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Reading group: Irregular Commas with Laura Malacart, Debra Shaw, and UEL Centre of Creative and Cultural Practice
Thursday 11th May 2023 , 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Join UEL’s Centre of Creative and Cultural Practice for Irregular Commas – a regular reading group hosted at Bow Arts, led by a different artist and theorist each time, who will select a text for discussion.
Each text will be made available to attendees in advance, either digitally or for collection from the Nunnery Cafe.
For the May edition of Irregular Commas, the team at UEL’s Centre of Creative and Cultural Practice have invited artist Laura Malacart and writer and educator Debra Shaw to facilitate a discussion around ideas of language/s, ecology and globalisation. These themes will be explored through a range of texts and writings proposed by Laura Malacart.
You can find the selected extracts we will be working through and links to access them below – some prints copies will also be made available on the night:
The Difference between a Bird and a Plane: The Language of the ‘it’, Language & Ecology 2021 – Laura Malacart
This earth, this island Borneo, Antennae issue 54 – Anna Tsing
Collaborative Toponymy – Laura Malacart
Collaborative Toponymy: street names as linguistic fossils, Antennae issue 60 – Laura Malacart
Learning the Grammar of Animacy, The Democracy of Species – Robin Wall Kimmerer
Debra Benita Shaw is a writer and educator interested in the politics of built forms and the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy. Her work also examines the way that speculative fictions imagine new worlds and challenge pre-conceived ideas about gender, race and human ontology.
Laura Malacart is a visual artist working across media (video, text, participatory performance) on identity politics, social justice and ecology. She is interested in the politics of language/s, how they impact on personal and collective agency as well as their role in knowledge production.
THIS ITERATION OF IRREGULAR COMMAS WILL TAKE PLACE IN THE BOW ARTS TRUST COURTYARD ROOM AT 183 BOW ROAD, E3 2SJ INSTEAD OF THE NUNNERY CAFE.
More about Laura Malacart
Laura Malacart is a visual artist working across media (video, text, participatory performance) on identity politics, social justice and ecology. She is interested in the politics of language/s, how they impact on personal and collective agency as well as their role in knowledge production.
Projects such as The Little Book of Answers or Collaborative Toponymy can be labelled as artivists works. You can read an article on Collaborative Toponymy in the current issue of Antennae – download free at www.antennae.org.uk
More about Debra Shaw
Debra Benita Shaw is a writer and educator interested in the politics of built forms and the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy. Her work also examines the way that speculative fictions imagine new worlds and challenge pre-conceived ideas about gender, race and human ontology.
www.uel.ac.uk/about-uel/staff/debra-benita-shaw
Access information
The Bow Arts Courtyard Room has step-free access throughout from street level, including to the accessible toilet, and is service animal friendly. This venue does not have a hearing loop system. Accessible parking is not available on-site but blue badge parking can be found 500m away on Fairfield Road.
If you have any questions regarding accessibility at this event, would like to make us aware of any access requirements that you have in advance, or would like this information in an alternate format including Easy Read, please email nunnery@bowarts.com
Access requirements could include things like providing equipment, services or support (e.g. information in Easy Read, speech to text software, additional 1:1 support), adjusting workshop timings (e.g. more break times), adjustments to the event space (e.g. making sure you have a table near the entrance) or anything else you can think of!
Transport Information
Opening hours: Mon-Sat, 9am to 4pm; Sundays 10am to 4pm
Address: Nunnery Café, 181 Bow Road, London, E3 2SJ
Nearest station(s): Bow Road (District and Hammersmith and City lines) is a 6-minute walk away, and Bow Church (DLR) is a 3-minute walk away.
Bus: 205, 25, 425, A8, D8, 108, 276, 488 and 8 all service the surrounding area.
Bike: Bicycle parking is located at Bow Church Station. The nearest Santander Cycles docking station is at Bow Church Station.
