Upcoming:
HARSH LIGHT | 13 October 2021
online webinar Wednesday, 19-20:30h
Bloc Projects
A conversational space for practitioners and publics alike, the webinars serve a number of important functions during a particularly difficult year: for critique and restoration, for ‘going public’ with the ways we work as an organisation.
In each session, we invite two or more speakers to talk about their practice in relation to arts funding structures like Arts Council England (ACE) and the interrelated crises of health, environment and social discontent.
Bloc Projects wants to keep growing this platform as a place for regular reflection on the state of the art worlds around the UK and how we shape and understand them in such uncertain times. Rather than the weekly sessions of 2020, Harsh Light is now happening every month or two. We hope that this will give each webinar the room to breathe and be more closely considered. The webinars will continue to question the ways in which the three ACE outcomes (creative people; cultural communities; creative & cultural country) and four investment principles (inclusivity and relevance, ambition and quality, dynamism, and environmental responsibility) affect our practices, as well as how we situate our work and lives in the complicated contexts of ‘now’.
For this Harsh Light conversation, we’ve invited artists Youngsook Choi, Jessie Jing and Monica Tolia to talk / walk us through their initiative Have you eaten yet? (HYEY) and what it means to take up ‘affectionate space’. Weaving together (mis)identities, rituals and material acts of care through the prism of East Asian diaspora, HYEY platformed a series of events and performances in July 2021. What learning has come of this? In the throes of Covid, how does taking up ‘affectionate space’ help practitioners of East Asian heritage to dislodge the hidden presumptions that belie arts sector thinking like ‘inclusivity’ and ‘relevance’?
REGISTRATION LINK
HARSH LIGHT | 13 October 2021
online webinar Wednesday, 19-20:30h
Bloc Projects
A conversational space for practitioners and publics alike, the webinars serve a number of important functions during a particularly difficult year: for critique and restoration, for ‘going public’ with the ways we work as an organisation.
In each session, we invite two or more speakers to talk about their practice in relation to arts funding structures like Arts Council England (ACE) and the interrelated crises of health, environment and social discontent.
Bloc Projects wants to keep growing this platform as a place for regular reflection on the state of the art worlds around the UK and how we shape and understand them in such uncertain times. Rather than the weekly sessions of 2020, Harsh Light is now happening every month or two. We hope that this will give each webinar the room to breathe and be more closely considered. The webinars will continue to question the ways in which the three ACE outcomes (creative people; cultural communities; creative & cultural country) and four investment principles (inclusivity and relevance, ambition and quality, dynamism, and environmental responsibility) affect our practices, as well as how we situate our work and lives in the complicated contexts of ‘now’.
For this Harsh Light conversation, we’ve invited artists Youngsook Choi, Jessie Jing and Monica Tolia to talk / walk us through their initiative Have you eaten yet? (HYEY) and what it means to take up ‘affectionate space’. Weaving together (mis)identities, rituals and material acts of care through the prism of East Asian diaspora, HYEY platformed a series of events and performances in July 2021. What learning has come of this? In the throes of Covid, how does taking up ‘affectionate space’ help practitioners of East Asian heritage to dislodge the hidden presumptions that belie arts sector thinking like ‘inclusivity’ and ‘relevance’?
REGISTRATION LINK