Our Universe contains vast amounts of a new form of matter that neither emits nor absorbs light. We do not know the nature of this mysterious “dark matter”, despite having been postulated more than a hundred years ago. Its search in different types of experiments has meant a revolution in particle physics, since it shows […]
Art & Science: Artistic Research & Sound Art
Rebecca Collins is presenting findings from her ongoing research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ (P4UU) as part of Science Week in Madrid at the Residencia de Estudiantes. She will share ongoing work, opening her notebooks to the wider public, to give insights into what has been going on since installing herself in B14, an office […]
Mend, Blend, Attend Society for Artistic Research, Bauhaus University, Weimar 2022
In July 2022 Rebecca presented her current research project, ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at the annual Society for Artistic Research conference held at the Bauhaus University in Weimar, Germany. Professor, Giaco Schiesser chaired the session and, alongside the other presenters an interesting debate was held on how artistic research can be integrated into interdisciplinary environments. […]
Art, Science and Technology: From Creation to Exhibition
Rebecca Collins is invited to present her research project ‘Parametres for Understanding Uncertainty’ at an event on Art, Science, and Technology held at the Teatros Canal in Madrid. Discussions on the role of artists within institutions took place with a mixed audience of curators, cultural producers and interdisciplinary researchers.
Thinking Infrastructures // Performing Meetings With invited guests Johanna Linsley and Rebecca Collins 16 June 2020
In mid-June, I was delighted to be invited by Prof Kristen Kreider and Tom Clark alongside Dr Johanna Linsley to present at MARs (Mountains of Research, Goldsmiths University) to talk about what we are thinking and how we are acting during this time of transition: a time where we are moving so much of our […]
Radical Notations Launch 31st January ‘To See and To Know More’ 2020
Friday 31st January 2020, the evening of all evenings. A number of us gathered in the Pig Bothy at Scottish National Gallery (Modern One) to discuss the ‘ish’ in colours with Joyce Dixon, the necessity to enter the mortuary to understand the archive with Naomi Pearce and the unbidden with Maria Fusco. We heard about […]
The Sonic Study Series: Lisa Busby 6th Feb 2020
Thursday 6th February 2020 18.00 - 20.00 The Atrium, Alison House, University of Edinburgh Lisa Busby is a Scottish composer, vocalist, and improviser based in London. Situated across experimental music, performance art, and pop song, her practice often utilises the found and the prosaic, and manifests in various entangled modes – long-duration and site-specific work, […]
To See and Know More, Pig Bothy National Gallery 31st January 2020
Channelling proto-feminist mystics, writing in-situ, writing colour and theopoetics, this event will create a space for thinking about translation in its widest sense, sending crossing signals between languages, cultures, concepts and registers. Maria Fusco will discuss her new strand of research into anchorites – proto-feminist mystics – inspired and informed by her time at Sweeney’s […]
The Juniper Tree Bulegoa, Bilbao, 2019
I was recently invited, alongside Karlos Martinez B to present a session for the Ilegal Cinema Series at Bulegoa, an artist research centre in Bulegoa, Bilbao. We chose the recently restored Nietzchka Keene film, The Juniper Tree. “Under a juniper-tree the bones sang, scattered and shiningWe are glad to be scattered, we did little good […]
Extra Sonic Practice: Tuning April 2019
On 10th April 2019, I was invited by Dr Marie Thompson at the University of Lincoln to present my work at the Extra Sonic Practice Research Group. Necessary Note is the title of a sonic detective novel written by Rebecca Collins and Johanna Linsley (forthcoming Copy Press, 2019). Working as Stolen Voices, Collins and Linsley […]