Workshop
Birth Rites Collection Summer School 2024
1 Jul 2024 – 4 Jul 2024
Regular hours
- Mon, 01 Jul
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Tue, 02 Jul
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Wed, 03 Jul
- 10:00 – 17:00
- Thu, 04 Jul
- 10:00 – 17:00
Timezone: Europe/London
Cost of entry
£250 pp for online access to live and recorded lectures
£400pp (concession rate for practicing artists) to attend in person at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K
- Language: English
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A unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars & one-to-one tutorials. Four intensive days will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice & the artworks.
About
Led by artist and curator Helen Knowles, and artist Dr. Leni Dothan, Birth Rites Collection Summer School will empower you to articulate your own practice and responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.
Midwives, academics, curators, artists, medics, health professionals, art historians, policy advisors and the general public interested in childbirth through the lens of art, are all welcome. As a participant, you will enter the course with your own skill set and finish, with a bespoke multi-media pack of visual, textual, auditory, photographic, filmic and performative material, to be used thereafter in your own future work.
This year, workshops include reflecting on the themes of aesthetics, ethics, politics and the visual discourses of birth through visual and written materials with the emphasis on learning how to stage and document performances. Through lectures by leading artists in the field, we will introduce different perspectives to initiate in-depth discussions.
The Birth Rites Collection Summer School attracts artists, curators, filmmakers and thought-leaders as annual guest speakers. 2024 speakers will include: Helen Knowles, Dr. Leni Dothan, Barbara Rosenthal, Puck Verkade, Ana Casas Broda, Sarah Maple, Dyana Gravina and Dr. Hannah Ballou.
Summer School themes include:
• Collaborating and making work with family members.
• Staging, restaging and performative practice on themes of gender, birth, reproduction, and familial networks.
• How the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives in midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to improve practice and policy.
• The Collection’s impact on feminist art practices and the rehabilitation of visual discourses of birth into art history.
• Censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law.
The 2024 Summer School will take place in-person at the University of Kent, Canterbury, U.K and online - a reduced rate is available for online-only access to the series of live and recorded lectures. More information is available on our website.
