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SESSION 23:
words & voices

SATURDAY, 28 Jan 2023

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SUNDAY, 29 Jan 2023

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15:00 - 17:30 UTC

Somatic Session: Touch at a distance
with carolina Mendonça and catalina Insignares
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Open Window Series

The Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary/Curatorial
with carolina rito

Dr Carolina Rito is Professor of Creative Practice Research, at the Research Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC), at Coventry University, UK; and leads the centre’s Critical Practices research strand. Rito most recent curatorial projects include Critical Practices Talks (2020-), Life Futures (2021), Critical Pedagogies (2019-2020), Institution as Praxis (2017-), and On Translations (2017-2019). Rito is Executive Board Member of the Midlands Higher Education & Culture Forum; Research Fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History (IHC), Universidade NOVA de Lisboa and at the Fine Art Faculty, University of Porto; Founding Editor of The Contemporary Journal; and Chair for the Collaborative Research Working Group for the MHECF. Rito is the co-editor of Institution as Praxis – New Curatorial Directions for Collaborative Research (Sternberg, 2020), Architectures of Education (e-flux Architecture, 2020), and FABRICATING PUBLICS: the dissemination of culture in the post-truth era (Open Humanities Press, 2021). Rito is the editor of “On Translations” (2018) and “Critical Pedagogies” (2019) issues (The Contemporary Journal). She has published in international journals such as PARSE, King’s Review, and Mousse Magazine. From 2017 to 2019, she was Head of Public Programmes and Research at Nottingham Contemporary, leading the institution’s curatorial research strategy with Nottingham Trent University and University of Nottingham. She holds a PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge from Goldsmiths, University of London, where she taught from 2014 to 2016.

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Workshops

Exploring the Roles of Writing in Practice Research

This session will be split in two parts: A talk about the nature of practice research in the arts and how practice research has shifted/challenged the traditional role of writing in academic research. Secondly, a presentation of some examples of PhD dissertations where writing is used in different ways. Finally, participants will be asked to bring their own examples and/or questions to be discussed with the group.

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mfa seminar
writing as research
with james schofield

Developing on directly from the earlier sessions, this session explores the broader implications of an expanded understanding of ‘research’ and the various roles writing can play within this (and also by extension ‘practice’), for an individual or collaborative group.

This discussion and workshop session will draw on real-world examples to challenge students to reevaluate their own relationships with different forms of writing. Through focused exercises about utilising different forms and standards of writing within different areas of their own research, they will come to better understand how to effectively document, develop and communicate their ideas and practices.

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Conference, why?: and on preparing, editing & presenting
with Marc herbst

Conferences are one way that academics come together and share, learn, socialize. Conferences ask for a level of collegiality and curiosity.They can be conservative and/or wild and meaningful or not, or just kind of bleh.

In this conversational seminar, we will discuss the possibilities for conferences, what they are good for- the politics and sociality of conferences where smart and creative people come together.

Practically speaking, we will discuss how to prepare for conferences- in terms of your own presentations and in terms of collegial research.

We will do hands-on reading and editing projects in small groups.

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Touch at a distance
with carolina Mendonça and catalina Insignares

“Touch is the most personal of the senses. Hearing and touch meet where the lower frequencies of audible sound pass over to tactile vibrations (at about 20 hertz). Hearing is a way of touching at a distance and the intimacy of the first sense is fused with sociability whenever people gather together to hear something special.” M. Schafer

And thus we touch, as if the hands are small sensors that can go beyond the surface and touch landscapes that are in deeper layers of the body. The hand touches the different textures, colors, temperatures that form these landscapes. We will create a common space where we can be in touch at a distance. We will meet to listen to each other’s voices, and to the images accumulated in the layers of our bodies. Experiencing forms of communication that are vulnerable and fragile. A collective cacophony and a contradictory and incoherent collective body.

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