ARTS UPDATE

4 May 2018

News

Professional and Community Engagement PACE Thailand Internship Programme 2019 Launching This Month.

The PACE Thailand internship experience is a unique programme that provides a learning experience that cannot be found in a typical lecture theatre.

The course comprises of a six-week internship programme run over the summer from January to February 2019, organised in collaboration with Mahidol University Bangkok. The course provides an opportunity to gain valuable experience living and working in an international and intercultural environment. The programme also involves educational visits to significant cultural and historic sites across Thailand.

Information evenings are being held next week -

Tuesday 8th May 6pm-7pm and Thursday 10th May 6pm – 7pm

Location: Centre for Global Experience KP103, Ground Floor, Karl Popper

Applications open: 14th May 2018

Applications close: 1st June 2018

UC Arts at the Arts Centre Music This week has been a busy one for us! We had our New Music Central concert on Monday night, performed by School of Music Voice Coordinator, Zara Ballara with Iola Shelley, who presented a beautiful programme of American songs to a very appreciative audience. On Tuesday night we hosted the second presentation in the ‘An Evening With’ series. This month’s presentation was given by Senior Lecturer Justin DeHart on ‘Percussion Revolution’. It was a fantastic evening and the audience were reluctant to leave at the finish.

Today, Friday, we are hosting school students of Te Kua Kaupapa Māori o Te Whānau Tahi alongside School of Music students in our Lunchtime Concert at 1.10pm. We’d love to see you come along if you have some time! Jim Gardner will be giving a talk on EMS synthesisers at the Grainger Museum in Melbourne on Thursday May 10. General info about the Grainger Museum exhibition is here: https://grainger.unimelb.edu.au/whats-on/synthesizers-sound-of-the-future and specific info about the talk is here: https://grainger.unimelb.edu.au/whats-on/think-of-a-sound

The following day, 'torc', a new composition, is being premiered by ELISION members, at the Redlands Performing Arts Centre Hall in Brisbane: http://www.elision.org.au/performances-2018/may-11/ http://www.rpac.com.au/pages/performances.aspx?PerfID=370 Teece Museum The Teece Museum of Classical Antiquities’ highly anticipated exhibition is opening this Saturday, 5 May, 11am – 3pm! It has been a busy changeover period for the museum team and we are so excited to be able to open to the public again after all their hard work. Come along to see Beyond the Grave: Death in Ancient Times! Fine Arts The frequent disconnect between curatorial intention and viewer response is too often the classic “elephant in the room” when contemporary art exhibitions are staged. Given the unspoken rules of the art world this gap between intention and response is seldom owned up to. Bewilderment is audibly masked by strategies of knowingness, peppered by buzz-words such as “immersive”, but the silent question prowls unanswered: “What is this all about?” In Johns’ case there are some useful keys. First, the scope of his work over forty years – not just a succession of styles but an engagement with social mores. Second, his perhaps central medium of photography, that diaristic, serial and more tangible connection with life as it’s lived. Third, photography’s intimate relation with memory – that curiously unstable hindsight attempting to confer shape on shifting identities. Earlier in Johns’ career his shaping seemed almost exclusively personal, but by now the accumulation of this plumbing the depths of his experience is more historical in scope, more generally applicable, a wider commentary on his life and our times. Peter Ireland

Art History Last week Richard gave a talk to the China Friendship Society about Canterbury Museum’s Rewi Alley Collection. On Saturday he did a gallery talk at the Physics Room about a 19th century painting by Luo Chen, owned by the Aigantighe Gallery, which is part of the Unconditional exhibition. On a rainy Saturday 28 April the Department of Art History and Theory had the pleasure of hosting Associate Professor Yvonne Scott, Trinity College, Dublin, for the Visual Cultures of Water symposium. Dr Scott delivered a fascinating paper titled ‘Art, Ecology and Eco-Criticism:

Environmental concerns in Irish Modern and Contemporary Art’. This was followed by Barbara Garrie’s paper ‘Roni Horn’s Watery Surfaces: Identity, Excess and the Sublime’, and a presentation by Rosie Ibbotson on ‘Ice Imagery and the End of the World at the ‘long’ fin-de-siècle’. The programme was completed with an excellent postgraduate panel in which Art History postgrads Harriet Litten, Frances Lojkine, and Bojana Rimbovska introduced their current research projects. The symposium was a great opportunity to share research and illuminated a number of fruitful connections. Many thanks go to Pieta Gray and Naomi van den Broek for all of their help in organising the event.

Canterbury School for Continental Philosophy The Journal Continental Thought & Theory http://ctt.canterbury.ac.nz/about-ctt/ (co-founded and co-edited by Mike Grimshaw & Cindy Zeiher) has just been included in The Philosopher’s Index https://philindex.org/. This is a significant event as it ensures the journal and its contributors reach an ever expanding audience. The journal is working towards two special issues, one on the work of cultural theorist Robert Pfaller and one on the work of philosopher Alenkia Zupancic. Future issues include “the Novel”; the thought of Ranciere; and “Sin”. Canterbury School for Continental Philosophy would like to invite staff, students and the public to a workshop and seminar: 11 May - Daniel Ross (Melbourne School for Continental Philosophy, Political Science) - Workshop 11-3 - "An Introduction to the Work of Bernard Stiegler" Room 210 Puaka James Hight This workshop considers Stiegler’s influences and concepts concerning technology, politics and consumer capitalism as contemporary issues. 11 May – Daniel Ross Public Lecture 6-8 – "Care and Carelessness in the Anthropocene" - the Arts Center Recital Room Response and Discussion: Cindy Zeiher & Mike Grimshaw (Canterbury) Sophocles’s chorus in Antigone known as the ‘Ode to Man’ tells of a being more troubling than any other, famously interpreted by Martin Heidegger in terms of two kinds of violence: a violence of ‘being’ itself, and that of the ‘violence-doer’. With the advent of the Anthropocene, this tragic conception is exposed on the scale of the biosphere, and we can reinterpret this duplicitous conception in terms of, firstly, the second law of thermodynamics, and, secondly, and beyond negentropy, the ‘neganthropy’ (as Bernard Stiegler has named it) of the noetic, exosomatic beings that we are ourselves, whose ‘pharmacological’ character constantly implies the perpetual possibility of hubris, now planetary in scope. This is to say something about the Anthropocene as a problem of temporalization and localization, presenting us with an alternative that should be understood as the necessity of making a différance that can only amount to a new form of care as a struggle against the systemic carelessness of consumerist and now algorithmic disruption, which, left unchecked, can only hasten what most of us, despite ourselves, feel to be the onrush of inevitable destruction. But care is fundamentally a question of desire, and, in such circumstances, philosophy can only be a way of making proposals capable of reinvigorating the desire for care-ful thinking, individually, collectively, and biospherically. Dan Ross has translated ten books by the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler, including two that are forthcoming this year (The Neganthropocene, Open Humanities Press, and In Disruption: How Not to Go Mad?, Polity Press). With David Barison, he is the co-director of the The Ister (2004), a cinematic essay focused on Martin Heidegger that premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival and was the recipient of the Prix du Groupement National des Cinémas de Recherche (GNCR) and the Prix de l’AQCC at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montreal. Variety critic Robert Koehler listed it as the second best film released theatrically in the United States in 2006. Ross is the author of Violent Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 2004) and numerous articles and chapters on the work of Bernard Stiegler, among others. The CSCP would like to thank the departments of sociology and human services for their support.

Media and Communication

Incentives, Inducements, and Sponsorships

Journalists’ ethical challenges in covering the election for commercialised newspapers in emerging and established democracies.

MONDAY, 7 MAY, 1.30PM IN LOCKE 611A

Morenike Oladeinde (PhD Candidate, Media & Communication) The roles journalists play in influencing social, political, economic issues in any society cannot be overemphasised (Klaidman, 1987). More so, there is a heightened expectation from the press or the journalists by all the key participants in a democracy (Charles, 2013; Skovsgaard & Arjen, 2013). The process of gathering, selecting and presenting news by journalists in other to fulfil their expected roles is often riled with several challenges. This can sometimes be daunting when the resources needed for the effective operation of the journalists are contested with. Since news is not the reporting of an incidence but the framing of it, the onus, therefore, rests on the ‘professional' journalists armed with the ethics of his job to either succumb or resists the temptation of ‘inordinate framing'. A recent study was conducted in two seemingly opposite countries, who both practice democracy and operate a firmly rooted commercialised newspaper industries’, New Zealand and Nigeria, using the in-depth interviews conducted. Different responses were elicited which show that the trio of Incentives, inducements and sponsorships were discovered to be some wagers journalists contest while covering the election. The reality is that irrespective of where and who, journalists around the world knows the basic tenets or requirements of their profession. But what they do or how they react to this varies based on individual convictions and sometimes organisational laxity. Sociology and Anthropology The Syndicate Symposium is a discursive space where invited scholars critically engage with new texts and with each other. As well as an online symposium, print editions are also published. Mike Grimshaw has been invited to participate in this enterprise as the first responder to American religious thinker Carl Raschke’s important book of political theology entitled Force of God: Political Theology & The Crisis of Liberal Democracy. In this essay, Mike

identifies The Force of God as what he terms 'a political theology of the manifesto moment' and as perhaps the first political theology to critically address what can be termed the Trump interregnum. His essay – and Raschke’s response – can be read here: https://syndicate.network/symposia/theology/the-force-of-god/. National Centre for Research on Europe Europe Day Europe Day, held on 9 May every year, celebrates peace and unity in Europe. The date marks the anniversary of the historical 'Schuman Declaration'. At a speech in Paris in 1950, Robert Schuman, the then French foreign minister, set out his idea for a new form of political cooperation in Europe. His vision was to create a European institution that would pool and manage coal and steel production. Just under a year later, a treaty was signed by France, West Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg. This proposal is considered to be the beginning of what is now the European Union. In past years the NCRE have held a number of different events on the 9th on May. This year staff and students will enjoy a breakfast to mark the occasion. Seminar Just a reminder that HE Rob Zaagman, the Dutch Ambassador to New Zealand is speaking from 2-3pm in Undercroft 101 today (Friday May 4th). This is a public seminar and all are invited to attend.

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