Salon des Refusés

Arts Lab, University of Glasgow

A social gathering open to any staff in CoAH (and wider UoG colleagues) wanting to shake off past research rejections for the new year.

Wolfson Medical School Atrium (Ground Floor)

ArtsLab wishes everyone the best for the new year. But we also know that it will bring something no one wants: rejections. Of grant applications, journal paper submissions, book proposals, post-doc applications, project ideas… you name it. Except: we often don’t. We have all-staff e-mails announcing grant successes, promotions or panel appointments, but we don’t tend to hear about (let alone celebrate) the research work that is cruelly rejected. These rejections almost always require equal amounts of blood, sweat, and tears, and are equally rooted in fantastic ideas, curiosities, and research passions. Rejections are rubbish. But maybe they will be less rubbish if we recognize them together? ArtsLab’s Salon des Refusés will do just that. Everyone – academic, research professionals, profession services from the College of Arts and Humanities and beyond (it takes a village!) – is warmly invited to an informal social on 16 January 2025, 5-7pm, atrium of the Wolfson Medical School. Do you want to shake off research-related rejection vibes? Would you like to symbolically wave bye-bye to a fab application that reviewer 2 failed to understand? Or would you just like to join others in recognising some of the more brain-tearingly frustrating aspects of research? Then this is the gathering for you. Ideally, please come with a rejection in hand or mind (this could be a printout of the first page of a rejected application, a file on a USB stick, or just the name of the rejection). If you wish, you can then purge your chosen rejection through one of the following experimental yet hopefully helpful methods: · Drinks and Nibbles: science has shown (or surely ought to show) that rejection is easier to shake off after you’ve had a snack and beverage.· Digital Delete Game: bring a USB file (or just type in the name of the rejection you’d like to bid farewell) and try to guess what happens next: whether it's converted into a digital firework launched skywards, driven through by a coach and horses, or other surreal and cathartic outcomes projected onto a large screen. Created by the good folks at the Games and Gaming Lab.· Good Old-fashioned Shredder: print out a page of your most recent rejection and bask in the feeling of feeding it through a good old-fashioned shredder to mingle with the rejections of your peers.· Papercraft Transmutation Table: learn how to transform that page of rejection into a paper doll! An origami paper crane! An artwork from your own imagination! Take your new artwork back to your desk to serve as a talisman of protection for whatever the heck 2025 brings. Children are very welcome (they’d be helpful, tbh) if that makes your family logistics easier. Please register via Eventbrite so we know how many biscuits we should order! (And also please let us know of any access requirements you may have.) See you there, The Arts Lab team

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