\u00c9cole Sup\u00e9rieure d\u2019Art et Design Le Havre-Rouen (ESADHaR)<\/a>. This summer I began developing a partnership that would allow some of our own Kent undergraduates on the Cultural Studies, Media and Sociology programmes to use art school facilities to make creative and public-facing sociological work from 2023 onwards. During this process, discussions led to the idea of TMS hosting a sociological residency (a kind of reverse Artist in Residence programme), and so here I am helping to flesh out the \u2018society\u2019 elements of their motto: Art, Society, Nature.<\/p>\nAs the resident sociologist, my pitch to the school included helping add sociological\/cultural studies-focused events to the existing public lecture series they run through inviting speakers; providing sessions myself; setting up prompts and provocations around the building (a huge old Woolworths store) for students and residents to respond to; and developing collaborations with the artists where I could. My research recently has been focused on the changing social, cultural and economic landscapes of the Isle of Thanet, as well as an ongoing project on deindustrialisation in Kent. So this was also an opportunity to have a base to work on these. I\u2019m not being paid or funded to be at TMS, so was coming up with ways to not just use the time and space I might get, but justify it \u2013 this felt important.<\/p>\n
Justification however, wasn\u2019t really needed. \u201cDo there have to be any actual outcomes?\u201d I was asked when we met to discuss plans, and at this point I knew things would work very differently to the systems I am used to working in. My job here will involve all the things I approached TMS with, but also includes just being here \u2013 chatting with people, being around, using the facilities. I was asked what I might want out of the experience on a much personal level as well as an academic one. It is an experiment in what a collaboration could achieve; a sort of free association exercise and I can\u2019t believe my luck.<\/p>\n
The residency runs from September 2022 – August 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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