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The Ethics of Participatory Research and Arts Practice, Tate Research Centre: Learning, at the Tate Modern

Monday 14 March 10.00-16.00, East Room, Tate Modern, London
The Ethics of Participatory Research and Art Practice event brings together leading researchers, artists, curators, educators and participants in the field of arts and learning, organised by the Tate Research Centre: Learning.

The Ethics of Participatory Research and Art Practice brings together researchers, artists, curators, educators and participants in the field of arts and learning to consider the current ethical challenges that face participatory research and arts practice today. The aim is to draw on a variety of experiences, to share and exchange approaches and create an open space where collaboratively we can work towards affirmative ethical strategies and methods. The event features presentations and group discussions focused on an ethics of consent, knowledge, ownership, research and practice. These ideas will be considered in relation to projects that present questions and challenges that will be addressed during the day though open discursive sessions.

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Dr Pratap Rughani was an invited speaker: see this link to watch his presentation.

Speaker abstracts and biographies here.

Tate 2016 Day Program

 

Research Fortnight Launch 2016 : three rare Kubrick screenings 7 March 16

Kubrick LCC research18:00 – 19:45  @ Central St Martins

1 Granary Square, E003
Kings Cross London N1C 4AA
Free event and open to all, but please book

Pre-Screening refreshments from 6:00pm in the CSM Staff Club. Screening from 6:35pm in Lecture Theatre E003.

UAL staff discuss their approaches to working with the Kubrick archive, accompanied by a screening of three of his rarely seen documentary works from the 1950s. Professor Oriana Baddeley (UAL Dean of Research) will be in discussion with Dr Pratap Rughani (Reader LCC) and Richard Daniels (Senior Archivist from the Kubrick Archive at UAL) about different approaches to working with this fascinating collection.

 

“Justine” Screening and discussion @ Leicester DocMedia month

Director Pratap Rughani will attend Documenting Disability: Policy, Politics and the Personal at University of Leicester, November 18th 2015, for a screening of his film Justine, followed by a discussion with Dr E. Anna Claydon, of the Department of Media and Communication, University of Leicester. The day starts at 10:00 with a debate on politics and policy and disability, followed by the film screening. Discussion is scheduled to start around 11.30 for approximately an hour.

Justine review by Dr E. A. Claydon

Leicester DocMedia

“Documenting Disability” discussion transcriptDownload

Melanie Manchot in conversation with Pratap Rughani

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear Melanie Manchot talk about the inspiration behind Twelve with Dr Pratap Rughani, documentary filmmaker and Reader in Documentary Film at University of the Arts London and Emily Druiff, Executive Director at Peckham Platform.

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Twelve, Melanie Manchot’s major new multi-channel video installation exploring the intimate stories, rituals, repetitions and ruptures of lives spent in addiction and recovery, will launch at Peckham Platform this May before touring nationally throughout 2015 and 2016.

Poetics and Politics Documentary Research Symposium, May 15-17th, 2015

“As was the case at the 2013 conference, the Poetics and Politics conference will provide an invaluable context for documentary-based research that both troubles and reinvigorates the discrepant categories of scholarly “theory” and cultural “practice.” The symposium invites participants whose work frames, historicizes, or embodies questions about the various possible relations of theory to practice in documentary research”.

FRIDAY MAY 15, 2015 DARC 108
6:00- 6:30pm WELCOME and OPENING REMARKS
6:30-8:00pm EPISTEMOLOGIES OF PRAXIS (Sharon Daniel, Hope Tucker, Pratap Rughani)
This panel gathers practitioners whose documentary work provide key provocations for this symposium. Interrogating and problematising how documentary epistemologies and meanings are constructed, this panel raises specific approaches for demystifying documentary-making as a practice of visible evidence. Questions considered by this panel include: the scope of documentary practice in the ‘fourth world’; documentary materiality as a source for relaying narratives of unresolved environmental disaster; and the ethical (consent) and aesthetic/affective concerns in documentary-making processes that involve asymmetric power relations between makers and subjects. The panel offers pathways for understanding reflexive praxis as a source of competing historical and affective epistemologies, more than simply a move to deconstruct the documentary artefact. Through this, the panel situates how documentary-making as a socio-historical and psycho-social practice intervenes in contemporary geo-political scenarios.

Poetics & Politics Abstracts and Programme

University of California, Santa Cruz USA

 

 

“Justine” Screening and Discussion on May 6th 2015 @LCC 2 – 4pm Room MLG06, Elephant & Castle

This screening is followed by a discussion, led by Head of College, Natalie Brett and Dr Pratap Rughani, examining the art of crossing bridges in documentary and raising core questions of the ethics of consent and the representation of disability. All welcome, but please make a booking.

The screening and discussion is organised by the UAL Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC). This is a Moose on the Loose event. The overall aim of Moose is to encourage and celebrate research initiatives, large and small, with wide ranging themes, from design activism to the intersection of poetry and film.

London College of Communication, Room MLG06, Elephant & Castle, London SE1 6SB

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Moose on the Loose 2015