Arts-research collaborations from artists' perspectives
C/B/102, Block B, Chemistry Buildings, Campus West, University of York (Map)
Event details
Are you interested in working with artists related to your research? Or are you an artist wishing to learn more about good arts-research collaborations? Then we have just the session for you: YESI's recently launched Environmental Artivism network and the Resilient Socio-Ecological Systems theme want to continue the conversation on promoting collaborations between artists and researchers in the sustainability and justice space.
Three fabulous artists - Tim Ralphs, spoken-word performer and storyteller, Kitty Turner, audio producer and musician, and Gina Allen, visual artist; fuller bios below - will reflect on their experiences of working with researchers to produce benefits for research and knowledge exchange. They will discuss what collaborations they have been involved in, what has gone well and what challenges there have been, and their top tips for where to start on arts-research collaborations. Of course there will also be ample time for questions, and York academics with various experiences in this space will also be on hand to add their own reflections as useful.
We will end on a marketplace of sorts, where the three artists will share some of their outputs and be available for one-to-one conversations about bringing arts together with different research projects.
Wherever you are in your career or in your journey with arts-research collaborations, you are most welcome!
Where: C/B/102 (Zone 3 (Red) - Chemistry B Block, Campus West. Turn left past the front reception desk and through three sets of doors. Go left past the staircase and through the doors marked YSOC. The room is accessed via this room, through the doors on the left.)
Refreshments will be served!
Bios
Gina Allen is a visual artist with a focus on creative communication of quantitative and qualitative data on environmental themes and their related social issues to public and specialist audiences. With environmental science training, she blends this perspective into creative works that aim to open dialogue around the issues they address (see e.g. Can we Fly Less?).
Kitty Turner is a freelance audio producer and musician, based in Sheffield. Kitty has a degree in Photography and a Masters in Technical Communication, and before going freelance spent 9 years as a Senior Creative Media Technician at Sheffield Hallam University. Some examples of Kitty's recent work are producing a podcast for a collaboration between Counterpoints, Art Reach and The Eden Project (themes of displacement, racial and climate justice), several podcasts and sound pieces for 'Many Happy Returns - Enabling Reusable Packaging Systems', video & audio production for Liquid Landscape Heritage and Urban Water Scarcities in Kathmandu, and podcast production for IGDC.
Tim Ralphs is a storyteller working with traditional material - folktales, myths and legends - adapting them for live, spontaneous performance. Since 2012 he has been involved with researchers across various institutions including the National Institute of Health Research, the White Rose Consortium of Arts and Humanities, and the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He has a deep and ongoing fascination with how the same techniques that can be used to craft and perform fairytales or fragments of ancient myth can be applied by academics to share their research to non-specialists. Example of his work include Tales from the Ivory Tower, Spotlight Leeds: Research Journeys, and Tales from the Global South.