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CAMC Curates is the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities newsletter with suggestions and news from our expert and engaged researchers.
Carolina Rito reflects on the Critical Pedagogies programme she curated at Nottingham Contemporary (2019-2020) in her recent essay “Critical Pedagogies: The Learning Collective in the Awakening of the COVID-19 Pandemic”. The essay explores education’s current scenarios, its ongoing neoliberalisation, and the role of cultural organisations in mobilising resources for collective learning. The text reflects upon the year-long programme and the challenges posed by the COVID-19 outbreak to education in academia and beyond. Critical Pedagogies programme entailed a series of public events, online publications, an edited volume, and CAMPUS independent study programme.
Place Setting #3 by Jill Journeaux
Jill Journeaux, Place Setting, 2020
Place Setting #3 by Jill Journeaux uses practice to consider how the table settings that we use in our own homes can bring together a range of places, people and remembered experiences. As the boundaries of Jill’s home shrunk in recent weeks and travel has been severely curtailed, Jill has been aware of the items that she has selected for place settings. These have come from other countries that the artist has spent time in and have travelled to her home on airplanes and boats, have been made by people she loves, or were selected and used by her parents and grandparents. Jill has brought them together as reminders of other places, times and experiences, and through the physical experience of eating from and with them she can expand the places that she currently occupy beyond the limitations of her front door.
Meet Our New Colleagues
Lecturer, School of Nursing, Midwifery and Health
I am a midwife by background, yet uniquely I have also studied BA (Hons) drama with media, communications and popular culture. Within CAMC I am looking forward to exploring how we might engage in the visual and performing arts to communicate experiences and change perceptions in relation to problematic substance use in midwifery populations, more specifically through the co-creation of docudramas. I am also excited to explore how co-creation might be used in developing 'Research Inspired Teaching', workplace wellbeing, workplace compassion and interventions to support the wellbeing of health care staff in the workplace. I was drawn to CAMC and its exciting, vibrant and supportive research culture in which I feel I can thrive and flourish as an early career researcher. I am eager to meet you all in due course and have no doubt the best is yet to come.
CAMC PGR Community
Cathy MacTaggart, Detail of Working Woman, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Cathy MacTaggart, who recently graduated from CAMC, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Vlieseline Fine Art Textiles Award. The selected stitched works are part of a series that Cathy made for her MA by Research entitled Stitching (In)Significant Woman.
Image credit: Yellow House, by John Devane
