Grey Matter: Good Grief. Making art in the face of unexpected calamities

Ian Bruce is an artist and musician best known as the lead singer of world-touring, festival-conquering multi-genre dance duo The Correspondents. However, he is also an award-winning painter and filmmaker, who specialises in animations and tenderly realised painted portraits. His latest sitters were comedian Jimmy Carr and fashion designer Ozwald Boateng. For this lecture, Bruce talks about launching a solo music project (as Mr Bruce) after the death of his bandmate, how making music videos with micro-budgets can be liberating, and how a broken bone can be a godsend.

Grey Matter is a lecture series convened by Carolina Ramirez-Figueroa and Danielle Barrios-O'Neill from the MA Information Experience Design at RCA This international lecture series will explore grey matter as to what could be and what might be. From neurological processes to coding, acoustics, XR, and the materials of ‘mattering’, we will encounter and test out novel forms of experience, exploration, and information design. We resist the muted or withdrawn senses of grey, and suggest, instead, that there are complex realities and potentials for experimentation at the crevices between the worlds of received ideas.