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Home – Provoking Conversations on Place or Belonging (online symposium)

Date / Time

4 July 2022, 11am - 4pm

Location

Virtual (online)

How do artists and creative researchers draw on imagery, philosophies, theories, and methodologies to interrogate concepts of home, place and belonging?

Home, a one-day symposium at University of Gloucestershire, encompasses multiple possibilities. It could be imagined in terms of geographical location, or in terms of the body or of the self. It may be articulated through its temporality; a legacy or sense of inheritance, a futurity or an aspiration. It may be conceptualised as occupying the physical, the spatial, the temporal and the cultural realm. It may be conceived of as gaining its coherence in displacement, in exile, in migration and threat.

To belong may be interpreted as something that is cultural or religious. Similarly, belonging could draw from affectual states where one feels secure and safe, or excluded from a place or community. It spans the personal, the local and the global, encompassing geopolitical concerns and their impact on people, through communities and on populations, on the consequences of the pandemic, climate change, war. In this way artistic and critical responses may range from the intimate to the global.

This symposium provides an interdisciplinary forum for researchers to explore current debates on themes of belonging, place and home. It aims to provoke conversations into the meaning of home, to have a sense of place and belonging and provides an informal and supportive forum for researchers to explore opportunities and challenges associated with inter-disciplinary research. This is a space to test ideas, discuss methodologies and receive feedback from peers.

Programme: Monday 4th July


ONLINE SYMPOSIUM

INTRODUCTION AND KEYNOTE

11:00 Panel 1: HOME JOURNEYS BELONGING

Speaker 1: Verena Stenke and Andreas Pagnes, Vest and Page.
Home. A cycle of collective performance operas. Italy and Germany.

Speaker 2: Sohaila Baluch, Royal College of Art, London.
Tethered to It. Textiles, colonial legacies and the significance of British South Asian contribution in shaping British History.

Speaker 3: Lori Demata, University of the Arts, London.
Heimat and Absence: The visual in the transnational migratory imaginaries.

12:00 Panel 2: BELONGING IDENTITY SUBJECTIVITY

Speaker 4: Luanda Carneriero Jacoel, Norwegian Theatre Academy Afro-Present embodiment and Afro-Diasproic bodies entangled in transatlantic slave trade histories. A response in performance.

Speaker 5: Anwer Ali, COMSTATS University Islamabad. Spatial childhood activities in Skardu Valley, Northern Pakistan.

Speaker 6: Sebastian Gatz, Konstfach Stockholm University. Hans is Dead: exploring relationships between humans and nonhumans.

13:00 Lunch

14:00 Panel 3: MEMORIES HISTORIES TRAUMA

Speaker 7: Adélia Santos Costa, Paulo Luís Almeida and Emílio Remelhe University of Porto.
When the Border is Our Home: exploring the memorial epigraphy as a place of encounter.

Speaker 8: Denis Esakov, Writer and Artist.
Homeland Warland . Place, home and ‘Russianness’.

Speaker 9: Hadas Tapouchi, Artist,
Israel Letters from Home Modernism and war in Polish city of Gdynia and Haifa in Israel.. 1

15:00 PANEL 4: CREATIVITY IDENTITY BELONGING

Speaker 10 : Ana Mouralinho and Dr Paulo Luís Almeida. University of Porto.
How to Feel Like a Mountain. Weightless drawing and topography.

Speaker 11: Elisabeth Brun, University of Oslo.
Moving Image Topography Essay film as a space for philosophical thinking..

Speaker 12: Matthew Cowan, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki.
Wildness Makes the World: folklore, performance and photograph. 16: 00 Plenary Discussion Panel Close

For virtual attendance on Monday, 4 July:

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86853384605?pwd=zsqB0fW_Wql-nl8ODxU6Qp3W71tjTL.1

Meeting ID: 868 5338 4605

Passcode: 792924

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For more information contact Kate Adkins [email protected] and Tony Clancy [email protected]