Event Information
Through COLLISIONS, research degree students and creative fellows engage with what it means to be researching with, through, in and by practice, and share this engagement with a wider academic and public audience.
This year due to COVID-19, we present COLLISIONS as an online festival featuring a retrospective of digitally-documented presentations from past Collisions as well as showcasing how current practice- research students are making digital practice.
The work prompts questions about how we shift our perceptions of practice- research over time, across changing contexts and new formats. What are the challenges in adapting our practice to a virtual platform? How do we reflect productively on past or current practice to develop research for an uncertain future? Collisions 2020 Online: shifting perceptions aims to encourage dialogue and reflection across past and present projects alongside interviews, Q&As and chat rooms, asking how our research insights might speak to each other’s work and help us stay connected.
COLLISIONS takes place ONLINE on Tuesday 29 September and Wednesday 30th September.
Overview
Day 1 - Tuesday 29 September
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome to the online festival space! Registration and hellos
14:00 – 14:30 Lead co-creator Josephine Leask introduces the Collisions 2020 Festival Schedule. Includes a retrospective look at Collisons past, and interview with former contributor, Alejandro Postigo Gomez
14:30 - 15:15 Chang Gao - Public Intimacies, Supernormal Stimuli LIVE tour of the RCA studio of Chang Gao with commentary on her work and practice
15:15 Break - come relax in our themed chat room
15:30 – 16:15 Simon Dodi - Both/And is a curated video surveying the body of performance work from Simon’s current research project on male camp identify in British popular performance
16:15 - 16:30 Break and discussion
16:30 - 17:00 Adelina Ong Response and Intervention
17:00 - 17:30 Discussions continue in our Collisions 2020 online cafe
Day 2 - Wednesday 30 September
13:30 – 14:00 Welcome to the online festival space! Registration and hellos
14:00 – 14:30 Laura Kressley & Jo Leask in conversation: Critical Shifts
14:30 - 15.00 Anna Woolf - Joint Creativity: what young people with arthritis don’t want to say about transition
15:00 – 15:30 Maja Milatovic - Ovadia - Growing up with the legacy of war in time of climate change
15:30 – 16:30 Thinking Bigly - A Guide To Saving The World: an interactive sustainability show with Ben Yeoh and David Finnigan
16:30 - 17:00 Naomi Paxton Response and Intervention, with SU Environmental Officer Eden Rickson
17:00 - 18:00 - Final discussions and connections in our Collisions 2020 online Cafe
*There will be live links on the days of the festival to past performances and more about our contributors current work, accessible via the Eventbrite pages
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