Event overview
“Visceral Narratives” will be dedicated to discussion of unorthodox strategies of communicating and framing life-stories across various art forms. The contributors to the Colloquium are practicing artists who compose and study biographical and autobiographical life narratives through digitally mediated and conventional life-writing, painting, and embroidery. We shall address these life-stories as necessarily embodied narratives, often interplaying sensory memories and the making of a narration. Our reflection on the creative practice aims to suggest alternative ways to describe and conceptualize such embodiment in conjunction with academic modes of research.
Speakers:
Eleanor Dare, “Figure and ground: the body as a locus of narrative and knowing”. Eleanor will investigate the ways bodies and language are intertwined and examine how illness or trauma require us to speak from the body in different terms from those of orthodox academic research or Cartesian epistemologies. In particular, she will look at embodiment as a basis for the re-conceptualisation of digitally mediated life-writing.
Claudine Leroux, “Drawing the lines of Memory”. Claudine will deal with the creative process involved when verbalizing images of events experienced in early childhood, and which can only be accessed through a sensory memory. She will focus on the shift of perspective in perception of the self through time, its spatial dimension and its emotional charge, when writing for a reader.
Katya Oicherman, “Binding Auto/Biographies”. In her work, Katya recreates traditional Jewish ceremonial textiles, using her own family history as a basis for the embroidered text in the work. Hi/stories of Jewisness are staged and told as a mixed-media autobiography, interplaying text and stitch. Telling / writing / embroidering are related in terms of the notions of uniqueness and narration and contextualized within feminine writing and contemporary craft theory.
The event is free and everyone is invited to attend and participate in the discussion.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 15 Oct 2010 | 2:00pm - 5:00pm |
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