Lunchtime Talks are a series of informal presentations at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio. They normally take place at 13:00 on a Friday, are free and are open to everybody who is interested in what they do. Come along, bring a sandwich, and get to know more about the Studio community, current and up-coming projects, or residents' work.

For this Lunchtime Talk we will be joined by artist, researcher and Watershed Professor of City Futures at UWE Bristol, Teresa Dillon. Her artistic work takes the form of performative and sound interventions. Teresa directs Urban Knights, a program that promotes practical approaches to urban governance and living. This year, Teresa was invited to be part of the curatorial team for Transmediale, Festival of Media and Digital Culture and the STATE, science-art festival, Berlin.

During this talk, Teresa will be focusing on her recent work, Canary Songs a sound reenactment and choral performance for cinema spaces, which drew on historical sources and accounts from the women who worked as Canary Girls in the military, National Shell Filling Factory, No. 6 near Chilwell, UK in WW1.

Teresa will discuss how the piece emerged from a period of research in Berlin (Humboldt Fellowship) with a focus on the acoustic modelling and the performative techniques, which were used in the making of the work. She will also link the piece, to her wider research on sound reenactments of the built environment and critical sound exploration.

The Pervasive Media Studio is located within the Watershed building. Let us know if you'd like a tour and we'll be happy to show you around. Send an email to studio@watershed.co.uk

For further information visit watershed.co.uk/studio

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