Activity: Talk, presentation, and live performance › Invited talk
Description
Abstract:
I often refer to my research work as an ongoing encounter. What started as an artistic inquiry on embodied compositional practices has taken me to many unexpected places over the past decade. On the surface, I explored ways of foregrounding the interplay between sound and performance physicality in music-making. But in the meantime, I examined how both the sound and physicality, for me, are underpinned by a whole network of resistance and active position-taking that often concerns dialogical processes, creative agency, the acts of translation, and of traversing many established borders and boundaries.
In this talk, I will trace along how this line of inquiry has continued to unfold since my doctoral project (2017-2021). I will discuss how it has led to a series of recent creative and interdisciplinary collaborations on machine-learning technology, the spoken voice, and a data-inflected transnational identity. Through charting the fluid relationships between my work and the original questions that I had hoped for my work to address, I bring to the surface how this encounter is, and will continue to be, ongoing.