21st Century Artaud: the ‘virtual’ and new media - Jay Murphy

 

21^st Century Artaud: the ‘virtual’ and new media - Jay Murphy

Wednesday 19 October, 2-3pm 

Online Teams link 

 

© Georges Pastier, 1946-48 

 

A spate of new books and translations are creating a new evaluation of Antonin Artaud (d. 1948) as not only a seminal mid-20^th century artist in his own right, but also as one with a heretofore unrealized contribution to the 21^st (Barber 2019, 2020-22; Valente, 2020; Bradnock 2021; Murphy 2016, 2021)  This is in league with analogous arguments for the renewed relevance of those Artaud often regarded as his peer group – Stéphane Mallarmé, Charles Baudelaire, Arthur Rimbaud (Lübecker 2022), Gerard de Nerval (Valente 2022), as well as Marcel Duchamp as a prefigurative thinker of the posthuman (Rosenberg 2022). Much as Nikolaj Lübecker’s study 21^st Century Symbolism maintains the notions of subjectivity that emerge from Mallarmé or Rimbaud make eminent sense in a 21^st century ecology, Artaud maintains a fierce presence in his insistence on the ‘virtual’ body or “life plane” (Artaud 2004, 212), of neurology and the brain as fields of struggle and contestation. Uncannily, Artaud in 1933 predicted the development of Virtual Reality (VR) from devices that would fit in one’s pocket, yet foresaw that it could only have a “limited number of vibrations” that would be “incapable of surpassing itself” (Artaud 2004, 380). Artaud’s call for a “new body” (Artaud XIII 1974, 118), in an era of widespread body augmentation, alteration, and cyborgian mutation, appears less ‘mad’ and delusional than an essential insight. Numerous artists have created work that must indeed be navigated via a ‘virtual’ self (Varela 1999; Varela et al 2017), following perhaps Dada and early Surrealism in the proposition that full embodiment requires occasional out-of-body and out-of-mind experiences. These essential questions from Artaud, who was writing about virtuality and virtual planes as early as 1925, are these debatable roles of representation and representational processes and what can possibly constitute a subversion of them in an inexorable digital sensorium. 

  

Jay Murphy is a writer and author of New Media and the Artaud Effect (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) and Artaud’s Metamorphosis (Pavement Books, 2016). He has thrice been a finalist for Sundance Screenwriting Labs and his collaborative Internet projects have been shown at the Sundance Film Festival. He has contributed to CTheory, Art Journal, Deleuze Studies, Parallax, Culture Machine, Frieze, MAP, Afterimage, Parkett, Art in America, Metropolis, and Third Text, among other publications. In 2009, 2011, and 2014, he organised exhibitions and programs of film and moving image work from the Middle East and North Africa for venues in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, and Glasgow; in 2011-12 the film series "First Person"​ for Inverleith House/Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh; and in 2008 gallery exhibitions in New York and Edinburgh. He is also completing a creative nonfiction web project on the Middle East and other environs called Baraya/Perimeter. 

 

All Welcome.

Celebrating Diverse Heritage: Norma Gregory on 'Digging Deep, Black Miners' Heritage'

Celebrating Diverse Heritage: Norma Gregory on 'Digging Deep, Black Miners' Heritage'  

Wednesday 20^th July, 2-3pm online

 

Until recently, very little was documented about Black British miners in the UK. Digging Deep, Black Miners Heritage at the Black Miners Museum addresses this gap by collecting the experiences and contributions of black miners history from the 19th century to 2015, when the last deep coal mine in Britain closed, within the cultural landscape of British social and industrial. This research dispels the myths and unidirectional, ‘blinkered’ perspectives of industrial labour histories and actively encourages urgent movement towards embracing multiculturally rich, diverse perspectives, new voices and fresh horizons across the extensive and unique landscape of UK industrial heritage. 

Norma Gregory, founder of the Black Miners Museum, will share her learning on working with diverse histories and communities. Norma, a former secondary school teacher and mentor, is now a historian and director of Nottingham News Centre CIC, a heritage media production company/social enterprise, based in Nottinghamshire, UK. She is currently working with Bilsthorpe Mining Museum on their 1000 Years of Bilsthorpe project as part of Miner2Major’s work with Sherwood Forest. Both Digging Deep and Miner2Major are supported by National Lottery Heritage Fund.

 

Sign up to the online event here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/celebrating-diverse-heritage-norma-gregory-on-digging-deep-black-miner-tickets-377255801257

 

All are welcome, from NTU and beyond, academics, students and practitioners. 

A New Skilled Migration? Turkish Media Practitioners in Britain [online panel]

 

A New Skilled Migration?: Turkish Media Practitioners in Britain [online panel: Teams link] 

 

8 JUNE 2022, WEDNESDAY, 13:00-14:30

 

ORGANISERS AND RESPONDENTS: ECE BULUT (NTU PGR), CUNEYT CAKIRLAR (NTU), ZEYNEP SERINKAYA WINTER (NTU PGR)

 

 

Turkey is experiencing a new boom in media production, with an increase on VoD platforms, high demand for TV series and significant place of TV productions in export revenues. Yet, media practitioners also face many challenges, ranging from issues of workplace safety and precarious working conditions to censorship and political pressures. A young, dynamic, educated, and experienced population of media practitioners have started looking for opportunities abroad. In this panel, we aim to start a conversation on whether this has resulted in a new wave of skilled migration from Turkey to Britain. The panel will seek to cover various aspects of the migration process, the motives for the migration, challenges, and opportunities the practitioners have found in the British media sector, differences in media cultures in both contexts, ways of building networks as a migrant and how the process may contribute to the work of the practitioners themselves as well as the wider British media sector. Opening a space to discuss different migrant experiences, we hope that the conversation will introduce an emerging phenomenon which remains under-researched. 

 

 

PANELISTS:

 

GÖZDE KOYUNCU

 

Gözde Koyuncu is a cinematographer with 10+ years of experience in TVC's, fashion films, music videos, feature fiction/documentaries and TV shows. Her latest work, an 8-episode Netflix original drama Who Were We Running From? (in post-production and set for global release, late 2022). Koyuncu started her career in Turkey when shee was one of three women DOPs to professionally excel within a male dominated industry. Ambition and passion have helped her succeed in becoming a critically-acclaimed and an award winning DOP. She was included in the Dream Team of 2021 selected by MediaCat Magazine, and at the same year, she won the Best Cinematography Award at the Felis Advertising Awards - Commercial Films Category. She has recently relocated to London.

 

MARSHA FRANCO 

 

Born in 1986 in Izmir, Turkey, Marsha Franco earned her BA in Film and TV studies from Galatasaray University. She was selected to participate in Istanbul Film Festival’s “Meeting on the Bridge” pitching forum in 2013 with her original script. After working as a producer’s assistant at Anima Istanbul, she went on to being a producer at PTOT Film. During her five years there, she worked on numerous TV commercials around Turkey. She took part in the feature film “Ikimizin Yerine” as a producer’s assistant and in “Aile Arasinda” as production coordinator. After moving to London in 2020, she is now working as Integrated Producer at Tag Collective Arts and continuing her personal projects.

 

EMİNE SOYDANYAVAŞ

 

Born in 1982 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Emine Soydanyavas earned her BA in Photography & Video from Yildiz Technical University, Fine Arts Faculty, Istanbul, Turkey. After her graduation she started working in the Turkish Film Industry as a Production Coordinator at a company that provides Production Servicing to foreign films shooting in Turkey. She moved to London in 2016 and has been working as coordinator on major feature films. She has a wide range of experiences from internet commercials to multi-million dollar projects.

Symposium: Transnational Horror, Folklore, and Cultural Politics

Focusing on the historical legacies and contemporary trends of folk horror across various geographical and industrial contexts of filmmaking, the symposium aims to facilitate an inquiry that unpacks social, cultural, and political meanings behind the current revival of the genre, and locates these meanings in local, national, regional and transnational settings of cultural production. Ranging from non-Anglophone histories of folk/paranormal horror, and the cross-cultural mobilities of the genre in various national and transnational contexts of film production, to the emerging issues of representation, identity politics, genre, style and inter-medial convergences of contemporary gothic narratives, the symposium will feature diverse methodological approaches to the study of folklore on screen by also intervening into the Anglo-American dominance of horror studies.

 

Organizer:

Cüneyt Çakırlar, Associate Professor in Film & Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University, UK

 

Confirmed Speakers:

Gary Needham, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

Nikki J.Y. Lee, Senior Lecturer in Asian Media, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Zahra Khosroshahi,Lecturer in Film and Television Studies, University of Glasgow, UK

Rosalind Galt, Professor of Film Studies, King’s College London, UK

Gustavo Subero, Lecturer in Visual Cultures & Science Humanities, Imperial College London, UK

Cüneyt Çakırlar, Associate Professor in Film & Visual Culture, Nottingham Trent University, UK

Iain Robert Smith, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, King’s College London, UK.

Vlad Strukov, Associate Professor in Film and Digital Culture, University of Leeds, UK.

Johnny Walker, Associate Professor, Northumbria University, UK

Alicia Izharuddin, Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies, University of Malaya, Malaysia

 

Time:

18 May 2022, Wednesday, 09:00-17:30

 

Venue:

Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts and Humanities, Chaucer Building (CHR 1803, LT4)

Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU

18 May 2022, Wednesday, 09:00-17:30

Nottingham Trent University, School of Arts and Humanities, Chaucer Building (CHR 1803, LT4)

Goldsmith Street, Nottingham NG1 4BU

This event is free. The symposium will not be live-streamed. To register, please contact the organiser Cüneyt Çakırlar. 

For the detailed programme, please visit the project site.

 

 The Centre was extremely pleased to welcome this conference at the end of April: 

14th BAAL (British Association of Applied Linguistics) Language, Gender and Sexuality SIG Event: Language, Gender and Health Inequalities, 29th April 2022.

 

Event Schedule

10.15-11.00 Keynote address: Dr Francis-Ray White (University of Westminster) (room 121-122)

11.15 Panel 1: Language and gender-based inequalities in pregnancy and childcare (room 121-122)

11.15-11.45 ‘At the breast is best?’ A Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis of normative and non-normative babyfeeding practices in online infant feeding promotional discourse (Laura Coffey-Glover and Victoria Howard,Nottingham Trent University)

11.45-12.15 The Language of Pregnancy Loss: Time for a change? (Beth Malory, University of Lancaster)

12.15-12.45 Gender and Agency in the Linguistic Landscape of Ireland’s 2018 Referendum Campaign on Abortion (Louis Strange)

1.45 Panel 2: Language, gender and illness (room 121-122)

1.45-2.15 Perceptions of Breast Health Practices among South Asian Women Living in the North West of England (Linda McLoughlin)

2.15-2.45 ‘Vulnerable Women and Dead Men’: A corpus-based analysis of discourses on Twitter about gendered social actors who have dementia (Ivana Babicova, Frazer Heritage and David Robertshaw)

2.45-3.15 Gender Construal and Gender Attraction in Analysing Linguistic Indicators of Mood Disorders (Kate Sayers)

3.15-4.00 Round-table (room 121-122): using research in Language, Gender and

Sexuality for improving healthcare communication (Gavin Brookes, Karen Kinloch, Sylvia Jaworska and Francis-Ray White)

 

4.15-4.45 Judith Baxter Award talk – Aimee Bailey, De Montfort University (room 121-122)

Critical Reflections on Participatory Photography and Visual Literacy with Young Women Mediated Through Screen

Conducting participant-led research and running a socially engaged collaborative photography project requires a lot of planning which includes thinking deeply and critically about ethics and design as well as recruitment, delivery, analysis and dissemination. However, how would these considerations critically apply to a participatory photography project that is mediated through a screen and conducted entirely remotely and online? This research will present some of Kallina Brailsford's key reflections and learning from running a series of participatory photography workshops online with young women not in full time employment or education. The project involved a series of workshops delivered entirely online which included visual literacy activities and critical reflections on identity, self-representation and social media, as well as photographic prompts related to barriers to employment and ultimately aimed to produce alternative critical visual narratives. Building a positive group dynamic and raising questions related to authorship, power and representation, as well as ensuring that projects are not extractive but equally produce relevant and meaningful outputs which honour the participants and their input, are some of the key critical considerations that will be presented through the learning and practice of this research project.   

 

Kallina Brailsford is an artist, educator and a PhD candidate in Photography at NTU, funded by Midlands4Cities Doctoral Training Partnership. Her practice primarily focuses on socially engaged collaborative photography and she has extensive experience with running participatory photography projects. Kallina is also an educator in the charitable sector and an associate lecturer in photography both in the UK and in her native Bulgaria. Her practice-based PhD research focuses on the use of collaborative practices and participatory photography delivered online with young women not in full time employment or education. 

The talk will take place online via Teams (link to access) on 23 March 2022, Wednesday, 13:00-14:00.