[Commlist] Symposium Creativity & Risk: Practices Of Learning To Leap Into The Unknown

*Symposium *

*Creativity & Risk: Practices Of Learning To Leap Into The Unknown*

Friday 6^th September 2019, School of Performance and Production, 
University of South Wales Cardiff, Cardiff Campus, ATRiuM

*Call deadline: June 24^th *

“Encouraging creativerisk-taking among tertiary learners is evidently a 
complex pursuit. There is a clear need for educators to feel comfortable 
in allowing their students space and autonomy to take risks”.  Dr. 
Phoebe Hart (2017)

This symposium critically examines the ways in which film and media 
production courses build appetite for risk-taking in their 
students' creative practice, from ideation development to audio-visual 
realisation and though to post-production. Encouraging students to take 
risks can be especially challengingwhen students feel pressured to 
prioritise the development of their perceived employability. 
Witha risk-averse attitude of a generation of students whose exposure to 
opportunities for creative exploration has become increasingly limited, 
many students arrive at university with little awareness of how 
applicable speculative play can be.

Research by the likes of P. Paulus (2000), S.Yuhyung, E.Chanyoung (2014)

suggests students tend to be more open to risk-taking challenges in 
groups than individually. So, what teaching strategies might we 
encourage that can exploit this understanding? Might gender have a 
bearing on how mixed groups of creative producers embrace risk-taking? 
In the multicultural setting of higher education, risk can mean 
different things to different students, so what flexible models of 
provocation can be designed to accommodate diverse interpretations of 
risk-taking? In what ways might risk-taking in one’s own creative 
research inform innovative pedagogy and vice versa?

Themes for presentations may include:

Teaching creative risk

Application of research to experimental curriculum development

Experimentation and ethics

Media audiences

Creative risk and media industries

The symposium will enquire into how practitioner/educators working 
across a range of platforms, including broadcast, cinema, gallery and 
on-line presentation, in documentary and fiction filmmaking, digital 
performance, set-design, animation embed risk in practice.

We welcome different approaches to research on risk-taking 
includingeducation theory, film history, psychology and sociology, 
experimental film practice, philosophy -- aesthetics and ethics.

We invite proposals for contributions to this symposium in the form of 
practical workshops, paper presentations, performances, screenings or 
oral papers that address the symposium theme from either theoretical or 
empirical perspectives.

Registration fee £25 covers tea/coffee, lunch and wine reception.

We also have travel bursaries to facilitate postgraduate and 
non-affiliated artists/researchers attending the event, so please note 
on your proposal if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary.

Please send proposals (300 words approx.) outlining the aim and form of 
presentation, along with a short biography to the symposium conveners: 
Inga Burrows ((Inga.Burrows /at/ southwales.ac.uk) 
<mailto:(Inga.Burrows /at/ southwales.ac.uk)>) and Deirdre Russell 
((Deirdre.russell /at/ southwales.ac.uk))

Keynote speaker John Giwa-Amu runs production company Red and Black 
Films. The company’s first feature, Little White Lies, won two BAFTA 
Cymru Awards & was BIFA nominated. The Machine, selected from over 6,000 
films, premiered in Tribeca and won three BAFTAs Cymru. The Party, 
directed by Sally Potter starring Cillian Murphy won the Guild Prize at 
Berlin 2017, a BIFA and grossed $3.5m theatrically. John has won the BBC 
Talent Award, is a Breakthrough Brit honouree, named a Future Leader by 
Screen International & graduated from Inside Pictures.




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