Beyond Glorious: the radical in engaged artistic practices
Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June 2013, Birkbeck College and Artsadmin, London
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Beyond Glorious has now taken place. You can download a PDF of the final schedule at the bottom of this page or read a blog post by Mark Trezona about the event on his website - click here.
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If you would like to order a copy of the publication Dear Stranger, I love you, which was launched at Beyond Glorious, please click here.
What is the place of art in acts of social re-imagination and repair?
What languages can be found to articulate such practices?
Is it possible to break new ground within the realm of engaged artistic practices?
This symposium marked the end of Rajni Shah Projects' Glorious. It brought together people from different spheres of life to discuss and experience the meanings, methods and effects of art in relation to engaged and radical practices.Using Glorious as a starting point, events explored the potential of engaged artistic practices, not in terms of a reductive understanding of the ‘efficacy’ of art in the world, but as a complicating, delicate, nuanced, uneasy journey towards new ways of thinking.
Programme
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Thursday 30th May |
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7.30pm Glorious documentation showing of video documentation from Glorious + informal exhibition about the project - Toynbee theatre (£5) |
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Friday 31st May |
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9.30am Opening provocation by Rajni Shah |
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Panel 1 - What was Glorious? Curated discussion about the experience and effects of Glorious with |
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Panel 2 - Problems and Potentials of the Radical and its Audiences Panel presentation and discussion with |
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12.15-1pm Shorts - The influence of other practices Theron Schmidt (Kings College London) + guests |
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1.15-3.15pm Lunch provided at a local restaurant |
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3.30-5.30pm Workshops |
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| Karen Christopher Look Both Ways: taking it from the street, a workshop about asking | or |
Suzie Shrubb Songbox improvisational music workshop/demonstration |
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7.30pm Evening event Songbox music and social event @ Birkbeck Cinema, 43 Gordon Square |
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Saturday 1st June |
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9.30am Opening provocation by Gillie Kleiman and Hamish MacPherson |
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Panel 1 - What Remains - creative documentation & traces Discussion with presentations by |
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Panel 2 - Theatre, Agonism and Radical Democracy Chaired discussion with |
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12.15-1pm Shorts - Case Studies Rachel Davies on ‘Family-friendly?’ |
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1.15-3.15pm Lunch provided at a local restaurant |
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3.30-5.30pm Walking or watching |
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Mary Paterson + guests A Facilitated Walk around Bloomsbury (includes visiting Gillie and Hamish) Gillie Kleiman and Hamish MacPherson letter-writing as part of Third Chamber at a local public site |
or | Fugitive Images screening and discussion around Estate - imagined historical re-enactments, portraits, original song-writing and collaborative community engagement used in film to explore the passing of the Haggerston estate and the utopian promises of social housing in Britain |
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Evening event Glorious closing party with cakes, balloons, publication launch, good times and good conversations @ Toynbee Studios |
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Sunday 2nd June |
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11am-2pm, at Crisis Skylight Café Opening provocation by Jane Frances Dunlop |
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Brunch and conversation, artist commission by Sheila Ghelani FutureKit by Leo Burtin Responses by Sarah Amsler and Frank Bock |
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Access
Beyond Glorious is offered free of charge including meals.
Birkbeck, University of London: All venues we are using are wheelchair accessible.
Artsadmin, Toynbee Studios: All venues we are using are wheelchair accessible and the theatre (film screening - May 30th) has an infra-red hearing loop.
Crisis Skylight Café: This venue is wheelchair accessible (Sunday Brunch venue)
We are looking for lunch venues that are as accessible as possible. Please inform us in advance of any access needs when you register, and we will do our very best to accommodate them.
Credits
Symposium organisers: Elizabeth Lynch, Louise Owen, Mary Paterson and Rajni Shah
With support from: Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of East London, Paul Hamlyn Foundation and Arts Council England (for Glorious)