Family Friendly Workshop: Experiential Sonic with Kelly Jayne Jones
workshop • 06 May 2023 11am–1pm
Experience and experiment with sonic vibrations of rocks, stones and animals in this drop-in family friendly workshop along with mask making, drawing and painting.
In this workshop artist and musician Kelly Jayne Jones will create an immersive space for participants to playfully explore resonance, the animism of rocks and learn about animal songs, calls and moon consciousness rituals.
You will have the opportunity to make your own music, and collaborate with the other participants to work as a collective. Drop in anytime between 11-1pm and stay for as long as you feel.
This workshop is suitable for audiences aged 6+. Intergenerational collaboration is encouraged.
Accessibility
This event will take place on the ground floor of our building and is wheelchair accessible. There are accessible toilets on the same floor. If you have any questions or if there is anything we can do to improve your visit please email peter.martin@sitegallery.org.
Image: courtesy of the artist.
Artists
Kelly Jayne Jones is a Manchester based artist making work that combines performance, installation and sound. She began working in experimental concrete music and her practice has expanded to include dance, gesture, sonic drawings, stone sculpture and film.
She is interested in creating a multi-sensory experience that creates possible conditions for communication and exchange. Creating contemporary zones bordering quantum fictions, where communion may have the potential to explore our inner dimensions. She is currently exploring animist ideas around the breath and spirit of mountains and rivers and how we can reconnect with our planet by means of ancient and future rituals. Her work traverses the emotions of desire and anxiety, the comfortable and uncomfortable edges of our inner spaces and social co-existence. She is interested in presence and performance as a site for potential transformation; interpersonally and communally.
KJJ has collaborations with Hannah Ellul (White Death), Greta Buitkute (Clout then Grappling) and Dan Valentine from Rainer Veil and Haris Epaminonda. She was one half of the group part wild horses mane on both sides, which disbanded in 2016. She has performed across Europe in DIY venues and has been commissioned for works with projects at dOCUMENTA13, Tate Modern, ICA London and CCA Glasgow, Trieze Gallery Paris, Borealis Festival & Kunsthalle Bergen Norway, Tectonics contemporary music festival, Hangar Bicocca gallery Milan, Huddersfield contemporary music festival (hcmf//) and Sheffield Site Gallery. She had a film collaboration with Haris Epaminonda, Chimera shown at Venice Biennale 2019.