Nottingham Contemporary

The Unexpected Beautiful Phrase

CAMPUS Fugitive is the second in a series of events exploring ideas around education and critical pedagogies.

Through a series of performative gestures, this event will consider how the fugitive learner navigates institutional space and refuses legibility. Featuring performance, reading, installation, sound and video works, this event asks: how can we be fugitive within formal educational models? How can illegibility generate new and disruptive practices?

This day-long programme includes responses from the artists Rosa Johan Uddoh, Christopher Kirubi, Raju Rage, Holly Pester, Jules Sturm, Dorine van Meel, Department for International Dance Development (DIDD), and a film screening by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman.

CAMPUS Fugitive is curated by Pablo Luis Álvarez, Giulia Antonioli, Teal Baskerville, Chloe Carroll, Emily Hale and Laura Luempert as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2019, Royal College of Art, London.

Free. Booking recommended.

Fri 3 May

5.30-7pm Rosa Johan Uddoh: Una Marson Reading Group
Rosa Johan Uddoh will be leading a reading and listening group using texts from the BBC’s archive on Una Marson - the first black British woman to work for the BBC.

*Limited capacity. Please rsvp at cca-nottingham-contemporary@rca.ac.uk

Sat 4 May

11am Raju Rage
Raju Rage will host a “kitchen table” style conversation mapping out the entangled ecology between ‘activism’, ‘arts’ and ‘academia.’ Rage will draw on their previous work in Nottingham to look specifically at the legacies and politics of race in art schools, inviting current students, as well as alumni and faculty, of colour from art schools in the Midlands to share and reflect on their experiences.

*Limited capacity. Please rsvp at cca-nottingham-contemporary@rca.ac.uk

1pm Welcome

1.30pm Rosa Johan Uddoh and DIDD
Films by Rosa Johan Uddoh and performance by DIDD

2.15pm Serpent Rain by Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman
Film screening

2.45pm Break

3.15pm Dorine van Meel with Jules Sturm
Video work and performative conversation

4.30pm Holly Pester
Live lyric essay

5pm Final remarks

Sound and installation by Christopher Kirubi throughout the day.