Hello,
I hope some members of the list might be interested in the Birth Rites Collection Summer School, which is taking final bookings now.
Birth Rites is a collection of contemporary art on childbirth. The first of its kind in the world.
The annual Birth Rites Collection Summer School is a unique programme of lectures, workshops, seminars and one-to-one tutorials. Led by Helen Knowles, BRC Curator, the course explores themes such as: 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 and censorship of artworks on birth, institutional responses, ethics and the law.
If you are an academic, midwife, curator, artist, medic, health professional, art historian 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.
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 Summer School will run from Monday 5 September to Friday 9 September at the University of Kent, Canterbury Campus. Fees start from £300 for the week (concession price).
Find out more and book your place: https://www.birthritescollection.org.uk/summer-school
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