CREAM is delighted to invite you to our 2024 Summer Social.

Join us for a talk by Dr Lucy Soutter on her AHRC-funded project The Global Photographies Network and Professor Catherine Dormor's Inaugural Lecture on textile practice and feminisms, followed by a drinks reception.

Location

Portland Hall
4–12 Little Titchfield Street
W1W 7BY

Programme

4–4:50pm

Lucy Soutter
Around the World with 53 Contributors: The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

5–6pm

Professor Catherine Dormor Inaugural Lecture
Cut! Stitch! Repair! – textile practice and feminisms

6–7:30pm

Drinks reception

Abstracts

Lucy Soutter
Around the World with 53 Contributors: The Routledge Companion to Global Photographies

Launched during the pandemic, The Global Photographies Network started out as a platform for photographers, scholars and educators to meet online to share work and ideas. Four years and an AHRC Networking Grant later, the Network has produced a collaborative open access publication with 6 sections addressing questions of cultural translation, photography’s response to climate change, decolonial practices, network formation, new materialities, identities and the role of photobooks. This talk will trace the evolution of the research project and introduce some of its key findings about developments in contemporary photography around the world.

Professor Catherine Dormor Inaugural Lecture
Cut! Stitch! Repair! – textile practice and feminisms

In this lecture, marking Catherine Dormor’s inauguration as Professor of Textile Practices and Feminisms, she takes three dominant textile actions – cutting, stitching and repairing – to unpack and explore how cloth and stitch can function as feminist language for what it means to be in community. As she stitches across the surface, her threads move to and fro, up and down, following the movement of the needle as it makes its passage through the cloth. Scissors snip and slash cloth and thread, creating new shapes, disrupting existing forms; in their wake unwanted elements become separated and the raw edge is exposed. Thus comes into play the repair, with its notions of visible and invisible mending, covering up and moving on. In this lecture, Dormor will offer new readings of these ubiquitous acts and actions suggesting ways in which an ethics of violence might be achieved and new understandings of community can be realised.

Professor Catherine Dormor is a practicing artist, writer and academic at the University of Westminster where she is also Head of Westminster School of Arts.

CREAM 2024 Summer Social – Professor Catherine Dormor Inaugural Lecture