Arts Weeks 2020: Online (18 May - 19 June)
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Week One: 18 May
Deborah Levy’s extraordinary work ranges between prizewinning fiction and memoir.ÌýShe will be inÌýconversation with Julia Bell.
Ìýfrom Tomorrow Sex Will Be Good Again (forthcoming from Verso, 2021). Content warning: contains adult themes.
Discover the magic of theÌýfilmÌý‘dissolve’ inÌýCatherine Grant’s beautiful shortÌýexploringÌýThe Secret of Roan Inish (directed by John Sayles, 1994).
Take a breakÌýwithÌýMarkÌýCrinson,ÌýandÌýa story ofÌýan engraving ofÌýManchester, 1876:Ìýthe ‘shock city’ of the industrial revolution.Ìý- Jarman Lab Scrapbook Pages
Take flight withÌýLily Ford’s filmÌýabout aviator Ella Pilcher in the first Jarman Lab Scrapbook of Arts Weeks. - A Week in the Life: Joanne Leal
TheÌýfirst of our weekly culture diaries, from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Joanne Leal (Cultures and Languages)
Make your own volvelle (a moving paper wheel)ÌýandÌýreceive someÌý.Ìý- ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Murray Seminar
Learn about Filippo Calandri's Aritmetica, a lavish maths textbook created from Renaissance Florence that forever changed education, at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Murray Seminar on Medieval and Renaissance Art (Thursday 21ÌýMay,Ìý4.50-6.30pm).
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WEEK TWO: 25 May
Artist and writer Alinah Azadeh invites you to the edge of a cliff in 2053. Listen to a future myth rooted in our migrant heritage and shifting relationship to land, sea, borders - and time.
Take a break with Silke Arnold-deÌýSimine,ÌýandÌýa storyÌýof colonialism, sexuality and storageÌýcentredÌýonÌýCamp Coffee.
Watch novelist Jo Baker and playwright and screenwriter Daragh Carville talk about her latest book, The Body Lies: 'a propulsive #MeToo thriller' (The Guardian).
Toby Litt readsÌýa pageÌýfrom his novelÌýPatience, andÌýtalks about its indebtedness to the animal poems of the great Australian poet Les Murray.Ìý- NB: by Hester Chillingworth
NB: is a performative text work about the radical potentials of plurality, shifting, and occupying multiple spaces. The text will start its life online and will gradually transition out into the real world, to exist and move amongst us.ÌýSupported by BiGS (ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Gender and Sexuality). - Jarman Lab Scrapbook Pages
Discover how the 'dark art’ of advertising inspired Bartek Dziadosz's film Nothing Exists Until You Sell ItÌý(2019)Ìýin the second Jarman Lab Scrapbook of Arts Weeks. - A Week in the Life: Marina Warner
The second of our culture diaries, from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Marina Warner (English, Theatre & Creative Writing). Ìý
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WEEK Three: 1 June
- Watch Mara Polgovsky Ezcurra's fascinating exploration of the performative artist books created by Polish-Mexican artist Marcos Kurtycz (1934-1996).
- In readings and discussion, Joe Brooker, Toby Harris and reader Hugh Wilde bring to life Flann O'Brien's little-known contributions to theatre.
- Priya Sen's debut documentary feature film Yeh Freedom Life (2019) thoughtfully explores uncertain love in Delhi. Learn about the film and its making in this podcast discussion between the director and ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú geographer and teacher on the MA/MSc Cities, Melissa Butcher (spoiler alert).
- A Week in the Life: Keith Jarrett The third of our culture diaries, from Keith Jarrett, writer, performer, educator and ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú PhD alumnus.
- Jarman Lab Scrapbook Pages
- Enjoy an expedition to the past with this extraordinary short film about the now-closed Bakelite Museum, one of the numerous 'micromuseums' explored by ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Fiona Candlin.
- The Mendfulness Clinic
Read Louise Wilcox, creator of this week's sold-out performance The Mendfulness Clinic, on gendered values in performance-making. This beautiful text accompanied Crimson Wave—Craft the Resistance (Camden People's Theatre, 2018). - Listen to Anthony Joseph, poet, novelist, academic and musician read selections from his latest novel, The Frequency of Magic (Peepal Tree) and .
- Bloomscape Share a photograph of Bloomsbury with us , to make a magnificent Bloomscape - a digital photo-map to be presented online at the end of Arts Weeks 2020.
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WEEK FOUR: 8 June
- Lina Džuverović explores 'Days of Pride and Sorrow' (1980), a compelling series of images of everyday life taken by Yugoslav photographer Goranka Matić in the aftermath of the death of Tito.
- Scratch Night goes online: a rich collection of new short-form sound and video works from students in ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's School of Arts, encompassing terrific solo pieces, poetry, rehearsed readings, adaptations, and audio performances.
- Introduced by Kit de Waal, this event showcases four wonder women Abi Daré, Louise Hare, Golnoosh Nour and Jac Shreeves-Lee - all alumni of ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú - whose relevant new work ranges between Iran, Nigeria, Windrush Britain, and Tottenham's Broadwater Farm.
- Jarman Lab Scrapbook PagesRaymond Williams' Keywords (1976) is alive and influential today. Robyn Jakeman tells the story of how it came to be written and updated in this week's contribution to our regular Scrapbook feature from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Derek Jarman Lab.
- Writer Megan Vaughan discovered theatre blogging just as playwright David Eldridge was giving it up for good. Here, over a week-long email dialogue, they come together to reflect on their changing practices, and to discuss the pasts, presents and futures of writing about theatre on the internet. Plus read an exclusive excerpt from Megan's latest book.
- A Week in the Life: Akane Kawakami The fourth of our culture diaries, from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú's Akane Kawakami (Cultures and Languages).Ìý
- Film-maker Rachel Mason tells writer and ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú alumnus Pablo Mendez Shiff about her 2019 Netflix documentary on her parents and their adult bookstore in Los Angeles.
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Week five: 15 June
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An archival, memory-based work, Love in the Time of Corona investigates ageing, death, decay, deterioration, disease, and trying to find equanimity during troubled times... Shabnam Shabazi offers a video work and a live one-to-one virtual encounter at home - an intimate, unrepeatable moment after 94 days of solitude and isolation.
In this live podcast by Manual Labours on Monday 15 June, 12pm, join artist and adult care worker Fauve Alice, artist Sheila Ghelani, PhD student Sara Paiola and Professors Lynne Segal and Rosie Cox (ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú) to discuss the ethics and politics of caring as paid, unpaid, formal and informal work. Supported by ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Gender and Sexuality.- Asylum Monologues
Hosted live on Monday 15 June, ice&fire's powerful documentary theatre piece shares first-hand experiences of the asylum process in the UK. Post-show, ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Agnes Woolley and Nadine El-Enany discuss the issues it raises. Supported by ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Centre for Research on Race and Law.
How might we tell the story of the Anthropocene: the geological age of humans? Watch the evolution of Bruno Roubicek’s idea, from digging in the sand on Newhaven beach in 1964, to his performance as an Earthworm in Nicole Genovese’s Hélas (Théâtre de la Tempête, Paris, 2020).
Luisa Calè asks what it means that William Blake's 'Pestilence' looks us in the eye.
ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s John Henderson talks us through an extraordinary image of the last plague in Florence.
Download your own copy of Together/Apart: Poetry at ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú - a pandemic poetry project produced for Arts Week by ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú poet Steve Willey and brilliant ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú students Matt Bates, Megan Massey and Dana Alice Niamh.
Read ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Carolyn Burdett on being mendful and memoryful with Louise Wilcox’s The Mendfulness Clinic.
Hear about the books and feelings of three amazing early women readers. ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú Phd Matt Clancy, Eva Lauenstein and Lou Horton show how women used books to shape their worlds.- A Week in the Life: Scott Rogers
The fifth of our culture diaries, from ÌÇÐÄlogoÈë¿Ú’s Scott Rodgers (Film, Media & Cultural Studies).
To play out Arts Weeks 2020: Online, admin staff across the School of Arts share their top tunes of lockdown. Take a break with sounds to move and inspire.