Name: Provocations #4: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers
Start: 2022-04-28T18:00:00+09:30
End: 2022-04-28T21:00:00+09:30
Location: The LAB

Provocations #4: 'Hope' is the Thing with Feathers

The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is a research centre devoted to understanding creativity and a cultural hub where leading literary, musical and multimedia scholars and artists can learn from one another and collaborate.For more details:https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/about/

The J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice

Lively evening of radical hope with: Scott Ludlam, Deborah Cheetham AO, Arnagretta Hunter, Kim Cunio + more. Music*film*theatre*opera*arts.

The LAB

When Pandora released the evils into the world, hope remained in the jar. Is hope another evil, or is it a fool’s game, or a necessity? Was it being withheld from us, or preserved for safe-keeping? For Emily Dickinson, hope was ‘the thing with feathers – That perches in the soul.’ For Nietzsche, hope was ‘the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.’Are we suffering from a global hope shortage? When all the news is bad news, where can we find it? Against a constant background hum of anxiety, despair looks like proof of rigour. But are we willing ourselves into the cataclysm? Are we settling, collectively, into a death wish? Philosopher Jonathan Lear considers a radical hope that is ‘directed toward a future goodness that transcends the current ability to understand what it is.’ Writer and activist Rebecca Solnit has called for a ‘revolution of hope.’Join local artists and provocateurs alongside writer, activist and former Greens senator Scott Ludlam; Chair of the Commission for the Human Future, Arnagretta Hunter, together with activist composer and Head of the School of Music at the Australian National University (ANU) Kim Cunio; and First Nations Chair of Melbourne Symphony Orchestra and Professor of Music Practice at Monash University Deborah Cheetham AO for a lively evening of radical hope in the immersive performance space, <a href="https://www.thelabadl.com.au/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">The LAB</a>. Utilising the full digital screen and sound effects of The LAB, this evening's Provocations range across spoken word performance, musical compositions, short films, photo essays and theatre fragments. Provocations #4 is kindly supported by the Hackett Foundation.

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