MAKE 2026 SYMPOSIUM: MATERIALITY AND SOUND Back to events list
Date: Saturday March 7th, 2026 from 10:00 to 17:00
Price:General €65.0
Price:Student €30.0
Price:General plus Lunch €75.0
Price:Student plus Lunch €40.0
Venue: MTU Cork School of Music - Curtis Auditorium
MAKE 2026 SYMPOSIUM
MATERIALITY AND SOUND
Time: Saturday 7 March 2026
10.00am - 5.00pm (registration opens 9.00am)
Venue: CURTIS AUDITORIUM
MTU Cork School of Music Union Quay, Cork.
Tickets:
€30 with Student ID Card (limited availability)
€65 (General)
MATERIALITY AND SOUND features speakers who will discuss the role of sound in art practice, bringing sculptors who reference or integrate sound and/or collaborate with musicians, or who orchestrate humble materials into soundscapes, or who embed sound digitally into material. This is our twelfth MAKE Symposium and it is wonderful this year to partner with our MTU Cork School of Music!
MAKE 2026 is hosted by MTU CRAWFORD COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN.
ENQUIRIES: Pamela.Hardesty@mtu.ie
OUR SPEAKERS:
The great Turner-Prize winning artist and musician, from the UK:
MARTIN CREED
Martin Creed was born in 1968 in Wakefield, England. Between 1986 and 1990 he studied at the Slade School of Fine Art, London. In 2001 he was the winner of the Turner Prize.
He has an incredibly extensive international exhibition record, most recently in New Zealand and Germany, using a wide range of materials, especially everyday objects, and often incorporating sound. As a musician he has performed for decades throughout Europe with his band. He currently lives and works in London and is represented by Hauser and Wirth.
https://www.hauserwirth.com/artists/2781-martin-creed/
The dynamic team of Budapest, at the cutting edge of digital augmenting of materials for embedded sound, who will present together:
EJ TECH: JUDIT ESZTER KÁRPÁTI AND ESTEBAN DE LA TORRE
EJTECH is a polydisciplinary artist duo working with hyperphysical interfaces, programmable matter, and augmented textiles as media to investigate sensorial and conceptual relationships between subject and object. Sound, space, light and time as material building blocks are paramount elements in their practice, analyzing the process of unfolding patterns between technology and the human body; driven by material research, resulting in performative installations, multichannel sonic sculptures and dynamic surfaces. Currently researchers and lecturers at the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design. The artist duo lives and works in Budapest, Hungary.
The Irish sculptor who works with and references sound in form
VIVIENNE ROCHE
Vivienne Roche RHA is also a member of Aosdána. She received an honorary doctorate from U.C.C. in 2006 and C.I.T Alumni Award in 2010. She has made many large-scale public sculptures including Wave Shadow at Dublin Dental Hospital, Light Ensemble, CIT Cork School of Music, Whitelight Garden, Parkwest Pointe and Light House, a poem sculpture with Derek Mahon, for the Department of Arts in Killarney. She was part of the design team (with Mola Architecture) who delivered the refurbished Diving Bell for the Port of Dublin.
A recent public commission is The Book of Climate Bells and Sunbell Garden for Esker ETN School in Lucan, Dublin.
Her solo exhibition, Abridged, was on show in the main gallery of the RHA in Autumn 2024.
The philosopher and phenomenologist of Ontario, who will discuss the critical qualities of sound art:
HELEN A FIELDING
Helen A. Fielding is Professor of Philosophy, and Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Western University in Canada. Her research is primarily in feminist phenomenology. She writes alongside artworks to explore questions about the intersections of technology, art, perception, and embodiment from an embodied perspective. She is author of Cultivating Perception Through Artworks (IUP 2021). Forthcoming is Life in Art: Phenomenology and World-Making co-edited with Mariana Ortega (IUP April 2026).
https://www.uwo.ca/gsws//people/fielding%20.html
The composer and performer of Cork who mixes objects with music in an innovative and experimental practice:
DR ANDY INGAMELLS
Andy Ingamells is an experimental musician who develops unusual methods of composition that blur the line between composer and performer. His work is rooted in traditional elements of music-making and classical conventions, but implemented in a different way, often through physical actions. His work has been performed by many ensembles worldwide and he is in demand as a soloist. Andy is a graduate of the Master Artistic Research programme at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague and in 2017 he completed a PhD at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire funded by AHRC. He lectures in composition at Cork School of Music.
The Swiss artist creating immersive sound installations
ZIMOUN (not a speaker but we will experience his works via a special video presentation he has prepared for us)
'Using simple and functional components, Zimoun builds architecturally minded platforms of sound. Exploring mechanical rhythm and flow in prepared systems, his installations incorporate commonplace industrial objects. In an obsessive display of simple and functional materials, these works articulate a tension between the orderly patterns of Modernism and the chaotic forces of life. Carrying an emotional depth, the acoustic hum of natural phenomena in Zimoun's minimalist constructions effortlessly reverberates.' Laura Blereau
Zimoun lives and works in Bern, Switzerland. His work has been presented internationally in Museums of Contemporary Art.
LUNCH OPTION! THIS YEAR WE OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY TO BUY A SALAD LUNCH OPTION TICKET. THESE LOVING SALAD LUNCH BOXES WILL HOLD A VARIETY OF DELICIOUS SALADS—A VARIETY BOX. THEY INCLUDE CUTLERY AND NAPKINS, AND WE CAN EAT THEM WITHIN THE CSM CAFÉ AREA. THEY WILL BE DELIVERED FRESH AT LUNCHTIME AND CAN BE COLLECTED IN THE FOYER AREA.
THE SALADS IN EACH LUNCH BOX:
- Curried chickpeas with fresh coconut, mango, chilli & lime G.F – D.F – Vegan
- Black eye peas, bulgur with basil spinach pesto D.F – Vegan
- Lentil de Puy with roasted smoky/ sweet paprika sweet potatoes G.F – D.F – Vegan
- Kimchi – hummus – Dukkah – magic sauce – toasted turmeric almonds
