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Centre for Creative Technologies Masterclass Series: A Singular Harmony: on the Kinematics of Creativity & the Language of Intel
March 13, 2024 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm
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A Singular Harmony: on the Kinematics of Creativity & the Language of Intel
Part of the Masterclasses @ Centre for Creative Technologies collection
Dr Cissie Fu, Head of School, McNally School of Fine Arts at Lasalle University of the Arts Singapore
Join us for the next in the masterclass series run by the Centre for Creative Technologies, where we welcome Dr Cissie Fu, Head of School, McNally School of Fine Arts at Lasalle University of the Arts Singapore.
Abstract
“We are pressed into lines, just as lines are the accumulation of such moments of pressure,” writes Sara Ahmed in Queer Phenomenology (2006), to which this anachronistic rejoinder from Virginia Woolf’s “Craftsmanship” (1937) rings resonant, still: “[Some words] show no trace of the strange, of the diabolical power which words possess when they are not tapped out by a typewriter but come fresh from a human brain.”
By tracing the geometries of movement that liberate various structures of form and metre, this masterclass invites us to risk intervention through variable foot and cadence units, towards crafting invention with more-than-human intelligences, algorithmic or heuristic, artificial or indigenous. Let us consider the conditions under which, in the poetic prose of William Carlos Williams’s Kora in Hell – Improvisations XXII (1970), “a thing known passes out of the mind into the muscles” and compose lines of flight that converge and diverge into a neuropolyphony.
Speaker Biography
Dr Cissie Fu (AB Harvard; MSt, MSc, DPhil Oxford) is a political theorist and co-founder of the Political Arts Initiative, which invites 21st-century imag-e-nations of the political through digital technology and the creative and performing arts.
Born in Hong Kong, Cissie taught and performed across cultural and educational institutions in Asia, Europe, UK, and the Americas. She recently joined University of the Arts Singapore as Head of the McNally School of Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, after having served as Dean of the Faculty of Culture + Community at Emily Carr University of Art + Design in Vancouver and earlier as Director of Studies at Leiden University College in The Hague.
Cissie’s research connects politics, philosophy, and performance. Her interests in relational aesthetics and decolonial action, combined with her experiments in experiential and transformative organisational design, inform her approach to institution-building as a creative, critical and communal cultural practice.
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