LIVERPOOL RESIDENCY
WEEK 1 SESSIONS
TUESDAY, JULY 19, 2022 @09:00-09:30 MINI SOMATIC SESSION WITH MICHAEL BOWDIDGE (This session was outdoors and the first time I physically saw/met many of the Transart PhD and MFA students outside of my cohort...Michael Bowdidge's borrowed from Joseph Beuys' teaching tool box "place a stick in round robin fashion" was brilliant...on both of their parts.)
@10:00-12:30 FUTURE PERFECT (2/2) WITH MICHAEL BOWDIDGE (TT MFA and PhD students gathered and discussed future projects)
@14:30-17:00 PRACTICE V. THEORY AN INFORMAL DISCUSSION WITH MICHAEL BOWDIDGE & SUSIE QUILLINAN (Both Susie and Michael generously shared insights on their own creative working processes, and then we had a wonderful indoor, more linguistically based group interactive experience.)
@18:00-18:45 LES CORPS ÉVOCATEUR(E)S COLLECTIVE PERFORMANCE WITH KAREN AMI, EVE PROVOST CHARTRAND, NANCY MESSEGEE, RENE MEYER-GRIMBERG, ANNE-SOPHIE LORANGE & TINE FRICH MØLLER
@19:00-20:00 STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATIONS- HAWKINSON & NJAKA- by Nkechi Njaka
WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 2022 @10:00-12:30 FUTURE COLLABORATIONS & PLANS (This was an informative session let by Michael Bowdidge and Susie about what is working, and what suggestions for improvements PhD and MFA candidates have)
@14:30-17:00 ARCHIVES: TWO PERSPECTIVES WITH DR. SARAH BENNETT & DR. LEE WRIGHT...for PHD students(Sarah Bennett gave an inspired slide lecture of her about four of her own archives-based art projects. Lee Wright arranged and lead an outing to LJMU library's Special Collections, which is a valuable, provocative and surprising resource fitting of Liverpool's broad artistic history.)
@17:30-18:30 STUDENT RESEARCH PRESENTATION- TT/LJMU PhD candidates YVETTE CHAPARRO and DAWN SCHULTZ.
@18:30-19:30 GUEST TALK - GABRIELA SILVA (currently with LJMU's Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)) gave an interesting, informative talk specific-to-her-perspective-as-a-visual-art-exhibitions-producer. Because she has worked with many brilliant conceptual international artists in various venues, including most recently during the past several Liverpool Biennial artists, she gave a compelling slide presentation of her internal curatorial collaborations.
THURSDAY, JULY 21, 2022. @10:00-12:30 SERIOUS PLAY WORKSHOP- PART I WITH DAZ DISLEY (I found Daz Disley's creative genius remarkable. He designed and brought with him a digital scanner that reads handmade drawings and translates them into musical scores...with a wide range of musical key choices. The workshop he conducted began with an hilarious slide lecture followed by a small group "Algorithmic Breakfast" exercise. It was expansive and inspired.)
@14:30-17:00 SERIOUS PLAY WORKSHOP- PART II WITH FENIA KOTSOPOULOU (Kotsopoulou's afternoon presentation was tactilely, somatically, and meditatively based. It contrasted the morning's expansiveness by drawing each of us. Rather than sharing via slide, she brought and passed around her own visually stunning photographic ephemeral works. Then followed that with a body-specific, mind-self, somatic meditation exercise. During most of this experience, I was aware of my sacrum and its sacredness. Then we paired up and developed written word...selected a "reader" and an "actor" for our pieces...and teamed up with another pair to perform and watch/witness.)
FRIDAY, JULY 22, 2022 @10:00-12:30- EXCURSION: LIVERPOOL BIENNIAL offices and slide presentation at 55 NEW BIRD STREET, Liverpool
@12:30-1:30 (For lunch, as a follow-up to the morning session, since it was walking distance, I joined a cohort colleague on a walked to the TATE Liverpool. There I took in Radical Landscapes and Journeys Through the Tate Collection... exhibitions. I snapped a bunch of pix, made a few brief videos, and posted some to my IG stories.)
@1:30-14:30 TALK - COLIN FALLOWS (LJMU's website bio on Fallows states "...His artistic and curatorial projects have featured in numerous international festivals, galleries and museums...He has been instrumental in the acquisition of several world-class archives of popular culture/counterculture held at Liverpool John Moores University. As curator and research consultant to these archives, he has researched and curated materials in a variety of contexts for large-scale exhibitions in galleries and museums across nine countries." His work and slide lecture connected to our earlier-in-the-week session on LJMU's special collections.)
@14:30-17:00 UNBOXING AND PROJECTING RETHINKING METHODOLOGIES FOR ANY PROJECT PLANNING WITH GABRIELA SILVA (This might have been one event too many for me...I know it was useful information, but by the time it began, I was already in overload mode.)
@17:15-17:45 CLOSING MEETING (It was brief... to document the week, we took and have a TT-LJMU 2022 July residency group pic.)
@18:00 WEEK ONE CLOSING DINNER (Dinner at the Pen Factory, Hope Street, Liverpool.)
WEEK 2 WORKSHOPS & MEETINGS I attended included:
MONDAY, JULY 25, 2022 @9.30AM – 12.30 PM PRINTMAKING WORKSHOP WITH KATE HODGSON (PRINT STUDIO - 2ND FLOOR...I participated as one of six cohort members who took part in an LJMU cyanotype workshop. During the course of the week, I made a small portfolio of cyanotype prints that I think of as "Waves in the Sky-Clouds in the Sea")
@ noon- COFFEE WITH LEAD SUPERVISOR MARK ROUGHLEY
TUESDAY, JULY 26, 2022 @9.30AM – 12.30 PM DIGITAL IMAGING WORKSHOP WITH MILOS SIMPRAGA (I participated as one of four cohort members who took part in an LJMU "green room" photoshoot)
WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2022 @9.30AM – 12.30 PM- DIGITAL FABRICATION LAB WORKSHOP WITH LOL BAKER (I participated as one of four cohort members who took part in an LJMU "Fab Lab", EVA digital scanning and 3D printing of our portraits.
@1:30-5 PM- WORKING MEETING WITH LEAD SUPERVISOR MARK ROUGHLEY- (Under Mark's direction, I completed and submitted my Ethics request for approval)
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 2022 @9.30AM – 12.30 PM WEAVING WORKSHOP WITH KRISTY JEAN LEADBETTER (I participated as one of four cohort members who took part in an LJMU Weaving workshop during which we each produced a small hand-woven wall hanging.)
