Joanne Scott

Photo courtesy of Ludovic des Cognets

Dr Jo Scott is an artist-researcher and educator, based in central Portugal. Jo’s research is conducted through a variety of creative practices including performance, installation, sound walks and sonic experiences. She holds a practice-based PhD in intermedial performance-making and has worked on more than 20 artistic research projects. Jo’s current research is exploring the use of walking arts and sonic scores to explore human relationships with changing, disturbed and damaged landscapes. This research is particularly interested in the relationships we form with the other than human world, the value we place on our companion species and how creative digital practices can reveal close entanglements with these species.

Jo taught in UK Higher Education for 12 years and is a scholar of digital performance, a field in which she has published widely. She is also an expert in artistic research, has supervised and examined a number of practice research doctoral projects and has been invited to speak about artistic research to researchers at a range of institutions. She is the associate editor of the International Journal of Performing Arts and Digital Media and Body Space Technology, and Senior XR Research Lead on the Extending Nature project, run by Intercultural Roots.

Photo courtesy of Ludovic des Cognets

Jo's current research interests are in exploring the relationships between trees and humans in landscapes which are threatened by climate-related natural disasters, such as wildfires.

She is also working on a sound walk project, exploring our contemporary relationships with rivers and focusing on the Mondego River in Portugal.

Jo has an ongoing interest in decolonial ecology and botany in exploring our relationships with vegetal life and the colonial legacies that influence how we see, feel about and engage with plants and trees.

Her research is currently being conducted through the creation of sound walks, sited sound works and binaural sonic pieces. Jo has a long term interest in geolocated sound and the way this can activate renewed perceptions of and relationships with the other than human world.

Photo courtesy of the artist.

She has also been exploring what creative field work within spaces of industrialised nature might be conducted and what creative sited methods can do in this context.

Jo consistently uses song, field recording and digital sound creation within her research and for more than 16 years has explored how to bring these sonic sources into affective combinations, often through improvised and live mixing practices.

The key themes and ideas which run through Jo’s current artistic research practices are:

  • Human relations with vegetal life

  • Decolonial and Indigenous perspectives of these relations

  • Exploring landscapes that are threatened and precarious due to the effects of the climate crisis

  • How multispecies communities live together in these precarious landscapes

  • Human relationships with other than human nature more generally, including rivers and geological formations

Find out more at www.joanneemmascott.com

Advisors, Core Advisors--performance, sound, creative technologies, ecology, post-digital, multispecies, CS Sonic Landscapes, CS Materialism and Ecological Praxis, CS Somatics and Corporeality, CS Critical Urbanism and Spatial Praxis, CS Ecology and environmental activism, CS Relational landscapes and materialism, CS Creative technologies, CS Audiovisual instruments, CS Composing sound arts and experimental music, CS Sonic consciousness perception experience and memory, CS Spatial practices, CS Walking as an art practice, CS New materialism and object-oriented ontologies