency, performance or action research, these texts are published through various means including sculpture, live composition, performance, installation, and voice. Read more
Infernal Gallop with the Dolly Mixtures
A movement and music troupe who perform on demand and devise genres to suit. They have performed the 1960s NYC rooftop chicken dance, dry land synchronised swimming, parsley pom-pom eco-cheerleading, mass Kate Bush impersonations and several recorder recitals of rousing feminist anthems, including Match of the Day theme. Read more
Infernal Gallop with the Dolly Mixtures
A movement and music troupe who perform on demand and devise genres to suit. They have performed the 1960s NYC rooftop chicken dance, dry land synchronised swimming, parsley pom-pom eco-cheerleading, mass Kate Bush impersonations and several recorder recitals of rousing feminist anthems, including Match of the Day theme. Read more