'Residual Matter'- Theatre Noise
I joined Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, as a lecturer in BA Theatre Practice in 2007. My background is in Fine Art, with a BA (Hons) in Sculpture and MA in Creative Media Studies. I enjoy exploring narratives though installation, sound, objects and performance and interdisciplinary collaborations.
I have several years of teaching experience at undergraduate level, and in the community in the UK and internationally. Whilst in my academic role at RCSSD, I continue to undertake freelance creative contracts and collaborative fine art research projects.
My ongoing research enquiry 'Aurality of Objects' explores objects and materials in terms of their socio-political contexts and production processes. I maintain a studio/workshop in Deptford, London.
As a freelance practitioner in the arts I have worked extensively both here in the UK and internationally, in Russia, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah, Dubai, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Sri Lanka and throughout Europe.
Research presentations/publications:
‘Three reasons to think twice about mapping the brain’
Collaborative article with:
Danai Dima, Lecturer Cognitive Neuroscience, City, University of London
Mike Duggan, Cultural Geographer, Royal Holloway
2017
Available at:
‘The Conversation’
https://theconversation.com/three-reasons-to-think-twice-about-mapping-the-brain-80341
‘City- University of London News’ https://www.city.ac.uk/news/2017/august/brain-maps-danai-dima
Impossible Partnerships: Mapping – (Un)charted Territories
Roundtable discussion, Somerset House, London,
The role of maps in brain imagery, cultural geography, artistic practice, and everyday life, held in collaboration with
Danai Dima, Lecturer Cognitive Neuroscience, City, University of London
Mike Duggan, Cultural Geographer, Royal Holloway
The roundtable was facilitated by The Culture Capital Exchange.
2017
Available at:
https://www.theculturecapitalexchange.co.uk/2017/04/11/mapping/
The Sensorial Object: - Aurality of Objects
Cross-disciplinary writings curated by Dr Natasha Mayo and Zoe Preece on behalf of the Makers Guild for Wales, Cardiff. The Sensorial Object, was a publication and exhibition, exploring the sense experience through the materiality of things.
2016
Available at:
The Sensorial Object
https://thesensorialobject.wordpress.com/dot-young/
Re Activating Space Symposium - ‘Aurality of Objects’
Research Presentation and MA workshops at Cardiff School of Art
With Dr Natasha Mayo, Philippa Lawrence and Professor Wendy Keay-Bright
‘REACTIVATING SPACE intended to generate proposals for installation artworks in site specific locations around Cardiff School of Art to heighten sensory awareness, and foster empathic experiences.
2016
Deptford X – ‘Extension’
25-9-15 to 4-19-15
ART HUB Gallery, London.
Installation, collaboration with Lex Kosanke, East German sound designer.
'Extension’ tracks the visual and sonic history of a hair extension back to a Hindu Temple in Chennai, India, previously offered in an act of religious tonsure. It focuses on materiality and the shift in value from a religious to a commercial context.
Electromicroscope imaging by Mahmoud Ardnekani, Department of Materials, Imperial College.
25-9-15 to 4-19-15
Available at:
https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html
Film: https://vimeo.com/182006070
Press: https://www.timeout.com/london/blog/five-things-to-see-at-deptford-x-festival-092515
Photobook Pop-Up
‘Extension’ Presentation
msdm studio [mobile social design matter] Director Paula Roush
http://www.msdm.org.uk/portfolio/photobook-pop-up-programme/
Practice Research presentation of ‘Extension’ self-assemble artists book.
2016
Available at:
Website: https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html
‘Extension’ Film: https://vimeo.com/182006070
‘Extension’ Installation and research Presentation
LSBU Digital Gallery, London
‘Extension’ was presented as an installation in the LSBU Digital Gallery, London
The opening, accompanied by an artist’s talk, with collaborator Lex Kosanke, East German sound designer, who devised the soundtrack.
2015
Available at: https://www.dotyoung.com/fine-artresearch.html
CHAIR – A Life Backwards
Free Space Gallery, Kentish Town, London
Interactive sound installation, photography, sound-walk, workshops and artists talk, in collaboration with US composer Gregg Fisher and Russian photographer Pavel Legankov
‘Chair’ focuses on the aural history of one of the most commonplace and symbolic objects of everyday life, and explores the complex political and environmental aspects of production
2013
Available at:
https://thechairproject.org/
‘Rewind’
Group Show, Lewisham Arthouse, London
‘Aurality of Objects’ practice as research archival work “Chair in progress’
2012
RCSSD, Research presentation
‘Aurality of Objects’
Practice as Research Presentation and artists talk
RCSSD, London
2012
‘Aurality of Objects’
The Athens Institute for Education and Research
'Aurality of Objects - Chair - A Life Backwards’. Research paper presentation, in collaboration with Gregg Fisher, US Sound composer/designer.
2010
Theatre Noise – The Sound of Performance
‘Residual Matter’ installation in collaboration with Justin Bennett, The Institute of Sonology, The Hague
Residual Matter tracks of the coming into being, or ‘birth’ of an object. It explores the raw noise produced when making an object, not ordinarily captured or evaluated, and considers how it might inform our understanding of the object.
2009
Available at:
https://www.9thplanetwebdesign.co.uk/noise/pages/perform.html#objects
‘Aurality of Objects-Residual matter’
Shunt Vaults, London Bridge, London
Installation work in collaboration with sound artist Justin Bennett, Institute of Sonology, the Hague
2009
Available at:
Residual Matter Film: https://vimeo.com/83540302
Residual Matter Stop Motion Film: https://vimeo.com/191602238
Deptford X, Flux
Art House, London
‘Aurality of Objects- Corridor’.
'Corridor', Deptford X, London, was part of a series of sound/digital/projection installations. The event was collaboratively produced in conjunction with Amanda Frances, freelance artist, UEL, and Paul Jones, London based digital artist.
25-9-09/4-10-09
Aurality of Objects © d.young 2009
