Reading and Conversation with Myriam Diatta
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Reading and Conversation with Myriam Diatta:
'Doing Creative Work from Your Political Body'
TIME: Wednesday 1 July, 18:00
PLACE: Hordaland Kunstsenter, ground floor
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: Free to attend, refreshments can be purchased in the bar.
Join author and researcher, Myriam Diatta, for a reading and conversation. The event will be dedicated to the daily work that politically engaged designers, writers, performers, visual artists, musicians, educators, researchers, and cultural workers do. It is both a message about aligning what we do in practice and what we value in theory, and a message about prioritizing embodied, felt knowledge that the racialized practitioner carries—while the theorist, curator, critic, and historian are traditionally sought out for sense-making and producing knowledge.
While the academies, cultural institutions, and universities around us tend to separate practice and theory, we will invite you to reflect: What do you make and where? What socio-political realities do you engage with? And, at the heart of the exploration, how might you nurture the making, being, thinking, and reading you do—all at once?
This event is part of an international tour of Diatta’s book, Doing Creative Work From Your Political Body: A Guide and Process for Practice-led Research, published with Set Margins’. Order the book now or visit Myriam’s website.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Myriam D. Diatta is a designer and independent scholar. Her practice focuses on the interior at the intersection of politically engaged work and creative knowledge production. Myriam is Black-Asian, Japanese-Diola, with a political and creative foundation nurtured in New York City. She is currently based in Aarhus, Denmark.
myriamdiatta.com
'Doing Creative Work from Your Political Body'
TIME: Wednesday 1 July, 18:00
PLACE: Hordaland Kunstsenter, ground floor
PRACTICAL INFORMATION: Free to attend, refreshments can be purchased in the bar.
Join author and researcher, Myriam Diatta, for a reading and conversation. The event will be dedicated to the daily work that politically engaged designers, writers, performers, visual artists, musicians, educators, researchers, and cultural workers do. It is both a message about aligning what we do in practice and what we value in theory, and a message about prioritizing embodied, felt knowledge that the racialized practitioner carries—while the theorist, curator, critic, and historian are traditionally sought out for sense-making and producing knowledge.
While the academies, cultural institutions, and universities around us tend to separate practice and theory, we will invite you to reflect: What do you make and where? What socio-political realities do you engage with? And, at the heart of the exploration, how might you nurture the making, being, thinking, and reading you do—all at once?
This event is part of an international tour of Diatta’s book, Doing Creative Work From Your Political Body: A Guide and Process for Practice-led Research, published with Set Margins’. Order the book now or visit Myriam’s website.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Myriam D. Diatta is a designer and independent scholar. Her practice focuses on the interior at the intersection of politically engaged work and creative knowledge production. Myriam is Black-Asian, Japanese-Diola, with a political and creative foundation nurtured in New York City. She is currently based in Aarhus, Denmark.
myriamdiatta.com
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Klosteret 17, 5005 Bergen, Norway, Klosteret 17, 5005 Bergen, Norge, Bergen, Norway
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