Organised by University of The Arts London (UAL)
This interdisciplinary collaborative workshop is open to UAL staff and students who are interested in exploring the use of African cultural practices drawn from the performance philosophy of Bata, a Yoruba spiritual practice carried from West Africa during the slave trade to Caribbean, north and south America. Today, Bata has made significant contributions to art, history, performance and visual culture discourses, not just in an African diasporic context but in the wider global arena.
This workshop aims to demonstrate how to develop agency to bringing and integrate pan-African diasporic histories, cultural practices into the academy as integral to research, knowledge exchange and teaching and learning practices.
This workshop is framed using the three sections of the interdisciplinary performance emi ijo 2000: The Beginning; The Reality; The Progress of Resilience.
The workshop structure:
1. A review and discussion of the video of emi ijo 2000
2. An enquiry into the ‘return beat exercise,’ the difference between linear and circular aspect of rhythms as different cultural paradigms.
3. An exploration of: what are our intentions when we develop agency and how is this affected by our confirmation biases? How our assumptions shape what we express ourselves through different methods of communication? What do we do to survive and shape new futures?
4. Use your own methods of communication (e.g. text, images, mind-map, illustration) document and share your stories using Padlet
5. You will be invited contribute to Storytelling Conversation 22 06 22 at 18.00 - 20:00.