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Beyond Jewellery: Performing the Body
10am-5pm, 17 March 2016
Parkside Gallery
Birmingham City University
The Beyond Jewellery symposium coincides with flockOmania2, an exhibition and live performance event which crosses boundaries between jewellery and dance. Located within the field of contemporary art jewellery, this symposium explores the relationships between sculptural objects, the body and performance. In doing so, Beyond Jewellery offers a space to interrogate and reflect upon interdisciplinary projects interested in the body as a meeting place or nexus for collaboration. With a keynote from artist, researcher and body-centric sculptor, Di Mainstone, and talks spanning disciplines from textiles, dance, jewellery to sound and film, the point at which the themes of body, object and performance intersect are explored from myriad angles.
Speakers include:
Di Mainstone
Caroline Broadhead and Angela Woodhouse
Dr Natalie Garret Brown and Zoe Robertson
Fo Hamblin
Jessa Fairbrother
Nikki Pugh
Balandino Di Donato
Michelle Jessop
John Moore
Katrin Spranger
Julia Schuster
Panels are chaired by:
Prof Sarah Whatley (Coventry University), Prof Jill Journeau (Coventry University) and Prof Jivan Astfalck (Birmingham City University)
Following the Symposium, the audience is invited to join the flockOmania team in the Parkside Gallery, for an improvised durational performance and private view to celebrate this latest stop on flockOmania’s world tour. The exhibition showcases wearable objects which explore the relationship between jewellery, dance and performance. It was created by Zoe Robertson in response to a collaborative relationship with dance artists Dr Natalie Garrett Brown and Amy Voris. Their background in contemporary dance, movement improvisation and site based performance provided the catalyst for this body of work. The resulting jewellery is theatrically-sized to emphasise and explore themes relating to the scale and movement of the body. flockOmania2 will be hosted at the Parkside Gallery, Birmingham City University from Monday 22nd February to Friday 1st April 2016.
Tickets for Beyond Jewellery Symposium £25 (+ booking fee) - Eventbrite link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/beyond-jewelleryperforming-the-body-tickets-21550728810?ref=eweb
The flockOmania performance and private view begins at 6pm and entry is free. Further info: http://flockomania.com/beyond-jewellery/
Please join us!
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