Dr Rachel Hare, a Research Associate in both the Department of English and the Bristol Centre for Grief Research and Engagement, and one of our former PhD students in English, has organised an event at the MShed on Saturday 8 November 11am-2pm as part of the Being Human Festival. All welcome!
SWOON! at the Being Human Festival
Where: M Shed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol, BS1 4RN
When: Saturday, 8 November 11am-2pm (with a dance performance at around 1.30pm)
More info: www.beinghumanfestival.org/events/swoon
Art and culture have always been fascinated by fainters, from the medieval knights passing out with passion to the Bridgerton and black-and-white-movie heroines overcome with emotion. But what would you swoon for? And why does it matter?
Held in partnership with Creative Youth Network as part of the Being Human Festival, SWOON! is an inclusive exhibition which introduces visitors to the history of fainting and invites them to create their own response through a drop-in writing station. The creative display will include examples of fainting in art, writing and film, asking questions about gender, vulnerability, emotion and consciousness and how they affect the ways in which we move through the world.
Visitors who choose can make their own ‘swoon art’ and add it to the display, guided by poet Kat Lyons and University of Bristol researcher Rachel Hare. At 1.30pm, dancer eden will improvise a short performance inspired by a live reading.
Please join us if you can! And let us know if you have any ideas of swoons we should feature -- we're crowd-sourcing ideas on Instagram
Email: rachel.hare@bristol.ac.uk