Techne
Sign Up Sessions 4 - Day 2 - 11:40 - 13:20
Sessions Available:
There are three options to choose from for the block of sign-up sessions on Day 2 of the Congress. The details of all three sessions are below, and you must use the relevant link to register your attendance for your chosen session via Inkpath.
All three sessions run from 11:40 - 13:20
Workshop: Sensory Research, Smell and Story
Session Details:
In this workshop, the intention is to notice and document your awareness of smelling and how it influences your ability to storytell.
You will be introduced to some case studies that observe scent designers and perfumiers creating resources in the everyday world, and how they are received.
With guidance you will document your own smell heritage and use this to create your own smell manifesto. Smells will be introduced into this part of the workshop!
In the final part of the session you will take one part of the your smell manifesto and begin to storytell with it, visually. You may be interested in creating an illustrated zine on the provided templates with support from Jhinuk. You will be guided in the creation of a zine story of your 'smell heritage'. This will help you to identify a scenario where you can begin to enact the smell manifesto you create into your specialised area of practice.
Speakers / Facilitators:
Jhinuk Sarkar is an Illustrator and currently a Board Director for the Association of Illustrators. As a senior lecturer of Illustration at Camberwell College of Arts, Jhinuk also teaches on UAL’s PGCert for the Inclusive Practices unit.
Jhinuk’s broad knowledge of the Arts and Inclusivity has come from working in arts-related organisations of both public and private sectors, from Illustration Agent to Creative Access Consultant. Her practice and research thrives on being involved in image-making that particularly derives from heritage, archives, language and humour, documenting sensory experiences and communicating messages around inclusivity, access and social justice.
Amelia Crouch (facilitator) is an artist working with moving image, performance and text. She is a second year part-time PhD researcher at University of the Arts, London (CCW). Amelia's research seeks to investigate the performance and destabilisation of neoliberal subjectivity in artists' moving image. Her practice-led approach involves making short performance and moving image artworks, based on scripts collaged from cut-ups of corporate and political speech. Amelia holds an MA Fine Art from Manchester Metropolitan University and BA (Hons) Fine Art from the University of Leeds. She is a lecturer in Fine Art at Leeds Arts University. Her work has been exhibited with The Tetley (Leeds), Castlefield Gallery (Manchester) and Coventry Artspace.
Workshop: Multiple Storytelling:
Session Details:
Join two storytelling scholars for a facilitated workshop on multiple storytelling, inviting complex relationships with the more-than-human. Dr Joanna Gilar leads us in the communal reading and re-telling of multiple, lesser known variants of a common folktale - the witch hare – inviting us to move away from stories where becoming animal is a sign of injury or something sinful, and towards a deeper porosity and ecological engagement. Techne student Jon Norman-Mason relates the tales to the reality of urban space, exploring how to re-enchant the mundane and accept the non-human life in our towns. Through that multiplicity of voices, we are invited into a deepening complexity of collective imagination and awareness.
Speakers / Facilitators:
Jon Norman-Mason is a storyteller with a fascination for the relationships between place, identity, history and stories of all kinds. Performing regularly at schools, festivals, storytelling clubs and more, his work frequently asks how stories, from the Mabinogion to Marvel, cast light on the cultures and needs of those who tell and hear them. He is in his final year of a Techne-funded PhD at the University of Brighton, exploring ways to extend ecological storytelling into built spaces and modern imaginative folklore – which does still exist, even if we don’t think of it as such.
Dr Joanna Gilar is a storyteller, writer and founder of StoryCommons, a social enterprise dedicated to building inclusive, sustainable community through story. She is a visiting lecturer at the University of Roehampton and has a PhD in fairy tales and ecocriticism from Chichester University. She is co-editor of The World Treasury of Fairy Tales and Folklore (Wellfleet Press, 2016).
Andrew Teverson (Facilitator) is Pro Vice-Chancellor, Head of London College of Fashion, and Professor of Cultural History at University of the Arts London. He has published widely on the subjects of folklore, fairy tale, and contemporary fiction and culture. Publications include a critical edition, The Selected Children's Fictions, Fairy Tales and Folk Tales of Andrew Lang (Edinburgh University Press, 2021), the edited collection The Fairy Tale World (Routledge Worlds Series, 2019), and a two-volume critical edition of the scholarly writings of Andrew Lang (Edinburgh University Press 2015, with Alexandra Warwick and Leigh Wilson). Andrew is Vice President (Records and Archives) of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research, and is on the advisory board for the Chichester Centre for Fairy Tales, Fantasy and Speculative Fiction. With Mayako Murai, he has recently completed guest editing a special issue of the journal Marvels & Tales on the subject of fairy tales and fashion. Currently he is working on a second edition of his book Fairy Tale (New Critical Idiom) for Routledge.
The Object of Research: Show & Tell.
Session Details:
Come listen to stories about archive-based research. Participants in the Object of Research exhibition project will share insights and learnings from their research practices and this project.
Speakers / Facilitators:
The Object of Research Techne Student team: Abbie Vickress, Ellen Nolan, Emma Mitchell, Helen Williams, Izzy Barrett-Lally, Karen Hanrahan, Nick Brown, Oknim Jo, Samantha Dick, Serafina Lee, Tom Railton and Viveca Mellegård.
Dr Alison Green is Reader in Art, Curating and Culture at Central Saint Martins and Director of Doctoral Training and Development at University of the Arts London's Doctoral School. She is a researcher, scholar, writer and educator in the history and theory of art, curating as creative and social practices, and research. Current projects include a book on exhibitions through a critical examination of themes of time and an edited collection of essay on curating and social practice. She is the author of When Artists Curate: Contemporary Art and the Exhibition as Medium (Reaktion Books, 2018).
Joanne Begiato is a Professor of History and Material Culture Studies and Associate Dean of Research at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. She is a historian of bodies, material culture, and emotions. She is leading an AHRC funded project ‘The Victorian Hand: Emotions, Embodiment, and Identity, Past and Present’ (202-28).
Amy Hare is a part-time Techne PhD student at Kingston School of Art where she is researching the craft practice of period costume for film in the 20th century. Amy has presented her work to date at conferences and exhibitions in the US, UK and Italy. She is a founding member of the Making Costume Histories Research Network and a member of the executive board of the Costume Society where she coordinates the Patterns of Fashion competition. Alongside her research activity, Amy is a lecturer in Costume and an admissions tutor at UAL.
Professor Rebecca Fortnum is an artist, writer and academic. She is currently Acting Dean of C School at Central Saint Martins, where she was previously Associate Dean of Research. Before that she was Head of the School of Fine Art at The Glasgow School of Art and has been a Professor of Fine Art at the Royal College of Art and at Middlesex University.
As an artist, she has held an Abbey Award at the British School in Rome, individual awards from the Arts Council of England, the British Council and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation and received research funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.