Alex Murray Leslie
Australia
 

Alex Murray-Leslie is part of Chicks on Speed, a multidisciplinary art group and pioneers in the cross pollination of Pop Music, Performance Art, Fashion and New Media.

Alex Murray Leslie

9 May - 7 August 2015

Alex Murray-Leslie is part of Chicks on Speed, a multidisciplinary art group and pioneers in the cross pollination of Pop Music, Performance Art, Fashion and New Media. Murray-Leslie will research into computational footwear in live art The BipedShoe Project, acoustic shoe tools for performance), through the production of new knowledge via experimental research and new collaborations with local Singaporean arts practitioners, curators and academics. She will integrate her experiences while in residence into a new body of performative work around the BipedShoes, which is at the core of her ongoing research into Objectinstruments and their effects on dramaturgie in artformances (live art performances).

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Alex Murray Leslie, 9 May – 7 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Alex Murray Leslie, 9 May – 7 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Alex Murray Leslie, 9 May – 7 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
Alex Murray Leslie, 9 May – 7 August 2015, Courtesy the artist.
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Contributors
Alexandra Murray-Leslie
Alexandra Murray-Leslie
Artist-in-Residence
Australia

Alexandra Murray-Leslie (b 1970, Australia) is a researcher and pop-artformer working in the field of wearable musical instrument design for performance, PhD candidate, Creativity and Cognition Studios, The University of Technology, Sydney and founder and member of Chicks on Speed. Her current practice-based research project focuses on the development of interactive footwear designs for live-art with possible health applications.TheBipedShoes are a joint research project between The University of Technology, Sydney, SymbioticA, University of Western Australia, Department of Kinesiology, College of Health & Human Development, The Pennsylvania State University and shoe-designer Max Kibardin. Alex has published her research widely, including Journal for critical Studies in Fashion and Beauty, New Interfaces for Musical Expression Conference proceedings, Carol Rama, MACBA, 2015 and International Symposium for Wearable Computers 2014.