Centre for Experimental Practices was an interdisciplinary research centre at the University of Huddersfield linking media, performance, contemporary art, and other fields. CXP investigated the experimental dimensions of practice: the ways in which practices are both structured by and productive of knowledge. Its aim was to generate speculative imaginings and forms of thought for a more just and sustainable world.
Online seminars from the Lines of Flight series are available on CXP’s YouTube channel.
Centre for Experimental Practices (CXP)
2023–2024
Centre Director: Ben Spatz
Centre Manager: Colin Frank
Programme Manager & Co-Curator: Kate Holden
Research Video Technician: Claire Bend
Research Video Technician: Hamidreza Khosh-Bazan
Lines of Flight 2024: New Laboratories [playlist]
• Tao Leigh Goffe: Dark Laboratory
• Michael Kliën: The Laboratory for Social Choreography
• Magda Romanska: metaLAB
• Fi James and Eimhin Daly: Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
• Prakash Krishnan, Nicholas Goberdhan, Rachel Rozanski: AIM Lab
Whiteness and Sound Studies (2024) [playlist]
Curated by Sophie Fetokaki
Co-sponsored by University of the Arts Helsinki
• Re-writing Sound and Re-reading Silence: Stephen McEvoy
• Skin-tone: Budhaditya Chattopadhyay
• Sound Color: Roshanak Kheshti
• Dancing on Violent Ground: Arabella Stanger
• Echoes of Elsewhere?: Annie Goh
Lines of Flight 2023: Black Methods [playlist]
• Ashon Crawley: Versions
• Marquis Bey with melissandre varin: Jailbreaking Race
• AD Carson with Obi Emelonye: Talking to Ghosts
• Cara Hagan: Ode to an Unapologetically Free and Sacred Booty
• Aisha Densmore-Bey: The Architect/Artist — Imagination through Praxis
Videographic Entanglements [webpage]
• Videographic Entanglements Symposium (2023)
• Videographic Entanglements Study Day (2022)
organised with Alan O’Leary and Johannes Binotto
• Windows into Worlds Exhibition (2019)
• AVBODY: Symposium on the Audiovisual Body (2018)
Glitter Party: A Queer Research Symposium (2024)
Curated by Kate Holden
At Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre
Research Centre for Performance Practices (ReCePP)
2020-2022
Centre Co-Directors:
Emily Worthington
Ben Spatz
Lines of Flight 2021 [playlist]
• Mira Benjamin: Pitch in Hand
• Martin Lawrence: Music Performance Anxiety as Hidden Desire and Emerging Self
• Elizabeth De Roza: Soft Fireworks
• Manola-Gayatri Kumarswamy: Bodies at Sea
• Samuel Ravengai: Practice as Research and Theoretical Explication
• Nik Taylor: Hiding the Elephant in the Room
Centre for Psychophysical Performance Research (CPPR)
2014-2020
Centre Co-Directors:
Franc Chamberlain
Deb Middleton
Lines of Flight Events
Curated by Ben Spatz
• Massimiliano Balduzzi (2016)
• Anna-Helena McLean (2015)
• Ang Gey Pin (2014)
CXP Logo Design:
Aisha Densmore-Bey