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Photo: Rebecca Lennon, 2019. Courtesy of the Birth Rites Collection
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Photo: Rebecca Lennon, 2019. Courtesy of the Birth Rites Collection
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Photo: Rebecca Lennon, 2019. Courtesy of the Birth Rites Collection
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Photo: Rebecca Lennon, 2019. Courtesy of the Birth Rites Collection
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Photo: Rebecca Lennon, 2019. Courtesy of the Birth Rites Collection
Exhibition
Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2021
12 Jul 2021 – 16 Jul 2021
Regular hours
- Tuesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Thursday
- 10:00 – 18:00
- Friday
- 10:00 – 18:00
Cost of entry
£450 per person/£300 concession rate (for practising artists, students and those with a low-income).
Address
- 30 Aldwych
- King's College
- London
London, City of - WC2B 4PJ
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- 91
- Holborn/Charing Cross
- Charing Cross
Birth Rites Collection Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. It will introduce you to the art collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks.
About
The Summer School course is led by Helen Knowles, BRC Curator and artist, Hermione Wiltshire, artist and Senior Lecturer at the Royal College of Art. They will help you to articulate responses to the art collection in a supportive environment.
If you are a midwife, academic, curator, artist, medic, health professional, art historian or policy advisor, you will enter the course with your own skill set and finish, with a bespoke multi-media pack of visual, textual, auditory and filmic material, each your own responses to art on birth, to be used thereafter in your own future work.
Workshops include shooting and editing short films on mobile phones and reflecting on the themes through visual and written material. We will introduce different perspectives from international guest speakers and chair in-depth discussions that address aesthetics, ethics and the visual discourses of birth.
Themes include:
- How the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives from midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to change practice and policy.
- Artistic and midwifery practices that address reproduction in the digital age including AI, simulation, VR and new reproductive technologies amid changing perspectives on the non-binary and notions of kinship.
- The Collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of the visual discourses of birth into art history.
- Censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law.
- Sexual reproduction and reciprocity.
Visiting speakers include: Laia Abril, Sophie Lewis, Francois-Jospeh Lapointe, Joscelyn Gardner, Nora Heidorn, Elsa Montgomery, Anna Battaglia, Marta Stysiak. More to be announced.
