Mutual Alterity<\/em> | Poem-Making with Birds<\/h2>\n\n\n\nWhen |<\/strong> Wednesday 25 June, 2pm – 4pm<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere |<\/strong> Penryn Campus, space tbc<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/sites.exeter.ac.uk\/creativeclub\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/471\/2024\/08\/hand-brieftaube-vintage-kunst-883x1024.jpg\")
<\/figure>\n\n\n\nDescription<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\nWhat happens when we enter not only interdisciplinary, but interspecies<\/em> collaboration?<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn this practical workshop, we\u2019ll work with the birds on Penryn campus, exploring what happens when we view them as our co-creators and -investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We\u2019ll look at a selection of work that collaborates, thinks-with, or translates birds\u2019 song, movement and being. These will be poetic in the broadest, most expanded sense: spectrograms, bird-karaoke, calligraphic timelapse photography, and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Bring examples from your own work<\/strong>, of approaches to collaboration, visualisation, verbalising, sense-making, and invite the birds to create with you. This might be graphs, excerpts from papers, images, or just make a mindmap of these beforehand (there’ll be time to consider this in the session, too).<\/p>\n\n\n\nAbout your Workshop Host <\/strong>| Caleb Parkin<\/strong> is a practice-based PhD researcher in RENEW Biodiversity \u2013 his research considers human-nonhuman communication in poetry. He tutors for Poetry School, Poetry Society, Arvon, and holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. He was Bristol City Poet 2020 \u2013 22 and has featured in The Guardian <\/em>and as guest poet on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Poetry Please<\/em>. Caleb\u2019s debut collection This Fruiting Body <\/em>(Nine Arches Press, 2021) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and new collection, Mingle, <\/em>is out in October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\nStructures of Meaning | Making as a process of becoming<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\nWhen | <\/strong>Friday 27th June, 2pm – 4pm<\/p>\n\n\n\nWhere |<\/strong> Penryn Campus, space tbc<\/p>\n\n\n\nIn his work, Tim Ingold (2003) challenges the idea that making is simply about imposing a pre-conceived design or form onto raw materials. Instead, he argues that making is a process of engagement with materials, where the maker learns and adapts through interaction with the world. Adopting a phenomenological stance, Ingold argued that meaning emerges through the act of making, not as something pre-planned or separated from it. For him, making is a form of \u201ccorrespondence,\u201d where makers and materials evolve together in a mutual process of becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Following Ingold\u2019s suggestion that making is a process of becoming more aware, we embark on a creative journey ourselves. Using natural materials \u2013 foraged and received \u2013 we will weave \u2018bug hotels\u2019 that can be placed in the natural environment. Though some techniques will be suggested, this journey is not about following a blueprint. Rather, it is about developing an intuitive and personal relationship between the self, the materials, and the surrounding environment. In this way, the workshop highlights one\u2019s interaction with matter through making as a way of being in and with the world (Biesta, 2002). Through these meaningful interactions, we might come to understand and create meaning -and ourselves- in different and unexpected ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where |<\/strong> Penryn Campus, space tbc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Description<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What happens when we enter not only interdisciplinary, but interspecies<\/em> collaboration?<\/p>\n\n\n\n In this practical workshop, we\u2019ll work with the birds on Penryn campus, exploring what happens when we view them as our co-creators and -investigators.<\/p>\n\n\n\n We\u2019ll look at a selection of work that collaborates, thinks-with, or translates birds\u2019 song, movement and being. These will be poetic in the broadest, most expanded sense: spectrograms, bird-karaoke, calligraphic timelapse photography, and words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bring examples from your own work<\/strong>, of approaches to collaboration, visualisation, verbalising, sense-making, and invite the birds to create with you. This might be graphs, excerpts from papers, images, or just make a mindmap of these beforehand (there’ll be time to consider this in the session, too).<\/p>\n\n\n\n About your Workshop Host <\/strong>| Caleb Parkin<\/strong> is a practice-based PhD researcher in RENEW Biodiversity \u2013 his research considers human-nonhuman communication in poetry. He tutors for Poetry School, Poetry Society, Arvon, and holds an MSc Creative Writing for Therapeutic Purposes. He was Bristol City Poet 2020 \u2013 22 and has featured in The Guardian <\/em>and as guest poet on BBC Radio 4\u2019s Poetry Please<\/em>. Caleb\u2019s debut collection This Fruiting Body <\/em>(Nine Arches Press, 2021) was longlisted for the Laurel Prize and new collection, Mingle, <\/em>is out in October 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When | <\/strong>Friday 27th June, 2pm – 4pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n Where |<\/strong> Penryn Campus, space tbc<\/p>\n\n\n\n In his work, Tim Ingold (2003) challenges the idea that making is simply about imposing a pre-conceived design or form onto raw materials. Instead, he argues that making is a process of engagement with materials, where the maker learns and adapts through interaction with the world. Adopting a phenomenological stance, Ingold argued that meaning emerges through the act of making, not as something pre-planned or separated from it. For him, making is a form of \u201ccorrespondence,\u201d where makers and materials evolve together in a mutual process of becoming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Following Ingold\u2019s suggestion that making is a process of becoming more aware, we embark on a creative journey ourselves. Using natural materials \u2013 foraged and received \u2013 we will weave \u2018bug hotels\u2019 that can be placed in the natural environment. Though some techniques will be suggested, this journey is not about following a blueprint. Rather, it is about developing an intuitive and personal relationship between the self, the materials, and the surrounding environment. In this way, the workshop highlights one\u2019s interaction with matter through making as a way of being in and with the world (Biesta, 2002). Through these meaningful interactions, we might come to understand and create meaning -and ourselves- in different and unexpected ways.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\nStructures of Meaning | Making as a process of becoming<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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