Rebecca Collins is an award-winning artist researcher working at the intersection between contemporary performance and sound. Her main research interests are listening, performance, sound studies, and creative/critical writing. Rebecca’s practice focuses on the dynamics of the sonic operating within specific environments, and technologies, to explore methodologies of writing, making contemporary performance and sound art. Her first album Stolen Voices 001 was shortlisted for a New Music Scotland Award in 2021. Her first book publication Sonic Detection: A Polygraph, co-authored with Johanna Linsley, is forthcoming with punctum books (2024). She is section editor for Enclaves, an academic Journal published by the University of Seville. She is co-convenor of the ‘Documenting Performance’ working group for Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA). Since 2017 she is Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory at Edinburgh College of Art, University of Edinburgh. For 2024-2029 she is a Ramón and Cajal Fellow at the Spanish State Research Council working with the Visual Culture and History of Art Research Group at the Institute of History in Madrid.
Email: rebecca.collins@ed.ac.uk