programme
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING PROGRAM IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE. UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED, ALL SESSIONS WILL BE HELD IN THE LJMU JOHN LENNON ART AND DESIGN BUILDING (JLADB), 2 DUCKINFIELD ST, LIVERPOOL.
SUNDAY 21 JULY
10:00 - 16:00 - (AA)
INSTALLATION DAY FOR ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY EXHIBITIONS (ERl, PES, x-gallery and atrium)
Monday 22 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:15 - 10:15 - (PhD 1-2)
tt orientation session 1/2 with alessandra cianetti and michael bowdidge (Ann walker seminar room / hybrid)
microsoft teams link
10:30 - 11:00 - (ALl)
morning check-in session (ERL)
11:10 - 12:30 - (AA)
Presentation + Workshop: Reflective practice as research methodology: heirlooms as objects of meaning with Carrie Neal (ERL)
12:30 - 13:50
Lunch
12:40 - 13:40
Digital Drop-in with TT Accessibility Support, ren britton (telegram)
Link to Join telegram channel
13:50 - 15:15 - (AA - public)
Presentation + Participatory Session: Implementing awe and pleasure in performance via existing with Jake Tkaczyk (johnson auditorium)
14:00 - 15:00 - (Phd 1-2)
The Long Conversation: interviews WITH Ang Bartram, Danica MAier, Valerie Walkerdine, Syowia KyAmbi, MIcHael Bowdidge, AND tracey benson (Lecture room 2 / hybrid)
microsoft teams link
SESSION EVALUATION
RECORDING
15:25 - 16:45 - (AA - public)
presentation + panel: What artists know with andrew freiband (johnson auditorium)
15:25 - 16:45 - (PHD 1-2)
Workshop 1/2: Four Threads (Entwined) with Michael Bowdidge (lecture room 1)
SESSION EVALUATION
17:30 - 19:00 - (AA)
Welcome Gathering + anthologies assembly-led social game (The Royal Standard, 3 Mann St.)
Tuesday 23 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:15 - 10:15 - (PHD 1-2)
tt orientation session 2/2 with alessandra cianetti and Michael Bowdidge (ann walker seminar room / hybrid)
microsoft teams link
10:25 - 10:35 - (All)
morning check-in session (Ann Walker seminar room)
10:35 - 12:05 - (aa - max 30 - public)
Presentation + Participatory Session: Flying by Pluto with Laurence Arcadias (lecture room 2)
12:05 - 13:25
Lunch
12:20 - 13:20
Digital Drop-in with TT Accessibility Support, ren britton (telegram)
Link to Join telegram channel
13:25 - 14:20 - (aa - public)
Presentation: Autoabstract Painting with Gina Dominique (ERL)
14:30 - 16:10 - (PHD 1-2)
Workshop 2/2: Four Threads (Entwined) with Michael Bowdidge (Lecture room 1)
SESSION EVALUATION
14:30 - 15:25 - (aa)
Presentation: Inner transformation for outer achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): What can traditional African practices of artistic expression, dialogue, and creative problem-solving contribute? with Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie (Johnson auditorium)
15:30 - 16:15 - (AA - public)
presentation + participatory session: Resonance with nkechi njaka (johnson auditorium)
16:15 - 17:00 - (aa - public)
presentation + participatory session: primordial being(s) with nkechi njaka (johnson auditorium)
16:30 - 17:00 - (optional)
residency info session: Weaving Water, Australia - with Tracey Benson (Lecture room 1)
wednesday 24 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:30 - 10:15 - (PHD 1-2)
Welcome session with Prof. Colin Fallows and library introduction with Mike Stores (ann walker seminar room / hybrid)
microsoft teams link
10:20 - 10:30 - (ALL)
morning check-in session (johnson auditorium)
10:30 - 12:30 - (aa)
workshop: the will to get lost with Anne-Sophie Lorange and eve provost chartrand (JOHNSON AUDITORIUM)
12:20 - 13:45
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Digital Drop-in with TT Accessibility Support, ren britton (zoom)
Meeting ID: 917 5928 1501
Passcode: 019804
12:50 - 13:40
Exhibition Reception: DANSES VULNÉRABLES
with performance by marie france forcier beginning 13:00 (ERL)
13:45 - 15:40 - (aa - max 15)
Presentation + Participatory Session: Seeing-Sensing Images: Contemplative Photography, Sensory Perception, and Estrangement as Creative Practice with Juliette Ludeker (lecture room 2)
14:00 - 17:00 - (PHD 1-2)
Workshop: deep dive with syowia kyambi (ann walker seminar room)
SESSION EVALUATION
15:50 - 16:50 - (aa - max 45 - public)
Presentation: Getting the Sacred Joke About Ourselves with Irene Loy (Lecture room 1)
thursday 25 July
SESSION EVALUATION
10:20 - 10:30 - (ALL)
morning check-in session (ERL)
10:30 - 11:30 - (aa - public)
(aa): Artist talk and research presentation: Solastalgia with Anne Sophie Lorange (ERL)
11:40 - 12:55 - (aa - max 20)
Presentation + Participatory Session: Experiments in Assembly #1: Playground for Speculative Histories and Relational Practices Marta Espiridião (Lecture room 1/outdoors)
12:55 - 14:15
Lunch
13:00 - 14:00
Digital Drop-in with TT Accessibility Support, Ren Britton (telegram)
Link to Join telegram channel
14:00 - 17:00 - (PHD 1-2)
Workshop: embodied inquiry with tracey benson (Lecture Room 1)
SESSION EVALUATION
14:00 - 14:40 - (AA Steering Committee)
Anthologies assembly steering committee round-up meeting, facilitated by alessandra cianetti (ann walker seminar room)
14:50 - 15:20 - (ALL)
Student cohort meetings and residency feedback form session (Ann walker seminar room, Johnson auditorium, studio 2, pgr student lounge)
15:30 - 16:00 - (all)
drop-in: reflections/sharing session on anthologies assembly, facilitated by alessandra cianetti (ann walker seminar room)
Friday 26 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:50 - 10:00 - (ALL)
morning check-in session (ann walker seminar room)
10:00 - 12:30 - (aa - max 10)
Workshop: Embracing the Broken with Karen Ami (lecture room 2)
12:30 - 13:45
Lunch
12:30 - 13:30
Digital Drop-in with TT Accessibility Support, Ren Britton (zoom)
Meeting ID: 917 5928 1501
Passcode: 019804
13:45 - 14:45 - (aa - max 20 - public)
Talk: Resilience in zones of crisis with Sandra Becker (Studio 2)
13:45 - 14:45 - (PHD 1)
closing cohort meeting for year-1 phds (ann walker seminar room / hybrid)
microsoft teams link
14:55 - 16:55 - (aa - max 30)
Artist talk and research presentation: Navigating Uncertain Terrain with Marie France Forcier and He Jin Jang (Johnson auditorium)
18:00 - 23:00 - (ALl)
Graduation Reception / After Party (Static, 9-23 Roscoe Lane)
saturday 27 July
10:00 - 16:00
de-Installation day for anthologies assembly exhibitions (ERl, PES, and atrium)
EXHIBITIONS
Throughout the duration of the Anthologies Assembly intensive and residency, TT students are invited to experience the exhibitions installed in the LJMU spaces.
Danses Vulnérables
Bodies Telling Stories in Their Fact of Presence
Works by: Karen Ami, Gina Dominique, Marie France Forcier, Anne Sophie Lorange, Nancy Messegee, Carrie E. Neal, Eve Provost Chartrand, Erin Wilkerson
Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)
LJMU John Lennon Art and Design Building
2 Duckinfield St., Liverpool
Drawing inspiration from Raimund Hoghe’s intimate knowledge of the innate storytelling ability of creative bodies, eight PhD candidates invite the audience to immerse themselves in shared moments of presence, where language, movement, image, collaboration, and sound unfold in harmony and where artworks transcend mere visual representation to challenge conventional narratives.
Come and witness how textiles act as vessels, preserving memories and reflections. Experience how emotions connected to nature intertwine with the liberating power of language guiding us back to the landscapes of our past. Reflect on prevailing gender and colour narratives, delving into the profound impact of colour theories on artistic expression and identity. Through the art of mending, contemplate pieces that shed light on how survivors can redefine and empower wounded maternal lineages and witness how co-minglings with the non-human can disrupt normative perceptions of affliction, gender, and identity to foster inclusivity and authenticity. Engage with mundane tasks and vessels elevated to sacred experiences through mindful ritual; connect with space, time, history, and memories through the felt body, embracing uncertainty as an integral facet of the human experience at the intersection of trauma studies, somatic practices, and contemporary choreography.
Karen, Gina, Marie France, Anne Sophie, Nancy, Carrie, Erin, and Eve invite you to embark on this journey through embodied narratives, where art serves as a conduit for delving into the intricacies of our shared humanity.
De-tethered Magic
Image: Sandra Becker
Works by: Sandra Becker, Sandy Carson, Hadar Cohen, Jenny Hawkinson, Britta Fluevog, SaRa Kim, Paige King, Joseph Obel, Kim Robertson, Andrew Scott
PES and X-Gallery
LJMU John Lennon Art and Design Building
2 Duckinfield St., Liverpool
Based upon an experience, De-tethered Magic is a way to process, consider, capture, reflect, transmute and linger. In January 2024, Transart students had the opportunity to visit Nairobi, Kenya and engage with the local art scene there. We were gifted rare access to a country and an art scene that is singular and was new to us. For this exhibition we created an anthology of this collective experience as viewed through individual diversity. It was approached as novel, as a waypoint, as nostalgia, as research, as something worth fighting obligations to attend, and as something that will resonate permanently within our praxes. These are our thoughts, reflections and outputs.
tt WORKSHOPS
for phd years 1-2
DEEP DIVE: FROGS & JOY / SUSTAINING THE PRACTICE
with Syowia Kyambi
Image: Syowia Kyambi
Welcome to "Deep Dive: Frogs & Joy / Sustaining the Practice"! Frogs can be cute, but they can also seem weird and alien. We all have different relationships with frogs (if you love frogs just replace with any animal that gives you the heebie-jeebies)… And joy, well, that's often the forgotten ingredient when we're deep in the challenging processes of our creative practice, especially within an institutional framework. As artists, we're under constant pressure to perform, often placing an extraordinary amount of stress on ourselves—it's almost a prerequisite for being an artist! This workshop is designed to help you navigate these pressures, offering various ways to plan and find clarity in the direction your practice is going or needs to go. Let's leap into the pond and explore together how to sustain our joy and creativity!
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SYLLABUS
Embodied inquiry
with Tracey Benson
Image: Tracey Benson, projecting onto the sand at Narooma 2021
"Le corps est notre premier instrument de connaissance du monde." (The body is our first instrument of knowledge of the world.) - Luce Irigaray
This workshop invites participants to explore somatic knowledge as a foundational aspect of creative research. Through embodied practices, participants will deepen their awareness of the body as a site of knowledge production and understanding. The workshop will include somatic movement exercises, breathwork, and reflective journaling to foster connection between mind, body, and research practice. Participants will leave with practical techniques for integrating somatic awareness into their research process.
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four threads (entwined)
with michael bowdidge
Image: Michael Bowdidge, 2023, collaborative temporary sculptural installation with Anne Sophie Lorange.
This two part, 3 hour workshop will centre on a hands-on collaborative exploration of the practical and theoretical possibilities of object-based sculptural production, considered in specific relation to the four threads which constitute the primary themes of Transart’s Research Training offer: Epistemologies, Methodologies, Documentation and Articulation.
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ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY SESSIONS
what artists know
with andrew freiband and guests
Image: Andrew Freiband / Artists’ Literacies Institute
Andrew Freiband, director of Artists' Literacies Institute, invites students, scholars, thinkers, bystanders, artists, and non-artists alike to sit around together and consider what artists know.
In conversation with artists and authors Clive Cazeaux and Alana Jelinek, and as yet unnamed interdisciplinary interlocutors, we will consider art as knowledge and artists as knowledge producers in relation to economics, science, nature, culture, and more. Can such a framing help artists escape their neoliberal marginalization as entertainers and decorators? Can it help other researchers and knowledge producers expand their fields in meaningful ways? Is it treachery or necessity to ask that artists be useful? What do artists actually know, after all - and how do they know it?
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Reflective Practice as Research Methodology: heirlooms as objects of meaning
with Carrie Neal
Image: Carrie E Neal
This session will explore the intersection of social science methodologies and creative practice as a form of practice-led research. We will use the topic of 'heirloom and meaningful objects' as the starting point for discussion about research methodologies and the relationships between researchers and research participants. Carrie will present their current PHD research as a case model. Participants will be invited to experience participatory research methods and reflect on their own understanding of heirlooms and meaningful objects. We will then make a metacognitive move and reflect on research methods.
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Implementing Awe and Pleasure in Performance via Existing
with Jake Tkaczyk
Image: Jake Tkaczyk
This participatory session combines the unpredictable nature of dérive with the enigmatic qualities of awe and pleasure to cultivate a unique platform for performance art experimentation. Participants will be guided through urban drifts, discovering uncharted creative territories within the city, all while embracing the emotive and sensory dimensions of awe and pleasure.
Content note: this session starts at LJMU and takes place mainly outdoors. If you cannot join outdoors, Jake will provide you with an alternative activity to experience the workshop.
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The Will to Get Lost
with Anne-Sophie Lorange and Eve Provost Chartrand
Image: Anne Sophie Lorange
“The art is a result of the experience, but the experience is the main focus.”
In the spirit of the Hamish Fulton Cornwall workshop, we propose a workshop on wanderings to look closer at the conceptual underpinnings that inform, embrace the ritual of walking or wandering to create a space of sanctuary, reflection, collective awareness, and creation.
Content note: This session starts at LJMU and takes place outdoors.
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eve provost chartrand bio | site
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Autoabstract Painting
with Gina Dominique
Image: Baird Hersey
Gina Dominique’s PhD thesis project, ‘Autoabstract Painting' is the subject of this research presentation. During it, Dominique will discuss selected praxis works from her recent thesis exhibition within the context of her investigations into phenomenology, feminist aesthetics, and autotheory. She will expound on her creative influences, including first western abstract painter Hilma af Klimt, Gestural Abstractionists Joan Mitchell, Cy Twombly, and Howard Hodgkin, Feminist Abstractionist Joan Schneider, and Neo-Expressionist Susan Rothenberg. Finally, details of her research design and methods, results, and discussion will be elaborated on.
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Inner Transformation for Outer Achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals
with Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie
Image: Chukwu-Emeka Chikezie
If we need inner transformation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), how localized or universal is this transformation and how relevant are African philosophies and dialogue practices to SDG achievement in African contexts?
This session explores how our knowledge and understanding of the fast-emerging (but Western-centric) discourse around inner transformation for outer achievement of the SDGs can be enriched by critically examining traditions of dialogue and creative problem-solving in select African societies.
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resonance
with nkechi njaka
Image: Anna-Alexia Basile
RESONANCE is an immersive experience that cultivates presence, being in the moment, listening, being and feeling with real-time awareness.
res·o·nance
/ˈrezənəns/
noun
a reinforcement of sound (as a musical tone) in a vibrating body or system caused by waves from another body vibrating at nearly the same rate
Music makes us feel. Music has the ability to touch, move and inspire us and evoke intense feelings within. Music creates a sense of connection to self and belonging between individuals. We feel this deep in our hearts and our bodies. And with music, we are able to access profoundly complex emotions, create memories and discover new thoughts and ideas. Music is transformational and transcendent. Music helps our healing.
Mindfulness Meditation: a present-moment practice that allows us to meet ourselves exactly as we are— wonderful, beautiful and complex— moment to moment.
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primordial being(S)
with nkechi njaka
Image: Anna-Alexia Basile
Talk + Showing of primordial being(s)
When we understand that we are not dierent from the natural world, grief can be a powerful catalyst for change. This piece was presented at BAMPFA and Garrison Institute in July 2023. The BAMPFA showing was the rst piece presented in a larger program curated by KT Nelson titled: When the Landscapes Fall Away.
Drawing from Dr. Akomolafe's philosophy, the choreography will embrace nonlinear narratives, blurring the lines between past, present, and future. Movements will echo the circular nature of life, inviting viewers to contemplate the cyclical relationship between black grief and climate grief.
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flying by pluto: astro-animation Workshop
with Laurence Arcadias
Image: Laurence Arcadias
Embrace the wonder of celestial exploration through this astro-animation workshop! Regardless of artistic experience, this session will unleash your creativity to celebrate the beauty of Pluto.
Journey with New Horizons: Dive into the short film from NASA's flyby of Pluto. I will provide sheets of stills from the film, inviting you to "augment" them with your unique vision using markers, crayons, or any tool that sparks your imagination. Witness your individual contributions come together as we photograph each frame and weave them into a collective animation. Share your thoughts and experiences through a before and post-workshop survey.
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seeing-sensing images: contemplative photography, sensory perception, and estrangement as creative practice
with juliette ludeker
Image: Juliette M Ludeker
This session will be a presentation followed by a hands-on workshop. "Seeing-Sensing Images" will briefly cover the presenter's research and own photographic work; approaches, philosophies, and practices of contemplative photography; and considerations of the role(s) of sensory perception in art-making. The shift to the workshop portion will include practical application for participant engagement, including observation "exercises" and discussion, then will provide opportunity for participants to use their own cameras to see-sense "images" and to see/re-see common spaces in ways that make those spaces--and/or the objects in them--new to the image-maker and to other viewers. During the final portion of the session--time permitting--participants are encouraged to share their work, to discuss their experiences throughout the process of making images, and to consider how they might extend the exercise into their own creative practices.
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getting the sacred joke about ourselves
with Irene loy
Image: Doug Carter
Getting the Sacred Joke about Ourselves is the embodiment of having a sense of humor about who we think we are. Medieval humor taught us, and we have mostly forgotten, how to overturn the rules of society at least once a year; so, too, must we on occasion (in safe spaces) overturn the rule of our egos and become more flexible in our self-concepts. To practice this, we will begin this session with a short participatory exercise, which will illustrate through experience the nature of Archetype Play and Applied Improvisation for attendees. Afterwards, a presentation will be given on the research questions and aims, key terminology, methodological background, methods, inspirations, and example findings for this doctoral project by Irene Loy. What is emerging from solo studio practice, facilitating workshops, personal lived experience, and writing is a contemporary Buddhist-Feminist Theory of Humor which reminds us to practice taking ourselves less seriously.
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Solastalgia and identity : Can we be homesick while still at home?
with anne sophie lorange
Image: Ansgar Valbø
This artist talk will discuss and present Anne Sophie Lorange’s artistic research focusing on solastalgia, nostalgia and identity connected to our environment and the ongoing climate crisis.
Solastalgia is a new word for climate homesickness coined by philosopher Glenn Albrecht in 2005. The concept gives meaning to the distress felt by ongoing environmental changes. She will discuss a sense of homesickness while still at home due to the ongoing climate crisis through various paintings, drawings and outdoor installations. How is one's lived experience of environmental change effecting us, inner and outer landscapes, and can we still find hope for the future?
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Experiments in Assembly #1: Playground for Speculative Histories and Relational Practices
with Marta Espiridião
Image: Odete, Bed Sheets (detail), 2023
In this session, a group of students will collectively explore relational practices and speculative histories as a way of opening researches to other perspectives and non-normative ways of looking at the world. Based on transfeminist and queer methodologies, the group will discuss and question the boundaries and biases that can permeate research projects, while experimenting with other ways of collective assembly and exchange.
Content note: This participatory session will take place outdoors. You will be required to bring and use your phone for one specific activity during the session.
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Embracing the Broken
with Karen Ami
Image: Karen Ami
In this hands-on 3 hour studio workshop, participants will create workbook/journals as an intimate and free space to explore and reflect on memory, place and identity.
Through a series of writing, drawing and collage (combining disparate words and images) participants can open new conversations through novel approaches to relational and reparative visual thinking. By combining disparate images through objects, collage and assemblage we will make associations through consequential fragmentation. Harnessing intuition through collaborative experimentation, we will use the surrealist game, cadavre exquis, to spark the unconscious and access connections through play.
Gathering, sorting, and assembling to discover new relationships embodies the process of practice-based research. In this workshop, participants will use methodologies of deconstruction, and re-composition to find connections through association, meaning and memory.
Content warning: this session addresses topics such as war, immigration, and family issues which people might find challenging. Please feel free to opt out.
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Resilience in Zones of Crisis
with Sandra Becker
Image: Sandra Becker
As the world is in crisis mode, I want to focus on resilience. By sharing past experiences of personal growth, a space for resilience can be created.
With this work I want to raise the question on how we can practice resilience in zones of crisis and displacement. Allowing awareness of the past might help to strengthen resilience. Sharing positive experiences of changing individual past experiences into personal growth can be inspiring. Coming together with tea as a closing gesture.
Content note: In this participatory session, you are invited to share past experiences of personal growth. Please take this as an invitation that you are welcome to engage with or not.
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In-Between Space Lab: Navigating Uncertain Terrain with Generosity
with Marie France Forcier and He Jin Jang
Image: Marie France Forcier and He Jin Jang
The artists and participants will together attempt to connect with space, time, history, memories and encounters with the sense of uncertainty via the felt-body. This workshop explores the developing practices the artists have been researching that aim at stimulating the senses and expanding awareness. We will collectively play with notions of accompaniment both by the human and more than human through exchange and generosity.
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ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY
MANIFESTO
The PhD dedicated Steering Committee has been meeting since last October to plan Transart's first student-led intensive and residency, which bring students together to create connections between each other’s research and practice. The programme invites all TT students (MFA and PhD) to a series of talks, workshops, participatory sessions, exchanges, walks, and screenings. A tentative schedule for the second week of programming, the Anthologies Assembly, can be found below (please note that the programme is subject to change).
With thanks to the Steering Committee: Ali Williams (Class 2023), Andrew Freiband (Class 2021), Erin Wilkerson (Class 2021), Eve Provost Chartrand (Class 2020), Jake Tkaczyk (Class 2020), Jessica Leung (Class 2023), Juliette Ludeker (Class 2022), Nkechi Njaka (Class 2022), Sandra Becker (Class 2023).