https://caitlinshepherd.com Caitlin Shepherd Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:48:35 +0000 https://caitlinshepherd.com en https://caitlinshepherd.com/On-Withdrawal Sat, 21 Dec 2024 13:48:35 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/On-Withdrawal C2 Images<img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/aac7a3bfb60680076ed992db8c68db1164ce50c817ba73397c69690a794a4188/25-10-24_0074_ArtHouse-x-Consumed_XT504109.jpg" data-mid="240334293" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/aac7a3bfb60680076ed992db8c68db1164ce50c817ba73397c69690a794a4188/25-10-24_0074_ArtHouse-x-Consumed_XT504109.jpg" /><img width="7728" height="5152" width_o="7728" height_o="5152" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6ea46c6c2c82ac45ea88e3491fb13e9b17da6e2f0fe6fbe794cd6dc0f2ff54c6/25-10-24_0076_ArtHouse-x-Consumed_XT504117.jpg" data-mid="240334292" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6ea46c6c2c82ac45ea88e3491fb13e9b17da6e2f0fe6fbe794cd6dc0f2ff54c6/25-10-24_0076_ArtHouse-x-Consumed_XT504117.jpg" /><img width="1748" height="968" width_o="1748" height_o="968" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b420d5a404e41f44791e73669cdaed5bd0a2bdd8076e5ec69b1f3fa7bc555e53/On-Withdrawal-2025-1-10.13.15.png" data-mid="238525261" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b420d5a404e41f44791e73669cdaed5bd0a2bdd8076e5ec69b1f3fa7bc555e53/On-Withdrawal-2025-1-10.13.15.png" /><img width="1920" height="1074" width_o="1920" height_o="1074" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/18f528621499448152eaf6c8481c0b7dd8d9914cfd4e516d711301660ef8c48e/Screenshot-2025-09-10-at-21.37.37.png" data-mid="238525265" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/18f528621499448152eaf6c8481c0b7dd8d9914cfd4e516d711301660ef8c48e/Screenshot-2025-09-10-at-21.37.37.png" /><img width="1912" height="1018" width_o="1912" height_o="1018" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1ac18c0bdc39b4ee9988f4b604a91552f82e93ce8fde54e2c3f4095ac30e34eb/On-Withdrawal-2025-3-10.13.15.png" data-mid="238525262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1ac18c0bdc39b4ee9988f4b604a91552f82e93ce8fde54e2c3f4095ac30e34eb/On-Withdrawal-2025-3-10.13.15.png" /> Notes 1. The Women’s Research Wānanga 2. Watch&nbsp;12 min film here 2. On Withdrawal publication (2)On Withdrawal ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ Exhibited as part of the Consumed exhibition at ArtHouse Jersey, The Women’s Research Wānanga. Making this work has and is, taking a long time. To date, I have been making On Withdrawal since September 2024. I consider this version another iteration of an ongoing enquiry into my body, socio-economic systems and ideas of inequity and physical, affective, embodied acts of defiance and refusal. It all started when I bought a body suit with no face hole; a kind of second skin that engulfed me. I liked how it felt as if I was both invisible yet hyper visible, and very, very slippery. When I zipped my face, body and limbs into this cheap Lycra suit, no one could see my face, yet this second skin traced and contained my body, turning me into an unheimlich silhouette. Like most things, this expression, and impulse to buy my shadow suit was rooted in a deep round of psychological and physical processing. When I started developing this part of myself, that I have come to call my shadow killjoy, it was early October 2024. I was working full time as a researcher at Cambridge University, working predominantly from home, and had just gone through major and sudden Ovarian cancer tests, followed by rapid surgery. I was also at the start of an intense, beguiling, enriching and simultaneously damaging relationship. Who wouldn’t want to dress up in a body stocking to become a haunting, defiant, fuck you, silhouette. —--- HAPPY BIG MASSIVE FULL MOON // On Withdrawal ROUND TWO “Who are you. Who are you. Who are you. Stop, language is crawling all over me. Sometimes if you stay still long enough you can make it go.” Emily Berry, 2017 Three ways to withdraw (from the f****** hetero patriarchal capitalist death trap) Round TWO. On Withdrawal is currently on show as part of the Consumed Exhibition Arthouse Jersey. It has been a year in the making, and I'm not sure it's finished yet...On withdrawal is a 12-minute-long performance-film, written, performed, staged, and shot in the tradition of DIY feminist performance art. That is, I used resources I had freely available to me to make this work. The purpose of the work is to at once parody and critique the systemic inequities of Eurocentric, hetero-patriarchal, late capitalism. The system that places great pressures, inequities, and injustices on many bodies; though not all bodies will experience the same combination of pressures, inequalities, and stress fractures (Berlant, 2011; Crenshaw, 1989). Some are hurt &amp; hurt way more than others. Through the filmic narrative and performance, I suggest three methods of withdrawal. Three ways to tap out of and at once disrupt exploitative and precarious working conditions; gendered microaggressions that so often see female identifying people named as difficult, demanding or stress-heads (Ahmed, 2017); and practical, hands on methods for cathartic release (aka cake smashing) from the exhaustion, chronic stress, sleeplessness and fatigue that comes from living entangled and harmed / trapped by the values, politics and economics of racist, transphobic, misogynistic shitty late capitalism (Fisher, 2009) References Ahmed, S. (2017) Living a feminist life. Durham: Duke University Press. Berlant, L. G. (2011) Cruel optimism. Durham, N.C: Duke University Press. Crenshaw, K. W. (2011) ‘Demarginalising the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Anti-discrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory, and Anti-racist Politics 1’, in Maria Teresa Herrera Vivar et al. (eds.) Framing Intersectionality. 1st edition [Online]. Routledge. pp. 25–42. Fisher, M. (2009) Capitalist realism&nbsp; : is there no&nbsp;alternative? Winchester: O Books. ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Caring-to-Listen-PhD Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:30:39 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Caring-to-Listen-PhD C3 Images<img width="1918" height="842" width_o="1918" height_o="842" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/31de32cd26aa87566a52b5d641ac124abf7951c84367e440ceccf930c22e1959/C4--AUTO-THEORY-PRACTICE-IMAGE.png" data-mid="153317547" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/31de32cd26aa87566a52b5d641ac124abf7951c84367e440ceccf930c22e1959/C4--AUTO-THEORY-PRACTICE-IMAGE.png" /> <img width="1904" height="882" width_o="1904" height_o="882" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df9afccb8d756197ebb21f64529a3c88c49333a0579796ebbea1fa740858f8ce/Thinking-with-2.png" data-mid="153317592" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df9afccb8d756197ebb21f64529a3c88c49333a0579796ebbea1fa740858f8ce/Thinking-with-2.png" /> <img width="1902" height="853" width_o="1902" height_o="853" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/94664019b273b0f48324d6a3b0a6be50a84acbbc77924abc7ea9f391652170a9/C4-Auto-theory-sketch-book.png" data-mid="153317563" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/94664019b273b0f48324d6a3b0a6be50a84acbbc77924abc7ea9f391652170a9/C4-Auto-theory-sketch-book.png" /> <img width="1827" height="862" width_o="1827" height_o="862" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8bb4518f76cd35625bb0f57ac872b42060745196ee1146af16998460813436cd/Fig-3-ALAPLA.png" data-mid="153317567" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8bb4518f76cd35625bb0f57ac872b42060745196ee1146af16998460813436cd/Fig-3-ALAPLA.png" /> <img width="3504" height="2550" width_o="3504" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e4d0e25f67015db8d004dcbb29b200e92ea2575388562cb4ae45283a00b8b98/IMG_20210824_0010.jpg" data-mid="118089083" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e4d0e25f67015db8d004dcbb29b200e92ea2575388562cb4ae45283a00b8b98/IMG_20210824_0010.jpg" /> Notes 1&nbsp;Caring to Listen talk at The Pervasive Media Studio 20212&nbsp;Portfolio of Practice3 Written Thesis (4)Caring to Listen &nbsp; ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ This PhD journey has taken seven years (2015 - 2022). I completed this body of praxis, alongside working 4 days a week, living in over nine different rented houses / chalets / warehouses / boats. I’m the first person in my family to get a PhD. I don’t know if I will write an essay longer than 1,000 words ever again.&nbsp; In Caring to Listen, I examine how working-class backgrounds shape experiences of success when working as a socially engaged artist in the UK. This research is important, because until experiences of class inequality are better understood in relation to the working conditions and cultures of socially engaged art, the social turn cannot claim to be inclusive or ameliorative. Without evidencing how inequality in socially engaged art practices is understood and addressed, the socially engaged art sector (and creative industries at large) risk making minor adjustments to the capitalist status quo. To undertake this praxis, I developed and used a practice as research methodology. Specifically, the dynamic praxis system. Academic findings arising from my praxis, evidence a paucity of research quantifying and analysing the experiences of working-class artists involved with producing contemporary socially engaged art. This represents a crisis of knowledge in terms of understanding how class background determines creative ideation and access to employment and validation when working as a socially engaged artist. More research is needed to understand the causes, scale, and experiences of multi-ethnic working-class people, involved with the production socially engaged art (and artistic practice at large) today. Responding to these knowledge gaps, I’ve developed artistic research processes, including The Convivial Listening Protocol; a new practice as research method that uses listening and privilege mapping activities to better understand how class origin shapes creative aspirations and experiences of people working as socially engaged artists. Findings arising from Caring to Listen will be of interest to socially engaged artists and academics researching inequality in the field of socially engaged arts and the creative and cultural industries. Further, this praxis will be of use to scholars and artists examining how theories and practices of listening and care can facilitate candid conversations and action on pervasive intersectional class inequality. A structural problem endemic to the arts, and society at large.Props to my supervisory team, friends and family. Many thanks to conference organisers and audiences, where I’ve had the chance to develop and get feedback on my thinking.&nbsp;︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Shared-Campus Sat, 07 Oct 2023 13:19:22 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Shared-Campus C4 Images <img width="2428" height="1070" width_o="2428" height_o="1070" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cf5460fe26e5cae8123b7ce26bae4d05fd3cbcb6ac90ea4698cacc6d70cdfed0/Screenshot-2023-10-07-at-14.24.23.png" data-mid="192988665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cf5460fe26e5cae8123b7ce26bae4d05fd3cbcb6ac90ea4698cacc6d70cdfed0/Screenshot-2023-10-07-at-14.24.23.png" /> <img width="2442" height="1064" width_o="2442" height_o="1064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/166f18178dc53bc07caf6026fa2404356cf616f357b0abf389526395fe64d586/Screenshot-2023-10-07-at-14.24.33.png" data-mid="192988666" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/166f18178dc53bc07caf6026fa2404356cf616f357b0abf389526395fe64d586/Screenshot-2023-10-07-at-14.24.33.png" /> <img width="4080" height="3060" width_o="4080" height_o="3060" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d84b4c2f43ac14d3de7ae20ddcd06e03aacb4fd7780b98e76ab7cc71983ac9be/20220825_182119.jpg" data-mid="193484939" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d84b4c2f43ac14d3de7ae20ddcd06e03aacb4fd7780b98e76ab7cc71983ac9be/20220825_182119.jpg" /> <img width="6378" height="4252" width_o="6378" height_o="4252" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0b5e2c9d7625b01f616a7c840169d8c5785da7b5311c1517b6c426f81bb0fe96/group_summerschool_hgpi_22.jpg" data-mid="193485011" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0b5e2c9d7625b01f616a7c840169d8c5785da7b5311c1517b6c426f81bb0fe96/group_summerschool_hgpi_22.jpg" /> Notes 1&nbsp;Shared Campus Website2&nbsp;Hacking Pop Cultures 3 Documents of student work (5)Shared Campus&nbsp; &nbsp; ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ I worked on the Shared Campus project as Academic Lead for the Hacking Global Icons Summer School between 2020 - 2022. My role included co-designing and facilitating curriculum for three summer school for students hailing from all over the world. Two courses were held online, while another ran in Zurich in August 2022.&nbsp; Shared Campus is a cooperation platform for international education formats and research networks established by 13 leading international arts universities, schools and colleges. The Shared Campus platform is designed around themes of international relevance with a distinct focus on transcultural issues and cross-disciplinary collaboration. Around our five core themes we co-create a broad scope of activities within education, research and cultural production. These include; Semester programs, summer schools, courses, workshops, networking events, symposia, festivals, publications and a collaborative learning platform.&nbsp;︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Convivial-Listening-Protocol Sat, 04 Sep 2021 18:16:40 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Convivial-Listening-Protocol C5 Images <img width="3504" height="2550" width_o="3504" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd401a45e5f10eac3dd5fbfe149a86e455e8f509d782646b556b3814cb06e16b/IMG_20210824_0002.jpg" data-mid="118089023" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd401a45e5f10eac3dd5fbfe149a86e455e8f509d782646b556b3814cb06e16b/IMG_20210824_0002.jpg" /> <img width="1678" height="936" width_o="1678" height_o="936" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d4ffbb72c547cc4e2256a7332b1251ccb9115e8af9ace19bf32b95f9e9c47098/Screenshot-2022-10-25-at-12.47.02.png" data-mid="156915665" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d4ffbb72c547cc4e2256a7332b1251ccb9115e8af9ace19bf32b95f9e9c47098/Screenshot-2022-10-25-at-12.47.02.png" /> <img width="3504" height="2550" width_o="3504" height_o="2550" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5e4d0e25f67015db8d004dcbb29b200e92ea2575388562cb4ae45283a00b8b98/IMG_20210824_0010.jpg" data-mid="118089025" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5e4d0e25f67015db8d004dcbb29b200e92ea2575388562cb4ae45283a00b8b98/IMG_20210824_0010.jpg" /> Notes 1 Convivial Listening Protocol&nbsp;PDF (6)Convivial Listening&nbsp; ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ My work examines how listening practices might offer a method of better understanding and researching experiences of working-class exclusion in the field of socially engaged arts. In developing this listening toolkit, I explore how listening practices might offer one method for tuning into trouble, listening to and witnessing stories different to those of white, able bodied, hetero-patriarchal, middle-class privilege. The first section of the protocol is presented page by page and deals with the purpose and context of my research. You can read it following the numeric titles found at the top of the page. You can then open the document out and do the activities presented on the spread. Feel free to read this in any order that works for you. “Voice is socially grounded. Voice is not the practice of individuals in isolation.” Nick Couldry, 2010, p.6 References&nbsp;Couldry N., ProQuest (Firm), . (2010). Why voice matters. London: SAGE. ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Teaching-Praxis Tue, 25 Oct 2022 08:23:24 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Teaching-Praxis C6 Images <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c240c81a0e51980872869133ce8fec980aedb8469bd64ef14bb9e0c735e8f8f5/1Q8A3809.jpg" data-mid="156898872" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c240c81a0e51980872869133ce8fec980aedb8469bd64ef14bb9e0c735e8f8f5/1Q8A3809.jpg" /> <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4d4293a04c031562c43ecf34fe7b609d288071cd43ba8aea40d4861e1769e547/1Q8A3238.jpg" data-mid="156898871" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4d4293a04c031562c43ecf34fe7b609d288071cd43ba8aea40d4861e1769e547/1Q8A3238.jpg" /> <img width="6556" height="4371" width_o="6556" height_o="4371" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6958eee0df5b7c7f1e96ce1a917b542dafd1cacfb3ac50acc4771f87c628daef/1Q8A3820.jpg" data-mid="156900262" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6958eee0df5b7c7f1e96ce1a917b542dafd1cacfb3ac50acc4771f87c628daef/1Q8A3820.jpg" /> Notes 1 Teaching Portfolio&nbsp; 2&nbsp;Info on Shared Campus&nbsp;3&nbsp;Random Incantation Cards (7)Teaching Praxis&nbsp; ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ Teaching is a central part of my creative praxis, a space where I get to design curriculum, collaborate with colleagues and students, and test out new praxis and research ideas, as well as expand on and discuss interesting topics, texts, and artworks. I situate my teaching praxis within the fields of socially engaged art and design, class studies, the working conditions and hidden costs of the creative and cultural industries, feminist ethics of care and listening practices. I have a distinction in Postgraduate Academic Practice in Art, Design and Communication (PgCert), and am an associate fellow of the Higher Education Academy. I currently teach BA and MA students in the subjects of Art and Design at University of the Arts London and Falmouth University of the Arts. Since 2020, I’ve been involved in the co-design and delivery of the Hacking Global Pop Icons Summer School, part of the Shared Campus Project. Photos taken from Hacking Global Pop Icons Summer School 2022 at Zurich University of the Arts. Photos by Rafael Gil Cordeiro. ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Scorpion-Press Fri, 03 Apr 2020 14:35:21 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Scorpion-Press C1 Images<img width="2480" height="3507" width_o="2480" height_o="3507" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6bbc7ee8221d3e5e94b9f7d5e6776de44a1a98fc6e0f174d529e794f606514fb/IMG_20251227_0001.jpg" data-mid="242211368" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6bbc7ee8221d3e5e94b9f7d5e6776de44a1a98fc6e0f174d529e794f606514fb/IMG_20251227_0001.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="3506" width_o="2480" height_o="3506" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f52a441fd6bc734eaa498b2300cde7f1f129c3665a752b31a0210e09eec25c85/IMG_20250807_0007.jpg" data-mid="240335870" border="0" data-scale="69" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f52a441fd6bc734eaa498b2300cde7f1f129c3665a752b31a0210e09eec25c85/IMG_20250807_0007.jpg" /><img width="1593" height="2075" width_o="1593" height_o="2075" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0c5a11ebece9a11911742eee968a15d94777510053f43fb40ac2e0d5d087c489/IMG_20250729_0002.jpg" data-mid="240335868" border="0" data-scale="70" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0c5a11ebece9a11911742eee968a15d94777510053f43fb40ac2e0d5d087c489/IMG_20250729_0002.jpg" /> Notes 1 Little Scorpion Press Insta2 Random Incantation Cards (1)Little Scorpion Press&nbsp; Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ About Little Scorpion Press is a self-publishing printing press. It’s a space to play with, share and communicate ideas, feelings and acts of joy, critique, lamentations and refusal. The main aim of Little Scorpion Press is to use the age-old art of piss taking and subversion to critique and refuse the death grip of colonial, hetero-normative, patriarchal capitalism. The press is organised around DIY printing practices, sex-positivity, queerness and anarchist principles, and is committed to existing predominantly offline in the form of printed and hand made artefacts. Little Scorpion Press is a space to celebrate and amplify anti-capitalist, anti-fascist, queer visual and material cultures that both protect and refuse. Key Words: Intersectional trans inclusive feminism, anarchy,&nbsp; sex positive, pleasure activism, queer desire &amp; dreaming, beyond the death grip of hetero-patriarchal capitalism, mutuality, care &amp; kinship. Bi-Annual Zine Opne Call As part of this project, I organise a bi-annual open call to contribute to and curate a zine, with the launch part taking place on or close to the summer / winter solstices.&nbsp; Key Zine Dates 2025 - 2026 Autumn Equinox - Mon Sept 22nd 2025: Call for winter zine goes live Winter Solstice - Sat Dec 2oth 2025: Zine launch partySpring Equinox - Friday March 20th 2026: Call for Summer Solstice zine goes live Summer Solstice - Sat June 20th: zine sharing party https://caitlinshepherd.com/Wounds-Damage Wed, 01 Apr 2020 08:37:10 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Wounds-Damage C7 Images <img width="361" height="498" width_o="361" height_o="498" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ff200b165ff245386c485b7a21bcaaf1250a9512bc862d8ee6b9502e0ae074a/Screenshot-2020-04-01-at-10.04.03.png" data-mid="65300362" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/361/i/7ff200b165ff245386c485b7a21bcaaf1250a9512bc862d8ee6b9502e0ae074a/Screenshot-2020-04-01-at-10.04.03.png" /> <img width="826" height="1102" width_o="826" height_o="1102" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6692cb83a88dc569fc05a6df71f9da7a6fa4c7a1cfe50bdd5179eaed4a0db247/IMG_20200131_142009_441.jpg" data-mid="65299658" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/826/i/6692cb83a88dc569fc05a6df71f9da7a6fa4c7a1cfe50bdd5179eaed4a0db247/IMG_20200131_142009_441.jpg" /> <img width="304" height="447" width_o="304" height_o="447" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/baedd6f88130a71d013998ec5685d9596664eff315ce5799ef73599f576800c2/Screenshot-2020-04-01-at-10.13.07.png" data-mid="65300837" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/304/i/baedd6f88130a71d013998ec5685d9596664eff315ce5799ef73599f576800c2/Screenshot-2020-04-01-at-10.13.07.png" /> Notes 1 Queering Damage Methodology&nbsp; 2 The Force of Listening PDF3&nbsp; Watch short video here(8)Wounds &amp; Damage ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ I’ve recently become interested in the craft of prosthetic wound making. I’m exploring the materiality of wounds as an expression of the hidden oppressions and damages done to the human and non-human sphere by the conditions of neo-liberalism. These wounds are not simply about guts and gore, but about making tangible intersectional and compounded damage played out through systemic and micro acts of oppression, exclusion and aggression. In asking questions about the cuts and wounds that capitalism casts, I draw on two feminist methodologies; these are consciousness raising (CR) listening praxes and queering damage (QD) methodology. CR is a collective speaking-listening process that dedicates itself to developing methods of listening. CR praxes were rehearsed in 1960’s and 1970’s Western feminist movements, where women gathered to listen to each other articulating their own personal narratives. In this sense, CR groups functioned to carve open spaces to witness women “saying it how it is” (Farinati &amp;amp; Firth, 2017, p.40 - 41). This practice values listening as much as speaking and is a practice that sets out to understand the relationship between lived experience and the politics of everyday life (Farinati &amp;amp; Firth, 2017, p.5). QD is a praxis-research methodology I came across at Sonic Acts Festival (2020). Developed by Helen Pritchard, Jara Rocha, Femke Snelting and Laura Benitez Valero, QD is a manual for understanding the damages of techno-science, capitalism and informatics on human and non-human worlds. It is a method that sets out to identify, name, and if possible, repair various types of damage done. Pritchard et al define the purpose of QD as “Instead of extending benevolent utopianism, the praxis extends queer theories that concern personal injury into more than human ensembles in order to consider the shared damages. It is designed to be carried in your pocket, holds a free art license, and exists to be used and re-situated” (Pritchard et al, 2020, p. 91). In drawing on and combining these two methodologies, I hope to contribute practices of critical, collective listening to experiences of becoming and being wounded within the context of neoliberalism.︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Mach-Matches Sun, 15 Dec 2019 12:17:24 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Mach-Matches C8 Images <img width="471" height="554" width_o="471" height_o="554" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ef518ec473d87181c6d6f353fb601c74403531b2c74c3aa5ae1fc9c4ec3ae6a8/Screenshot-2019-12-15-at-16.12.55.png" data-mid="56685852" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/471/i/ef518ec473d87181c6d6f353fb601c74403531b2c74c3aa5ae1fc9c4ec3ae6a8/Screenshot-2019-12-15-at-16.12.55.png" /> <img width="1794" height="1080" width_o="1794" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d2bd5661f1710c6bf1016a301ab24d276e3deeb1f3526c8a87f8532fa6725a45/mach-makers.png" data-mid="56677657" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d2bd5661f1710c6bf1016a301ab24d276e3deeb1f3526c8a87f8532fa6725a45/mach-makers.png" /> <img width="1077" height="1346" width_o="1077" height_o="1346" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb9b7e0b37c44e40a30187f47a6cdf3d4b0912cf96ffe1b662d5204e0a1a6771/DE7E1A43-A206-47EB-A528-8C0F86694EF2.JPG" data-mid="56677655" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb9b7e0b37c44e40a30187f47a6cdf3d4b0912cf96ffe1b662d5204e0a1a6771/DE7E1A43-A206-47EB-A528-8C0F86694EF2.JPG" /> Notes 1 Fantasy dates you can live without. No Touching. No Kissing. 2 Commissioned by Articulture Wales and Machynlleth Comedy Festival.&nbsp;Design featured on Newspaper Club 2019 June Highlights.3&nbsp; Digital interactive dating experience for the lonely-hearted and touch adverse.(9)Mach Matches ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ Feeling bored by the predictability of your comedy festival companions? Looking for some romance during the festival? Look no further than Mach Matches; fantasy dates you can live without. The organizing principle is fiction. We believe that sometimes, just sometimes, fiction can become reality. Here at Mach Matches HQ we have gone to great lengths to bring you complicated and romantically unavailable individuals. Scouring the territories of the UK, we bring you Xavier, Amy, Dilwyn, and a handful of others. Our rigorous selection criteria included a rich tapestry of life experience, cultural backgrounds, damage, individual potential for redemption and people who realize their desires by way of sublimation. This is no ordinary dating experience. Be prepared to flirt without restraint for one hour or four days. Delve into the dark crevasses of your unspoken desires without uttering a word. All you need to do is txt your fiction, and you will be rewarded by an ongoing scroll of sensual, difficult fantasy romance. Txt is disposable and all will be deleted (or will it?). How it works. To co-author your tarnished love affair with the fictitious, all you need to do is choose one of our outstanding candidates. Pick up our fantasy date catalogue, choose your fictional romance, Txt their name to the number listed, and let the lust rip through your body. You will be matched. ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/Radio-Thamesmead Sun, 15 Dec 2019 13:47:49 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/Radio-Thamesmead C9 Images <img width="333" height="369" width_o="333" height_o="369" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/007ea65488b5b0957981b9eb85709624d5c1ea1225c567d5de220d733f8106f6/Screen-Shot-2018-11-07-at-1.09.41-PM.png" data-mid="56679968" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/333/i/007ea65488b5b0957981b9eb85709624d5c1ea1225c567d5de220d733f8106f6/Screen-Shot-2018-11-07-at-1.09.41-PM.png" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b4bcae9b2117786fb19bd2d5054ce4c4ad4cc50cc2de6c47a4096b58195418ab/RTM---003.jpg" data-mid="56679993" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b4bcae9b2117786fb19bd2d5054ce4c4ad4cc50cc2de6c47a4096b58195418ab/RTM---003.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1000" width_o="1500" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/22d50579a4be042dd0fb8a77038ad7231e231e263c8531f2a1349c49d3c55e1a/RTM---030.jpg" data-mid="56679994" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/22d50579a4be042dd0fb8a77038ad7231e231e263c8531f2a1349c49d3c55e1a/RTM---030.jpg" /> Notes 1. 40 minute radio work discussing class identity in the arts with Andrea Zimmerman and Dave O Brien. 2. Community Radio in collaboration with TACO!3.&nbsp;RTM.FM is a radio station developed and managed by TACO! as a platform for community produced culture, debate, art and music. The station provides opportunities for local people to produce and distribute their own content and learn new skills in broadcasting, production, and presenting. (10)Radio Thamesmead ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ Developed in collaboration with artist Sam Skinner, Radio Thamesmead (RTM) is a new radio station, broadcasting live from TACO!RTM’s programmes are made and presented by local people and groups including Mary Martins, Hasina Zuberi, Willaim Ofuso- Apea, SP Studios, Carolyn Long, Panto Dame Mama G, Michael Ohajuru, Tatiana Ellis and Alex Tuckwood and many more. As part of the broadcast schedule, contemporary artists have been invited by TACO! and Sam.In response to a loose brief, I made a podcast, Reframing the Class Divide. It's a podcast about the art world, class identity and exclusivity, and listening as a method of including the excluded part. It's a conversation on these themes, with Dr O Brian, Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Nina Garthwaite. It was broadcast three times in November 2018.&nbsp;︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ https://caitlinshepherd.com/A-Life-A-Presence-Like-the-Air Sun, 15 Dec 2019 14:02:02 +0000 Caitlin Shepherd https://caitlinshepherd.com/A-Life-A-Presence-Like-the-Air C10 Images <img width="3000" height="2000" width_o="3000" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/95ca100152c2f3bc12abd130c4d57b294d1bd97606ec15bd6d7e1397e646a98d/CS-3.jpg" data-mid="56682340" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/95ca100152c2f3bc12abd130c4d57b294d1bd97606ec15bd6d7e1397e646a98d/CS-3.jpg" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bda2d0eba0561c4c11d9577039a2446ebc3f00ff3d2ef6d3c526581698b1fca4/CS-A-Life--A-Presence--Like-the-Air-August-2017-PB-78_o.JPG" data-mid="56682367" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bda2d0eba0561c4c11d9577039a2446ebc3f00ff3d2ef6d3c526581698b1fca4/CS-A-Life--A-Presence--Like-the-Air-August-2017-PB-78_o.JPG" /> <img width="5000" height="3333" width_o="5000" height_o="3333" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/600e402b0fd319b1a0f153fd558858689da6e083053dc1db9325de106d7b9f4c/CS-A-Life--A-Presence--Like-the-Air-August-2017-PB-41_o.JPG" data-mid="56682373" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/600e402b0fd319b1a0f153fd558858689da6e083053dc1db9325de106d7b9f4c/CS-A-Life--A-Presence--Like-the-Air-August-2017-PB-41_o.JPG" /> Notes 1. A site-specific audio installation exploring the everyday experience of social housing, stories of home, and the history of social housing. 2. Funded by Arts Council England. In collaboration with Bristol Council, The Park Community Centre, Spike Island. 3. Supporting publication can be seen here. (11)A Life A Presence Like the Air ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎ A Life, A Presence Like the Air invited audiences to sit and listen to a site-specific sound installation, exploring everyday stories of home, housing, family, work and day to day experiences of triumph and tribulation. The experience lasted for approximately 40 minutes, and consisted of site, a built installation, documentary, poetry, print and musical content. The work was installed in a play area at Waring House, Redcliffe, Bristol, at The Park Community Centre, Knowle West, and in the Vestibules at Bristol City Council. A Life, A Presence Like the Air toured for 10 days, was funded by the Arts Council England and made in collaboration with Esther Tew, Dan Halahan, Rosie Strang and Kit Jones. Supported by Spike Island, Bristol City Council and Knowle West Media Centre. Promo material can be seen here and here. Photos by Paul Blakemore ︎ Prev&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Index︎&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;Next ︎