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ARTS UPDATE
23 February 2018
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UC Arts at the Arts Centre We were thrilled to have Hayden Chisholm and Norman Meehan, both from New Zealand, performing for our first concert of Semester 1. The concert featured a premiere of Norman Meehan’s setting of Denis Glover’s ‘Sings Harry’ poems. The large crowd were delighted with the evening and it was a great way to launch our 2018 concert series
UC Music alumnus Hugh Roberts will be performing in our Lunchtime Concert on Friday at 1.10pm, which will feature Debussy, Barber, Fauré and more. Hugh will be accompanied by Iola Shelley on Piano. Our 2018 Events Calendar for the School of Music can be found online at the following link. The Arts Centre building has been nominated for a Registered Master Builders Award in the commercial heritage re-‐installation category. We have had photographers and judges come through the building, and are eagerly awaiting to find out the results! Visited the Teece Museum recently? Don't forget to share your thoughts in our survey. Your feedback can help us find out more about our community, and the ways in which we can improve our services. Alternatively make your way down to the museum and complete the survey in person. Participants will receive a free pack of postcards illustrated with objects from our collection. Survey closes Sunday 25 February: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/DDW8HBT Last week we were delighted to have Brian and Suzanne Service come through the building. The Services were generous supporters of the refurbishment of the building and the Camerata Room is named in honour of them. They were joined by Graham and Rae Ewing. Graham is a trustee of the UC Foundation. The entire party were delighted with their tour and very excited by the activities that are being delivered on site.
Canterbury School for Continental Philosophy We are delighted to start our 2018 seminar series with a special guest from Australia/Berlin, Steve Corcoran who will be presenting, “Philosophy and Democracy in the Present”. The history of emancipatory politics has its own autonomous history and this history is one of the reinventions of equality—such is the argument that both Rancière and Badiou put forward. This talk looks at their philosophical approaches to politics and how they orient us, respectively, in the current divisions of the present world, notably those covered over by the word democracy. What is meant by democracy today? How do Badiou and Rancière help us think its contradictions and displace it toward an alternative thought of the possibilities of the present. Steve is a writer and translator currently living in Berlin. He has edited and/or translated several works by Jacques Rancière, including Dissensus (Continuum, 2010), two works by Alain Badiou, Polemics and Conditions, and Alienation and Freedom (Bloomsbury 2017) by Frantz Fanon. The seminar will be held on Friday 2nd March in Room 210, Puaka James Hight, 11:30-‐12:30. Everyone is welcome. Global, Cultural and Language Studies Interacting with Japanese students JAPA325 had an intensive interaction session with 16 Japanese students from Hokkai Gakuen University Junior College. They enjoyed activities using both Japanese and English, and it was a great opportunity for them to get to know UC students who have a genuine interest in Japan, its culture and language. Professor Morikoshi said that it was one of the highlights of their three-‐week stay in Christchurch.
An article about a former JAPA student Amy Vivian-‐Neal, former JAPA student has been featured in the Japanese magazine E-‐Cube. She is working as an Assistant Language Teacher in Fukushima under the Japanese Government’s Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme. http://www.ecube.co.nz/content/1929 Media and Communication The Department of Media and Communication are delighted to introduce Elizabeth Macpherson. With a strong background in public relations, education and research, Elizabeth joins us from the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane and will teach Advertising and Cultural Consumption and Planning Media Campaigns. Of Christchurch, Elizabeth says, ‘We are loving Christchurch – the people, the weather (although we are constantly warned that it is not always this warm), and the natural landscapes from stunning gardens and clear running streams, no snakes, bumble bees and tiny birds, to the distant or not so distant mountains – I am looking forward to seeing snow for the first time on the mountain tops in a few months’ time.’ UC Arts Digital Lab UC Arts Digital Lab launches QuakeStudies 2.0 The UC Arts Digital Lab are proud to announce the launch of the new and improved UC QuakeStudies earthquake research repository (www.quakestudies.canterbury.ac.nz). The project to update the QuakeStudies online platform was undertaken by the UC Arts Digital Lab in collaboration with local open source technologists Catalyst IT. The new QuakeStudies platform, built on the Islandora digital repository system, boasts enhanced searchability, improved document viewing tools, and a cleaner, more user-‐friendly layout offering greater navigability. A launch event was held last week in the UC Arts City Location, and was attended by representatives of the CEISMIC consortium from Christchurch City Council, Canterbury Museum and Christchurch City Libraries, contributors to the archive such as the All Right? campaign, and UC researchers keen to hear how the new QuakeStudies can assist them in their research.
The Arts Digital Lab hopes researchers will find the new platform easier to search for, view, and download content that is of interest to them. Additionally, much of the content housed in QuakeStudies has been released under Creative Commons licenses, making it easier for researchers to reuse content in their own work. Researchers interested in exploring the breadth of content in QuakeStudies are encouraged to discuss their needs with Arts Digital Lab staff. With around 150,000 items in the repository, of which 12,000 are available only to approved researchers, the Lab team can help guide you to the content that will be most useful for your research.
Photo: English department PhD student Sionainn Byrnes talks about how she is using QuakeStudies material in her thesis.
English This week Erin Harrington spoke about abjection and the monstrous-‐feminine at week five of the Shared Snood Project, a durational educational and craft-‐based performance work, facilitated by artist Audrey Baldwin, which invites the audience to take part in the making of an art object while developing a critical community and a conscious space for exchanging ideas and experiences. In previous weeks PhD candidates Sionainn Byrnes and Kirsty Dunn have also contributed to these salon-‐style sessions; Sionainn talked about feminism and socialism, and Kirsty spoke on Mana Wāhine and the work of female Māori writers. These events are a great way of connecting the work of the University to the broader community. Fine Arts
A Gathering Distrust OSB Awardee Daegan Wells
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Image: Extract from 'A Gathering Distrust' In October of 1969, a group of concerned locals gathered together at a house in Invercargill, putting in motion a plan to fight the proposed raising of Lake Manapouri as part of the Manapouri hydropower project. The campaign launched by the Save Lake Manapouri Committees throughout New Zealand highlighted the power of protest in influencing Government policy and has come to symbolise a sea change in New Zealander’s personal engagement with environmental policy. A Gathering Distrust explores the state of tension between the Save Lake Manapouri supporters, and the National Government under Jack Marshal in the build-‐up to the 1972 election. Through his archival and sculptural practice, Daegan Wells explores storytelling as a way of illuminating key political, environmental, social and cultural events from our recent history. Wells centres his research around the contested foreshore of the lake utilising video installation, and ceramic works formed from clay sourced from the shoreline of Lake Manapouri. National Centre for Research on Europe Public Roundtable Seminar – The EU Crisis and Asia On Tuesday 27th February the NCRE is hosting a public roundtable seminar entitled The EU Crisis and Asia. Director Martin Holland will chair this event which will take the form of a debate involving a number of senior Asian EU experts from around the world, followed by an opportunity for discussion. The event will take place over the course of two hours starting at 9:30am in the John Britten Foyer (NZi3) and all are invited to attend. We look forward to welcoming these esteemed academics to New Zealand so that all in attendance can benefit from their expertise. Date/Time: Tuesday 27th February, 9.30am Location: John Britten Foyer All Welcome
2018 Asia-‐Pacific EU Centres Graduate Students Conference This week two NCRE PhD candidates (Xiyin Liu and Ying Yuan), and Professor Martin Holland attended the 2018 Asia-‐Pacific EU Centres Graduate Students Conference and Roundtable in Fukuoka, Japan. Xiyin and Ying presented their research to a group of 22 graduates from Japan, China, Thailand, Korea and New Zealand.
New Zealand Centre for Human-Animal Studies Erasmus+ Seminar Friday 2 March, 2-‐3 pm, PSYCH SOCI252 "The national socialist dog? On writing a political history of animals in the Third Reich" Presented by Erasmus+ Exchange Professor Mieke Roscher Director of Human-‐Animal Studies (Tier-‐Mensch-‐Gesellschaft) at Kassel University, Germany. NZCHAS is delighted to welcome and host Professor Mieke Roscher from the Sozial-‐ und Kulturgeschichte Geschichte der Mensch-‐Tier-‐Beziehungen (Human-‐Animal Studies) at Universität Kassel in Deutschland/Germany, as a Research Fellow in the Centre during March 2018. Professor Roscher's visit is funded by an EU Erasmus+ exchange between Kassel and Canterbury Universities. Seminar Abstract: Within the medial self-‐representation of the Third Reich, the topic of dogs serving the national socialist cause was widely received and widely publicised. Nevertheless, it has not gotten much attention from historians. Leaving out the role that animals, and especially dogs, played in the societal makeup, as will be argued, however fails to grasp the whole picture of the workings of the Nazi ideology. It was via the real bodies of real animal that ideas of folk community and Germanic endurance were transported. Most importantly, animals were central national socialist’s arguments of racial politics. A political history of animals’ approach, which is introduced in this talk, helps to uncover the layers of meaning of these racialized and Germanized animals and their importance for the national socialist narratives of Volk, blood and soil as well as the vision of a Great Germanic Reich.