Overhearing Redmires Reservoirs: Multi-species Listening & Language
About this Event
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Join us at Redmires Reservoirs for this one-day workshop engaging in processes of deep ecological listening, and creative methods of exploring landscape through body, sound and expanded ideas of multi-species language.
Throughout the day we will collectively consider how we might re-connect with land through creatively using our voices, bodies, writing or drawing as tools to ‘unlearn’ and ‘re-language’; exploring how we might listen to our wild scapes and begin to decipher their languages.
This workshop, led by artist Kirsty Badenoch, is part of a wider research project Prototyping Multi-species Encounters: Relating to Redmires Reservoirs Residents at the University of Sheffield.
MEET - 9:45 - 10am
Gather at Wyming Brook carpark (S10 4QX)
INTRODUCTIONS - 10 - 10:15am
UNLEARNING:
Introductory guides on methods of ‘unlearning’ our human language: we will engage in processes of deep listening and listening as restoration - considering our relationship(s) with the land, how the more-than-human may communicate with us and perhaps how we may communicate with them.
RE-LANGUAGING (Part 1):
Guided slow walking and attending to the landscape with our bodies: listening to and collecting a new set of more-than-human languages. Through slow movement, drawing and voice, we will experiment with bodily and sensory processes of conversing with- and responding to- our surrounding environment.
REFLECTION:
A comfort break and chance to discuss and reflect on our morning experiences.
Snacks will be provided.
RE-LANGUAGING (Part 2):
Expanding on our experiences and reflections in Part 1, we will deepen our emerging listening practices as individuals and as a collective; with opportunities to follow your intuition, bring in your own personal creative practice, or try something new.
LUNCH - 1:15 - 2pm
Lunch will be provided by catering from Open Kitchen Social, Sheffield.
RETURNING:
We will begin our return with some further group reflection on the experiences of the day, followed by a guided exploration utilising our own individual and collective voice(s), which introduces our more-than-human experiences back into the urban environment, ending back at our initial meeting point.
END - 3pm
The workshop will end at 3pm. You are welcome to return home or stay to further explore the beautiful Redmires Reservoirs independently.
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What to bring and wear:
We ask you to bring a spirit of openness, playfulness and curiosity! Mid-morning snacks and lunch will be provided, please let us know any dietary requirements or allergies upon booking. Please bring water and/or a flask should you want a hot drink.
The workshop will be held outdoors, with some walking, body-movement, and sitting on the ground. Please wear weather-appropriate clothing, shoes, bring suncream, insect repellant etc. There will be a toilet facility at the carpark. If you have any specific access needs then please let us know in advance and we’ll try our best to accommodate.
If you can't make it...
No problem at all! But, tickets are limited fo this workshop so if for any reason you can't make it, please let us know asap so someone else can enjoy your place.
About Kirsty Badenoch:
Kirsty Badenoch is a design-researcher and multidisciplinary artist. Her work develops creative, collaborative projects that explore human and more-than-human entanglements, to broach and bolster climate resilience. Kirsty teaches Architecture and Interdisciplinary practice at The Bartlett UCL and University of Cambridge, her PhD at UCL explores participatory forest-led methods as processes of socio-ecological restoration.
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