TrAIN

Events

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  "Re-Contested Sites/Sights" Research Conference

  Open Lecture

  Wednesday 08 May 2013, 17:15 to 19:00
  

  TrAIN & CCW Graduate School | Re-Contested Sites/Sights Research Conference

  Multidisciplinary Research Conference at Chelsea College of Art & Design

  Supported by the Transnational Art, Identity, & Nation Research Centre (TrAIN), CCW Graduate School, University of the Arts London

  Conference Date: May 8th 2013, 10:00am- 5:30pm
  Venue: Banqueting Hall and Red Room,
  Chelsea College of Art and Design

  OPEN CALL FOR PAPERS
  Submission Deadline: March 8th 2013
  Send to: [email protected]

  Following on from a highly successful symposium in 2012, doctoral candidates affiliated to the TrAIN research centre at CCW Graduate School are issuing an ‘open call’ for papers on the theme of spaces of re-contestation to encourage dialogue between PhD researchers beyond the University of The Arts London.
  Our keynote speaker last year, Eyal Sivan, urged us to ‘re-vision’ these spaces, through acts of appropriation and re-appropriation.

  Submitted papers (which could include practice based research material) will hopefully raise questions around and build on either or both themes, in their various interpretations. Interdisciplinary contributions will be encouraged. Though this list is not exhaustive, research topics relevant to this year’s conference might explore multiple imaginings and articulations of ‘re’-contested sites/sights in relation to the following:

  ·Revisiting : Histories and memories of place making
  ·Belonging and ownership: Constructions of private vs. public spheres
  ·“Safe” spaces of consensus versus spaces of conflict
  ·“Transgendered”/“queered” spaces
  ·The Body

  The purpose of this conference is to meet with other University researchers and exchange knowledge on themes and issues, which are relevant to our own, shared practices. We are hoping for a response from a diverse range of Doctoral researchers.

  Lecture Theatre

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  Raphael Jay Adjani | Towards a Deep Ecology of Art, Technology and Being

  Open Lecture

  Wednesday 22 May 2013, 17:15 to 19:00
  

  In this talk artist and academic Raphael Jay Adjani, discusses the concept of ‘relational being’, a core idea in deep ecology, as well as in other branches of science, certain philosophic thinking, as well in diverse practices in art, architecture and design.

  Raphael has been exploring this concept and related ideas, such as notions of ‘zero’, ‘void’, space-time’ and ‘emptiness’, through his art practice as well as in academic publication.

  His has been an inter-disciplinary research, drawing on a history of ideas that span different historical periods, cultures, and academic fields of enquiry.

  In this talk he will show two of his film works that engage with relational being.

  Lecture Theatre