Imaging Social Justice
Imaging Social Justice is a project exploring the interface between social science research and the arts through transnational collaborations around themes of social justice. In 2020/21, five early-career researchers based at King’s College London developed arts-based research projects in collaboration with colleagues in the arts.
The result is an interdisciplinary set of images, sounds, and text reflecting struggles of some of the most vulnerable populations around the world. The projects include photography, archive and exhibition-as-dialogue, music and song-making, body mapping and narrative, and video and audio.
At this launch event, the authors and artists will present and discuss how arts-based research can contribute to new forms of knowledge production and collaboration.
Art and Exclusion: ‘Speaking up’ through theatre and poetry
The Exchange, Bush House, King’s College London
In November 2019, VEM convened two workshops as part of the ESRC Festival of Social Science at the Exchange, Bush House at King’s College London, managed by Jayne Peake.
The workshops were based on engagement among young people with artists/social scientists collaborations on ‘exclusion’ exploring how art can help us think and speak about exclusion.
Workshop 1 focused on two geographers/artists collaboration on gender & exclusion using theatre and animation (Prof Cathy McIlwaine and Dr Negar Elodie Behzadi) and facilitated by the poet Tolu Agbelusi.
Workshop 2 focused on the work of Dr Pablo Orellana and his poetry collaboration. This addressed the politics of exclusion to explore how policies in the UK and Europe produce exclusions and invited young people to write poems to share their perspectives.
Video of workshop
This exhibition presents the work of four artist/researchers collaborations (below) on questions of exclusion, stigmatisation, marginalisation, conflict and violence at the School of Social Science and Public Policy (SSPP).
The exhibition invites you to discover the work of social scientists and artists within and outside of King's who use visual, embodied and art-based methodologies in the study of sensitive issues. An accompanying events programme is free and open to all (unless stated). Please follow the links for details and to RSVP.
The objective of this multidisciplinary workshop was to back visual, embodied and art-based methodologies from the margins of social science research in/on the Global South to its centre. Gathering scholars within and outside of King’s College London, nationally and internationally, it explored the role and potential of such methods and methodologies in the study of questions of conflict, violence and marginalisation, in (or from) the Global South. More details about speakers and topics are here
Exhibition: Visualising the Margins: Gendered Perspectives, 1-14 March 2019, The Exchange, Strand Campus , London
Visualising the Margins presented the work of seven women academics at different stages of their career at King’s College London, all working on questions related to gender from feminist and queer perspectives. This series of photographs, videos, drawings, musical clips and virtual archives draws explicitly or implicitly on the ambivalent relationship between home and gender that decades of feminist academic and activist work has made visible. More details about the exhibition are here