Please join us for the sixth session of the Experiential Translation Online Seminar. We're delighted to host PartSuspended Artist Collective, who will present their ongoing multilingual and multidisciplinary project SPIRALS before inviting us all to get creative and join them for an interactive workshop.

The workshop is free and open to all.

Presenters include: Barbara Bridger, Noèlia Díaz-Vicedo, Georgia Kalogeropoulou and Hari Marini. The event is hosted by Ricarda Vidal, Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries.

The workshop will explore ways that the form of a spiral can be translated through a variety of stimuli in a variety of art forms. The spiral acts as a sign of becoming, transforming and awareness that allows us to re-imagine the body’s relationship with organic forms, space and time. We will base our work on the way that Spirals Open Archive has emerged, in response to prompts organised under the following headings: 1) SPIRALS: TIME, MEMORY, HOME 2) SPIRALS: SPACE, CITY, ECOLOGY 3) SPIRALS: SELF, DESIRE, DREAMS. The participants will be invited to respond to one of these categories by writing, drawing, moving, performing, painting, taking a photograph, filming, recording. We will experiment with verbal, physical and digital language exploring thresholds, migration, path, nature, home, circular movement, and sense of belonging. At the end of the workshop the participants will present and/or perform their creation. Also, they will be invited to submit their artwork to PartSuspended’s Spirals Open Archive.

Speakers info:

PartSuspended Artist Collective works in a variety of art forms and disciplines. The collective uses a range of performance practices to explore the intersection between artistic creation and various aspects of contemporary life. PartSuspended’s work draws on personal and collective experiences, everyday life, social space and architecture in an attempt to imagine new possibilities for feminist action. PartSuspended is particularly interested in feminist work that asks questions and challenges conventional boundaries and forms. Their work is multimedia, multilingual and multidisciplinary.