Flight Patterns
Flight Patterns
by Pippa Sterk
image credit: JY Mak
Flight Patterns
Workshop • Sat 18 July • 18:00 • Brockway Room
Flight Patterns uses birdwatching and crafting to explore issues of racialisation, stereotyping, and knowledge-production. The workshop engages critically with the 'snapshot' knowledge that birdwatching relies on: taking images, sounds, and videos of birds as prompts, we will collectively craft, collage, and write our responses. What do we think we know about these birds, based on little information? And how is this similar or different to the ways in which we make ourselves quickly intelligible to each other in everyday life? When we are categorised within a ‘snapshot’, what is it that we want to communicate to each other?
ABOUT THE ARTIST:
Pippa Sterk (they/them) is a writer and researcher, based in London. Their work uses creative and participatory approaches to critically interrogate queer community-building, pedagogy, and racialisation.
They are a Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Bristol, and they have published on issues such as linguistic racialisation, organisational co-optation of Pride, and collective care in group work settings. They dabble in film curation and creative writing.
