Dr Alex De Little

Profile

Alex De Little is an artist and researcher, based in the school of PCI since February 2024. His praxis encompasses installation, composition, performance, workshops, making, writing, listening, and conversational practices. He completed a practice-based PhD with Scott Mc Laughlin and Martin Iddon at the University of Leeds and has held several postdoctoral research fellowships at the Universities of Leeds and Nottingham. He has also been an honorary research fellow at Goldsmiths Centre for Sound Practice Research and is a certified member of the Centre for Deep Listening.

Alex’s work can be characterised by an interest in applying creative practices and approaches to intervene in existing processes or ways of knowing; as a way to create new understandings, attunements, or insights. Alex often works with sound and is particularly interested in pursuing practices of listening to explore and interrogate environments, ecologies, and relations. Alex’s work is often applied, interdisciplinary and collaborative. Recent projects have involved working with ecologists, healthcare professionals, urbanists, and community arts practitioners. Alex’s work is often concerned with space and place, and an interest in participatory and artistic methodologies.

Alex’s work and collaborations have been featured at the Venice Architecture Biennale, Tate Modern, Somerset House, Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Health Museum (Houston, TX), Den Frie Centre for Contemporary Art (Copenhagen), The National Science and Media Museum, London Contemporary Music Festival, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Walmer Yard, the Hepworth Wakefield, Future Architecture Platform, Goldsmiths CCA, East Java Biennale (Indonesia), Dorich House / Stanley Picker Gallery (London), Listening Biennale (Berlin), Radialsystem (Berlin), House of Press (Belgrade), and the Royal Academy of Art (London).

Research interests

• Sonic Urbanism
• Site Specific and Critical Spatial Practice
• Arts and Ecology
• Participatory and artistic methodologies
• Practice Research
• Community Research
• Critical spatial practice
• Sound and Listening
• Performance
• Creative practice
• Architecture and urbanism

<h4>Research projects</h4> <p>Some research projects I'm currently working on, or have worked on, will be listed below. Our list of all <a href="https://ahc.leeds.ac.uk/dir/research-projects">research projects</a> allows you to view and search the full list of projects in the faculty.</p>

Qualifications

• PhD (practice based)
• MMus Critical and Experimental Composition
• BA Music

Professional memberships

• Member of the Centre for Deep Listening

Student education

I teach across a wide rande of modules and I am currently leading PECI5209M Critical Debates in Culture and Place.

I am keen to receive expressions of interest from PhD candidates.