GREEN BLUES: 1 OCT, 5 NOV, 3 DEC
a poetry, performance and research seminar series exploring visions of adaptation to ecological upheaval
THU, 1 OCT SEMINAR #1
17:00-17:10 Welcome
17:10-17:30 Astra Papachristodoulou PERFORMANCE (an exploration of ecopoetry and technological advancement via a series of object poems made of bio-resin)
17:30-17:50 Josephine Taylor CRITICAL PRESENTATION (‘The Infrastructure of Violence: Oil Spills and Road Kills in Peripheral Literatures and Visual Culture’)
17:50-18:00 Q&A
18:00-18:10 Comfort Break
18:10-18:30 Rowan Evans CRITICAL PRESENTATION/PERFORMANCE (‘VOCES ANIMANITUM’: a sound performance involving Old English words for bird calls)
18:30-18:50 Redell Olsen POETRY READING
18:50-19:00 Q&A
19:00-19:05 Closing Remarks
THU, 5 NOV SEMINAR #2
17:00-17:10 Welcome
17:10-17:30 Iris Colomb PERFORMANCE (a new piece rooted in ideas of collective grief, public denial and private guilt involving the gradual disintegration of textual material)
17:30-17:50 Michaela Atienza CRITICAL PRESENTATION (‘IDEAL CONDITIONS’––a piece based on the published and draft versions of ‘Death by Water’, the fourth section of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land)
17:50-18:00 Q&A
18:00-18:10 Comfort Break
18:10-18:30 Suzannah V. Evans POETRY READING
18:30-18:50 Nat Reeve CRITICAL PRESENTATION (‘‘All the voices from the trees’: the haunted woods of Elizabeth Siddal and Dante Alighieri’)
18:50-19:10 Generative Constraints POETRY READING/PERFORMANCE (TBC)
19:10-19:25 Q&A
19:25-19:30 Closing Remarks
THU, 3 DEC SEMINAR #3
17:00-17:10 Welcome
17:10-17:30 Sarah Cave CRITICAL PRESENTATION/PERFORMANCE (‘Broken Vessels: a Practice-Based Approach to Postlapsarian Solastalgia’)
17:30-17:50 Briony Hughes PERFORMANCE (‘It must be the water’, a hybrid audio-visual performance which deconstructs language and images used in television advertisements for leading bottled water brands)
17:50-18:00 Q&A
18:00-18:10 Comfort Break
18:10-18:30 Ella Frears POETRY READING
18:30-18:50 Caroline Harris CRITICAL PRESENTATION/PERFORMANCE (reading from and discussion of SCRUB, an ongoing site-specific poetry project that aims to examine the relationship between scrub plants and humans through material poetic practice)
18:50-19:10 Lavinia Greenlaw POETRY READING
19:10-19:25 Q&A
19:25-19:30 Closing Remarks