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Cycle de séminaires en ligne "Artistry@work"

Publié le 30 septembre 2024 Mis à jour le 30 septembre 2024
Date(s)

le 1 octobre 2024

Année 2024-2025

Cycle de séminaires en ligne organisé par Raphaël Blanchier et Trevor Marchand

Raphaël Blanchier et Trevor Marchand organisent un nouveau cycle de séminaires en ligne "Artistry@work", dédié au travail, aux carrières et valeurs artistiques des artistes et artisans, co-porté par le Royal Anthropological Institute et la MSH-Clermont-Ferrand. 
 

Résumé

This seminar series in anthropology explores the situated practices of ‘artistry at work’ and, more broadly, the working lives and career trajectories of artists and artisans plying their trades in regions around the globe. The scope of the series also encompasses studies of occupations not conventionally categorised as “artistic” but that nevertheless foster creativity among (some) practitioners and even accommodate the development of “artist” identities. 
More specifically, the series asks:
How might ‘artistry at work’ be defined in the twenty-first century? In what culturally diverse ways is artistry expressed, practised and culturally valued or denigrated? Who are the individuals and communities that pursue and engage in it? And, why? What hopes do they invest in their creative vocations, and what challenges do they confront in realising their ambitions? What ramifications are (existing or looming) funding cuts to the arts having on artisans' sense of self-worth, employment prospects and future planning? How do they evaluate the impact of current and forthcoming transformations – social, political, environmental, technological – on their modes of production and their livelihoods, and how are they preparing for it? How do artists, artisans and those employed in other creative occupations make sense of their professional experiences, and how do they (and we, as anthropologists) generate narratives about their working lives?
 
With these guiding questions in mind, the aims of the series are to illuminate the tensions as well as the productive synergies that animate ties between hope and hardship, and to elucidate individual strategies and struggles to self-actualisation within ever-changing, and often precarious, creative fields of work.
The eight seminars will be held (online) from October to May at 17.00–19.00hrs CET / 16.00–18.00hrs UK on the first Tuesday of each month (except for the month of March 2025, when we have two seminars scheduled [Tues. 04 March and Monday 24 March] and none in April). The seminars will be two-hours long, structured as follows: 5-minute introduction of our guest speaker & discussant; 40-minute talk; 15-minute comments from the designated discussant, and 60 minutes for "open floor" Q&A.

 

Plus d'informations et inscriptions

L'inscription en ligne est gratuite mais nécessaire pour chaque session, sur le site du RAI.
Programme of new online event series: Artistry@Work (therai.org.uk)