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Programme - Tuesday 11th January

12.30 to 13.45

Re-enchantment and the Arts: Techne Partners Panel - Kate Scott, Alison Clarke (Surrey Hills Arts), Laura Tompkins (Historic Royal Palaces)

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The theme of the January 2022 conference is re-enchantment. Through this theme, we celebrate the role of the arts as a tool for reawakening, renewal, and reimagining. In the midst of climate emergency, a global pandemic, and continued global and local inequalities, we ask how we as researchers can make use of the arts to find new creative solutions to the questions facing us, but also change the nature of the question itself.

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In this Techne partners session, representatives from some of Techne's partners organisations present their own big questions, identifying both the challenges and the opportunities that are emerging for their organisations in this unique moment. They invite students to imagine with them what new methods and solutions arts research could bring to these questions, with the aim of ‘re-enchanting’ the relationship of communities and audiences to the cultural industries.

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12.30 to 13.45

Invitations: A Student-Led Activity with Therese Henningsen, Astrid Korporaal, Judah Attille and Mark Aerial Waller

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Invitations is a student-led series of online events around the topic of creative invitations, with recordings archived on Technecast soundcloud https://soundcloud.com/technecast. It concerns the relationship between maker, subject, screen and audience in moving image work, as well as wider contexts of artistic practice. This series came about through online conversations since April 2020, between Techne-funded PhD students: Therese Henningsen, Astrid Korporaal, Judah Attille and Mark Aerial Waller. This session will be a panel discussion and film screening of ‘Queering Di Teknolojik’ 8.5 mins (2019) by  Timothy Smith, Techne alumnus.

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12.30 to 13.45

The Poetics of Reticence: Discussion and Writing Workshop - Eve Grubin

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'I am certain of nothing’, John Keats wrote, ‘but the holiness of the hearts affections and the truth of imagination’. And Emily Dickinson wrote, ‘I Dwell in Possibility’. In this session we will ask questions about connections that might exist between being ‘certain of nothing’ and 'Possibility'. How might uncertainty or reticence lead to epiphany? Does relinquishing control of the answers generate transformation? We will look at poems by Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Jean Valentine, Yusef Komynyakaa, Charles Reznikoff and others as we explore these questions. Participants will spend the last part of this session writing their own poems based on our discussion.

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13.45 to 14.15

Creative Breakout: Creative Writing

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If you want to try something creative and take a break from your screen, join us for this quick 'creative breakout' session. This creative breakout will include a chance to flex your creative muscles with some creative writing exercises, so make sure you have a pen and paper with you.

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14.15 to 15.30

Big Magic: Inspiration without the Overwhelm - Emma Brodzinski

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Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear explores the mysterious nature of the generative/writing process.  This workshop will apply some of her key themes such as enchantment; permission and persistence to the PhD journey and consider strategies for maximising inspiration and minimising overwhelm as a doctoral researcher.

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14.15 to 15.30

Aesthetics of Unreality - Rachel Gannon

Unfortunately this session has been cancelled

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Drawing on Dunne and Raby's publication Speculative Everything: Design Fiction and Social Dreaming this session asks how might we use forms of speculative image-making to represent the unreal, parallel, impossible, unknown and yet-to-exist. Whether at proposal or publication stage using imagery and illustrative devices to communicate our research intentions, methods and outcomes is a way to communicate ambiguity, fictionalise futures and create visions of potential.  This session will start with a presentation on speculative image making within design research, followed by a short practical workshop. 

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14.15 to 15.30

Reenchantment in Contemporary Literature: Transglossic Forms - Kristian Shaw, Sara Upstone

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In the past twenty years, contemporary writers have renewed their interest in the potential of literature to radically intervene in social and political realities. Here, we outline our continuing project not only to define this trend, but also to construct a literary criticism that might itself be part of what emerges as literature’s re-enchantment both with the world and itself. What we call a ‘transglossic’ literature, such work can be seen to ‘speak across’ categories both literally and metaphorically. Drawing from a range of examples, we invite you to discuss with us the potential of this new form.

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16.00 to 17.00

Keynote: How To Tell Another Story - Julietta Singh

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In this meditation on storytelling against the force of colonial narratives, Singh upturns colonial disenchantment by recognizing enchantment as an anticolonial orientation through mundane scenes of everyday life. Drawing on her concept of dehumanism and engaging with scenes from her new work of epistolary nonfiction, The Breaks, Singh invites participants to dwell in other styles of living and narrating obscured by the neocolonial world.

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Julietta Singh is an essayist and academic whose work engages the enduring effects of colonization, current ecological crisis, and queer-feminist futures. She is the author of The Breaks (Coffee House Press, 2021) No Archive Will Restore You (Punctum Books, 2018) and Unthinking Mastery: Dehumanism and Decolonial Entanglements (Duke University Press, 2018). She currently lives in Richmond, Virginia, with her family.

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