Role
Andrew is the Course Leader for the MFA (Masters in Fine Art) and an HEA Fellow.
Andrew has taught at Nottingham Trent University 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
- Soundwalking: Deep Listening and Spatio-Temporal Montage. Humanities, 2017, 6(3), 69
Recent research (since 2012)
2019. Lost walk - Giudecca. With Katja Hock. Research Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2019 River walk [sound poem]. Pamoja Women Together Group.
2019 Gallery walk [soundwalk], Nottingham Contemporary, 2019.
2018 OpenCity Nine Elms [soundwalk], Art Night, St. George’s Wharf Pier, London
2018. Listening and Whispering Pots - Re-Turning. [group exhibition]. Collaboration with Christine Stevens. Airspace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
2018 OpenCity Stoke - Re-Turning. [soundwalk], Airspace Gallery, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent
2018 Hearing Clay Touching Sound [workshops]. Collaboration with Christine Stevens. Nottingham: Global Sistaz United. Hanley: ASHA. Burslem: Jubilee Arts
2017 OpenCity Venice. [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 International 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, Nottingham
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, Nottingham
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 Géographie – Esthétiques 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. Lost walk - Giudecca. 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, 2019
- Christine Stevens. Listening and Whispering Pots - Re-Turning. 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. Lost walk - Giudecca. With Katja Hock. Research Pavilion, 58th International Art Exhibition - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
2018 OpenCity Nine Elms [soundwalk], Art Night, St. George’s Wharf Pier, London
Book contributions:
2015. Walking through post-industry. In: A.H. MYDLAND and N. BROWNSWORD, eds., Topographies of the obsolete: site reflections. Stoke on Trent: Topographies of the Obsolete Publications.
2015. Instructions for a walk. In: C. HIND and C. QUALMANN, eds., Ways to wander. Axminster: Triarchy Press. ISBN 9781909470729
2012. Instructions for a walk. Paris: Paper Jam.
2010. OpenCity. With Katie Doubleday and Emma Cocker. Nottingham: Casciani Evans Wood.
2007. Trial. With Mole Wetherall. Plymouth: University of Plymouth Press
Journal Articles:
2017. Soundwalking: deep listening and spatio-temporal montage. Humanities, 6 (3), p. 69. ISSN 2076-0787
2016. OpenCity. PAUST (Performance Architecture Urbanism Space Theatre).
2008. With Katie Doubleday, Simone Kenyon and Emma Cocker. Open city. Drain. vol 5. (2, Psychogeography)
2006. Nottingham 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
https://www.ntu.ac.uk/course/art-and-design/pg/mfa-fine-art