Workshop Strand 1 : Stow Crit Space
Friday June 9th, 2023 : 14:00 – 15:00
Overview
In this creative workshop we will diagrammatically unpack lockdown experiences of pedagogy and care with a focus on staff and student near-now experiences of the Art School’s physical and online spaces. Through co-creation we aim to chart trouble points of precarity & uncertainty. Micro moments of trauma, discovery and joy will be attended to and reconstructed as signs.
In refusing the institutional logics of futurity that build on the ‘successes’ of digital teaching & moving on, Wade and Metherell open a conversational space to visualise how lived experiences under the domestic//institutional digital nexus affect us as lecturers and as carers.
Speakers
Lisa Metherell
Lisa Metherell is an artist and lecturer specialising in the relationship between practice and theory within Art and Design. Her work has particularly been informed by the tensions between queer theory and phenomenology and how what we 'know' might be usefully troubled by what we 'feel'. This has been explored through provisional embodiments in encounters with non-representational art. She has written about queer unspeakability using the trope of the werewolf and devised projects that explore alternative kinships. An emerging interest in vulnerability, love and care went to hell in a handcart in Covid.
Cathy Wade
Cathy Wade is an artist and writer who investigates how practice can be created and distributed in collaborative partnerships and through the creation of commons. Their work seeks to understand the experience of contemporary conditions through exchange with others. They are course leader for MA in Arts Education Practices at BCU; and are currently curating new work with Hannah Sawtell at Vivid Projects alongside facilitating Vivid Projects’ artist development programme Black Hole Club.