listening, listening, images 
Sound and performance workshop with Sophie Mak Schram

Saturday 16 May, 2:00 – 4:00pm
ARK, Cliftonville CT9 2HP

This workshop explores listening as a critical and performative practice through Tina Campt’s Listening to Images (2017). Using lecture par arpentage—a reading method developed in workers’ circles for collective education—we will approach the text collaboratively, fragmenting and sharing its ideas through group discussion and vocal interpretation.

Drawing on this shared reading, we will then work together to create a recorded sonic lecture, experimenting with voice, sound, and collective listening.

Sophie Mak Schram works across art, art historical research and radical pedagogies. They engage others in place-specific work around power, collectivity, knowledges and futures. This work is informed by personal and shared experiences of cultural difference, coloniality, race and gender. Often using the metaphor of the ‘tool’ – as a poetic and practical object – Sophie works with collaborators to make tools that can shift power, gather groups and offer ways of being in relation (to each other, to place, to institutions) differently.

Recent projects include To Shift a Stone (2025-2026), commissioned by National Museum Wales and Chapter Arts Centre, Stretching Thresholds, Holding Streams (2024-2025) in collaboration with Jeanne van Heeswijk, commissioned by Migros Museum of Contemporary Art, Switzerland and Blueprints for Studies (2024) co-curated with Rahel Sphörer at Zeppelin University, Germany. Sophie was Curriculum Redefined Lecturer of Art Pedagogies at the University of Leeds, Research Associate at CCA Derry-Londonderry and Perspective(s) artist between 2024-2025. Sophie is currently Lecturer in Fine Art at Cardiff Metropolitan University and part of BAK Basecamp for Tactical Imaginaries.

This event is organised by OSE Associate Suds McKenna, and is part of Towards the Edges, Open School East’s Public Programme 2026 – find more events: openschooleast.org/public-programme-2026