Invitations I — Astrid Korporaal & Sophie Hope

Technecast

In November, the Technecast is hosting the Invitations Series, a series of four conversations by Techne PhD students Judah Attille, Therese Henningsen, Mark Aerial Waller and Astrid Korporaal. Each episode is based on a research encounter with a creative practitioner connected to the field of sound and moving image. Together, the episodes question the relationships between audience, screen, maker and subject. These exchanges invite you to creatively unsettle conventions around objectivity, ethics and participation at a live online social event (Date TBC), hosted by a group of researchers and practitioners involved with moving image.In this first episode, Astrid Korporaal talks to creative practitioner and Birkbeck University Lecturer Dr. Sophie Hope. They discuss the use of performative strategies and role play in research and collaborative art practice, as well as the importance of long-term conversations, time to pause, and thinking in dialogue.***Images and projects discussed in order of appearance:1. Derek di Fabio, Conquer the Sky!, Almanac Projects, 2013. [almanacprojects.com/public-programm…conquer-the-sky]2. Sophie Hope, Cards on the Table, developed with Ania Bas, Sian Hunter-Dodsworth, Sophie Mallet and Henry Mulhall3. Theron Schmidt, Untitled, 20194. Frames of Representation festival symposium, 'How to think' with Laura Cull and Rajni Shah [www.framesofrepresentation.com/]5. Sophie Hope, Performative Interviews (still), 2007.6. Sophie Hope, 1984 Dinners (Johannesburg), The Bag Factory, 2014. [1984dinners.sophiehope.org.uk/project/jo…rg-dinner/]7. Virginia Ariu, Untitled (Care, Community, Ecology), 2020. For #almanaccare, 29 June - 20 December 2020. [almanacprojects.com/public-programme/almanaccare]8. Sophie Hope and Jenny Richards, Manual Labours, 2013-onwards [www.manuallabours.co.uk/]9. Sophie Hope and Owen Kelly, Meanwhile in an abandoned warehouse (screenshot), podcast series about cultural democracy, ongoing. [miaaw.net/]***CREDITS:Presented by Astrid Korporaal & Sophie Hope.Royalty free music generously shared by Steve Oxen. FesliyanStudios.comThe Invitations series image is a Eurasian woodcock visiting a balcony in Amsterdam.The Technecast is generously supported by Techne AHRC DTP.