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Journey's of a Laundry Mountain
No full textIn my materially embedded art practice, I reflect on practical and ethical problems of working as an artist in the context of the immediate physical and political environment. My presentation will centre around my film Journeys of a Laundry Mountain (2021). Filmed immediately after the 2020/21 Australian forest fires and just before and during the Covid 19 pandemic, the precariousness of our domestic habits told through global crises is at the heart of the film. My exploration of white patriarchy and colonialism is made personal in approaching the subject through my gendered responsibility as an artist mother for the domestic laundry, whilst recognising my own privileges and ethical entanglements in terms of the gentrification of the area where I live in South East London; my parents’ emigration to Australia, and the ongoing cultural impositions on the indigenous culture and landscape there - highlighted urgently by the practical problems faced ecologically after the fires; paralleled with the coronavirus, and its origins in our encroachment on and abuse of wild territories. My presentation will reflect on whether and how the world has changed since the film was made three years ago, with attention to recent texts by Jack Halberstam, Chantal Mouffe and Donna Haraway. I will explore whether the legacy of the pandemic should be to stop trying to artificially separate ourselves from the very environment we have exploited and encroached on, and to rethink our approach
Using Symplectic Elements to Showcase Peer Observation Opportunities
Get PDFThis presentation was about a pilot project at UAL using Symplectic Elements to power peer observations across teaching body.
Members of the academic staff can easily share details of their teaching sessions available for peer observation, creating a collaborative environment for growth and improvement. Faculty can then search for observations based on subject area, class size and days of the week, helping them to identify learning opportunities.
The presentation was a live webinar which was viewed by many staff members across different universities across United Kingdom and the Symplectic team
Flagging It Up, Zarina Bhimji, curated by Fiona Bradley, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 28 October 2023–28 January 2024
Get PDFThis review essay on the exhibition Flagging It Up, Zarina Bhimji, curated by Fiona Bradley, Fruitmarket, Edinburgh, 28 October 2023–28 January 2024, focuses on Bhimji's latest film Blind Spot (2023), but includes analysis of a number of earlier films: Out of Blue (2002) and Waiting (2007), as well as her classic photographic installation from 1987, She Loved to Breathe – Pure Silence. As well as referring to key past interviews given by Bhimji, it also explores Jean Laplanche's concept of ‘afterwardsness’ in relation to the materiality of how an artist might address trauma in their work
En Plein Air
No full textThe "En Plein Air" offers university academics a unique blend of art and nature, aiming to enhance environmental awareness and social justice. The session begins with an introduction to the "En Plein Air" method, emphasizing its educational significance, followed by a guided outdoor drawing activity that deepens participants' connection to the environment through artistic expression.
After the drawing session, a reflection period allows participants to share their experiences and insights on integrating these methods into their teaching. Discussions focus on the potential impacts of embedding social justice and environmental consciousness in academic curricula.
Key outcomes include improved observational skills, enhanced creativity, heightened awareness of social and environmental issues, and encouragement of collaborative learning across disciplines. The workshop is designed to inspire educators to adopt experiential learning, fostering a more engaged and proactive academic community
Kahlil Joseph and the Audiovisual Atlantic: Music, Modernity, Transmedia Art
No full textKahlil Joseph has collaborated with musicians FKA twigs, Flying Lotus, Sampha and Shabazz Palaces among many others. He has directed numerous films, music videos and advertisements across Africa, America and Europe. The award-winning filmmaker's disruptive style – which frequently merges visual representations of transcontinental experiences with the countercultural energies of Afrodiasporic music – challenges the Eurocentric biases underpinning Western media. At the same time, his works generate various contradictions and tensions because they are themselves products situated within an economic framework of neoliberal capitalism, at once offering alternative ways of being while, simultaneously, participating in and thereby sustaining the social structures that they otherwise seek to subvert and dismantle.
This is the first book-length study of Kahlil Joseph's work. Distinguishing the artist's personal and professional personas, it traces Joseph's career trajectory and artistic output, emphasizing how the director's construction of a multifaceted filmmaking persona operates in tandem with his artworks to challenge fixed, unidimensional or stable notions of identity.
Through biographical study and deep examinations of the director's respective transmedia artworks, this book draws from various discussions shaped by Paul Gilroy's ground-breaking text The Black Atlantic (1993). By applying The Black Atlantic's disruptive audiocentric ideas to contemporary digital media forms generated by Kahlil Joseph and his peers alike, this book challenges the latent Eurocentricity on which dominant theorizations of 'modernity' – as well as the overlapping fields of Film, Media and Screen Studies – are grounded. In turn, it offers an alternative framework for negotiating the paradoxes, contradictions and transnational flows of our media-saturated present: namely, the Audiovisual Atlantic
Painting's Liveness
Get PDFSarah Kate Wilsons’s article ‘Painting’s Liveness’, is written from her vantage point, as an artist/ curator/ researcher/ collaborator/ educator. Here she reveals how painting’s relationship with performance, particularly during the second part of the twentieth century, has led to painting’s liveness. This, she asserts, is apparent in paintings by Daniel Buren, Robert Rauschenberg, Yoko Ono, works by the Gutai Art Association, and performances by Ei Arakawa. The inauguration of a performance programme at Bauhaus in Germany, Black Mountain College in America, and the formation of the Gutai Art Association in Japan, are important milestones in painting and performances relationship. Writing by RoseLee Goldberg and Peggy Phelan on performance, J.L. Austin’s speech act theory as well as, Satori an expression from Zen Buddism meaning enlightenment are woven into this text. David Joselit’s declaration that the medium of painting is live and ON AIR is drawn into her argument for painting’s liveness. Whilst, Catherine Wood’s curatorial project, A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance (2012) Tate Modern, London and her own curatorial project Painting in Time (2015-16) set the stage for this text
The Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance
No full textThe Routledge Handbook of African Theatre and Performance brings together the very latest international research on the performing arts across the continent and the diaspora into one expansive and wide-ranging collection.
The book offers readers a compelling journey through the different ideas, people and practices that have shaped African theatre and performance, from pre-colonial and colonial times, right through to the 20th and early 21st centuries. Resolutely Pan-African and inter- national in its coverage, the book draws on the expertise of a wide range of Africanist scholars, and also showcases the voices of performers and theatre practitioners working on the cutting-edge of African theatre and performance practice. Contributors aim to answer some of the big questions about the content (nature, form) and context (processes, practice) of theatre, whilst also painting a pluralistic and complex picture of the diversity of cultural, political and artistic exigencies across the continent. Covering a broad range of themes including postcolonialism, transnationalism, interculturalism, Afropolitanism, development and the diaspora, the handbook concludes by projecting possible future directions for African theatre and performance as we continue to advance into the 21st century and beyond.
This ground-breaking new handbook will be essential reading for students and researchers studying theatre and performance practices across Africa and the diaspora
Grieving the ‘poor image’: Screen-mediated loss during Covid-19
Get PDFThe Covid-19 pandemic propelled photography into a new relationship with death, under emergency conditions. In the isolation of pandemic lockdowns, digital photography and video provided a lifeline of connection for people everywhere. But for some, these technologies carried a greater burden. Separated at their darkest moments, relying on screens for connection as never before, loss became mediated suddenly by photography in a completely new way. There was no choice but to say goodbye to dying loved ones, isolated in care homes and hospital wards, through Zoom and Facetime,technologies developed by social media corporations for the purposes of business conferencing and ‘chat’ – visual encounters characterised by glitch, imperfection and what Hito Steyerl (2009) has called the ‘poor image’: ‘a lure, a decoy, an index…a reminder of its former visual self.’ What does it mean to say goodbye in this way? To share final words, final gazes, and the last moments of a life – and then to undertake the work of mourning – through a screen? Some of the most influential writing on photography has been about the intimacy of its relationship to death. But is this literature capable of accounting for this new kind of loss? Using interviews with bereaved people and healthcare workers tasked with facilitating virtual ‘goodbyes’, this paper considers the ways in which the pandemic has taken established thought regarding not only death and photography, but also the temporality of cyberspace and the digital image, and turned it on its head
AI & mental health: Developing a predictive approach to mental health in students
Get PDFThere is growing pressure on Universities to respond quicker and intervene earlier with our students' mental health, with some expectations now beginning to turn to undertaking predictive work; how we can be predict themes, trends or deteriorations in our students wellbeing. This session will show the collaborative work being undertaken at Solent University between the AI Academic Unit and the Therapy and Mental Health Team in developing an AI tool that can predict deteriorations in the wellbeing/mental health of groups
of students; that can inform policy, resources and helping to target early intervention work to vulnerable groups of students
The 12 Days of AI: Day 8: Instructional/Educational Videos and AI
Get PDFA series of online activites to learn about AI in Higher Education