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liverpool residency 2024

WEEK II/II: 22-26 JULY 2024

PROGRAMMe
exhibitions
Workshops
ANTHOLOGIES sessions

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, 2 DUCKINFIELD ST, LIVERPOOL.

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).

SUNDAY 21 JULY

10:00 - 16:00 UTC - (AA)

INSTALLATION DAY FOR ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY EXHIBITIONS

Monday 22 July

SESSION EVALUATION

9:15 - 10:15 - (PhD 1/2)

tt orientation session 1/2 with alessandra cianetti and michael bowdidge

10:40 - 11:10 - (ALl)

morning check-in session

11:10 - 12:30 - (AA)

presentation + panel: What artists know with andrew freiband

12:30 - 13:50

Lunch

13:50 - 15:15 - (AA)

Presentation + Participatory Session: Implementing awe and pleasure in performance via existing with Jake Tkaczyk

14:00 - 15:00 - (Phd 1-2)

The Long Conversation: interviews WITH Ang Bartram, Danica MAier, Valerie Walkerdine, Syowia KyAmbi, MIcHael Bowdidge, AND tracy benson
SESSION EVALUATION

15:25 - 16:45 - (AA)

Presentation + Workshop: Reflective practice as research methodology: heirlooms as objects of meaning with Carrie Neal

15:25 - 16:45 - (PHD 1/2)

Workshop 1/2: object/sculpture/jam with Michael Bowdidge

Evening

Welcome Gathering + anthologies assembly-led social game

Tuesday 23 July

SESSION EVALUATION

9:15 - 10:15 - (PHD 1/2)

tt orientation session 2/2 with alessandra cianetti and Laurie Roark

10:25 - 10:35 - (All)

morning check-in session

10:35 - 12:15 - (aa)

workshop: the will to get lost with Anne-Sophie Lorange and eve provost chartrand

12:15 - 13:25

Lunch

13:25 - 14:20 - (aa)

Presentation: Autoabstract Painting with Gina Dominique

14:30 - 16:10 - (PHD 1/2)

Workshop 2/2: object/sculpture/jam with Michael Bowdidge

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

15:35 - 16:25 - (aa)

session with Nkechi Njaka TBA

16:30 - 17:00 - (optional)

residency info session - Weaving Water, Australia - with Tracy Benson

wednesday 24 July

SESSION EVALUATION

10:40 - 10:50 - (ALL)

morning check-in session

10:50 - 12:20 - (aa)

Presentation + Participatory Session: Flying by Pluto with Laurence Arcadias (Max 30)

12:20 - 13:45

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30 - (optional)

digital drop-in zoom session with tt accessibility support

13:45 - 15:40 - (aa)

Presentation + Participatory Session: Seeing-Sensing Images: Contemplative Photography, Sensory Perception, and Estrangement as Creative Practice with Juliette Ludeker (MAX 15)

14:00 - 17:00 - (PHD 1/2)

Workshop: deep dive/creative flow with syowia kyambi
SESSION EVALUATION

15:50 - 16:50 - (aa)

Presentation: Getting the Sacred Joke About Ourselves with Irene Loy (Max 45)

thursday 25 July

SESSION EVALUATION

10:20 - 10:30 - (ALL)

morning check-in session

10:30 - 11:30 - (aa)

(aa): Artist talk and research presentation: Solastalgia with Anne Sophie Lorange

11:40 - 12:55 - (aa - max 20)

Presentation + Participatory Session: Experiments in Assembly #1: Playground for Speculative Histories and Relational Practices Marta Espiridião

12:55 - 14:00

Lunch

14:00 - 17:00 (PHD 1/2)

Workshop: embodied inquiry with tracey benson
SESSION EVALUATION

14:20 - 15:20 - (aa)

Performative talk: queering the crip: Embracing afflicted bodies through creative practice with Eve Provost Chartrand

15:30 - 16:30 - (PGR REPS)

PhD Collegium Meeting

Friday 26 July

SESSION EVALUATION

9:50 - 10:00 - (ALL)

morning check-in session

10:00 - 12:30 - (aa)

Workshop: Embracing the Broken with Karen Ami (Max 10)

12:30 - 13:45

Lunch

12:30 - 13:30 - (optional)

digital drop-in zoom session with tt accessibility support

13:45 - 14:45 - (aa - max 20)

Talk: Resilience in zones of crisis with Sandra Becker

14:00 - 14:45 - (PHD 1)

WRAP-UP

14:55 - 16:55 - (aa)

Artist talk and research presentation: Navigating Uncertain Terrain with Marie France Forcier and He Jin Jang (Max 30)

17:15 - 19:00 - (ALl)

Finissage / Graduation Reception

Evening - (ALl)

After party

saturday 27 July

10:00 - 16:00

de-Installation day for anthologies assembly exhibitions

EXHIBITIONS  

Throughout the duration of the Anthologies Assembly intensive and residency, TT students are invited to experience the exhibitions installed in the LJMU spaces. More information to come!

tt WORKSHOPS

for phd years 1-2

deep dive/creative flow
with Syowia Kyambi

In this intensive workshop session, we embark on a journey of self-re-discovery and creative exploration. The day is divided into two halves, each designed to nurture and enhance the artistic practices of our diverse group. Dedicated time is allocated for creative work, providing an opportunity to delve into individual projects while receiving support from peers. The second half shifts focus to writing, with guided prompts for reflection on the creative process or thesis development. Breakout discussions offer space for in-depth conversations about participants' evolving practices and writing endeavors. The day concludes with a collective moment of reflection, allowing for shared insights and mutual encouragement. Through this immersive experience, participants will cultivate a supportive community and gain valuable insights to enrich their artistic and academic pursuits.

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SYLLABUS

Embodied inquiry
with Tracey Benson

"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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object/sculpture/jam (extended)
with michael bowdidge

This two-part session will centre on a hands-on collaborative exploration of the practical and theoretical possibilities of object-based sculptural production. We'll also look briefly at what other artists working in this medium have achieved, and also explore whether the concerns and possibilities of this medium provide new ways of thinking about and responding to the climate crisis.

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ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY SESSIONS

what artists know
with andrew freiband and guests

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

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

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

“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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Autoabstract Painting
with Gina Dominique

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

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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session tbc
with Nkechi Njaka

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flying by pluto: astro-animation Workshop
with 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

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

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

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

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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queering the crip: embracing afflicted bodies through creative practice
with eve provost chartrand

Inspired by Carrie Sandahl's critical framework, "Queering the Crip," which intersects queer theory and disability studies, the performative presentation will offer an intimate exploration of how my practice challenges conventional understandings of disability and agency, performativity, and affliction. By looking at the diverse experiences unfolding in the studio that exist at the intersections of queer, disabled, and ageing identities, this presentation will acknowledge their unique perspectives and advocate for inclusive spaces that pay tribute to the complexities of their lived experiences. I will present how my studio work found solace in disrupting normative notions of embodiment, sexuality, and identity, fostering a more inclusive environment where my afflicted body is valued and supported in expressing their authentic and multiple selves.

Content warning: this session addresses topics such as trauma which people might find challenging. Please feel free to opt out.

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Embracing the Broken
with 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

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

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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he jin jang bio | site

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for students

We invite you to register for this summer’s residency via the Residency Registration Form. Registration is due by May 1.

Students are responsible for arranging their own travel, accommodations, and travel and health insurance for the residency. We encourage you to make your bookings as soon as possible, as spaces in Liverpool can fill quickly. For more information about housing options and about Liverpool more generally, please click here.

The majority of the residency programming will be held at LJMU’s John Lennon Art and Design Building, 2 Duckinfield St, Liverpool L3 5RD.

For more information about accessing LJMU libraries , please click here.

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