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SESSION 20:
slow practices

SATURDAY, 24 SEPT 2022

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SUNDAY, 25 Sept 2022

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Workshops

SLOW PRACTICEs in art and research: Waiting, observing, reflecting
WITH Elena marchevska & rachel epp buller

Time is defined as the indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present and future regarded as a whole. But what do we do with that rather luxurious concept of the whole? What is time, and how should we spend it? How time relates to our art and research? What about the cyclical notion of time?  

In this workshop we will explore slow practices and how they relate to time and waiting. Slow art is less concerned with the agency of the artwork itself than with the necessity of devoted attentiveness and favourable conditions for that dynamic, intimate experience. We will also discuss the overlap between slowness and wellbeing in art sector and what that means in age of constant acceleration. And finally, we will ask how slow practice and waiting can be used to challenge or exemplify social power dynamics.

We will particularly work with the notion of waiting, broadly defined as the action of staying where one is or delaying action until a particular time or event. It would be easy to assume that waiting induces stasis, a slowing of time, a halt to action. Yet, even when we’re waiting we are in motion.  Schwartz argues that when a person is kept waiting for a long time, they become ‘subject of an assertion that one’s own time (and therefore, one’s social worth) is less valuable than the time and worth of the one who imposes the wait’ (1975). Waiting is a particular experience of time and it is an everyday feature of human relationships. We wait at airports, offices, and shops. Waiting  is a common feature of bureaucracy; waiting is expecting something coming from others. Keeping others waiting is also a technique for the regulation of social interactions. It is a manipulation of others’ time. Waiting, as Pierre Bourdieu puts it, is a way of experiencing the effect of power. ‘Making people wait... delaying without destroying hope is part of the domination’ (Bourdieu, 2000).

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mfa seminar:
Project Proposals as Active forms of Research and Practice
with john byrne

This workshop will offer an opportunity to discuss and reflect upon our own individual relationships to research and practice, and offer a series of ways for thinking through this relationship as an active and progressive process.  

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phd seminar:
What it is to know and learn
with marc herbst & Ali Schwartz

What we apprehend is less than what we feel, and even less so than what we may actually relate to. Art has always framed what we consider meaningful in the human experience, the great variety of art forms stand as a collective document to many of the ways we might know. What is understood as important is political, so too is teaching and learning.

Through experiential exercises, organized conversations and presentations, this course will explore ways of feeling and knowing, and their related politics.

Bio | SITE

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PhD seminar:
synthesising, mapping & planning research - towards progress review
with michael bowdidge, ali geremia & lisa osborn

This short workshop aims to prepare PhD students entering their second year of study for the Confirmation of Registration process (which typically happens within 15 months of initial registration and 12 months after the Programme Approval process).

Bio | SITE

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