Image from Mickey Mouse was a Scorpio (2016) by Arthur Jafa.
It’s been a week where most of the things that are meant to happen in my job have been happening…
- Supervising PhD students. Excitingly I have a new PhD student, Lena Dobrowolska – I am co-supervising with Prof Mandy Rose. Her project is ‘Capturing “NELD” together – co-creating an anticolonial documentary toolkit for reflecting non-economic loss and damage resulting from the climate crisis.‘
- Writing a few paragraphs for a book chapter
- Moving our book series closer to the outside world
- Attending a seminar on the social benefits of embodiment
- Prepping for a grant opportunity
- Waiting on news about a grant submission
- Securing funding for hosting a cohort of fellows
- Diving into the beginnings of a new art piece
- Organising a sharing event from two previous research projects
- Staying calm over grant admin joys
- A paper being submitted.
- Gallery visit to see The Photographers’ prize at the Photographer’s Gallery.
I managed to get to a QiJong online session first thing Monday, which set me up for the week, in terms of not wanting to be sat down all day. It was on Zoom. Not quite the same experience as QiJong in the park, but I really enjoyed the session. Gradually waking up and opening up the whole body before slowly, steadily, purposefully walking. It’s a lot more complex than that of course.
A highlight was finding out where psychology experiments, embodiment and VR are crossing over, and the opportunity for culture studies and black studies to make critical interventions within that space. And also to meet a couple of people who had been involved in a community-university partnership for 19 years!
I didn’t make it to the gym, but had a few walks in the sunshine this week and scattered sunflower seeds around the garden in the hope they might grow.
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