HOW ARE WE RETHINKING AND RESETTING THE CULTURAL EXPERIENCE?

What happens next and how does the sector navigate an oversaturated digital marketplace, engage with new and diverse audiences as well as converting its physical existing audiences?

PROGRAMME

Brunch with Hello Culture x AD:Vantage in partnership with Create Central

11:00-12:00 Wednesday Wednesday November 25 Keynote:  Kris Halpin aka Dyskinetic hosted by Helga Henry.

A  keynote with Kris Halpin aka Dyskinetic.  Kris is a Cyborg Disabled Musician and this keynote explores music, technology and disability in lockdown

How do you be creative in lockdown when your work is at the intersection of Music, Technology & Disability?  What happens when you have to work remotely with collaborators and other artists?

What does live mean when you are no longer IRL?

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Panel 3 13:00-14:00 Wednesday November 25 2020 Are you Experienced: Digital and Disabled- we are not your metaphor.

Chair Jo Verrent  Senior Producer at Unlimited, Board member The Space Arts and the Global Disability Innovation Hub

There is no single universal experience for disabled, D/deaf or neurodivergent artists.  This panel goes beyond the common perceptions of disabled practitioners and explores how artists are using technology and digital to redefine practice, access and audience.

In the so called ‘digital realm’ this is often worse than in other arts sectors, as people confuse empathy with pity and assume immersion can replicate lived experience (spoiler alert: it can’t). But what if we hand over control to disabled artists themselves? What new perspectives, technologies and implications then arise?

Panelists

Jonny Cotsen  Access Consultant / Performance Artist

Jane Gauntlett  Artist

Tarik Elmoutawakil, Co-Artistic Director, Marlborough Productions 

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COMING UP

11:00-12:00 Brunch with Hello Culture hosted by Helga Henry

13:00-14:00 Lunch with Hello Culture Panel  Are you Experienced: Digital and Queer Culture, chaired by Chris Brown Editor at large of Polaroids and Polar Bears, exploring how queer communities created online spaces to express their cultural lives

When lockdown happened may LGBTQ+ folx were forced into quarantine environments which didn’t respect how they identified.

Online became an essential way to feel connected to their communities; with queer virtual parties, online Pride, drag and queer art reflecting how queer culture online brought with it a sense of community
 

Panellists:

Dan Vo Museum queerator and freelance consultant

Sacha Coward

Kate O’Donnell, Artistic Director, Trans Creative

COMING UP

11:00-12:00 Brunch with Hello Culture hosted by Helga Henry

13:00-14:00 Lunch with Hello Culture Panel  Are you Experienced: Digital and Protest. Chair Javaad Alipoor Director The Javaad Alipoor Company,  exploring how digital platforms enabled protest and activism in art during lockdown.

Black Lives Matter, decolonisation, statues – lockdown saw the biggest demonstrations and activism that finally challenged the systemic and institutional cultural frameworks that had been barriers to marginalised and minoritised people for decades. This breaking of the veil was achieved through physical protests buy online demonstrations such as black squares on Instagram and anti-racists sloganeering.

But beyond the squares on Instagram,  cultural activism burns bright online – what happens next as the world continues to burn?

Panellists:

Stella Kanu Executive Director at LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre)

Amahra Spence, Co-founder, Creative Director MAIA

Michael Jenkins Blak Wave