Harsh Light: David Harradine & Bakani Pick-Up
Wednesday 9 December, 7 – 8:30pm
Online (via Zoom)
Free & open to all
Accompanied by BSL interpretation
* we are currently adding subtitles to the footage above, apologies for any inconvenience.
Bloc Projects is excited to present the second instalment of Harsh Light webinars in December 2020. We will continue to examine how the art worlds have (not) coped in 2020, provide space for solace and solidarity, as well as propose some possible futures.
Harsh Light is becoming more than we could hope for. It is a platform for art workers to strategise and decompress during these sick times. We hold the space with critical and embodied care, inviting honest and at times vulnerable reflections from our peers, friends, and colleagues. Past speakers have already helped us think through anti-racist and climate justice work within institutions, and debunk the monolithic preconceptions that are tethered to disability.
The second instalment continues to use the Arts Council England (ACE) “Let’s Create” strategy as a point of departure. Amidst health, political and ecological crises, how do we feel about this vision to “transform a country by culture”? How, if at all, will ACE’s four investment principles of inclusivity and relevance, ambition and quality, dynamism, and environmental responsibility bring about the (art) worlds we want to have?
Billboard in Middlesborough as part of This Grief Thing, an ongoing programme by Fevered Sleep
The second session of our December ‘Harsh Light’ series welcomes Fevered Sleep’s Co-Artistic Director David Harradine and choreographer Bakani Pick-Up. They will explore how, as one of Arts Council England’s key investment principles, ‘dynamism’ gestures towards but fails to address how we must now ‘fight for our lives’ both in and beyond the arts. Alighting on acts of survival and care, our speakers will tend/attend to what we have lost (this year) and give space to collective grief.
About the speakers
David Harradine
David Harradine is co-artistic director of Fevered Sleep. He works across artforms, from theatre and dance, to film and audio, installation, text and digital art. Placing collaboration and participation at the centre of his practice, he has developed, with Fevered Sleep, a research-led approach to making art that is simultaneously challenging, compassionate and inclusive. His research proposes new ways of thinking about interdependence, care and the connectedness of the human and more-than-human world.
Bakani Pick-Up
Bakani Pick-Up is a choreographer who creates improvisational works centred around practice and methodology on ‘Ways of Being’ within performative structures. Previous work has been supported by Dance4, Arts Council England, Yorkshire Dance, Kala Sangham Arts Centre and Wainsgate Chapel.
The webinar will be recorded and available to view via our website following the event.
This event is free but booking is essential.
Bakani Pick-Up
Bloc Projects is proud to maintain a public programme that is free for everyone. However, attendees are encouraged to donate to the S2 Foodbank, who are carrying out essential work during this time. To donate either follow the link on our homepage or click the button below.
This programme of events has been generously supported by The Sheffield Town Trust