Arts Week 2017: Monday 15 May
Doing and thinking: methods in practice-based research
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When? 1pm-4pm
Where? Room G10, 43 Gordon Square
How do practice-based methods differ from and overlap with 'conventional' academic research? What is and isn’t shared by methods in different arts disciplines? What can we learn from one another's practice as researchers? How can we get under the skin of some of the sticking points or stubborn elements of our research processes? This half-day symposium brings together a range of scholars in theatre, film and creative writing who pursue their research through practice, with contributions from Katherine Angel, Emma Bennett, Katie Grant and Sophie Hope. Open to all, this event will be of particular interest to postgraduate researchers. Supported by Birkbeck’s practice-based research network, Corkscrew.
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Zenogami
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When? 2pm-6pm
Where? Cinema Foyer, 43 Gordon Square
Zenogami is a playful mindfulness origami app developed by artist Coco Sato and interaction designer Dr. Pete Bennett (University of Bristol). Engage with the creativity of origami, yoga movement and the perspective of Zen philosophy. Come along to try the app yourself by folding a unique paper aeroplane.
Recovering Women for the Digital Age: A Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
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When? 2.00-5.00pm
Where? Keynes library
Women are sometimes hidden from history. This Wikipedia training workshop and edit-a-thon aims to increase the digital visibility of women who have been ‘lost’. Join us to create stub articles for historical women who do not have Wikipedia pages and together we can make it possible for everyone to find out more about these women.
Telling object stories: film, peoples and plants in the Amazon
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When? 6pm-7.25pm
Where? Cinema, 43 Gordon Square
Kew Gardens holds fascinating artefacts collected by the botanist Richard Spruce, who travelled in South America in the nineteenth century. In this roundtable, Luciana Martins (Birkbeck) and the Derek Jarman Lab’s Bea Moyes and Bartek Dziadosz screen and discuss the making of The Many Lives of a Shield, a short film that follows the story of this ceremonial shield.
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Underground films from the Barrelstout archive (1968-2016)
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When? 7.50pm-9pm
Where? Cinema, 43 Gordon Square
This screening from the underground is a rare chance to see a selection of no-budget films from the archive of Barrelstout Productions. Barrelstout’s short films – some comic, some serious - are filled with colour and music. Filmmakers Bev Zalcock and her partner Sara Chambers introduce their films and answer your questions.
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Japanese identity: fiction and film by Jayne Joso
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When? 6pm-7.25pm
Where? Room G03, 43 Gordon Square
What happens when a man loses his job? Where does he live and what does he learn? Explore this and other aspects of contemporary Japanese identity with Jayne Joso, author of My Falling Down House (2016) and Birkbeck’s Mark Blacklock. There will be three short films, a reading and lots of time to discuss with the panellists.
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Andy Smith: dematerialising theatre
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When? 6pm-7.25pm
Where? Room G10, 43 Gordon Square
For the last fifteen years, both alone and in collaboration with Tim Crouch (An Oak Tree, Adler & Gibb), theatre-maker Andy Smith has been involved in creating a large body of work. He refers to this as a ‘dematerialised theatre’ - a theatre that attempts to do more with less. This talk reviews some of the principles of the practice, and explores some of its origins. Andy will read and discuss some examples of his work.
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The Jo Spence Archive and Memorial Library: a workshop
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When? 6pm-9pm
Where? Room G04, 43 Gordon Square
Jo Spence was a British photographer, writer and ‘cultural sniper’. Join us for this workshop on her archive, and the implications of its recent history and dispersal. Birkbeck’s Patrizia di Bello will speak about the archive as ‘feminist family album’, and Steve Edwards will reflect on British documentary in the 1970s.
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Ordinary Digital Humanities: The everyday life of digital technologies
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When? 6pm-7.30pm
Where? Keynes Library, 43 Gordon Square
How should humanities scholars respond to the opportunities and intrusions wrought by digitisation? With a lecture from Lesley Gourlay (UCL Institute of Education), and responses from Birkbeck's Grace Halden and Tim Markham, this forum explores the ways in which digital technologies are being used, and are asserting themselves, in everyday academic life.
There will be a drinks reception following this event.
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Corkscrew’s Practice Exchange
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When? 6pm-9pm
Where? Room 106, 43 Gordon Square
What discoveries can be made about the world through practice-based research in the arts? Our postgraduate researchers share their work in progress and welcome your feedback. Supported by Birkbeck’s practice-based research network, Corkscrew.
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Poetry Live!
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When? 7.30pm-9pm
Where? The Harrison, 28 Harrison St, Kings Cross, London WC1H 8JF
A stellar line-up of live performance poetry given by Birkbeck postgraduate students and staff. Featuring Keith Jay, Fran Lock, Stephen Morrison-Burke, JJ Bola, SoGol Sur, and Julia Bell.
Exodus, reckoning, sacrifice: three meanings of Brexit
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When? 6pm-9pm
Where? Room 101, 30 Russell Square
Kalypso Nicolaidis (International Relations, University of Oxford) questions the Brexit narratives of British exceptionalism, euroscepticism, and transnational pluralism, reading them through stories of Exodus, reckoning, and sacrifice. Through the multiple variants and conflicting points of view generated by these founding stories, Nicolaidis articulates a Brexit mythology in a critical attempt to offer the possibility of a bottom-up reconstruction to pluralists of all countries.
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