Event overview
The talk and workshop begin from a broad definition of outsourcing, not only as an offshore call centre, or corporate strategy but from the incident of a false tear.
Starting from this literary event, the talk and script writing workshop will consider the engineering of affect and consider language engineered by an institution or business, outside of our body and which might do our speaking and thinking for us, in 2017. This might include the contemporary 'Like/ Not like" polemics of social media, but equally how government, media, advertising (of course), sends sound-bites and data (be those truth, post truth, fake news or plain strategy) to be carted about in citizen/ audience’s bodies, from place to place and person to person. When one starts to carry language not produced in or by our body, our body might wind up being in the service of the language we carry, and so too the governing or organising body that produced the language. In short the body might becomes instrumentalised as a vessel to carry, often capital, capital which moves through language.
Whilst considering the moment our utterance may be delegated to a language, engineered outside of our body, we might at the same time consider how the uttering body might become disobedient – sick, stressed, abrasive and accidentally unruly. Though the language a body utters might seem as controlled as a false tear, as separate from the uttering body as an outsourced production, and as smooth as an industry standard, the body itself may leak, and erupt some alternative facts of its own.
Cally Spooner is currently the Stanley Picker Fellow, at Kingston University. Over the course of her Fellowship research, Spooner is seeking a cross-disciplinary exchange with Kingston University’s Schools of Humanities; Performance and Screen Studies; and the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP), to unpack the politics, ethics and economics of collaboration in the creative industries. She is concurrently working on a research project with PS/Y exploring the interface of arts and health sciences through the study of contemporary states of Hysteria.
She has had recent solo shows at New Museum, New York, the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, (2016) and Vleeshal, Holland (2016). Recent and forthcoming group shows include the Serpentine Gallery, London (2017), The Geneva Moving Image Biennial (2016), REDCAT, Los Angeles (2015) and Aspen Art Museum, Aspen (2015). Her book of scripts is published by Slim Volume (2016) and her novel Collapsing In Parts in published by Mousse (2013). She is the current writer in residence at Whitechapel Gallery.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 27 Feb 2017 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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