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Imogen Stidworthy

Liverpool School of Art and Design

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: I.T.Stidworthy@ljmu.ac.uk

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What happens to language and sense-making in encounters with unfamiliar or even unknowable forms of voicing? What different forms of relationship and understanding emerge in the spaces between languages? My work grapples with the impossibility of glimpsing language from the outside. It takes the form of films, sound works and multi-part installations involving sound, video, sculptural and technological elements. I engage with these questions through encounters with people whose relationship with language is in some sense radically affected, whether by life experiences, cultural practices (shamanism, ventriloquy), neurological or physical conditions (aphasia, non-verbal autism). My current work engages with relationship between verbal and non-verbal being and involves people who have no practice of language at all. This is the focus of doctoral research I am now completing in the framework of the PhD programme (faculty of Visual Arts) at Lund University (SE) and my dissertation, 'Voicing on the Borders of Language'.

Languages

French
Dutch; Flemish
Russian

Degrees

1987, West Surrey College of Art and Design, Surrey, BA (Hons) Sculpture

Academic appointments

External Examiner, School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds, 2019 - 2022
External Examiner, Fine Art, Middlesex School of Art, 2009 - 2010

Postgraduate training

PhD: Voicing on the Borders of Language, Sweden, Lund University, 2016 - 2020
FResearcher, The Netherlands, Jan van Eyck Academy, 1992 - 2021

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