Role
Andrew is the Course Leader for the MFA (Masters in Fine Art) and an HEA Fellow.
Andrew has taught at Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé since 1998. His artistic research is centered on the soundwalks he performs under the name OpenCity, through which he explores contested space, together with aesthetic, ecological and socio-political concerns.
He is a creative and critical writer and a composer, both independently and as part of the percussion-based ensemble Left Hand Right Hand that he co-founded in 1985.
Career overview
- Visiting professor in Kiel, Aix-en-Provence, Budapest, Bergen and Tokyo
- Manager and latterly chairperson of Anglo-Belgian performance company Reckless Sleepers
- Established the percussion/live cinema group Left Hand Right Hand
- Established the small press Tak Tak Tak
Research areas
Current research:
- Currently undertaking a PhD on soundwalking methodology
- . Humanities, 2017, 6(3), 69
Recent research (since 2012)
2019. With Katja Hock. Research Pavilion, 58th Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2019 River walk [sound poem]. Pamoja Women Together Group.
2019 Gallery walk [soundwalk], Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Contemporary, 2019.
2018 OpenCity Nine Elms [soundwalk], Art Night, St. George’s Wharf Pier, London
2018. [group exhibition]. Collaboration with Christine Stevens. Airspace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
2018 [soundwalk], Airspace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
2018 Hearing Clay Touching Sound [workshops]. Collaboration with Christine Stevens. Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé: Global Sistaz United. Hanley: ASHA. Burslem: Jubilee Arts
2017 [soundwalk], No Telos, Venice
2017 Pentrich Rising [soundwalks], Pentrich Bicentenary Events. The Pentrich and South Wingfield Revolution Group
2016 OpenCity Stockholm [soundwalk], Kungliga Konsthögskolan, Stockholm
2016 OpenCity Berlin (West) [soundwalk], UrbanTOPIAS. Discussing the Challenges of Changing Cities. The 4th Annual Conference of the Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Graduate Research Program Berlin-New York-Toronto “The World in the City: Metropolitanism and Globalization from the 19th Century to the Present”2016. Oblique Cartographies [soundwalk/smartphone app]. Collaboration with Geoff Litherland and George Miles. A D-Lab commission for Wirksworth Festival
2016 OpenCity Stuttgart [soundwalk], Spaces of Uncertainty Summer Academy, Württembergische Kunstverein
2016 OpenCity Kiel [soundwalk], Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
2016 Reciprocity [soundwalk] in In Return [group exhibition], SIA Gallery, Sheffield Hallam University
2015 In place of architecture [soundwalk] [group exhibition], Bonington Gallery, NTU
2015 OpenCity Aix [soundwalk], Mobile Audio Fest, Aix-en Provence
2015 OpenCity Norrköping [conference paper/soundwalk] at in the Flow: People, Media, Materialities, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden
2014 OpenCity Belgrade [soundwalk], B_tour festival
2014 OpenCity Berlin (Ost) [soundwalk], B_tour festival
2013 Island Walk [soundwalk], in By the Way [group exhibition], Bohunk Institute, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé
2013 A walk through S [soundwalk], Decalcomania [video], '6/11/2008' [installation] in Topographies of the Obsolete: Vociferous Void [group exhibition], British Ceramics Biennial, Stoke-on-Trent,
2013 The Line [interactive installation/performance workshop]. Alignment [group exhibition], Backlit, Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé
2013 Trust me, I’m an artist [conference paper/performance walk] at ‘Revisiting the Art of Walking’ seminar, ACLA Annual Meeting, University of Toronto
2013 Performing the Spatial turn [soundwalk] at 'Art et G̩ographie РEsth̩tiques et pratiques des savoirs spatiaux' Conference, Lyon
2013. By Wellington to Waddingore [installation/performance walk]. Collaboration with Alison Lloyd. The Broadcaster, Lincolnshire
External activity
Visiting professor in Kiel, Aix-en-Provence, Budapest, Bergen, and Tokyo.
Sponsors and collaborators
- Katja Hock. 58th Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2019
- Christine Stevens. Airspace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, 2018
- Geoff Litherland and George Miles. Oblique Cartographies. D-Lab commission for Wirksworth Festival, 2016
- Mole Wetherell. Trial, Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press, 2007
Publications
2023. OpenCity Vilnius [soundwalk]. ‘Walking is still honest*: about being and moving together’ symposium, SODAS 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania
2023. Soundwalking in Contested Space [PhD thesis]
2019. With Katja Hock. Research Pavilion, 58th Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2018 OpenCity Nine Elms [soundwalk], Art Night, St. George’s Wharf Pier, London
Book contributions:
2015. In: A.H. MYDLAND and N. BROWNSWORD, eds., Topographies of the obsolete: site reflections. Stoke on Trent: Topographies of the Obsolete Publications.
2015. In: C. HIND and C. QUALMANN, eds., Ways to wander. Axminster: Triarchy Press. ISBN 9781909470729
2012. Paris: Paper Jam.
2010. OpenCity. With Katie Doubleday and Emma Cocker. Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé: Casciani Evans Wood.
2007. With Mole Wetherall. Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press
Journal Articles:
2017. Humanities, 6 (3), p. 69. ISSN 2076-0787
2016. PAUST (Performance Architecture Urbanism Space Theatre).
2008. With Katie Doubleday, Simone Kenyon and Emma Cocker. Open city. Drain. vol 5. (2, Psychogeography)
2006. Å·ÃÀ¾ÞÈé rules: nottdance 2006. Dance Theatre Journal. vol 22 (1), pp. 3-6.
2004. An approach to live cinema: Kinugasa's A page of madness by Left Hand Right Hand. Bristol Silents Journal. vol 5.
2004. Nottdance 2004 (The annual festival produced by Dance4). Dance Theatre Journal. vol 20 (2), pp. 6-9.
2003. Moving in mysterious ways. Dance Theatre Journal. vol 19 (2), pp. 22-35.
2002. Asking questions. Dance Theatre Journal. vol 18 (2), pp. 6-10.
2001. Intimacy with strangers. Dance Theatre Journal. vol 17 (2), pp. 6-9.
Course(s) I teach on
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Postgraduate taught | Full-timeCOURSE
Fine Art - MFA
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