Politics, Poetics and Practice: New paradigms for theory-practice interchange in creative media production
Friday 6 May, 2011
Department of Media, Canterbury Christ Church University
This event aims to explore the ways in which creative media practice is - or might be - understood in ‘political’ terms.
If media arts practice engages with those networks of thought we term ‘theory’, then what exactly is the radical potential of theory-practice interchange, and wherein lies its political dynamic? In particular the colloquium seeks to consider the ways in which issues of poetics and aesthetics (radical or otherwise) might or might not figure within political formulations of media arts practice.
Programme
09.00 coffee
09.30 Welcome and introduction: politics and poetics
Andy Birtwistle (Canterbury Christ Church University)
10.00 What We Saw: A small history of Berlin-Templehof
as site and image
Anthea Kennedy (South Thames College)
Ian Wiblin (University of Glamorgan)
10.30 Deleuze, ‘Powers of the False’ and Kleist
Darren Ambrose (Canterbury Christ Church University)
11.00 more coffee
11.30 Difficult subjects and problematic objects:
working with Antonin Artaud's subjectile
Tim Long (Canterbury Christ Church University)
12.00 Politics, Poetics and Practice: A few dramatic ironies
from personal experience
Goran Stefanovski (Canterbury Christ Church University)
12.30 Listen to Nice
Geoff Cox (University of Huddersfield)
13.00 lunch
14.00 The Art of Fact
Keith Marley (Liverpool John Moores University)
14.30 Poesis, Politics, Art and Direct Action
Scott Rankin (Illinois State University)
15.00 Radical Theory, Diluted Practice?
New writing and performance in an ‘Age of Austerity’
Lloyd Peters (University of Salford)
15.30 Disgrac’d Knowledges: Art, archaeology, magical
thinking and the British radical imagination
Bryan Hawkins (Canterbury Christ Church University)
16.00 Group Discussion: Developing the network and future
projects
(wine and snacks served)
17.00 close
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