Ryan Evans

United States °1990
research interests: Participatory Art, Socially Engaged Art, Community Art, Sound Art, Disability Aesthetics
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Ryan Ander-Evans (he/they) is an arts researcher and participatory artist. They use sound as metaphor to examine the aesthetic (dis)qualifications of the body and mind. Ryan is a teaching artist with Upstream Arts, where he facilitates arts-based learning in disability settings. He also leads Recreation Arts, a participatory music group with older adults living with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Lastly, they are a research scientist with Wilder Research, where they conduct social impact research about the arts, culture, and disability. Ryan has a master’s degree in applied anthropology and community arts from the University of London – Goldsmiths College.

 

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  • quiet citadel (2022) author(s): Ryan Evans published in: Research Catalogue
    'quiet citadel' is a site-specific, participatory music project that examines music-making and the purposes that music can serve. I made 'quiet citadel' as part of the Hinge Arts Residency with Springboard for the Arts. They describe the fellowship as a community development program that activates arts programming related to the historic Fergus Falls State Hospital, or "the Kirkbride." Presented in four sections, this exposition offers a case study of how I instrumentalized my music-making and music-sharing to assist the residents of Fergus Falls, a small town in rural Minnesota, in determining what to do with the disused Fergus Falls State Hospital, or "the Kirkbride." All told, this exposition provides an example of using music as a research method for the purposes of collectively imagining the future of a community asset.
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  • The Recorded Body 1 (2025) author(s): Ryan Evans published in: Research Catalogue
    The Recorded Body is a process-based sound art project about bodily iteration and interdependence. It uses participatory performance and embodied listening techniques to explore the following questions: How do we recognize each other's bodies? What is contained by the body, and what is outside its bounds? When does a body need or necessitate other bodies?
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