{"id":3913,"date":"2018-01-08T17:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T17:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=3913"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:08:28","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:08:28","slug":"michelle-atherton-arebyte-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/michelle-atherton-arebyte-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;3 Figs, 4 Voices, Ceramic Prosthesis and a Staircase&#8217; &#8211; Research workshop organised by Michelle Atherton at arebyte Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/michelle-atherton\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Atherton<\/a>, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, organised a research workshop on 12 December 2017 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arebyte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">arebyte Gallery<\/a>, London. The event brought together contributions from artists and academics to explore the current prevalence of the term irrational in public discourse. The aim was to identify present and past irrational gestures and was staged on Richard Wentworth\u2019s recent installation <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.arebyte.com\/concertina\/4594061392\" target=\"_blank\">Concertina<\/a><\/em> at arebyte.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/calendar.google.com\/calendar\/event?eid=MXNocnNxZDVsZ3BrMmR1M2g4M3AwMzV1aGUgamZxOThrcjc3MGdpdmQ1bWk3czdiZmFhaHNAZw&amp;ctz=Europe\/London\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><em>3 Figs, 4 Voices, Ceramic Prosthesis and a Staircase<\/em> Research Workshop<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Concertina<\/em>: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arebyte.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">arebyte Gallery<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nLondon City Island, London<br \/>\n<strong>Tuesday 12 December 2017 11AM &#8211; 3.30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The workshop evolved an understanding of the irrational as those actions, thoughts and behaviours that appear to be more illogical than other rational alternatives. The examples were collated from a multitude of sources including local narratives, historical testimony, automated forms, organic matter, myths, neo-feudal structures and more global outpourings, to give a few examples.<\/p>\n<p>The workshop also saw the establishment of a preliminary taxonomy of irrational gestures. Participants on the day included <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/michelle-atherton\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Atherton<\/a>, Jessica Harrington, Wendy Leeks, Lucy Lound and Mandy Gamsu.<\/p>\n<p>This event forms the basis for a new research project titled the <em>Repository of Irrational Gestures (RIG\u2019s)<\/em> due to be inaugurated and performed in mainland Europe in 2018.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/about-us\/our-people\/staff-profiles\/michelle-atherton\" target=\"_blank\">Michelle Atherton<\/a>\u00a0is Senior Lecturer in Sheffield Institute of Arts (<a href=\"http:\/\/www4.shu.ac.uk\/sia\/\" target=\"_blank\">SIA<\/a>)\u00a0and a member of the\u00a0Art &amp; Design Research Centre (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.shu.ac.uk\/research\/specialisms\/cultural-communication-and-computing-research-institute\/research-centres\/art-and-design-research-centre\" target=\"_blank\">ADRC<\/a>) within C3RI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michelle Atherton, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, organised a research workshop on 12 December 2017 at arebyte Gallery, London. The event brought together contributions from artists and academics to explore the current prevalence of the term irrational in public discourse. 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