Open City Docs Micro-Course | Sound, Ethnography & Archive (In-Person)
Price £75
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Open City Documentary Festival | Sound, Ethnography & Archive
WHAT: This micro-course explores the role of sound in challenging how we remember, archive, and exhibit micro-histories.
WHERE: In-Person, UCL East, Stratford, London.
WHO: Run by ethnomusicologist, curator & artist Rim Irscheid
WHEN: Saturday 18th April 11 AM – 4 PM
COMMITMENT: 1-day session.
WHAT YOU GET: Learn about the importance of personal archives and methods, including sensory ethnography, sound walking and preservation of recordings.
HOW MUCH: General: £75
DEADLINE TO SIGN UP: Please book by 10th April 2026.
AGES: 18+
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This micro-course explores the role of sound in challenging how we remember, archive, and exhibit micro-histories.
Together, the cohort will explore the theoretical, ethnographic and arts-based approaches to sonic archiving. Participants will develop skills to discuss, record and display alternative archives that challenge colonial forms of knowledge production. Learn theories around archives and counter-archives, across archival art and ethnography, through collaborative discussions and workshops.
This course will be delivered in person at UCL East, Stratford, London. It is open to all levels of experience.
Run by ethnomusicologist, curator & artist Rim Irscheid. Combining ethnographic research and curatorial practice, her practice-led research is looking at artist-led institution building, emotional aspects of creative labour, and interpretations of care and solidarity in curatorial activism.
Tutors
Dr Rim Irscheid
Course Leader
Dr Rim Irscheid is an ethnomusicologist, curator and multidisciplinary artist working on experimental music and archival interventions across Middle Eastern contemporary sound and visual arts. Combining ethnographic research and curatorial practice, her practice-led research is looking at artist-led institution building, emotional aspects of creative labour, and interpretations of care and solidarity in curatorial activism. She is currently a Research Associate in the field of curation on the UKRI project 'Beyond 1932: Rethinking Musical Modernity in the Middle East and North Africa' at King’s College London. Since 2019, she organises installations, performances, art exhibitions, craft-based workshops, and panel discussions on subjects of music, migration and media representation. She completed an AHRC-funded PhD in Ethnomusicology & Curatorial Practice at King's College London (2020-2023) and holds a Master’s degree in Musicology from the University of Oxford (2018), and a joint honours BA in Musicology and Psychology from the University of Heidelberg (2017).