{"id":5660,"date":"2018-11-12T14:47:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T14:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=5660"},"modified":"2018-11-19T12:38:26","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T12:38:26","slug":"transmission-cotterrell-de-chickera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/transmission-cotterrell-de-chickera\/","title":{"rendered":"Transmission: David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera – Tuesday 13 November 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday 13 November, David Cotterrell<\/a> and Ruwanthie de Chickera will be presenting a public talk in Sheffield, exploring their recent collaborative work for the\u00a02018 Transmission<\/em> Lecture series<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In recent years, David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera have embarked on an eclectic series of field trips, producing a series of experimental artworks to clarify their experience and understanding of fear, risk, and empathetic failure.<\/p>\n

They had been feeling uncomfortable with war being described as a declared state rather than a location on an iterative scale of social disintegration. While accepting that some measure of polarisation is a prerequisite for conflict, Cotterrell and de Chickera consider the cycle of disengagement that is required to allow barriers to be constructed, long before they are recognised as fortifications. Their research addresses the staged challenges to empathy that occur before the descent into the polarised engagement of military forces. Where risk has been identified, and measures are variably employed as responsive protocols, a situation of distancing may occur \u2013 most obviously between the observer and the subject, but also between the perceptions of different observers.<\/p>\n

To address this threat to collective understanding, they are developing a research network, exploring the contradictory nature of mutually exclusive versions of truth. Their work considers the way in which risk can be a catalyst to the loss of pluralist narratives as communities and individuals are denied access to each other\u2019s vantage points. In particular, Cotterrell and de Chickera have an interest in the artist\u2019s role in foregrounding subjective and alternate perspectives that may serve to challenge existing datasets, methodologies, and illusions of objectivity.<\/p>\n

Transmission<\/em>: David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera<\/a><\/strong>
\nTuesday 13 November 2018, 4.30PM – 6PM<\/strong>
\nAdsetts Learning Centre Lecture Theatre 6620<\/a><\/strong>
\nSheffield Hallam University, Arundel Gate S1 1WB<\/strong>
\nPlease register your interest on Eventbrite<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Transmission<\/em><\/a>\u00a0is an annual series of lectures and symposia, now in its fifteenth year, and is a collaboration between Fine Art, the Art & Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam University, and\u00a0Site Gallery<\/a>. Convened by Sharon Kivland in 2001, Transmission<\/em> was developed collaboratively with Lesley Sanderson from 2001 to 2004, and with Jasper Joseph-Lester from 2004 to 2012. The series is now convened by Sharon Kivland, TC McCormack, and Julie Westerman, Fine Art, in association with Site Gallery Sheffield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday 13 November, David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera will be presenting a public talk in Sheffield, exploring their recent collaborative work for the\u00a02018 Transmission Lecture series. In recent years, David Cotterrell and Ruwanthie de Chickera have embarked on an eclectic series of field trips, producing a series of experimental artworks to clarify their experience and understanding of fear, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":5661,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103,139],"tags":[5,891,109,289,892,144,740,147,420,533,893],"class_list":["post-5660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-david-cotterrell","tag-fine-art-research","tag-julie-westerman","tag-ruwanthie-de-chickera","tag-sharon-kivland","tag-sheffield","tag-site-gallery","tag-tc-mccormack","tag-transmission","tag-war"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2018\/11\/2018-11-13-Transmission-Cotterrell-and-de-Chickera.jpg?fit=890%2C290&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-1ti","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9305,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/ubumuntu-arts-festival-transmission-cotterrell\/","url_meta":{"origin":5660,"position":0},"title":"‘Transmission’ & ‘COMMONS Dialogues’ – Professor David Cotterrell at 2020’s virtual Ubumuntu Arts Festival of Humanity","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"17\/07\/2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubumuntu 2020 Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020 Free registration online here. 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