By Ian Currie @BSCurrie
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Live tweeting Dr Claire Loveday, lecturing in Eden Grove Blue. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday will be speaking on interdisciplinary work – particularly music. Focusing on the Collision Project at WITS in 2010.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Lecture taking place during HAM lecture so it is decently attended.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
A handful of attendees aren't students, but it doesn't seem as if it was particularly well marketed/received by the larger population.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Her involvement in the Collision Project centered around making music from a car crash. Car became an instrument, strings were attached.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Work was presented in 2010 as part art-installation, part composition. Loveday is discussing process of creating the 'set' #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday is speaking against the use of electronics in a work such as Collision Project – warning against the break between orig. sound +…
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
…it's electronic reproduction. Borrows a term "schizophonic" to describe this disconnect. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday is discussing the Collision Project as a product of its space – gritty inner city Johannesburg.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Car-wreck as symbol of Johannesburg: "the wreck visibly echoed our city and workspace" – Loveday.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday is discussing pros and cons (there are many of both) of the idea of an interdisciplinary art school. This school spawned the work.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday hoped to push "interdisciplinary" as far as it could go – by making the music inseparable from the object. In this case, the car.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday does best when she speaks freely from her page of notes. Everyone leans in to hear her soft voice, which occasionally comes to life
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
There seems to be a trend of a disagreement between young and old academics in Loveday's discussion – seen too in international academies.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Loveday stresses equality in voice recognition and creative roles in order for interdisciplinary projects to work. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Now watching a clip from Collision Project – the car lights illuminate and it is silent apart from the heavy breathing of performers.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
The set design, around a car wreck, is exceptionally captivating. Visual drama along with music. Truly interdisciplinary.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
The car makes a strange and alluring music.
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Fascinating to see the concepts Loveday referred to in her lecture enacted in the project. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Cello strings on the wreck sound like screaming metal. Painful and intoxicating. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
Performance ends with out of tune cello strings stretched across the car played with bows. A deep and violent sound. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
As the lecture wraps up, and a really interesting example of successful interdisciplinary project has been shown – I wish there had been…
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
…more of a discussion on the potential for interdisciplinary art schools going forward. #LovedayRU
— Ian Currie (@BSCurrie) October 2, 2014
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