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The School of Film, Music & Theatre is delighted to announce artist Joshua Dyson as the 2024-25 recipient of the UCC-Cork Opera House MRes Studentship.
Dyson (he/him) is a sound researcher, metalworker, performer and installation artist whose practice operates between critical spatial theory, sound studies, and site-specific interventions in relation to the phenomenology of place and maintenance.
Jools Gilson, Professor of Creative Practice said 鈥淛oshua鈥檚 work is distinctively interdisciplinary having trained in visual art, but working within sound installation, we鈥檙e looking forward to Joshua bringing his artistic research to the architecture of Cork Opera House.鈥�
Dyson鈥檚 previous exhibitions include 鈥楪RAS Vernissage鈥� at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design鈥檚 Kafk谩rna in Prague (2023); 鈥楪raduate Show鈥� at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2021); 鈥楩igure 6: Non-Linear Implosions鈥� at MEME in Athens (2020); and 鈥業 Might Be Staring At Infinity (Or The Backs Of My Own Eyelids)鈥� in Baku (2020)(Online).
Dyson鈥檚 current research aims to develop a multichannel sound system that bridges data, memory, cyclicality, and temporality. When composing sound for architectural spaces, Dyson draws from archival material to field recordings and contemporary testimonies, cultivating a layered cultural understanding of each site and its greater context. With multichannel sound, tactile materiality of structures guides speaker arrangements and functionality, allowing sound and architecture to engage interdependently, attuning the space to its unique acoustic sensibilities. His MRes research will explore responses to the unique spaces of Cork Opera House 鈥� work which will be shared on Culture Night in 2025.