technē Conflux: 'How Like A Leaf', 'Performing' Roundtable 

18th Oct 2019 12:00pm-4:00pm 

This workshop is offered as part of a technē Conflux, an extended training, development, exhibition or performance programme which aims to enhance research or intellectual skills, or facilitate the sharing of expertise amongst doctoral students in the arts and humanities.

 

Location: The Bedford Room, 11 Bedford Square, London, WC1B 3RE

Refreshments will be provided.

Please email howlikealeaf@gmail.com to book a place.

 

This Conflux will bring together students from across different disciplines - including literary studies, philosophy, visual arts, music, history, classics, dance and theatre - to assess, adapt and develop interdisciplinary approaches to the relationships between art, nature and the world, with the assistance of world-renowned practitioners and theorists.

Performing Strand - On Estuaries 

How can better knowledge of an estuarine landscape stimulate innovative thinking? This TECHNE Conflux roundtable offers a fascinating opportunity to discuss what we can learn from close observation of the ebb and flow of the Thames estuary with its complex ecology. The special attributes of an estuary can also act as metaphors for addressing the importance of an ecological approach to art-making.

The roundtable’s participants are independent art producer and artist Ben Eastop and site-based performance artist Victoria Hunter. The roundtable asks how the daily flux of the estuary challenges us to reconsider concepts and actualities of human/environment relationships. TECHNE participants will have opportunities to contribute to the discussion from their different research backgrounds. See website ‘Events’ https://www.howlikealeaf.com/launch-event for artists biographies and programme.

Map: https://www.google.com/maps/place/11+Bedford+Square,+Bloomsbury,+London+WC1B+3RE/@51.5198799,-0.1316797,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x48761b2def969fff:0xd090200ee8f746c6!8m2!3d51.5198799!4d-0.129491

Convened by Dr Libby Worth, any queries email libby.worth@rhul.ac.uk