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In these sessions, participants will respond in various ways to their session title and to the ‘keywords’ of borders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations.
We are bringing together performers, artists, writers, including academics, all of whom see their work as focussing on social justice. There are many inspirations for this work, including Azeezat Johnson, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Beth Kamunge's The Fire Now: Anti-Racist Scholarship in Times of Explicit Racial Violence and we have been exploring these issues in hakan sandal-wilson’s seminar series titled ‘Methods in Question: Epistemologies of Gender and Sexuality’, including this conversation between hakan and Natasha Tanna on the politics of writing, and Abeyamí Ortega's work on mapping art, activism and critical thinking for social justice, in collaboration with artist and editor Frédérique Bangerter.
In these sessions, participants will respond in various ways to their session title and to the ‘keywords’ of borders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations. They will also discuss their creative critical processes.
Creaction 1: 'fugitive texts of the wayward' (after Saidiya Hartman)
Tuesday 18 May, 5-6.30pm (BST)
with Beth Kamunge / Sayak Valencia / Dorian Wood
Creaction 2: 'No, I won’t calm down'
Tuesday 15 June, 5-6:30pm (BST)
with Gabrielle Le Roux / Olumide Popoola / Syrus Marcus Ware
Creaction 3: 'better to speak, remembering' (after Audre Lorde)
Tuesday 13 July, 5-6.30pm (BST)
with Lola Olufemi / Gülkan “Noir” & Gizem Oruç / Elmira and Ramona Zadissa
Our ethos includes a focus on:
- Politically-engaged/social justice work that decentres or questions conventional scholarly forms
- Centring creativity, pleasure, and joy in knowledge production, even when working with difficult and painful issues, in order to counter the spectacle of violence towards racialised bodies
- Addressing hierarchies of knowledge production and knowledge producers and bridging academia/activist/creative divide
- Questioning what ‘rigour’ means and how the term is deployed
- Thinking about experimental, creative, and collaborative ways of doing research, even when not technically doing what might be considered practice-based research
- Abeyamí Ortega (she/her * they/them)
- hakan sandal-wilson (he/him)
- Natasha Tanna (she/her)
This series is funded by a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship.
Image credit: Photo by Eric Han on Unsplash