Name: Nothing About Us Without Us
Location: Wellcome Collection

Events

Join artist Es Morgan and The Place’s Artist Development Producer Amy Bell in conversation as they talk about Es’s new work, ‘to feel something tipping’. 

The work, a dance film broadcast live in a continuous loop, explores trans embodiment, visibility, being with others and being alone. 

Es and Amy will share the work, and then discuss the ideas behind it and the process of making. You will also have an opportunity to ask them questions. 

This event will be hosted through the videoconferencing platform BlueJeans. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions. Your microphone and camera will be switched off for the whole session. 

Located in the heart of London, The Place is a creative powerhouse for dance development that is leading the way in dance training, creation and performance. It is uniquely placed to enhance the sector’s ability to support independent dance artists. It provides the space and conditions they need to take the creative risks that keep the art form alive, and help them attain greater profile and integration within the UK and European dance communities. 

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The Place

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Partner

Amy (they/them) is a London-based dance artist and producer. Their work, including performing, making, writing, curating, facilitating and dramaturgical practices, is borne of binary-busting fervour. They aim to explode “them-and-us” thinking around embodiment, queerness, marginalisation and relationships between audiences, artists and organisations. Amy’s solo works ‘TOMBO(Y)LA’ and the award-winning ‘The Forecast’ and have toured internationally, and their teaching and facilitation includes working with queer collectives in Cearà, Brazil as well as with professionals and young artists across the UK. Amy is currently Artist Development Producer at The Place, where they also curate ‘Splayed’, an international festival of disruptive queer performance and digital art. 

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Amy Bell

Host

Es Morgan (they/them) is an artist, performer and producer from East Yorkshire whose practices draw from diverse interests in dance, live art and writing. They make performances for theatres, clubs, galleries, screens and pages. These works emerge in response to an array of interests: transgender theory, post-work futures, poetry, tarot and far-left politics, funnelled through their shifting experiences of intimacy, desire and longing. Their work has been presented at, among others, The Place, the Yard Theatre, Nottdance, tanzhaus nrw, the Marlborough Theatre, La Fête du slip (Lausanne), Vivid Projects (Birmingham), and Vogue Fabrics Dalston.

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Es Morgan

Artist

<p>A chance to hear about and talk about ideas with others.</p>

Discussion

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This event will have live speech-to-text transcription which may be useful for people who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or neurodiverse. The text will be embedded in the event video window and ticketholders will also receive a link to open subtitles in a separate window.

Speech-to-text

The host and speakers will describe themselves and key visual elements they refer to, which may be useful for blind, partially sighted and neurodiverse attendees. There will not be a separate audio description track.

Audio described

Booking a ticket guarantees you entry to the online event. You will be given joining instructions in your confirmation email. If you have any access requests or requirements, for example a transcript of the event, email us at access@wellcomecollection.org or call 020 7611 2222.

Guaranteed (online)

Join choreographer Es Morgan and dance artist Amy Bell in conversation as they talk about Es’s new work, ‘to feel something tipping’.

Es Morgan in Conversation With Amy Bell

Join writer and researcher Dr Bonnie Evans in this online event looking at the origins of film-making at the turn of the 20th century and how this led to a new form of neurodiverse cinema only now being rediscovered. 

Through film clips and photos, Bonnie will explore how this work has transformed how we think about difference, and the ways it continues to offer new perspectives on humanity in all its forms.

You will be able to watch this event on Wellcome Collection’s YouTube channel, and submit questions in advance or during the event using Slido. Your microphone and camera will not be on. After booking a ticket you will receive an email with joining instructions. 

Dr Bonnie Evans is a lecturer at Queen Mary University and author of 'The metamorphosis of autism: A history of child development in Britain'. She  completed her PhD at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Cambridge University, in 2010. Following that, she was a postdoctoral researcher at King’s College, London's Centre for Medical Humanities, working on a project entitled ‘Cultural and Historical Influences on Psychiatric Diagnoses’.

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Dr Bonnie Evans

Speaker

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This event is British Sign Language interpreted. An interpreter will be embedded in the event stream/visible to all attendees and will interpret what is discussed into BSL for d/Deaf, hard of hearing and deafened attendees.

British Sign Language

Join Dr Bonnie Evans as she explores the origins of film-making at the turn of the 20th century and how this led to the rediscovery of a new form of neurodiverse cinema.

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Hear from researchers and Wellcome Collection staff about the stories that they unearthed in our collections, and take a closer look at some of the items they discovered.

Library Insights

Film and Neurodiversity

Join curators Laurie Britton Newell and George Vasey as they discuss the making and remaking of ‘Joy’ and ‘Tranquillity’, two exhibitions that form part of the ‘On Happiness’ season. 

In this honest and illuminating online event, the curators will reflect on what they have learned about the elusive subject of happiness as part of this journey and how they hope the themes of the exhibits will resonate with visitors.   

Laurie and George will audio-describe a short walk-through film of the ‘Joy’ and ‘Tranquillity’ exhibitions. They will then discuss their experiences of pausing and starting the exhibition work in response to the cultural and political urgencies surfaced by the Covid-19 pandemic. The speakers will respond to audience questions during the final 20 minutes.  

This event will be live-streamed on Wellcome Collection’s YouTube channel and available to watch afterwards. After booking a ticket, you will receive a confirmation email with joining instructions.   

You will be able to comment and ask questions live online using YouTube Live Chat and via Slido during the event. Your microphone and camera will be switched off for the whole session.   

‘Joy’ and ‘Tranquillity’ are open 15 July 2021–9 January 2022. 

Laurie Britton Newell is a senior curator at Wellcome Collection and co-curator of the ‘Joy’ and ‘Tranquillity’ exhibitions, part of the season ‘On Happiness' (2021), and she curated the exhibition ‘Somewhere in Between’ (2018). She previously ran a rural curatorial platform in the USA and taught at the University of Colorado. Prior to that she worked as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum, where she curated critically acclaimed exhibitions such as ‘Memory Palace’ (2013), ‘Make Lab’ (2011), ‘1:1: Architects Build Small Spaces’ (2010) and ‘Out of the Ordinary: Spectacular Craft’ (2008). She writes about contemporary creative practice for books, magazines and newspapers.

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Laurie Britton Newell

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George Vasey is a curator currently working on projects with Wellcome Collection, Leeds Art Gallery and the National Portrait Gallery. He has curated over 50 exhibitions since 2008 in public, academic and commercial contexts. He has previously worked as a curator at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland and as a curatorial fellow at Newcastle University. In 2017 he co-curated the Turner Prize. His writing has been published in Art Monthly, Art Review, Burlington Contemporary, Frieze and Mousse, as well as numerous artists’ catalogues and books. He regularly teaches and has mentored artists, writers and curators for various organisations. 

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George Vasey

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Curating Happiness

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This event will have live speech-to-text transcription in a separate window, which may be useful for people who are D/deaf, hard of hearing, deafened or neurodiverse. All ticketholders will receive a link on the day of the event.

Join curators Laurie Britton Newell and George Vasey as they discuss the making and remaking of ‘Joy’ and ‘Tranquillity’, two exhibitions that form part of the ‘On Happiness’ season.

Join artists Dolly Sen, Christopher Samuel and disability historian Professor David Turner to hear about their experiences as users of Wellcome Collection and the methods they used to research the suppressed histories of disability. 

Dolly will discuss her current project, ‘Birdsong From Inobservable Worlds’. Using literature, performance and film, Dolly’s work explores and challenges the mental health archives as a gay, biracial woman with personal experience as an inpatient and student of the mental health system. 

Christopher will discuss his project ‘The Archive of the Unseen’. This multi-format interactive project tells the wider story of what it was like to grow up black, disabled and working class in 1980s Britain. Using the collections, Christopher addresses differences and similarities in the challenges faced historically by disabled people, and how this has been mediated over time through advocates such as Scope.

Professor David Turner will discuss how disabled people’s experiences have been erased from histories of work and industrialisation, and how this history might be recovered from the archives and/or presented in public spaces such as museums. His current research explores the long history of disabled people’s political activism in Britain since the 18th century.

PhD candidate in the History of Art and Medieval Studies, Jess Bailey will chair the event. She has recently published research on disability based on her placement at Wellcome Collection. 

Jess Bailey is a PhD candidate in the History of Art and Medieval studies at the University of California, Berkeley. She has published research on disability at Henry Wellcome’s Historical Medical Museum in ‘Kritische Berichte’ and on sex work in 16th-century drawing culture in ‘Disability and Art History’ from Routledge.

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Jess Bailey

Dolly Sen has a brain of ill repute. Because of this she is a writer, artist, performer and filmmaker.  Since 2004 she has exhibited and performed internationally, and recently received a combined arts project award in collaboration with Unlimited and Wellcome Collection to develop ‘Birdsong From Inobservable Worlds’, which explores and challenges the narrative in existing mental health archives, and adds missing voices to the current archives of madness.

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Dolly Sen

Christopher Samuel is a multi-disciplinary artist whose practice is rooted in identity and disability politics, often echoing the many facets of his own lived experience. He has exhibited widely and recently received a combined arts project award in collaboration with Unlimited and Wellcome Collection to develop ‘The Archive of the Unseen’, which seeks to interrogate his personal understanding of identity as a disabled person impacted by inequality and marginalisation. 

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Christopher Samuel

David Turner is Professor in Disability History at Swansea University. He has published several books on his research, most recently ‘Disability in the Industrial Revolution: Physical Impairment in British Coalmining 1780–1880’ (co-authored with Daniel Blackie), published by Manchester University Press in 2018.

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David Turner

Professor David Turner

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Exploring Research: Nothing About Us Without Us, Photo: Kathleen Arundell. Portrait of David Turner (left) by Kathleen Arundell. Portrait of Christopher Samuel (middle) © Brigita Skopaite. Portrait of Dolly Sen (right) by Thomas S.G. Farnetti. Source: Wellcome Collection

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Join artists Dolly Sen, Christopher Samuel and disability historian Professor David Turner to hear about their experiences as users of Wellcome Collection and the methods they used to research the suppressed histories of disability.

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