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Bookings are now open for the 2022 in-person Birth Rites Collection Summer School. This year's Summer School will take place on campus at the University of Kent from Monday 5th - Friday 9th September.
Birth Rites Collection Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. It will introduce you to the collection and facilitate a dialogue between you, your practice and the artworks. The course is led by Helen Knowles, BRC Curator and artist and Hermione Wiltshire, artist and Co-Head of the Photography Programme at the Royal College of Art. The course will empower you to articulate your own responses to the collection in a supportive environment whilst exploring critical perspectives in the field of birth.
If you are an artist, curator, art historian, midwife, medic, health professional 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, to be used thereafter in your own future work.
"The BRC Summer School gave me the opportunity to discuss and explore issues surrounding birth within an
inter-disciplinary, peer-to-peer environment. It also provided me with both a practical and creative toolkit, as well as a peer network, to continue expanding upon my interests in this area in the future." - 2021 Summer School participant
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, politics and the visual discourses of birth.
The themes of this year's Summer School include:
- How the collection informs and unpacks different perspectives in midwifery, medicine and education, and its potential to improve practice and policy.
- Artistic and midwifery practices that address reproduction in the digital age including AI, simulation, VR, blockchain and NFT tech and, new reproductive technologies.
- Changing perspectives on the non-binary and notions of kinship.
- 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.
Prices for the week start from £300 for practising artists and anyone with a low income.
To find out more and book now, please visit: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school
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