HILARY POWELL

SHARING/GATHERING

Each project leads to multiple talks and workshops with academic institutions and community organisations sharing practical skills, processes and ideas.

Since completing a PhD in 2007 this has involved many visits to share work at universities where the reach of the interdisciplinary imagination is seen in the range of invitations from art and cultural studies to geography, anthropology and archaeology departments and most recently politics and economics.  

There have been recurring contributions to 'Art, Performance and the City’ at QMUL (formally run by Dr David Pinder) and Arcadia University with Dr Robin Wilson and the period (2007-2014) of active work around the London Olympic site led to devising and running a course with Birkbeck and contributing a regular lecture to SOAS/Chinese University in Hong Kong.

Through an AHRC Fellowship in the Performing and Creative Arts in the Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL much of these events have happened across departments at UCL - from gaining a UCL Grand Challenge for Sustainable Cities award with UCL Anthropology, History of Science and Institute of Making to contributing to group crits and Professor Jane Rendell and Dr Ben Campkin’s MA Spatial Practice and MA Architectural History. Work at the Bartlett School of Architecture led to mentoring MA thesis students and becoming Leverhulme artist/alchemist in residence with UCL Chemistry.

Recent work includes becoming personal tutor to MA Visual Communication students and leading an ‘Expanded Practice’ module –‘The Constructive Moment’ and co teaching ‘SITE’ - a ‘situated practice’ course at the Royal College of Art.

COURSES

SITE

With sessions entitled Liquidity, Nest, Strata, Illuminations, Wilderness. Ruin and Heirloom this year 2 RCA MA ‘situated practice’ course asks students to interrogate the definition of site through critical and practical enquiry. Via research, documentation and experimentation, it encourages students to articulate a response to site through the development of a body of work across image-making, motion, design, performance and writing. Some of the key areas of focus include: shifting territories and communities, built and imaginary environments, physical and virtual networks, indexical and the digital, documentary and narrative.  In 20/21 and 22/23 it was taught in collaboration with Jennifer Nightingale and Jack Llewellyn.