{"id":9305,"date":"2020-07-17T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T11:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=9305"},"modified":"2021-05-25T11:55:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-25T10:55:49","slug":"ubumuntu-arts-festival-transmission-cotterrell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/ubumuntu-arts-festival-transmission-cotterrell\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Transmission’ & ‘COMMONS Dialogues’ – Professor David Cotterrell at 2020’s virtual Ubumuntu Arts Festival of Humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ubumuntu 2020<\/strong><\/p>\n

Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020<\/p>\n

Free registration online here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Empathy & Risk<\/em><\/a> will be contributing to the 6th<\/sup> Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity<\/a> through the creation of a new art work \u2013 Transmission<\/strong>, and an in-conversation event \u2013 COMMONS Dialogues.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"2020-07<\/a><\/p>\n

Transmission<\/strong><\/p>\n

David Cotterrell<\/a> and Ruwanthi de Chickera<\/a>\u2019s new video production Transmission<\/em> will be presented at the main Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity<\/a> in Kigali, Rwanda this July. Transmission<\/em> is performed by Christopher Sherwood<\/a> and Tara Nadun and designed in collaboration with Ian Gouldstone<\/a> and Malshani Delgahapitiya.<\/p>\n

Transmission<\/em> is a meeting between two strangers in a real or imagined future \u2013 where the human race or human contact may well be a thing of the past.\u00a0 A solitary man interrupts his isolation by obsessively searching the internet for someone like him who may also be looking for evidence of humanity.\u00a0 Through a million failed attempts at creating a connection, he remains focused on the hopefulness of the task that offers him meaning to time and life.<\/p>\n

The short\u00a0film Transmission<\/em> follows a solitary man\u2019s occupation of an\u00a0ambiguous space as he tries to engage beyond his own world and begins to fear what he might find if he is successful.<\/p>\n

Transmission<\/em> will be broadcast at 1429 BST on Sunday 19 July 2020.<\/p>\n

COMMONS Dialogues<\/strong><\/p>\n

The COMMONS Dialogues<\/em> \u2013 the 5th<\/sup> in the ER Dialogue series will be featured as a live session in the UN CONFERENCE section of the Ubumuntu Festival.<\/p>\n

Drawing inspiration from the 6th<\/sup> Ubumuntu Festival theme of \u201cBreathe\u201d<\/em> the COMMONS Dialogues<\/em> will explore the literal and metaphorical reach of the concept of \u2018Global Commons<\/em>\u2019 (defined as the deep sea, sky, space and the internet) \u2013 the earth\u2019s shared natural resources, accessible to all, too valuable or vast to be owned by any single State or market force.<\/p>\n

The COMMONS Dialogues <\/em>will interpret and expand the concept of the Global Commons to explore the limits and definitions of the \u201cshared\u201d human experience and resources against the backdrop of the Global Pandemic.\u00a0 How are these concepts and values being re-defined by individuals, communities, governments and pan global entities?\u00a0 The COMMONS Dialogues <\/em>will feature David Cotterrell in conversation with Senior Fellow at The Institute of Policy Analysis and Research, Lawyer and Author, Gatete Ruhumuliza Nyiringabo.<\/p>\n

The project has been produced by Empathy & Risk<\/a> and realised with support from the Global Challenge Research Fund<\/a> and Sheffield Hallam University\u2019s Art and Design Research Centre.<\/a><\/p>\n

COMMONS Dialogues\u00a0<\/em>will be broadcast at 1639 BST on Friday 17 July 2020.<\/p>\n

\"2020-07<\/a><\/p>\n

About Ubumuntu Arts Festival<\/strong><\/p>\n

The word Ubumuntu\u00a0<\/em>can be defined as\u00a0\u201cBeing Human\u201d<\/i>. The festival aims at creating an avenue where people from different walks of life can come together and speak to each other in the language of art. Art has manifested itself world over as an efficient form of communicating, expressing opinions, airing issues and sharing values about all aspects of life that affect humanity. The festival considers art as a forum for communication, expression, reflection, innovation and creativity as a key motor for social change.<\/p>\n

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David Cotterrell<\/a>\u00a0is a Professor in Fine Art in the Art & Design Research Centre (ADRC<\/a>) at Sheffield Hallam University. Follow him\u00a0@davidcotterrell<\/a>\u00a0and on\u00a0Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ubumuntu 2020 Friday 17 to Sunday 19 July 2020 Free registration online here. Empathy & Risk will be contributing to the 6th Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity through the creation of a new art work \u2013 Transmission, and an in-conversation event \u2013 COMMONS Dialogues. Transmission David Cotterrell and Ruwanthi de Chickera\u2019s new video production Transmission will be presented at the main […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8633,"featured_media":9313,"comment_status":"closed","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":[139],"tags":[5,891,1085,109,1396,892,1390,1575],"class_list":["post-9305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-art-and-design-research-centre","tag-david-cotterrell","tag-empathy-risk","tag-fine-art-research","tag-kigali","tag-ruwanthie-de-chickera","tag-rwanda","tag-ubumuntu-arts-festival"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2020\/07\/2020-07-Ubumuntu-David-Cotterrell-and-Ruwanthie-de-Chickera-e1595074522227.png?fit=2481%2C692&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2q5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8370,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/cotterrell-ubumuntu-2019\/","url_meta":{"origin":9305,"position":0},"title":"‘Mother Wall’ – Professor David Cotterrell’s new production presented at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity, Rwanda","author":"Ian Braddick","date":"13\/07\/2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Ubumuntu - 13.07.19 David and Ru will be presenting their new production, Mother Wall,\u00a0at the Ubumuntu Festival of Humanity in Kigali, Rwanda this weekend. 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