Drifting and Guddling: Creative practice as/and research
In this presentation and discussion Professor Minty Donald will share and reflect on her work as a practice-based researcher and artist working both within and beyond academic contexts. Minty’s practice-research explores interrelationships between humans and the other-than-human environments that they shape, build and inhabit; environments that also mould and permeate them. Her practice takes multiple forms, determined by the context in which she is working, but frequently includes performance, sculpture, participatory events and writing. Minty regularly works with (human) collaborator, Nick Millar.
'On Practice' - A New Series of Talks and Workshops (Research Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation)
Date: Wednesday 26 February 2025
Time: 15:00 - 16:00
Venue: Hetherington, Room 133
Category: Public lectures, Social events, Academic events
Speaker: Professor Minty Donald
On Practice - A New Series of Talks and Workshops
Research Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation
The goal of this new series of events is to offer a space for academics, artists and interdisciplinary practitioners to reflect on the role that practice has in shaping research, and, vice-versa, to appreciate how artistic production can produce knowledge. The mutual exchange - and sometimes tension - between art practice and more ‘traditional’ forms of research is something that can be productively explored to help both academics and artists/practitioners to inform and deepen their respective practices. This series will therefore explore creative methodologies, practice-based research, artistic practice, but also experimental translation and pedagogy, community engagement, and so on. This intends to be a meeting point for both academics and practitioners to forge new connections and collaborations.
Our Centre for Comparative Literature and Translation is the ideal host for this series, as comparative studies are inherently linked to the singularities of our experiential background, while practice could be deemed as ‘comparative’ in nature.
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In this presentation and discussion Professor Minty Donald will share and reflect on her work as a practice-based researcher and artist working both within and beyond academic contexts. Minty’s practice-research explores interrelationships between humans and the other-than-human environments that they shape, build and inhabit; environments that also mould and permeate them.
Her practice takes multiple forms, determined by the context in which she is working, but frequently includes performance, sculpture, participatory events and writing. In her practice, she treats other-than-human matter as a collaborator, acknowledging its liveliness and agency, while also recognising the limits and inequalities of human/other-than-human collaboration. Minty regularly works with (human) collaborator, Nick Millar.
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***ALL WELCOME - REFRESHMENTS PROVIDED***
No need to sign up! For more information, don't hesitate to get in touch with Dr Alessia Zinnari (Alessia.Zinnari@glasgow.ac.uk )