about me
my main research interests relate to the nature of hierarchies and labour within the artist audience relationship.
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i am interested in examining the ways in which artists rely on the aesthetic labour of audiences to create meaning and how this can be challenged through alternative ways of creating meaning.
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my work combines marxist, post marxist and anarchist theory with post structuralism, aesthetic theory, queer theory and feminism.
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Education
2022-
Napier University, Edinburgh
PHD Music.
My PhD research continues my research from my Masters into hierarchical relationships and issues of audience labour within the Avant Guard.
In addition to these areas of research I will be examining the possibilities of constructing non hierarchical systems of meaning within Sound Art and the possibilities inherent in using Sound Art as a site for Liberation Pedagogy.
2021-2022
Napier University, Edinburgh
MA Music.
During this year i engaged in a project that examined the hierarchical nature of free improvisation and examined ho to dismantle hierarchies through new models for free improvisation ensembles.