Caitlin Shepherd | Caring to Listen | Watershed
Channel: Watershed
Date: 2021-10-22

The Pervasive Media Studio is a partnership between Watershed, UWE Bristol and University of Bristol.

Caitlin Shepherd is an artist, researcher and educator. She uses print design, sound installations and built structures to explore and listen to personal stories of everyday life, with particular interest in lived experiences of class identity, precarity and intersectional economic inequality. Caitlin has a background in socially engaged art and activism. Alongside working as an artist, she co-founded and directed award winning campaigns at This is Rubbish (2010 - 2015) and worked as a campaigner at Oxfam (2012 - 14). Caitlin currently teaches contextual and theoretical studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. 

In this talk Caitlin will share research and findings arising from her practice and research PhD, Caring to Listen. Her praxis examines how working-class experience is excluded from socially engaged art (and the creative industries at large), and how convivial listening practices might help to better understand and address such exclusions.

About the Watershed and the Pervasive Media Studio

Watershed is a three-screen cinema in Bristol UK showing independently produced films from Britain and beyond. We are also a centre for art and creative technology: home to the Pervasive Media Studio, where artists, technologists and academics work on projects and products at the cutting edge of art, science and digital. The Studio is a collaboration between Watershed, The University of West England and Bristol University.

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