TRANSMISSION
BRUTE
[Test 1]
Symposium
Michelle
Atherton and Becky Shaw
Peter
Adey, Dales Holmes, Esther Leslie, Benjamin Noys
Friday 3rd
May 2013
2.00 to 6.30 p.m.
Centre for Creative Collaboration
16
Acton Street London Greater London WC1X 9NG
Test No. 1 takes the notion of BRUTE as a raw
starting point, an approach to collaboration. We will explore the problem of an intellectually
‘cold’ position’, alongside ideas of force including heat, abrasion,
friction, and compression. We want to address how the time and processes of
force might relate to the allegedly more timeless and dematerialised nature
of thought, to consider the conditions of force as applied to materials and
upon the material of society. We are interested in banging some disparate things together: ‘Waking and burning,
shocking and blasting’, as Rachel
Moore describes Hollis Frampton’s work Nostalgia. We are trying to create an
experience that does not demand participation nor assumes affect, but tries
out the idea of a BRUTE
methodology.
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This event is
free, but places are limited to thirty participants.
Deadline for
booking is 29th April.
PROGRAMME
14.30
Introduction – Michelle Atherton and Becky
Shaw
15.00 Peter
Adey – 'Combustion': pandemonium, air, industry, and social change, as
carbon turns to air, mixing with revolutionary fervour; war, blast, and
vaporisation, as bodies occupy the air, with ecstatic levitators burning.
15.30 Benjamin
Noys – ‘Derailing the Train: Brutal Accelerations & Brutal
Interruptions’
16.00 Esther Leslie – a text
drawn from her book Synthetic Worlds
examining the violence of extraction, in the light of the German chemical
industry’s use of coal for synthetic colour
16.30
Tea/coffee
17.00–18.00
Plenary
18.00 Wine
Peter Adey is Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London.
He works at the intersections of space, security, and mobility. He is author of
Mobility (2009); Aerial Life: spaces, mobilities,
affects (2010), and Air (forthcoming). He was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2011.
affects (2010), and Air (forthcoming). He was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2011.
Michelle Atherton is an artist
interested in objectifying cultural phenomenon, often using transport systems
as a starting point. Recent works
include Dreams of Flying and Missed the Boat I & II, exhibited
widely in Europe. Her research is supported
by the AHRC. She is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam
University.
Dale Holmes is an artist and AHRC-funded
PhD candidate in the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam
University. His current research develops a material philosophy grounded on non-anthropocentric
strategies for making and staging art works. His work has been exhibited
internationally.
Esther Leslie is Professor in
Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London. Recent publications include Hollywood Flatlands: Animation, Critical
Theory and the Avant-garde (2002), Synthetic
Worlds: Nature, Art and the Chemical Industry (2005), Walter Benjamin: Critical Lives (2007). She sits
on the editorial boards of Historical
Materialism, Revolutionary History,
and Radical Philosophy.
Benjamin Noys is Reader in English at the University
of Chichester. He is the author of Georges Bataille: A Critical Introduction
(2000), The Culture of Death (2005), The Persistence of the Negative:
A Critique of Contemporary Theory (2010), and editor of Communization
and Its Discontents (2011).
Becky Shaw explores the relation
between objects and people, and ideas of objectivity and subjectivity. Recent works include 20 Euros, a work made for
Terminal Convention at Cork Airport, and A:
The Christmas Party a durational reading performed at Roehampton
University, Terry O’Connor. She is
Course Leader of the B.A. Creative Art Practice course at Sheffield Hallam
University.
This event is
part of Transmission, a project convened by Dr Jaspar Joseph-Lester and Dr
Sharon Kivland, with the support of the ADRC (Art and Design Research Centre),
Sheffield Hallam University, and HARC (Humanities and Arts Research Centre),
Royal Holloway University of London. Transmission is an arena in which ideas of
art practice are discussed and tested through an annual publication, a lecture
series, and related research events in Sheffield, London, Dallas, and Berlin. http://www.transmission.uk.com
The Centre for
Creative Collaboration (C4CC) is an initiative of the University of London,
working in collaboration with the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama,
Goldsmiths, University of London, and Royal Holloway, University of
London. C4CC supports new types of collaboration using the
principles of open innovation, hosting projects and enabling multi-disciplinary
working in an attractive and flexible space. C4CC brings together leading
and innovative researchers from London’s universities and colleges, creative
industry practitioners and freelancers, SMEs, and students. http://www.creative-collaboration.net
