Panel Discussion: Thinking through Play

Royal College of Art MA CCA 'Notes on Play'

Join Lola Olufemi, Zarina Muhammad, Róisín Tapponi and Shenece Oretha discussing the 
politics of play, active listening, and the archive.

<h3>Panel Discussion: Thinking through Play - Lola Olufemi, Zarina Muhammad, Róisín Tapponi and Shenece Oretha</h3><p>Join curators Mahamed Abdullahi and Matilde Silva Fry for an open-ended discussion session with Shenece Oretha and guest speakers Lola Olufemi, Zarina Muhammad and Róisín Tapponi. This is an opportunity to expand on conversations around active listening, heritage, the archival and radical imagination. </p><p></p><h3>Notes on Play</h3><p>The panel discussion, ‘Thinking through Play’  is part of ‘<a href="https://spaces.rca.ac.uk/play/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"><em>Notes on Play</em>’</a>, an online exhibition. For ‘<em>Notes on Play’</em>, multi-disciplinary artist Shenece Oretha has been commissioned to make a new work in response to the ‘Playtimes’ collection within the British Library&#x27;s sound archive. The project is part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2021, Royal College of Art, London, in partnership with <a href="https://www.bl.uk/projects/unlocking-our-sound-heritage" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">British Library’s ‘Unlocking Our Sound Heritage’ (UOSH) project. </a></p><p></p><h3>MA Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art, London</h3><p>Established over 25 years ago, <a href="https://www.rca.ac.uk/study/programme-finder/curating-contemporary-art-ma/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the MA Curating Contemporary Art (CCA) programme</a> at the Royal College of Art is recognised as an international leader in curatorial education and training and for its commitment to collaborative group project-based work that integrates theory and practice throughout the curriculum. The CCA programme approaches the field critically, theoretically and through best practice in commissioning, curating and programming with London-based and international arts organisations and spaces. These partnerships ensure that the knowledge and understanding of these practices is grounded in the context of public audiences, urbanisation and the digital. </p><p></p><h3>The British Library</h3><p>The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom and one of the world&#x27;s greatest research libraries. It provides world- class information services to the academic, business, research and scientific communities and offers unparalleled access to the world&#x27;s largest and most comprehensive research collection. The Library&#x27;s collection has developed over 250 years and exceeds 150 million separate items representing every age of written civilisation and includes books, journals, manuscripts, maps, stamps, music, patents, photographs, newspapers and sound recordings in all written and spoken languages. Over 10 million people visit <a href="https://www.bl.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">the British Library website</a> every year where they can view up to 4 million digitised collection items and over 40 million pages.</p><p>The British Library is also home to the nation’s <a href="https://sounds.bl.uk" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">sound archive</a>, an extraordinary collection of over 6.5 million recordings of speech, music, wildlife and the environment. These recordings, from the UK and around the world, date from the birth of recorded sound in the 1880s to the present day. The sound archive forms a vital part of the nation’s collective memory and tells a rich story of the diverse history of the UK.</p><p></p>

<p>The discussion will be recorded. </p><p>For more information, visit<a href="https://spaces.rca.ac.uk/play/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer"> the project website</a> and follow us on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/notes.on.play/?igshid=1to4qjx9zg12b" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">instagram(notes.on.play)!</a></p><p></p>

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