Event overview
The Ridge Salon: Undisciplinary Conversations at the House on Chicken Legs
Out of Practice Seminar series, or Oops, launches its first outpost event at Goldsmiths.
We are delighted to introduce The Ridge Salon, where the table is set for a multi-voice conversation, including the voices of the more-than-human participants, in domestic and ‘undisciplinary’ surroundings. Out of Practice guests are invited to take a seat at the table as we reflect on a series of conversation-meals that took place over the summer.
You are also invited to bring to the table something from your own home.
Your hosts: Katja Hilevaara, Molly McPhee, Clare Lees, Alexa Reid and Cora Weiss
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Out of Practice (Oops)
The creative and the critical are deeply imbricated in one another and yet disciplinary boundaries often encourage us to separate the two. Out of Practice – what comes out of thinking approached as a practice of expression and formulation? What disappears as we lose the practice of critical form in all its range, allow it to become instrumentalised, abstract it from its creative impetus and disciplinary interactions, its familiarity with the range of critical forms and privilege?
The Out of Practice Seminar is normally hosted at the University of London, School of Advanced Study’s Institute for English Studies (IES), and its Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies (ILCS). It was founded in 2023 by a group of creative-critical researchers from across the University of London, and aims to build on the School’s ambition to establish a forum for experimental approaches to Humanities research, including practice and the practice-led. Drawing inspiration from practitioners past and present including bell hooks, Roland Barthes, Edouard Glissant, Hélène Cixous, Saidiya Hartman, Walter Benjamin, Jane Rendell, Lydia Davis, Gertrude Stein, Susan Howe, Charles Bernstein, Maggie Nelson, Claudia Rankine, Juliana Spahr, Maria Fosco, the seminar hopes to build a forum for interaction across other groups working in a variety of creative-critical modes.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Oct 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm |
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