"Is this moving the conversation forward? Is this getting closer to unknotting some of the big questions in our society – the big questions at the heart of what it is to be human?" David Byrne, artistic director @royalcourt.bsky.social on being "ahead of public taste" in theatre tinyurl.com/bddc8bhs
“right here, where we live… it’s a really intense time, but that’s what literature is for, that’s what art is for, to make sense of moments in time like this one”, from the play ‘John Proctor is the Villain’, now on at the brilliant @royalcourt.bsky.social ⭐️
What arts scholarship did these words inspire? More next week, when we stay with 🎭 & explore Derbyshire & Hodson ‘Performing Injustice: Human Rights & Verbatim Theatre, 2008, 2(2), 191.
… noting the qualities of ‘performance art as… visual & aural medium’, the editors continue: ‘law as a humanities discipline is concerned with the capacity of human beings to engage with their environment & reform it by the power of imagination, as expressed through arts”…
As L&H approaches 20yrs next yr, I have been tracing its arts scholarship 🎭💃🎨⚖️ & there is no other place to start than the 1st editorial, 1(1), 2007 by Watt & Raffield: D Hare’s @nationaltheatre.org.uk play Stuff Happens, on Iraq War, as part of long tradition of theatrical debate of juristic ideas…
From today’s Observer Magazine 👇& Macgregor continues “the responsibility of art” is “to push people out of their comfort zones - not just to entertain, but to provoke thought and questioning”; 1st performance of Mayerling as presenting “a language that was unfamiliar & challenged an audience”
She's up for an Olivier tonight for Inter Alia, but what is S Miller working on next? “I’m looking at what jurors bring into the jury room ...a slice of 12 different lives... how they come together ... different kinds of intellectual capacity, political leanings, race, gender” tinyurl.com/5akbynht
Event on Shakespeare's 1st Folio @stationerscomms.bsky.social👇 the history of the 'copy' is, of course, intertwined with the history of copy-right - & Stationers' Co records, for Shakespeare's period, are searchable through the CREATe online resource here 👉 tinyurl.com/59paezz5
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"different genres of dance answer different questions [re] law & can each contribute to legal research in their own distinctive way... treating dance as 1 monolithic practice.. would be limitative [re]... how we can use dance to understand... law" (Moscati & Mulcahy p.14) 👏
OUT NOW: @lawtextculture.bsky.social: Moscati & Mucahy, Dance/Law Special Issue. Love the editorial intro: collaborative dance-infused editorial conversations ❤️ Not sure I can persuade the editors @law-and-humanities.bsky.social to do the same 🙃 but I will be 🤔on these points... tinyurl.com/nhzbadce
W Pinnock's new @nationaltheatre.org.uk play The Authenticator: "ebullient drama" re "2 Black academics authenticating" an enslaver's 18th-cent diaries. & watch this space for the fab @kalimurray.bsky.social on Pinnock's Rockets and Blue Lights in @law-and-humanities.bsky.social tinyurl.com/bdh4nufd
As I edit S Hook's @law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review of 'Grey Lines' on tattooing by @drmarieip.bsky.social & A McDade, I was drawn to the below: connection between client/tattooist, which shapes copying norms in 'Grey Lines', is here reflected in architectural designs tinyurl.com/43kh6m9e
Well done to Imperial War Museum on their current exhibition ‘Emergency Exits’ re power and British colonial rule in 1950s; open until end of the month 👇
‘Think of your least interesting day, & that is interesting enough’ @welshnattheatre.bsky.social ‘s debut drama immerses us in ordinary life of communities whose voices have been long forgotten. Ensemble drama at its best, indicative of deep community values of this theatre co 👏 @mchshe.bsky.social
@law-and-humanities.bsky.social arts review on my desk re 'Grey Lines' curated by @drmarieip.bsky.social & A McDade: exhibition, set in a mock tattoo parlour, immerses its viewing public in norms of creativity & ownership in tattooing. Dr S Hook UTS reviews: coming soon for L&H tinyurl.com/fr4ztre3
Lucky me to be in Southampton yesterday for the reopening of its Gallery! Fab show by Southampton’s own Emma Richardson juxtaposed with city’s own historic collection; I will be speaking in Sept about two 19th cent paintings not on display, which, in my view, speak to themes explored by Richardson
Optical research 🧐 really looking forward to presenting before this painting - Salvador Dali’s Christ of St John on the Cross, in Kelvingrove - this November, as part of Encounters with Art, Glasgow.
Again showing why literary/artistic and scholar mantles should be put into communication - one mission at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social!
Reading @kalimurray.bsky.social's essay re 18th cent enslavement & TM law 👇but also (as @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Ed) Iinking Murray's use of literary theories of spectre & phantom to Winsome Pinnock's 'hauntology' in playwriting (see podcast at 13': shorturl.at/m71KW) shorturl.at/badOa
I am so excited to present @create-glasgow.bsky.social, at the kind invitation of @drelenacooper.bsky.social on my ongoing project of examining trademark law’s relationship to enslavement. This is part of my larger project of examining categories of Despostic information in intellectual property.
Delighted to be chairing the Trade Mark History strand of this series. @kalimurray.bsky.social on (Un)free Trade: Captive Histories of Trademark Law: how an understanding of enslavement’s 18th century history, can illuminate fresh perspectives on trade mark law and its history. 👇online: 11 March 2pm
Fab talk 👇 "whether legal history has any direct relevance to the state of public law today" re sovereignty of Parliament. "There may be something to learn from way Coke interpreted the sovereignty of the king... if a way can be found to reconcile such ideas with our present notions of democracy."
As @law-and-humanities.bsky.social Arts Editor, I am drawn to this line; powerful in view of art that informs L&H (art that engages with legal themes): Anger “‘is a means of affectively registering or appreciating the injustice of the world’, comparable to our exercise of aesthetic judgment.”
“In this lecture Lee Miller’s son Antony Penrose talks about why his mother responded to the Holocaust in the way she did & the work he has done to authenticate her evidence as a witness – evidence she deliberately left us in the hope it would help prevent history repeating.” tinyurl.com/2tcxr7sh
CALL FOR PAPERS: LHub's new project: law and humanities in the 'Four Nations', ECR network: with forthcoming workshops in England, Wales, Scotland and N Ireland. Fab events for our ECR community 👏 👇 @adiver.bsky.social @ials.bsky.social tinyurl.com/yrk86hyp
Proving that where there’s a good archive, there’s a story and it will always be authentic, always original: recent Liszt Institute lecture by the brilliant photo historian Dr Michael Pritchard now available online 👇 kraszna-krausz.org.uk/teaching-the...
On my way to RSA - home of 19th cent copyright reform - re @create-glasgow.bsky.social funded digital legal history resource: Stationers’ Register Online 1557-1640 led by English scholars Ian Gadd & Giles Bergel, which has changed book historians’ understandings of Shakespeare 👉 tinyurl.com/2y6m8y58
OUT NOW: Ian Ellison @wadhamcollege.bsky.social reviews the visual art exhibition 'IIlustrationen zu Franz Kafka' (Regesburg, Germany) exploring rich 'visual afterlife' of a literary author who, while visual in his private creative process, resisted illustration of his work. shorturl.at/Skx0o
As a new force in critical creative theatre is released in Swansea - 1st production of new @welshnattheatre.bsky.social led by @mchshe.bsky.social - we're watching with interest at @law-and-humanities.bsky.social, home of scholarly engagement with arts. I'll be at the Rose to see the play in March!
