Workshop 1: Captioning for Artists

Join us for a live, online workshop for artists to experiment with the poetics and pragmatics of captioning.

This session is led by artist, Asad Raza and translator Olivia Fairweather. Thinking together about subjectivity, sound, and interpretation, we explore captioning as creative practice. During this workshop, participants collaborate in real-time on Raza’s film project, Ge to develop a collectively authored caption-track. No prior experience, expertise, or specialist software is required.

About the event

Online. Free. Limited Capacity.
Booking is required.
You can access this event through the Zoom meeting link available 1-week before.
There will be live captioning for this event.
A transcript for this event is not available afterwards due to the intimate nature of the event.
There will be British Sign Language interpretation for this event.
The duration of the event is two hours. A rest break is included.

If you have any further questions about the above access provisions or require something we have not outlined above, please be in touch with Hannah Wallis on hannahwallis@nottinghamcontemporary.org

Asad Raza

Asad Raza creates dialogues and rejects disciplinary boundaries in his work, which conceives of art as a metabolic, active experience. Using actions and processes such as soil-making, tennis, and horticulture, his projects create encounters within and beyond the exhibition setting. They have been realized by institutions including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Kaldor Public Art Projects, Sydney; Gropius Bau, Berlin; the Serpentine Galleries, London; Metro Pictures, New York; Urbane Kunst Ruhr, Essen; the Lahore Biennale; and his one-bedroom apartment.

Olivia Fairweather

Olivia Fairweather (born London, UK) is a translator, editor and producer. Her translations have appeared in Mondialité (Skira, 2017), Afterall and Radical Philosophy. In 2019, she edited a volume on Raza’s work, Root sequence. Mother tongue (Koenig). She has worked with Raza since 2017, notably co-producing Minor History (IFFR 2019) and Ge (2020), a commission for the Serpentine.

The series logo: the words Caption-Conscious Ecology spread across 3 sides of a square, inside square brackets