COLLISIONS FESTIVAL 2021: Regeneration and Liberation

COLLISIONS is an RCSSD annual performance festival showcasing thriving doctoral practice research.

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 we present COLLISIONS with both in person performances, presentations, workshops and installations, and also as streamed content, showcasing how current practice-research students across several institutions are making digital practice. All in person elements will strictly follow Covid19 safety guidelines.

As we emerge from lockdown disoriented and fatigued, COLLISIONS 2021 will be curating conversations around regeneration and liberation within practice research. How might we re-orientate our practice, and ourselves, in relation to the people/communities we work with to embrace new relationships and futures? Can we find liberation in what Rebecca Solnit calls the ‘spaciousness of uncertainty’? (2016)

What have been the challenges in adapting our practice to hybrid and Covid safe models and contexts? How do we reflect productively on past or current practice to develop research for an uncertain future? COLLISIONS FESTIVAL 2021: Regeneration and Liberation aims to encourage dialogue and reflection across past and present projects alongside interviews, Q&As and discussion, asking how our research insights might speak to each other’s work and help us stay connected.

COLLISIONS takes place on Tuesday 28 September and Wednesday 29 September.

Audiences can choose to engage with the festival in person, or online. Tickets are free but we ask that everyone registers via Eventbrite to keep face to face performances safe, and to ensure streaming details are sent to those people accessing the content remotely.

The festival welcomes queries about accessibility requirements - please e mail CollisionsFestival@cssd.ac.uk