Artistic Research at Tyson
Registration is now closed. Registrants will receive an email before the event with specific instructions on how to access the site, which is not generally open to the public.
UPDATE, 4/10/24: Additional attendance options! See schedule below.
The Artistic Research at Tyson cohort of 13 Washington University humanities graduate students will present their works in progress following a semester of site-specific exploration of creative practice and critical inquiry at the Tyson Research Station. They will share the evolution of their ideas in a variety of formats, including but not limited to performance, documentation of their process and display of creative work within a bunker on site.
Participating WashU graduate students are:
- Cristina Correa, Program in Comparative Literature, International Writers Track
- Lourdes del Mar Santiago Lebron, Performing Arts Department
- Kristin Emanuel, Department of English and Program in Comparative Literature
- Zihan Feng, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
- Asha Marie Larson-Baldwin, Department of Sociology
- Tess Losada-Tindall, Performing Arts Department
- Jillian Lepek, Department of Art History and Archaeology
- Yining Pan, Department of Anthropology and Department of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Alexis Rose, Department of Music
- Khashayar Shahriyari, Department of Music
- Sylvia Sukop, Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures
- Tola Sylvan, Department of English
- Tsering Wangmo, Department of Anthropology and Program in Film and Media Studies
Via examples of their own work, invited guests Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Salomé Voegelin will guide the collective discussion about working at the cross-section of sound studies, performance and other artistic research methods, environmental studies, and histories of war. Via discussions, presentations and guided explorations, this gathering will be about the exchange of methods for including (and exposing) creative practice as complementary and fruitful to the critical and intellectual work within the university.
Listening Into: Bunkers, Bodies, In-betweens
1 pm, Sunday, April 14
Tyson Research Center
ACLS Emerging Voices Postdoctoral Fellow Anya Yermakova brings together Rajna Swaminathan on mrudangam and kanjira, Marina Kifferstein on violin, and Florent Ghys on acoustic bass and electronics, to join her on piano and foot percussion. Following the performance, the artists will discuss the interplay of creative practice and critical inquiry in the their own work and as witnessed in the performance.
RSVP required.
Full attendance
10 am–7 pm, Friday, April 26 and 10 am–5 pm, Saturday, April 27
Other attendance options
Friday
9:30 am–12 pm, Friday, April 26: Introductions to Tyson, Salomé Voegelin performance-talk
1–3 pm, Friday, April 26: Graduate student works-in-progress viewing
Saturday
1–2 pm, Saturday, April 27: Drop-in hour
3-5 pm, Saturday, April 27: Graduate students lead guests through their works in progress
While this gathering is focused on durational engagement over two days around the ongoing projects of the graduate students and the invited guests, anyone is welcome to attend if they can commit to full attendance. The invitation to witness and to engage is open to anyone interested in a rigorous exploration of how creative practice and critical inquiry interact, and does not necessitate any specific background. For those who cannot make it for the durational engagement but are interested in seeing humanities at work at Tyson, please join us during the other attendance options.