Book launch of ‘Representation’, an RCA Communiqué, produced by students and staff at the School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art.
Launch event in collaboration with Beaconsfield as part of ‘Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!’ 11 June-10 September 2022.
With invited guests Kara Keeling (Prof. in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago) and Atau Tanaka (performer and researcher in embodied musical interaction).
Contributors to the book are: Mariana Aboim, Giulia Astesani, Nerissa Allegra, Josephine Berry, Rob Birch, Orla Fahey, Chang Gao, David Johnson, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, David Lloyd, Nicholas Middleton and K. Yoland.
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Giulia Astesani, Chang Gao, David Johnson and Dr. Josephine Berry
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Rob Birch, Nicholas Middleton, Orla Fahey, Giulia Astesani and Dr. Josephine Berry
Invited guest and sonic researcher: Prof Atau Tanaka
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Chang Gao, David Johnson and Dr. Josephine Berry
Sonic performers: Giulia Astesani, Chang Gao, David Johnson
Sonic performers: Giulia Astesani, Chang Gao, David Johnson and Prof. Atau Tanaka
Photo of the event with speakers, invited guests Prof Kara Keeling, Professor Atau Tanaka and audiences
Retrospective exhibition Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW, and it is overdue!
Retrospective exhibition Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW, and it is overdue!
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
Moonies Ama Josephine B. Johnstone
Moonies Ama Josephine B. Johnstone
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art?
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art? A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
Collective contribution: How do Affect and Phenomenology Reshape Representation and Art?
A Conversation Between David Johnson and Chang Gao on Ignorance and Oppression in Disability and Chinese Society
Affect theory and phenomenology reshaped our way of thinking and revolutionised our understanding of the universal concept of subjective knowledge. David and I had a conversation to reveal and address oppression of individual self-expression in contemporary China and the harmful and widespread ignorance of the lived experience of disability in contemporary Western society; these are the two starting points for our conversation in this book.
We inserted the touched braille and Chinese iconography, to interrogate the politics and the normativity of contemporary representation regimes accords cultures and physical differences.
I would like to thank all the professors, colleagues and friends who came to attend the Representation Book Launch at Beaconsfield Gallery Vauxhall. The Sonic performance with the stamping and sonic affect was the first time we collaborated with Professor Atau Tanaka, it was quite an inspirational and fun experience interweaving between the guest responses and panel discussion.
It is such a rewarding and inspiring process to hear from Professor Kara Keeling’s response towards David and my collaborated article about the oppression of Chinese self-expression and the ignorance towards disability in western contemporary society.
Also, thanks to Kara’s question about the relation between art, aesthetics and technology, which brought up a good starting point about using technology to interrogate the contemporary representation regimes.
Meanwhile, the retrospective exhibition of artist Monica Sjöö at the Beaconsfield Gallery vauxhall is so powerful, really admire her courage as a female artist challenging religious authority back in the 1960s.
Special thanks to the organization of my PHD supervision Dr Josephine Berry and Professor Atau Tanaka, thanks to Nicky CouttsBen Cranfieldand, RCA SoAH Research to make this happen. Thanks to Martin Delaney, Coco Wei and Yaya’s photos and live videos, as well as the whole team of Representation contributors: Mariana Aboim, Giulia Astesani, Nerissa Allegra, Josephine Berry, Rob Birch, Orla Fahey, Chang Gao, David Johnson, Ama Josephine B. Johnstone, David Lloyd, Nicholas Middleton and K. Yoland.
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Giulia Astesani, Chang Gao, David Johnson and Dr. Josephine Berry
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Rob Birch, Nicholas Middleton, Orla Fahey, Giulia Astesani and Dr. Josephine Berry
Invited guest and sonic researcher: Prof Atau Tanaka
Panel speaker of the event (Left to right): Chang Gao, David Johnson and Dr. Josephine Berry
Sonic performers: Giulia Astesani, Chang Gao, David Johnson
Photo of the event with speakers, invited guests Prof Kara Keeling, Professor Atau Tanaka and audiences
Retrospective exhibition Monica Sjöö: The time is NOW, and it is overdue!
