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Sunday, 26 nov 2023

public talk - emotional landscapes:
construction of a spatial imaginary
WITH Diogo Passarinho

This talk gives attention to artists’ practices and how the spatial setup in which artworks are presented can further explain artists’ intentions through the lens of the viewers’ personal perspectives and past memories. Art, theory, and a community of artists and thinkers is the medium that the studio uses to explore and develop what we like to call “emotional landscapes.” This lecture will be about how can we try to design spaces that live in our memories and most likely will outlive the short life expectancies of some projects. Something you saw as a child, that you read in a book, listened to in a club, or saw in a movie is most likely to be used as abstract references and starting points to develop a space. Confusion, disorientation, control, love, ambiguity, climax, and desperation are narratives that you will encounter in one of the studio’s projects and our goal, together with different practitioners, is to try to increase the lexicon of feelings we can use and explore. Whether the task is to develop a spatial installation for one video or to design a space for 70 artists, the premise is always the same, trying to identify what we want the audience to feel and what memories they will bring home.

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phd workshop - Here-ing in contested places
with erin wilkerson

What traces of struggle remain in contested places? Liminal spaces of conflict, displacement, loss, and resistance, some marked and some hidden, are all around us, and conflicts left hidden, unspoken, unnamed, and untended to, remain as such. Western ontology describes walls, and pavement, plants, and rocks as lacking volition and intelligence for remembrance, but this is just one theory out of multitudes of global ontologies that ascribe each of these with deep and complex life. This creates an opening for place to be explored as a living archive. How can we as artists investigate the imprints, or physical record, of volatile events on places, and in turn ignite discourse on repairing conflict? Expanding on artist lectures given Dokumentar Filmwoche Hamburg, Ultra Cine in Mexico City, and Prismatic Ground in New York, political artist and filmmaker Erin Wilkerson invites participants to explore deep and embodied here-ing of a place of meaning in proximity to them, in dispute due to personal, social, cultural, ecological, or geopolitical histories. In addition to attending with a chosen place, they will be asked to come with materials used in their practice, as there will be an exercise in making based on our discussion. We will work through research and practice methodologies for deconstruction of the spatial as a means for a reconceptualization that drives discourse; a tending towards repair.

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public talk - Creative Nonfiction and the genre of the thesis
with robyn ferrell

This talk outlines the genre of the academic thesis, and in particular, the thesis that seeks to write up creative research. It investigates whether creative nonfiction can be a useful comparison genre.

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screening - PERFORMANCE, DIGITALITY, AND BORDERS
WITH ALESSANDRA CIANETTI

performingborders is a curatorial research-platform that explores the relations between Live Art and notions and lived experiences of intersectional and transnational borders. Since 2019, performingborders has commissioned performances to camera that investigate how artists with lived experiences of borders would share their knowledge through the medium of the performance to camera. This has led to a creation of an archive of practices of interconnected knowledge which accumulates while overlapping, communicating and being always in dialogue with the rest of the free-to access resources of the platform. This three-hour screening and collective discussion will invite students to watch a selection of the performances to camera to then delve into a facilitated discussion with the performingborders team about notions of geographical, racial, gendered, economic and everyday borders and their relation to performance and the digital.

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