CAMBERWELL, CHELSEA, WIMBEDON GRADUATE SCHOOL
PUBLIC PROGRAMME 2017-2018 | SPRING TERM
SYMPOSIUM
Shame on You: Theorising shame, pride and community in contemporary culture
Photograph by Christa Holka.
10.00 ' 19.00 Friday, 09 February 2018,
Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
Recent advances in 'equality' have seen an explosion of pride within the LGBT community but what has been gained and what has been lost by insisting that we are proud to be gay?
In this day-long symposium we will cast light on contemporary manifestations of the relations between shame and stigma, exposure, conformity and power.
This event is convened by Jordan McKenzie, Associate Lecturer, BA Drawing
Camberwell College of Arts, and Akosua Bonsu (Fringe Centre, UCL).
Booking essential:
https://bit.ly/shame-on-you-symposium
SYMPOSIUM
Encountering Difference'?
Image: Akiko Takizawa, Shadows on the Hill (2009, date printed: 2013). Collotype on Japanese Washi Paper. Courtesy of the artist.'''?''
10.00 ' 18.00 Friday, 23 February 2018
Lecture Theatre, Camberwell College of Arts, 45-65 Peckham Road, London SE5 8UF
Focusing on themes of identity, the visual and non-visual representations of race, gender, sexuality, class, language, power, desire and aesthetics, this one-day symposium, will present the findings from the Difference Goes Speed Dating event, which hosted a series of encounters between artists, students, academics and industry specialists engaged in lens-based media practices. We will discuss current and alternative ways of picturing difference in contemporary lens-based practices and beyond.
This event is convened by Dr Ope Lori, TrAIN Post-Doctoral Research Fellow and BA Fine Art Associate Lecturer at Chelsea College of Arts.
Booking essential:
https://bit.ly/encounterdifference
WORKSHOP
Adaptation, Re-make, Risk-taking: Creative intervention in contemporary theatre and performance
Image courtesy: Blind Dinner Date, ZU-UK. https://zu-uk.com/
10.00 ' 17.00 Saturday, 03 March 2018
Wimbledon Theatre Space, Wimbledon College of Arts, Merton Hall Road, London SW19 3QA
Adaptation, Re-make, Risk-taking aims to take a fresh look at the reinterpretation of pre-existing sources in contemporary performance, and situates radical intervention as an innovative and risk-taking form of adaptation for the stage.
This event is convened by Dr Jozefina Komporaly, Lecturer in Theatre and Screen Studies at Wimbledon College of Arts.
Very limited amount of tickets available.
Early booking recommended:
AFTERNOON SYMPOSIUM
Speculative Design: Afrofuturist and indigenous projections
Image: Elizabeth La Pensee, She Carries the Water. Courtesy of the artist.
14.00 ' 20.00 Friday, 09 March 2018
Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, 16 John Islip Street, London SW1P 4JU
This afternoon symposium brings together researchers and practitioners whose work engages with the themes of Afrofuturism, Indigenous Futures, and other emerging areas of science-fictional/future-orientated cultural practice in which people of colour, indigenous cultures and non-Western subjects take centre stage.
This event is convened by Dr Dan Smith, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Theory, Chelsea College of Arts.
Booking essential:
https://bit.ly/speculative-design