Posted on October 28, 2019 by ubashe02

Corkscrew Show and Tell (31 October) – For all Practice Based Research Students

Show and Tell: Birkbeck practice-research PhD students present and discuss their work in progress

Thursday 31 October 2019

2-5pm

43 Gordon Square Room 106

Mah Rana: Crafting with my mother: Using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis to investigate the lived experience of dyadic crafting from the perspective of adult-daughter carers of mothers with dementia.

Women hold a majority but marginalised status within dementia-care statistics. This marginalised, but also hidden status makes it important to explore ways of making women’s experiences visible and understood. My PhD research is a qualitative psychology study using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to investigate verbal accounts in conjunction with primary source film footage of inter and intra-interactions of participant dyads (adult-daughter carers and mothers with dementia) in order to elicit a deep understanding of the meaning-making that daughters draw from their lived experience of caring for their mother.

Mah is a 2nd year PhD student in the Department of Psychological Sciences at Birkbeck. The multi-disciplinary focus of my PhD reflects the modus operandi of my established arts-based research practice. One Day When We Were Young is a short film, made in 2016 and subsequently a driver for the current PhD study, that explores the dementia-care relationship as mutually beneficial to both the carer and the person cared for.

Sasha Bergstrom-Katz: On the Subject of Tests

The project looks to examine and (re)present the affective dimensions of these tests by creating a visual archive of the test materials and by scripting, rehearsing and performing the tests in order to explore the experience of being the subject of study.

Sasha is an artist and researcher who utilises video, sculpture and staged performance to address issues of subjectivity, identification and diagnosis in the human sciences. Her practice-led PhD project centers around the history and aesthetic design of two prominent 20th century tests devised to assess the intelligence of children in pedagogical and psychological settings.

Open to all PhD students. No need to book.

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Posted on May 22, 2018 by ubashe02

Corkscrew Show and Tell (30 May) and Awkward Encounters (21 June) – Practice Based Research

Please find below details of two Corkscrew events coming up:

1) Show and Tell: Birkbeck practice-research PhD students present and discuss their work in progress

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 2-5pm
Room 106, 43 Gordon Square

Gol Nourp: Representations of Iranian female sexuality in Iranian contemporary literature

Selina Robertson: Building the archive: a curatorial investigation into the hidden histories of London’s feminist film collectives of the 1980s.

Open to all PhD students. No need to book.

2) Awkward Encounters: Consent in Practice-Research

Thursday 21 June, 6-9pm (refreshments will be served)
Birkbeck, University of London, Keynes Library
Facilitated by Sarah Jury and Hamish MacPherson

A peer-to-peer workshop for exchanging tactics, methods and concerns about negotiating consent in practice-research. This workshop is for students, postgraduates and academics who work with other people in the process of their research, and consider this part of their practice-research.

Place are limited, details and booking here.

Sophie Hope

Lecturer, Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies

School of Arts, Birkbeck College, University of London

s.hope@bbk.ac.uk

www.sophiehope.org.uk

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Posted on November 9, 2017 by ubashe02

Corkscrew Events – 29 November 2017 for all practice based research students

We have two Corkscrew events happening on Wednesday 29 November:

12-2pm: Staff exchange
Public event open to all

Room 106, 43 Gordon Square

Dr Sophie Hope (Birkbeck) and Dr Anthony Schrag (Queen Margaret University) will discuss their research as socially engaged practice embedded in the context of working environments and the challenges this brings.

Followed by:

2-5pm: Show and tell workshop

Open to all PhD students at Birkbeck

Room 317, 43 Gordon Square

Practice-based PhD students Jo Coleman (“Please identify yourself for the tape.”: Demystifying the interview process) and Caroline Molloy (Re-imagined communities: understanding the visual habitus of transcultural photographs) will present and discuss their work in progress.

Please do come along to both events, and spread the word!

See the Corkscrew website for other dates for your diary in 2018.

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Posted on February 13, 2017 by ubashe02

Corkscrew – Show and Tell 27 February 2017 2-5pm

Corkscrew: Show and Tell

Hosted by Bruno Roubicek, artist and Birkbeck PhD student, show and tell sessions invite practice-based research students to present work in progress. It’s an opportunity to share your emerging practice and receive feedback in a supportive environment. Sessions through the year will consider how practice and scholarship can work together to generate insight and understanding. What is “doing knowledge” and how can practice be made evident to examiners?

On Monday 27 February, 2-5pm, join us for the spring Show and Tell session. Alongside presentations, we will discuss Sophie Hope’s article ‘Bursting paradigms: a colour wheel of practice-research’, Cultural Trends, 25, 2 (2016), 74-86 (NB. Senate House Library membership needed for access via this link).

Show and Tell takes place in G10, School of Arts.

The summer date will be announced later in the year.

RSVP to Bruno here.

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Posted on January 26, 2017 by ubashe02

Practice Based – Corkscrew Spring Term 2017

CORKSCREW: SPRING 2017

Show and Tell

Show and Tell takes place in G10, School of Arts. The summer date will be announced later in the year.

RSVP to Bruno here.

The Particularities of Conference Presentation

On Friday 3 March, 9.30am-12.30pm, join us for a 3-hour workshop that offers training in delivering conference presentations effectively.

Conference presentation is an essential aspect of the working life of a professional researcher. Yet doctoral students often acquire skills in this area somewhat unevenly, learning through trial and error. This workshop approaches the conference presentation as a moment of public performance. It asks: what are the formal features of an effective presentation? What techniques can a presenter use to communicate with his or her audience – whether in the context of scholarly conferences, public lectures, or arts venues? This workshop is run in collaboration with artists from Haranczak-Navarre Performance Projects.

Participating students can then either attend or present research on collaborative practices at Twofold: the Particularities of Working in Pairs (Friday 3 & Saturday 4 March 2017) – a symposium that explores the duet as a mode of collaboration across the disciplines. See the foot of this email for the CFP – deadline Friday 27 January.

The Particularities of Conference Presentation is supported by the CHASE Cohort Development Fund. Places are free but limited to 20 – booking is essential.

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Posted on October 26, 2016 by ubashe02

Corkscrew: Invitation to group crits for writing-led practices

Invitation to group crits for writing-led practices.

‘I am looking to establish a small group of practitioners with similar specific or thematic concerns to present work for critical feedback. In addition to Birkbeck research students, I am also inviting practice-based research students in the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, too.

We would conduct crit-like sessions, with a small number of people presenting work for feedback from the group. Over a number of sessions everyone would have a chance to present. The idea is to generate a community that can offer specific technical advice, as well as more general feedback.

The focus of the group is writing – specifically the production of text for the gallery or other curated spaces. This could be text to be read, performed, listened to or watched onscreen. We would book rooms at Birkbeck for optimum viewing conditions: the cinema, the performance space, the gallery or academic seminar rooms.

If you’d like to participate, please contact Sally: manfred@sallyoreilly.org.uk‘

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Posted on October 11, 2016 by ubashe02

Corkscrew Events – Autumn Term 2016

Dear all

This is a note regarding Corkscrew – a network for practice-based/led research students in the School of Arts at Birkbeck.

Each term, Corkscrew hosts events specifically for students pursuing their research through practice. There will be one ‘show and tell’ session, which allows students to share and discuss examples of practice, and another event offered by a visiting speaker from across the disciplines.

Details of the events we are running this term can be found below. Look forward to seeing you there!

Many thanks

Louise

Corkscrew events

Show and Tell

On Monday 31 October, 2-5pm, join us for the first show and tell session of the year.

Hosted by Bruno Roubicek, artist and Birkbeck PhD student, this show and tell session invites practice-based research students to present work in progress. It’s an opportunity to share your emerging practice and receive feedback in a supportive environment. Sessions through the year will consider how practice and scholarship can work together to generate insight and understanding. What is “doing knowledge” and how can practice be made evident to examiners?

Show and Tell takes place in G10, School of Arts. RSVP to Bruno here.

Breath Catalogue

On Monday 14 November, 2-5pm, join us for Breath Catalogue.

Breath Catalogue is a collaborative work by artist-scholars Kate Elswit and Megan Nicely, and data scientist/interaction designer Ben Gimpert, together with composer Daniel Thomas Davis and violist Stephanie Griffin.

The project combines choreographic methods with medical technology to externalize breath as experience. Dance artists link breathing and movement patterns in both creation and performance. Our goal is to expand the intrinsic dance connection between breath and gesture. The catalogue makes it possible to collect and retrieve different breath samples through the process of live dance, by visualizing and making audible the data obtained from the mover’s breath, and inserting this into the choreographic process to make the breath perceptible to the spectator.

The piece uses capacitance resistance sensors from StretchSense. This wearable technology gathers breath data during the Breath Catalogue performance and transmits it. Doing so is more than “tracking”; it enables the development of feedback loops that create new choreographic structures, in the process allowing the dancers to interact with their own breath in new, intimate, and palpable ways.

Kate and Megan will present a lecture demonstration version of Breath Catalogue, incorporating moments for Q&A with the audience. This event will be of interest to practice-based researchers working in the fields of performance, visual culture, medical humanities and digital humanities.

Breath Catalogue will take place in G10, Birkbeck School of Arts. Places are free but limited – book here.

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Posted on October 11, 2013 by ubashe02

Corkscrew – Calling all Practice-based School of Arts Students

Calling all practice-based research students in the School of Arts!

We would like to invite you to ‘Corkscrew’, a network of PhD students who are carrying out practice-related doctoral research at Birkbeck.

In 2013-14 we will be hosting termly student-led seminars (for practice-based research students to present their work for feedback), termly events with guest speakers and a collaborative presentation of students’ work in the Peltz gallery at 43 Gordon Square.

The first student-led seminar will be on Monday 11 November, 6-8pm in the room 112, 43 Gordon Square). This will be a chance for you to learn about each other’s practice, share resources and identify topics you want to discuss.

Contact Sophie Hope if you would like to attend.
s.hope@bbk.ac.uk
Dr Sophie Hope
Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Birkbeck College
www.sophiehope.org.uk

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