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Workshop with Conor Wilson as part of doing together 24

Thursday 4 April 2024

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:

1. Does making allow us to access a mode of thinking/being that we can’t access in other ways?
2. Can we provide evidence of embodied knowledge other than through ‘doing the knowledge’, or through visual documentation?
3. How do we bring writing closer to making?

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).

doing together 24
doing together is a yearly two-day making and sharing practice symposium at Locksbrook Campus, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Creative Industries in collaboration with Bath School of Art, Film and Media and Bath School of Music and Performing Arts.

Workshops, delivered by staff and postgraduate students from across the University, share practice-based research methods and a broad range of approaches to practice. doing together is proposed as a generous space to make/do/share and discuss practice with colleagues from a range of different Schools.

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.