Abigail Clemens

Biography

BIOGRAPHY
Abigail Clemens (she/her/hers) is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London and the San Francisco Bay Area. Interested in examining the relationships between materials and empire, as well as sound and hospitality, her scholarship and arts practice center philosophy, diasporic studies, and migratory aesthetics. She uses sonic forms (audio narrative, music composition, sound collage) and fine art disciplines (drawing, papermaking, and painting) to investigate and question sensory, social, and political conditions for invitation and guesting. A former student of upright bass and small ensemble performance, Abigail also uses her research to reflect on listening and performing positionalities as they pertain to different genres of music, legacies of colonialism, and processes of arranging/editing.


RESEARCH at UAL
'Home is Everywhere But We're Nowhere: Exchange and Rememory in (Un/)Hospitable Sounds'

Supervisors: Dr. Salomé Voegelin and Dr. Annie Goh