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School of Arts events 2012
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May 8
09.30
Repetition/Repetition: Symposium
Speaker: Peter Hutchings (Northumbria University), Leon Hunt (Brunel University), Roger Sabin (Central St. Martins), Evan Calder Williams (Fulbright Scholar)
This symposium is interested in research projects based upon the concept of repetition.
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"Countless are the novels of the world. So, how can we speak of them?" - Franco Moretti (2006)
This symposium is interested in research projects based upon the concept of repetition. The idea is to set aside, perhaps only temporarily, the unique, the extraordinary, and the distinct, and instead turn to recurrence, overlap and fusion, which form the associations that in turn create the liaisons and connections between various cycles and series. The process of repetition marked by incremental innovation or readjustment is the subject of our critical enquiry. Rather than the isolated text as focus, the proposal is that we examine narratives and practices in terms of sets and runs, whether that be serialised fiction in the Victorian era, sequential storytelling and the daily newspaper comic strip, bit-part history magazines, repeating characters in popular fictions, Sherlock Holmes, Fantômas or Charlie Chan, for example, generic formations, or the study of temporally defined clusters of narratives, such as fads, cycles and trends, or perhaps an investigation into sequels, remakes and adaptations. In sum, a narrative's commonality with other narratives becomes the object of our attention, which might be considered not just in terms of form, but also through enquiries into production, distribution and the consumption of repeatable experiences. more
Contact:
Keeley Saunders: ks424@kent.ac.uk
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London
May 9
09:30
Creative Practices / Resistant Acts: Cultural Production and Emerging Democracies in Revolutionary Nations
Speaker: Various
The focus of this symposium is the current and on-going revolutions and popular uprisings and their wider political, social and cultural implications.
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The focus of this one-day symposium is the current and on-going revolutions and popular uprisings and their wider political, social and cultural implications. The people’s mobilisation of these globally significant events succeeded in, and is aiming towards, destabilising the state’s power and countering hegemonic narratives of oppression. A crucial aspect of the revolutions is their nature as creative acts that are serving to reclaim the people’s senses of empowerment, belonging and national identity. People’s peaceful struggle has evoked a proliferation of forms of creative expression and ‘performative’ acts of resistance that transformed public spaces and urban geography as a response to the transformation in people’s attitudes towards the status quo. Demonstrations, marches, various acts of civil disobedience witnessed the formation of ‘alternative communities’ that found a platform for the newly formed narratives of democracy in various mediums and artistic traditions. A diversity of forms have been reclaimed or reshaped; from graffiti to street performance to song and poetry, intervening in the spaces of illegitimate authority and subverting dynamics of aggression. Full details
Contact: Nesreen Hussein and Iain MacKenzie
Location: Institute of Contemporary Arts. 12 Carlton House Terrace, The Mall. London SW1Y 5AH.
May 17
14:00
We Drew // And Now We Want You To See
Speaker:
One-day exhibition of student artwork
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17th May 2012
Studio 3 Gallery, Jarman Building
Private view: 2-4pm
Exhibition open: 4-6pm
A one-day exhibition of student artwork produced as part of the module 'Philosophy in the Studio: The Theory and Practice of Drawing'.
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Location: Studio 3 Gallery, in the Jarman Building
May 17
19:30
Monkeyshine Comedy Club
Monkeyshine’s Last Stand
Speaker: Various
Two starring this year's crop of talented comedians from the University's of Kent's famous stand-up course.
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Monkeyshine's Last Stand, two great evenings of stand-up comedy on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th May at the Gulbenkian Theatre, 7.30pm.
Tickets are £4 if you are a student and you can book online or pay on the door.
Two cracking shows starring this year's crop of talented comedians from the University's of Kent's famous stand-up course, who have been entertaining audiences in Kent and further afield since last October. Each night you can enjoy a different line-up of acts, with lots of variety – observations, anecdotes, whimsy, satire, songs and scatology. Hosted by Oliver Double.
More information and ticket booking can be found here
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Location: Gulbenkian Theatre
May 18
19:30
Monkeyshine Comedy Club
Monkeyshine’s Last Stand
Speaker: Various
Two starring this year's crop of talented comedians from the University's of Kent's famous stand-up course.
More event details
Monkeyshine's Last Stand, two great evenings of stand-up comedy on Thursday 17th and Friday 18th May at the Gulbenkian Theatre, 7.30pm.
Tickets are £4 if you are a student and you can book online or pay on the door.
Two cracking shows starring this year's crop of talented comedians from the University's of Kent's famous stand-up course, who have been entertaining audiences in Kent and further afield since last October. Each night you can enjoy a different line-up of acts, with lots of variety – observations, anecdotes, whimsy, satire, songs and scatology. Hosted by Oliver Double.
More information and ticket booking can be found here
Contact:
Location: Gulbenkian Theatre
May 23
17:00
Film Studies Lecture
Love and Death in three Films by Max Ophuls
Speaker: Professor Laura Mulvey, Birkbeck University
Her talk will address the contrasting masculinities in Lieberlei, Letter From an Unknown Woman, and Madame de.
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Location: MLT1
May 28
10:00
Event Possibilities
3rd year degree show
Speaker:
First ever 3rd year degree show from students of the BA (Hons) Creative Events: Design and Production
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Why not come along to 'Event Possibilities', the first ever 3rd year degree show from the students of the BA (Hons) Creative Events: Design and Production?
The private viewing is on Saturday 26th May from 4-7pm, upstairs in Smithery 2 on the Chatham Historic Dockyard.
The show will continue from 28th May – 2nd June 10am-4pm, before becoming part of the Fuse Festival from 11th – 16th June 10am-4pm.
Contact: Contact address
Location: Smithery 2 - Chatham Historic Dockyard
May 28
10:00
Fuse Festival
Artistic Solutions
Speaker:
First ever Fine Art Degree Show to take place in Chatham's Historical Dockyard.
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Artistic Solutions, the first ever Fine Art Degree Show to take place in Chatham's Historical Dockyard, will run from 28th May -2nd June 10am-4pm.
This showcase of exciting artworks by University of Kent Fine Art Students brings together a culmination of artistic solutions to philosophical debates. Whilst this is their final year in university studios, the debates brought to issue are merely the beginnings of creative explorations. Through installation, sculpture, film, painting and drawing we exhibit contemporary arguments and re-examine old ones, which narrate our 21st century culture. Flyer (pdf)
Contact: Contact address
Location: Galvanising Shop and Smitheries - Historic Dockyard
May 30
10:00
Beyond Art: A symposium on the work of Dominic Lopes
Speaker: Dominic McIver Lopes and others
Symposium focusing on Dominic McIver Lopes’s forthcoming book, Beyond Art. Lopes is among the foremost contemporary philosophers of art.
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This one-day symposium focuses on Dominic McIver Lopes’s forthcoming book, Beyond Art. Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia, Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the University of Warwick) is among the foremost contemporary philosophers of art. In addition to Lopes, participants include María José Alcaraz León (University of Murcia), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College), Derek Matravers (Open University and University of Cambridge) and Jean-Marie Schafer (EHESS, University of Paris). In his new bookLopes proposes that the traditional difficulties around defining art – as well as other related problems such as those around aesthetic appreciation – can be solved once they are transferred to individual art forms. Thus, aesthetics should turn its attention beyond art, towards art forms. This original and controversial proposal will be considered and critiqued by the symposium’s other participants, and Lopes will speak about the book’s project and reply to his critics.
The symposium is open to all, and attendance is free.
Contact: Michael Newall (m.b.newall@kent.ac.uk).
Location: Marlowe Lecture Theatre 2