http://youtu.be/X4u3oqU_Ojo
Video has been uploaded to youtube but isn't showing on searches yet or embedding, but here's the link.
http://www.youtube.com/embed/X4u3oqU_Ojo
Friday 16 September 2011
Thursday 15 September 2011
Wednesday 14 September 2011
Learning through Film: Human Rights in Scotland
This presentation and discussion by Nick Higgins was an insight into the power film has to communicate ideas and to educate. By using Douglas Gordon's The Right Not to be Tortured as an example, the discussion demonstrated the deep and complex ideas that cinematic techniques can portray.
http://www.learningthroughfilm.co.uk/Learning_Through_Film/Organisations.html
http://www.learningthroughfilm.co.uk/Learning_Through_Film/Organisations.html
Conference Exhibition - Mapping Street Art in Athens
Painting Human Rights: Mapping Street Art in Athens by Myrto Tsilimpounidi & Aylwyn Walsh.
This presentation was really more of a discussion about the street art featured in the photographs. This lead to a wide converstion about the use of street art and the elements that draw people to it.
Also a short video interview with Myrto & Awlwyn will be uploaded soon.
http://www.ministryofuntoldstories.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63%3Apainting-human-rights-mapping-street-art-in-athens&catid=42%3Aresearch&Itemid=55&lang=en
This presentation was really more of a discussion about the street art featured in the photographs. This lead to a wide converstion about the use of street art and the elements that draw people to it.
Also a short video interview with Myrto & Awlwyn will be uploaded soon.
http://www.ministryofuntoldstories.gr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63%3Apainting-human-rights-mapping-street-art-in-athens&catid=42%3Aresearch&Itemid=55&lang=en
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Friday 9 September 2011
Thursday 8 September 2011
BUZZ | We are united in justice : Maintained uncertainty : Space : Permanence of fragmentation : Escape Space Time : People Landscape Landscape Art : Transformation : Re-imagining : Present is not permanent : Odd man out : On the run : Planet of the winds : Destruction : Dead Sea : Jericho : Light-headed : Arab Spring : Borders are in the mind : The People Want… | BREATHTAKING
LOG >>IN
We hope you have met, talked to or recognised
all of us on our first day - but what a full-on day!
We will be feeding in to this Blog and the Mini Daily Journal which the incomparable Jules Cadie will be producing... so look out for our slant on each days proceedings with interviews, pics, video, artwork, poems and your chance to leave something made in clay for the NEA garden!
More to follow...
Sandra Brown, Liz Coppock, Sharon Tweedle, Justyna Wills, Bob Winton and facilitator Bobby Grierson : )
Day 1 - Brilliant!
The first day kicked off really well. It was a little frantic at times but that added to the buzzing atmosphere. After the first presentation from
WELCOME - from Stephanie
WELCOME-
a very big, warm welcome to the
Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice International Conference.
It is terrific to have everyone here, whether in person or, in a couple of instances, via skype. Some of you have travelled many thousands of miles to be here, to share and learn together. Thank you everyone who has made such a fantastic effort to come to Edinburgh. We have a very busy and packed few days and I hope you feel excited, awakened, nourished, challenged, and more than anything really valued in your participation.
The conference has evolved from two previous conferences that the panel has organised,
which were based on the intention to create a supportive and investigative framework for
our dialogues concerned with our research and practice. This intention continues, as we
identify four strands of inquiry within this framework, which although distinct within
their approaches and contexts, also interweave within their political principles and
purposes:
At this time in our social, economic and political history, we witness how those who have
held media, banking and governance power are being challenged in their authenticity,
honesty and validity. We are experiencing rapid change as cultural and intellectual
resources are being turned into commodities and at the same time, movements are
emerging which challenge these trends. These processes can raise doubt, fear and at times
despair, but also opportunities for us to create new relationships with the media, demand
true representation from those we elect to govern and represent us, and urgently demand
accountability from our economic institutions. It also demands that we interrogate our
relationship with each other [all seven billion of us] and the planet and her natural
resources.
Arts practitioners have crucial roles in this as they create frameworks for us to re-imagine
our ways of being human and our relationship with the planet Earth. We know if we can
imagine it, we can do it. One day, we may no longer need there to be an organisation
called Amnesty International, one day women may no longer walk five miles every day
to collect water for their children, or feel threatened by the man she has put her trust in,
one day every human being will have the freedom to develop their potential, one day
greed will stop and those without resources will stop having to be no more than
commodities to survive.
Will this happen in this 21st Century? Do we have the will or is it too late? As we meet at
this conference, so many people in our human family are believing there is hope to create
a new way, many are also dying and enduring cruelty and torture to create new ways for
the future generations.
Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice is an opportunity for us to investigate,
create critical dialogues and reflect critically on how we are doing as practitioners and
researchers. How are we generating and contributing to professional knowledge to these
demanding, challenging and crucial areas of work, which oscillate at times between being
dangerous and at other times sheer exhilaration? How do we generate and develop
knowledge of self and our practice to ensure that we do not harm others and ourselves?
How do we find the courage to confront ourselves, so that the re-imagining is practical,
progressive, intelligent and thoughtful?
Why do we do what we do and how do we make it better? This is one of the key
questions I invite you to use as a starting point for your reflections during each session of
our conference.
Thank you for your generosity, your humanity and the inspiring work you do as artists,
activists and academics. Thank you for being you.
Stephanie Knight
Conference Director
Edinburgh, September 2011
a very big, warm welcome to the
Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice International Conference.
It is terrific to have everyone here, whether in person or, in a couple of instances, via skype. Some of you have travelled many thousands of miles to be here, to share and learn together. Thank you everyone who has made such a fantastic effort to come to Edinburgh. We have a very busy and packed few days and I hope you feel excited, awakened, nourished, challenged, and more than anything really valued in your participation.
The conference has evolved from two previous conferences that the panel has organised,
which were based on the intention to create a supportive and investigative framework for
our dialogues concerned with our research and practice. This intention continues, as we
identify four strands of inquiry within this framework, which although distinct within
their approaches and contexts, also interweave within their political principles and
purposes:
- Arts & Human Rights
- Arts & Health
- Artists & Critical Learning
- Developing international practice – no mean model
At this time in our social, economic and political history, we witness how those who have
held media, banking and governance power are being challenged in their authenticity,
honesty and validity. We are experiencing rapid change as cultural and intellectual
resources are being turned into commodities and at the same time, movements are
emerging which challenge these trends. These processes can raise doubt, fear and at times
despair, but also opportunities for us to create new relationships with the media, demand
true representation from those we elect to govern and represent us, and urgently demand
accountability from our economic institutions. It also demands that we interrogate our
relationship with each other [all seven billion of us] and the planet and her natural
resources.
Arts practitioners have crucial roles in this as they create frameworks for us to re-imagine
our ways of being human and our relationship with the planet Earth. We know if we can
imagine it, we can do it. One day, we may no longer need there to be an organisation
called Amnesty International, one day women may no longer walk five miles every day
to collect water for their children, or feel threatened by the man she has put her trust in,
one day every human being will have the freedom to develop their potential, one day
greed will stop and those without resources will stop having to be no more than
commodities to survive.
Will this happen in this 21st Century? Do we have the will or is it too late? As we meet at
this conference, so many people in our human family are believing there is hope to create
a new way, many are also dying and enduring cruelty and torture to create new ways for
the future generations.
Knowing Ways: Critical Learning in Arts Practice is an opportunity for us to investigate,
create critical dialogues and reflect critically on how we are doing as practitioners and
researchers. How are we generating and contributing to professional knowledge to these
demanding, challenging and crucial areas of work, which oscillate at times between being
dangerous and at other times sheer exhilaration? How do we generate and develop
knowledge of self and our practice to ensure that we do not harm others and ourselves?
How do we find the courage to confront ourselves, so that the re-imagining is practical,
progressive, intelligent and thoughtful?
Why do we do what we do and how do we make it better? This is one of the key
questions I invite you to use as a starting point for your reflections during each session of
our conference.
Thank you for your generosity, your humanity and the inspiring work you do as artists,
activists and academics. Thank you for being you.
Stephanie Knight
Conference Director
Edinburgh, September 2011
Saturday 27 August 2011
all of a flutter
Knowing Ways:
Critical Learning in Arts Practice
8th, 9th & 10th September 2011
NORTH EDINBURGH ARTS to host INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on APPLIED ARTS
Leading activists and writers RAJA SHEHADEH and JACK MAPANJE to deliver keynote addresses
Over three days around a hundred artists, activists and academics from around the world will gather at North Edinburgh Arts Centre in Pilton, to explore developments in the ways arts practices can engage critically with society.
In recent decades, in the face of increasing and ever-changing social, political and economic pressures and crises in diverse societies, practitioners in the visual and performing arts have produced a growing range of approaches through which ordinary citizens use the arts to explore and express their situations, challenging the structures and people who limit their development. This conference brings together a wide range of practitioners from the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, to share experiences and exchange ideas.
Through a lively mix of formal presentations, workshops, exhibitions, screenings and performances, we will encounter work with Somali refugees in Finland, with Hispanic Americans, with disabled groups in Northern Ireland, with tribal peoples in Orissa, India, with Black and Asian youth in Liverpool and Bradford, and many more projects, from the Shetlands to Croatia, Malaysia to Muirhouse. We will explore issues to do with the design and delivery of work, ethics, funding, pedagogy, political pressures, and so on.
Undoubted highlights of the conference will by keynote addresses from Palestinian lawyer, human rights activist and author Raja Shehadeh, winner of the 2008 Orwell Prize, and Malawian poet and academic Jack Mapanje, winner of the Rotterdam International Poetry Prize and the Pen Freedom to Write Award, who was imprisoned for three years because of his writing.
For further information, please contact Conference Director, Stephanie Knight: stephaniejaneknight@gmail.com
Full conference details available at http://www.northedinburgharts.co.uk/knowing_ways.php
The conference has been organized in association with: Amnesty International, North Edinburgh Arts, The University of Glamorgan & The George Ewart Evans Storytelling Centre, The Institute of International Health & Development, The University of Glasgow Business School, The Learning for Democracy network, Intellect publishers and Creative Scotland.
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