Creative Residency: Artist in the Animation Archive
Skwigly
University for the Creative Arts (UCA) has launched a Creative Residency initiative for 2014, enabling students to benefit from more guest artist, designer and media practitioner-led projects during their degree courses. A Creative Residency is where an artist is placed in a university and teaching students and external researchers about their work
The initiative will be fuelled by a number of existing relationships that UCA has with leading industry experts, and will provide groups of students with an experience above and beyond their course.
Sonia Friel has been successful in being a Creative Resident at UCA, and will be leading workshops on animation archives held at UCA. Sonia Friel is undertaking an AHRC funded PhD at Norwich University of the Arts relating to animation that explores representations of the fragmented body in the work of Jan Švankmajer and the Quay brothers.
Workshops are free for students and the public to attend, but booking is essential due to limited space
The residency will consist of a series of workshops, talks, archive development sessions (including processes of animation cataloguing) and a film screening of Jan Švankmajer’s surrealist work, Surviving Life: Theory and Practice (2010)
Workshops include ‘Wünderkammer’ where the archive will be investigated to creatively build an electronic collection of texts and images into a digital ‘Wünderkammer’ or ‘cabinet of curiosities’ and ‘Surrealist Games’, where the workshop will replicate a selection of games using materials from the Animation Archive
The workshops are free, but booking is necessary due to limited space. To book a session to attend please email Rebekah Taylor on rtaylor8@ucreative.ac.uk