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<p dir="ltr"><b>Finger-pot-pen-word-thumb</b></p><p dir="ltr">Workshop with Conor Wilson as part of doing together 24</p><p dir="ltr">Thursday 4 April 2024</p><p dir="ltr">Conor Wilson's research explores the proposition that making is a particularly intimate form of engagement between body and world. Some questions that emerge from this research are:</p><p dir="ltr">1. Does making allow us to access a mode of thinking/being that we can’t access in other ways?<br>2. Can we provide evidence of embodied knowledge other than through ‘doing the knowledge’, or through visual documentation?<br>3. How do we bring writing closer to making?</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">The third, in particular, is a question that seems central to the conduct of Practice-based Research. Through a series of noticing, making and writing exercises, we explored together how we might address these questions, while practising a ‘…kind of receptivity, of openness, or “hospitality”’ (Helene Cixous).</p><p dir="ltr"><b>doing together 24</b><br><i>doing tog</i><i>ether</i> is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/student-life/campuses/locksbrook-campus/" target="_blank">Locksbrook Campus</a>, hosted by the <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/research-centres/centre-for-cultural-and-creative-industries/" target="_blank">Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries</a> in collaboration with <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-art-film-and-media/" target="_blank">Bath School of Art, Film and Media</a> and <a href="https://www.bathspa.ac.uk/schools/bath-school-of-music-and-performing-arts/" target="_blank">Bath School of Music and Performing Arts</a>.</p><p><br></p><p dir="ltr">Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. <i>doing together</i><i> </i>is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.</p><p dir="ltr">Throughout the symposium, facilitators – alongside participants – test out ways of doing together in an effort to make their practice-based research explicit, rather than simply describe it.</p>