Lancaster
Institute for the Contemporary Arts
14th
July
A one day
symposium at Lancaster University bringing together practice and perspectives
on negotiating the absent, unseen and unknown across art, science and social
science.
Date
& Time: 14th July 2016 10.30 – 17.00
Location
: Lancaster University, LICA Building , C01 Design Studio
Context :
Across the arts and sciences that we call ‘zero’ ,‘absence’ or ‘nothing’
remains a potent and powerful entity shaping the way we make sense of the
world. It is staggering to reflect that 95% of our universe is invisible to
human sensing; the provocation of the unknown and unseen is arguably at the
core of creative thinking in the arts and sciences. This event brings together
a range perspectives on materialising the absent, unseen and unknown to reflect
on the following questions:
How can
‘nothing’ be embodied? How does it feel to encounter the immaterial and how
might we negotiate it? How might mathematics - as a speculative 'messenger' to
and from the unsensed - be understood as a medium for generating touch and
relationship (or not)? How might absence, uncertainty be used as provocations
and tool for creative thinking? What can this offer in terms of understanding
relationship and non-relationship, affect and non affect?
Speakers
include: Anna Lovatt (SMU, Dallas Texas) , Gary Sangster (Director Arts
Catalyst) Charlie Gere (Lancaster University) Bron Szerzinski (Lancaster
University) Liz deFreitas (Manchester University) Rebecca Fortnum (Middlesex
University) Ian Bailey and Laura Kormos (Lancaster University).
The event
will provide an opportunity to extend conversations initiated by the AHRC
funded ‘Dark Matters’ project which considered the provocations around
Thresholds of Imperceptibility. It aims to building on the success of a workshop
at Lancaster (2015) and to develop a network of researchers working with the
interstices between presence and absence from the arts and humanities, the
social and physical sciences.
Call for
drawings, notebooks and things we think with : As part of the event there
will be a session on Negotiating the Imperceptible. We invite workshop
participants to submit small drawings, notebooks or other object they use in
thinking around the intangible. To submit a work, please send an image and
description email Sarah Casey: sarah.casey@lancaster.ac.uk by July 1st 2016
Registration: Please
sign up via the eventbrite site :
There will be is a small registration fee of
£15 to cover lunch and refreshments throughout the day. The link to payment
will be emailed to all participants following registration.
Any questions ? Email sarah.casey@lancaster.ac.uk
