Workshop 4: Diverse Histories/Urban Stories: reflecting on practice Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design Southampton Row, London WC1 Friday 30 November Curator: Claire Macdonald This is the 4th consultative working day in a series of AHRC funded participatory workshops intended to develop methodologies and practices that will inform a wide ranging, artist centred, oral history project in the field of performance and live art. Workshops in London, Bristol and Glasgow have been about exploring the social, cultural, temporal, geographic and material contexts in which performance emerges, is made, takes place and is witnessed, as well as the contexts in which, and the methods through which, it is recorded and preserved. Diverse histories offers a space for reflection on oral/aural method and approach through hearing about the work of artists and artist-curators involved in their own art, archiving and exhibition projects that either focus on or include oral/aural material. The morning session will focus on artist centred methods, inviting two artists to present who collect, collate and use sound material as part of their practice. The afternoon session will invite two curators working in the oral history field to reflect on their current work, which focuses on the voices of artists. The day is also a chance for participants to meet and share ideas and questions about the project in hand, and about aural/oral collecting and archiving methods. Programme 10.00 Tea & coffee. Introduction to the day and the project. 10.20 – 11.00 ‘Remembering to listen’ discussion led by Claire MacDonald. 11.00 – 12.30 Intervention 1: ‘Resonant Landscapes’. Michael McMillan – artist, director, writer and curator of the West Indian Front Room and Graeme Miller – interdisciplinary artist working with and between the sonic and visual - both work across art forms using multiple mediums and archival methods to create art works and exhibitions. They will talk about their work in relation to sound and voice in their curatorial and artistic practice. Chair: Claire MacDonald 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch 1.30 – 3.00 Intervention 2: Interviewing Artists. Linda Sandino  - curator of VIVA, Voices in the Visual Arts, based at Camberwell College of Art, and Susan Croft – writer, theatre researcher and archivist of feminist theatre – are each involved in generating oral history projects in the field of performance. This session will reflect on oral history methods and approaches, and reflect on the issue and challenges in each of the participant’s projects. Chair: Stephen Cleary