SESSION 19:
LIVERPOOL RESIDENCY
JULY 15-29,2022
(PANDEMIC PERMITTING)
All times in program refer to local time
Locations of events in parentheses
Week One Program
Week Two Program
Workshop Descriptions
Other Sessions
Travel
Facilities
week one
LJMU map
Library
To sign-up to run a mini somatic session during the residency please fill out
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FRIDAY, JULY 15, 2022
11:00 - 13:00
Orientation and intros + safer spaces reading
with Michael Bowdidge & Susie Quillinan
(Lecture room 3, John Lennon Art & Design Building)
13:00-14:30
Lunch break
14:30-15:30
Tour of LJMU School of Art
with joasia krysa
16:00-17:00
Tour of Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) current exhibitions
with James Schofield
18:30
Group dinner
Saturday, JULY 16, 2022
10:00 - 12:30
Visit to Bidston Observatory artistic research centre
Meet at Liverpool Central
12:30-14:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
14:30-17:00
Visit to the royal standard
gallery + studio visits
Sunday, JULY 17, 2022
Session feedback
10:00-12:30
Autotheory and the Creative Practice PhD thesis
with Valerie Walkerdine
(Lecture room 3)
PHD
12:30-14:30
Lunch break
14:30-17:00
Autotheory and the Creative Practice PhD thesis
with Valerie Walkerdine
(Lecture room 3)
PHD
MFA group meeting
intros + crit group discussion
(Ann Walker, ground floor John Lennon building)
monday, JULY 18, 2022
Session feedback
10:00-11:00
visit to Tate Liverpool collection
(meet at entrance) - 25 min walk from LJMU
11:00-12:00
conversation with Tate Liverpool team
(meet in foyer)
12:30-14:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
14:30-17:00
Future Perfect (1/2)
with Michael Bowdidge
(Lecture Room 3)
17:30-19:00
Student Research Presentations (30 mins each)
freiband, Wilkerson, Forcier
(ERL)
tuesday, JULY 19, 2022
Session feedback
09:00-09:30
Mini somatic session:
with Michael Bowdidge
(erl)
10:00-12:30
Future Perfect (2/2)
with Michael Bowdidge
(ERL)
12:30-14:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
14:30-17:00
Practice v. theory
An informal discussion with Michael bowdidge & susie quillinan
(Erl)
18:00-18:45
Les Corps Évocateur(E)s
Collective Performance with Karen Ami, Eve Provost Chartrand, Nancy Messegee, Rene Meyer-Grimberg, Anne-Sophie Lorange & Tine Frich Møller
19:00-20:00
Student Research Presentations (30 mins each)
Hawkinson, njaka
(ERL)
wednesday, JULY 20, 2022
Session feedback
09:00-09:30
Mini somatic session:
Articulating the Somatic Image
with Marie france forcier
(erl)
10:00-12:30
Future collaborations & plans
(ERL)
12:30-14:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
14:30-17:00
archives: two perspectives
with Dr. sarah bennett & Dr. Lee Wright
(ERL)
PHD
1:1 Scale Practice and the Localist Worker
with John Byrne
MFA
17:30-18:30
Student Research Presentation- Dawn Schultz, Yvette chaparro
18:30-19:30
guest talk - Gabriela silva
(ERl)
thursday, JULY 21, 2022
Session feedback
09:00-09:30
Mini somatic session:
Moving here, now
with rene meyer-grimberg
(erl)
10:00-12:30
Serious Play Workshop
With Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz disley
(erl)
12:30-14:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
14:30-17:00
Serious Play Workshop
With Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz disley
(erl)
18:00 (Optional)
exhibition opening: my garden, my sanctuary
(FACT)
friday, JULY 22, 2022
Session feedback
residency feedback
09:00-09:30
Mini somatic session:
Into Mind and Body Through Yin Yoga
with nancy messegee
(ERL)
10:00-12:30
Excursion: Liverpool Biennial
(meeting point: 55 new bird street)
12:30-1:30
Lunch break / tutorial slot
1:30-14:30
Talk - colin fallows
14:30-17:00
Unboxing and Projecting
rethinking methodologies for ANY project planning.
Please, bring an idea of a project (ongoing, ideation, proposal) to discuss.
with gabriela silva
(ERL)
17:15-17:45
closing meeting
(ERL)
18:00
week one closing dinner
(Pen Factory)
week two
independent research week
saturday, JULY 23 - Friday July 29
LJMU Map
Library
To propose a session for the group during the Independent Research Week, please fill out this form.
To sign-up to run a mini somatic session during the residency please fill out
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LJMU mini workshops
Scheduled as below. Register here. If you register you are required to attend. If you cannot attend due to illness please let Michael or Susie know.
The students can request afternoon use of the workshops with the relevant TSO with the exception of Fashion with Ann, this is because a full induction will not have taken place so continued use would not be permitted.
Artists' Literacies 1-on-1s: Connecting Art Practice to Daily Life and the Wider World
monday, JULY 25, 2022
session feedback
9.30am – 12.30 pm
Printmaking workshop
with Kate hodgson
(print studio - 2nd floor)
wednesday, JULY 27, 2022
session feedback
9.30am – 12.30 pm
digital fabrication lab workshop
with Lol Baker
thursday, JULY 28, 2022
session feedback
9.30am – 12.30 pm
weaving workshop
with ann jones + Kristy
friday, JULY 29, 2022
Residency feedback
18:00
closing dinner
DESCRIPTIONS
WORKSHOPS
Autotheory and the Creative Practice PhD thesis
with Valerie Walkerdine
Autotheory first came to prominence in the mid 1990s, often understood as a reaction to the perceived need to reference 'theory' in creative practice. We can understand it as a critique of the patriarchal, colonising and universalising aspects of theorising within the humanities, arts and social sciences.
What does it mean to theorise from one's own position? How do we see and theorise the world from a specific perspective?
Such an approach might be understood as having particular relevance to creative practice and to the role of the thesis in the creative practice PhD.
The workshop will explore existing work in this field and also engage with the viewpoints and perspectives of the workshop participants to understand what it might mean to work autotheoretically. We will do this by sharing our work and creatively imagining what it might mean to incorporate the autotheoretical into the thesis.
BIO | SITE
SYLLABUS
Photo: Michael Bowdidge
Future Perfect
with michael bowdidge
“The future is like heaven, everyone exalts it, but no one wants to go there now.”
- James Baldwin
On her seminal 1977 album ‘I Remember Yesterday’ Donna Summer revisited and re-imagined the
historical tropes of musical modernity (specifically those of the 40s, 50s and 60s), all of which
informed the Disco culture of the time. Turning from the past to the future, the album’s finale was the monumental slab of disco-electronica ‘I Feel Love’; Summer’s paradigm-shifting attempt to give audible form to an imagined future for music to dance to. It did so so successfully that this long, linear, hypnotic track ultimately became a self-fulfilling prophecy, going on to help to shape (alongside James Brown, Kraftwerk and many others) much of the electronic dance music of the past two decades.
This one-day workshop takes this parallel process of looking simultaneously forwards and backwards in time as its starting point, but instead of relating it to music, focuses instead on the individual practices of the workshop participants, in order to understand both where we have been and where we come from as artists and where we might go next, tomorrow and in the years and decades to come.
Drawing upon writings by Hannah Arendt, Mikhail Bakhtin, James Baldwin, Honoré De Balzac, T.S. Eliot, Siri Hustvedt, and Henri Lefebvre, amongst others, the workshop will blend short presentations, class discussions of (and responses) to works of art, works of fiction and fictional artworks, and creative practical exercises.
We’ll reconsider the creative family trees which give rise to our individual practices and the competing and sometimes contradictory aims and urges inherent in these narratives. We’ll also attempt to identify as yet-unthought possibilities for our practices, with a view to re-imagining our individual and collective future trajectories, by dancing in the footsteps of Donna Summer.
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SYLLABUS
archives: two perspectives
with Dr. sarah bennett & Dr. Lee Wright
Dr Sarah Bennett, artist and educator (TT) and Dr Lee Wright, specialist in Design History and Theory (LJMU), will deliver a workshop emerging from their individual research interests in archives. Sarah's presentation will elucidate on the 'controlled rummage', a term devised by artists Danica Maier and Andrew Bracey to propose a method, used by artists, of accessing archival material that bypasses the use of the catalogue. Sarah, whose practice has frequently drawn upon archives, has participated in a longitudinal research project with Maier and Bracey, entitled 'Bummock: new artistic responses to unseen parts of archives'*. She will present the work emerging from this project and relate it to her previous artistic research in which archives have played a central role, particularly those relating to former psychiatric institutions. The workshop participants will be invited to share their own experience of working in or with archives and archivists. The second part of the workshop will be led by Dr Lee Wright, a specialist in design history and theory, and will start with a visit to the special collections in the Alham Robarts Library, LJMU and introductory talk by the archivist, Emily Parsons, with samples from the archive available to view. Lee will then give a short presentation on ‘The Shifting Dynamics of Archives’, followed by a group discussion.
*A bummock is the largest part of the iceberg that remains hidden under water, usually it is only the tip that is visible. Likewise, archives often contain far more than is ever regularly seen or accessed.
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SYLLABUS
1:1 Scale Practice and the Localist Worker
with John Byrne
In this discussion John Byrne (Reader in the Uses of Art at Liverpool School of Art and Design and Head of The Institute of Art and Technology) will lead a talk about our current relationships to art, work and the labour of (or work of art). Taking as it’s starting point the pop-up Office of Useful Art, which took place in the Exhibition Research Lab Gallery Space in 2015, and coincides with Assemble winning the Turner Prize for their collaborative work on housing and urban regeneration with the residents of the Granby 4 Streets residents in Liverpool, Byrne will help to unpack some of the issues surrounding 1:1 Scale art practice (where the project itself, and it’s affect in the world, is the art) and what this means for our current understanding of art objects (which tend to stand in for, or address the world beyond art as surrogates for real experience), exhibition and gallery spaces (which tend to rely on the experience of audiences, complicit in this surrogacy, to address the world), and what it might mean to rethink this relationship otherwise. What would it be like if museums became constituent sites of localised and oppositional making, where constituents used art as a tool ground-up social, political, economic and environmental change? What would we need to rethink this as art beyond our current Enlightenment frameworks of aesthetic experience and objecthood and how? And what kind of questions might we need to ask of others if we are to seek to decolonise and demodernise from without as well as within as a post-exhibitionary epoch beckons?
Serious Play
with Fenia Kotsopoulou & Daz disley
A one day workshop with artists Fenia Kotsopoulou and daz disley in which they'll share their individual and collaborative approaches to research and some of the modes and resonances that inform their creative practices in the vectors between bodies and technologies. Expect to move, do and think!
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SYLLABUS
Other sessions
Practice v Theory
Join Transart faculty members Susie Quillinan and Michael Bowdidge for an informal guided discussion around notions of practice and theory, and an exploration of the ways in which the distinction we make between these terms may not be as clear-cut and easily determined as we might at first think.
Susie and Michael will draw upon examples from their own experience, and situate these in relation to some of the thinkers/makers/writers whose own work has informed their individual processes, and then open up the discussion to the group, so that we can all share our thoughts and experiences, with a view to mapping some of the possible overlaps and slippages which occur between these terms.
Les Corps Évocateur(E)s is a performative event/experiment which aims to sensibilize viewers to existing and shifting social imaginaries around current understandings of women’ ageing bodies, the visibility of culturally significant / symbolic sites, and creative use of storytelling.
As a collaborative team of 7 Women, we are sensitive to our sense of space and place in relation to our cultural identity. Challenging discriminating stereotypes negating the fertile ground of different bodies, their rich individuality, and the uniqueness of their personal landscapes, our work celebrates the unique role of embodied transformation in the maintenance of one’s personal ecology and its kinship to the encompassing generosity and ingenious, regenerative creativity of nature. We wish to draw attention to how life reveals itself in unexpected ways if we dare to look beyond what is superficially exposed and expected. We propose new environments/spaces that become haven for unexpected companions, phantasmagoric worlds open to difference, somewhat unspecified and polytemporal.
Generated by contemporary considerations of women’ ageing human bodies and their relationship to the natural/material world, the crafted spaces attempt to steer clear of considerations foreseeing the body as a mere product of cultural factors and claim its affiliation to an earthy embodiment.
Les Corps Évocateur(E)s
Karen Ami, Eve Provost Chartrand, Nancy Messegee, Rene Meyer-Grimberg, Anne-Sophie Lorange & Tine Frich Møller
with the generous collaboration of Erin Wilkerson
GUEST TALKS
Gabriela Saenger Silva is an educator and arts practitioner who specialises in community and socially engaged practices. Holding a BA in Public Relations and MA in Theory, History and Critics of Visual Arts, Gabriela was Operations Coordinator for Mercosul Biennial Pedagogical and Public Programme from 2007 to 2013, guest curator for Bienal de São Paulo 2018 and Mediation Coordinator for Liverpool Biennial in 2016 and 2018, being responsible for the experimental programme The City is a school.
LJMU Taster Workshops
During the independent research week (July 23rd - 29th) the following taster workshops are available to TT students.
Workshops are 3 hours. Max. 15 people (first come, first served).
Workshops will be scheduled in June according to interest.
Digital Imaging studio taster workshop
Digital Fabrication (3D scanning and printing) studio taster workshop
Weaving workshop: Kirsty from The Liverpool weaving company which is Liverpool’s very first and only micro mill. Would teach the students weaving as well as how to apply weaving within all disciplines.
Image: Andrew Freiband
Artists' Literacies 1-on-1s: Connecting Art Practice to Daily Life and the Wider World
with Andrew freiband
An artists’ literacy is an artist’s unique *way of knowing* - the pursuit of this knowledge just happens to also result in your artworks. Understanding the nature of this ‘artists data&’ can help us recognize its rigor, and give us confidence to engage as knowledge producers in a knowledge economy.
These structured (but informal) small group conversations explore what you know, how you know it, and consider your artistic, personal, political, social, and human concerns, to build stronger connections between your artmaking and the rest of your experience on Earth. We will look at some of your work, talk about your process, and do some exercises together to understand how to engage personal art practices in a broad issue landscape, and potentially revalue yourself as a research-artist in a knowledge economy, while catalyzing new creative directions in your making.
Participants sign up in pairs (listening to the artists’ literacies discussion on another artist’s practice is helpful to dispassionately relate it to one’s own), but we will conduct a session on each individual artists' practice in turn. The whole session is between 90-120 minutes, split between the two practices.
TRAVEL
VISAS: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/~/media/files/ljmu/discover/international-student-support/study-visas/standard-visit-visa-for-visits.pdf?la=en
ACCOMMODATIONS: LJMU doesn’t have its own hall of residence, our students are using external providers.
Unite offers student accommodation. Cambridge Court and Cedar House are the closest to LJMU campus. See here to make reservations.
We are told the best one in close proximity to the Art School and central there is Hope Street hotel. But there are plenty more for different budgets and different location depending what you need it for. Addagio, is close to LJMU, train station, and Lewis building, one of biennial venues.
Another option a little further away from LJMU (20 min train + 15 min walk) is Bidston Observatory Artistic Research Centre (Nightly rates start at £20 pp). Read more about the site here. (Mention that you are a Transart student in email.)
DAYCARE: LJMU does not run a daycare. Nearby there is Blackburne House Nursery
Another one in the near proximity is Dukes & Duchesses
Facilities
EXHIBITION RESEARCH LAB (ERL)
The ERL gallery facilities include:
- track lighting consisting of LED downlighters and adjustable LED spotlights
- 3 wooden display cases
- 4 glass topped museum standard vitrines
- a ceiling mounted projector
- a freestanding PA system/2 speakers/subwoofer/mics.
There is also a school store room full of plinths of varying sizes that ERL has priority access to.
Any other AV equipment such as short throw projectors/screens/media players/etc. can be requested from the IT team at the school, and any specialist 3D construction can be arranged with the technicians in the 3D workshop.
Images of ERL (Please note, since those images were taken a new set of LED downlighters and spotlights have been installed, so the space can have fully customisable lighting.):
Liverpool city
Arts Venues
FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology)
Metal Culture
The Royal Standard
The Bluecoat
Rule of Threes
Human Libraries
Static
Bridewell Studios & Gallery
Open Eye Gallery
Output Gallery
Convenience Gallery
Existential House
Liverpool Arab Arts Festival
Guides
Art in Liverpool
Guardian
Visit Liverpool
Rough Guides
Suitcase Mag
Creative Tourist
Coffee guide
Eating:
Maray- Beautifully crafted small plates (and some of the best veggie food in Liverpool)
Backchich- a Lebanese and Moroccan kitchen
Mowgli- Bright and bold Indian street food
Down the Hatch- Veggie junk food for when you want to over-indulge
The Egg Cafe- Enter through the bright purple arch on Newington and you’ll find this lively, lovely vegan café.
Salt House- For a chilled-out, chatter-filled dinner…the tapas to keep you going all night
Quarter- Italian-inspired restaurant in the Georgian Quarter
Saffron- A family-friendly restaurant serving Indian and Nepalese food
A Tavola- Italian deli, restaurant and cookery school
Art Supplies:
R Jackson & Sons
Cass Art