'Disobedient Writing': creative-critical writing (oct 18, nov 15)
Disobedient Writing
- With Caroline Bergvall and Lisa Robertson
- For PGRs and staff in AHC who are interested in creative-critical writing
- Co-organised by Kimberly Campanello (English) and Nick Thurston (FAHACS)
- In collaboration with ‘The Weight of Words’ programme at the Henry Moore Institute,
Leeds (info here)
What?
A pair of seminars with two very special writers, in which we will discuss how creative and
critical writing can be a mode of alternative, experimental and even disobedient research,
both inside and outside academic life.
Wednesday 18 October, 2–4pm, Workshop Theatre
(venue/access info here)
Caroline Bergvall is an interdisciplinary writer, sound artist and performer based in London.
Her work has been commissioned and presented internationally for performance, literary
and contemporary art festivals, institutions and events. She is the author of five books
including the award-winning Drift (Night Boat Books, 2014), and unique performance works
such as the nocturnal Nattsong (2021). Her solo exhibitions include shows at Callicoon (New
York), Johan Hansard Gallery (Southampton) and DIA Foundation (Belladonna); and group
exhibitions include shows at the Powerplant (Toronto), Tate Modern (London) and
Foundation Vuitton (Paris). Her accolades include the Cholmondeley Award and the Prix
Litteraire Bernard Heidsieck-Centre Pompidou. She is currently Global Professorial Fellow at
Queen Mary University, London.
Photo by Rachel Topham, courtesy of the author.
Wednesday 15 November, 2–4pm, Common Room in the School of Fine Art
(venue/access info here)
Lisa Robertson is a Canadian poet, art writer and novelist currently living in France. She
has published nine books of poetry, three books of essays and one novel, as well as
contributing to many artist’s catalogues, monographs and magazines. She travels often as
an invited lecturer, reader and teacher in universities, art schools and community arts groups
across Europe, Canada and the USA, and has held residencies at UC Berkeley, UC San
Diego, Princeton, California College of the Arts, Piet Zwart Institute and Cambridge in this
capacity. She was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Letters by Emily Carr University of Art
and Design, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction in Canada,
and received the inaugural C. D. Wright Award in Poetry from the Foundation for the
Contemporary Arts in New York.
Who for?
Both seminars will be discussion-led and targeted at postgraduate researchers and staff in
the AHC Faculty who are interested in developing their own creative and critical writing
research methods, particularly in relation to practice-centred work. Others welcome.
Booking
Both events are free but places are limited. PLEASE commit to coming to the whole of any
session you attend. Seats will be first-come first-served. We will start promptly at 2pm on
both dates.
Organised by
The seminars are co-organised by Kimberly Campanello (English) and Nick Thurston (Fine
Art), in association with CePRA. The seminars have been generously supported by the
Research teams in the School of English and School of FAHACS, and run in association with
the Henry Moore Institute’s ‘The Weight of Words’ exhibition and events programme.
For questions or info, contact Nick Thurston: n.thurston@leeds.ac.uk
Related events
More information about ‘The Weight of Words’ can be found here, including readings by
Caroline Bergvall and Lisa Robertson