T-PACE: Workshops
1: The kinesis of spaces and frames, 26 September 2008, QMUL
The first workshop focussed on a range of practices involving bodily, virtual-bodily, and psychical engagements, from the multisensorial spaces of cultural geography to the geographies of virtual spaces within the film frame and spectators’ embodied engagements with them. Speakers: Amanda Bingley (Institute for Health Research, Lancaster University); Claire Pajaczkowska (Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture, Middlesex University and Senior Research Tutor in the School of Fashion and Textiles, Royal College of Art); Emma Wilson Reader in Contemporary French Literature and Film, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge).
Organisers: Annette Kuhn and Amal Treacher
2: Media users, 3 April 2009, University of Cardiff.
The second workshop considered cultural experience in terms of media use and the psychosocial relationship between media consumption and lived cultural identity, developing empirical operationalisations of Winnicott’s theory of transitional phenomena in the context of contemporary, pervasively-mediated cultures. Speakers: Serge Tisseron (Université de Paris 10); Seth Giddings and Helen Kennedy (University of the West of England); Joanne Whitehouse-Hart (De Montfort University).
Organiser: Matt Hills
3: Transitional space, cultural practice and creativity, 21 November 2009, UCL.
Artists, writers, cultural theorists, psychoanalysts and psychotherapists considered the relevance of Winnicott’s writings about transitional phenomena to an understanding of both the creative practice of the artist and the experience of the viewer/ reader/audience. Included viewing and discussion of recent artworks created for the T-PACE project by Patricia Townsend. Speakers: Kenneth Wright (psychoanalyst and writer); Sharon Morris (Slade School of Fine Art) Annette Kuhn (Queen Mary University of London)
Organiser: Patricia Townsend