Creative Approaches to Geopoetics with Bridie Ashrowan & Dr Antonia Thomas 29 September 2022 скачать в хорошем качестве

Creative Approaches to Geopoetics with Bridie Ashrowan & Dr Antonia Thomas 29 September 2022

Antonia Thomas’s work over the past ten years has increasingly explored experimental and creative approaches to archaeology, and she has undertaken a number of trans-disciplinary art/archaeology collaborations and residencies. Recent projects and publications have examined subjects such as prehistoric rock art, graffiti and mark-making, marine plastic, and the politics of cultural heritage. She will discuss the necessity for inter- and trans-disciplinary work, particularly when it is practice-led and socially engaged, to respond to the complexity of the contemporary world and the unprecedented environmental and social crises we face. Bridie successfully headed the £3.2 million capital investment programme to open the Space & Broomhouse Hub in Edinburgh by a local community development trust in an area that has some of the highest child and in-work poverty in Scotland, involving those most likely to be affected by the crises ahead, including climate change. They stress the importance of working together and of a creative approach which pays attention to the world, people and places, an approach which is central to geopoetics. Dr Antonia Thomas is the Programme Leader for the MA Contemporary Art and Archaeology, and Lecturer in Archaeology, based at the University of the Highlands and Islands in Orkney. She is currently a Co-Investigator on the RSE-funded International Network for Contemporary Archaeology in Scotland (INCAScot). Her interdisciplinary research focuses on the relationship between Art and Archaeology, using these as reference points from which to explore wider creative engagements - across and beyond a range of different disciplines. Bridie Ashrowan is Chief Executive of EVOC (Edinburgh Voluntary Organisations Council), and has over thirty years’ experience in the community sector, having worked in start-ups, social enterprise and business. Before joining EVOC, she was Chief Executive at Space & Broomhouse Hub. She has served on boards and as a volunteer of start-ups, such as Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, through to Open Road, an innovative holistic drug & alcohol charity in Essex. She writes poetry occasionally, and walks many hills, as a resident of the Scottish Borders, and is originally from Northern Ireland. Bridie and Antonia work in different disciplines, and in different parts of the country. But both share a deep interest in the arts, particularly when they are practice-led and socially-engaged, and both are passionate about the importance of social justice and change at a community level. Integral to both their approaches is a focus on the importance of inter- and trans-disciplinary collaboration and dialogue to respond to the complexity of the contemporary world and the unprecedented environmental and social crises we face. After short presentations about their work and what geopoetics means to them individually, Bridie and Antonia are going to discuss their connections and how geopoetics creates a space where different disciplines can not only converge, but thrive.