As part of the Knowledge Producers programme, developed by the Cultural Institute at King's College London to support innovative collaborations between academics and cultural practitioners, choreographer Shobana Jeyasingh presented one of her works, Bruise Blood, to six King’s academics with a professional interest in the human body, and asked them to comment from their specialist perspective.
Their personal, insightful and unusual writings became the scripts for six highly-individual film portraits which reveal the academics, their work and dance in a new light.
Each film, shot in locations in and around King's College London, draws attention to unexpected commonalities, connecting ideas across seemingly wide gulfs. Uniting them is the question of how we portray and make sense of the human body—in dance, in science, in a robot-led future and through the lens.
On Friday 21 March from 5:30PM to 7PM in the Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s College Strand Campus, London WC1, Shobana Jeyasingh will be in conversation with her King’s academic collaborators after her presentation of Translocations.
Jeyasingh will look back on the connections forged during this journey, and the paths of intrigue that have stemmed from it: what can the neurons of zebra-fish cells teach a choreographer? How does her work provoke new thoughts on the issue of urban displacement?
For Translocations, Shobana collaborated with the following KCL academics:
- Prof Kaspar Althoefer, Professor of Robotics and Intelligent Systems, Head of the Centre for Robotics Research (CoRe), Department of Informatics
- Dr Johan Andersson, Lecturer in Urban and Cultural Geography
- Dr Sarah Cooper, Reader in Film Theory and Aesthetics, Head of Department of Film Studies, Deputy Head of the School of Arts and Humanities
- Dr Thrishantha Nanayakkara, Senior Lecturer, Department of Informatics
- Dr Paul Sweetman, Senior Lecturer in Culture, Media and Creative Industries
- Dr Darren Williams, Senior Lecturer, MRC Centre for Developmental Neurobiology.