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Caring to Listen
Image by: Caitlin Shepherd

Caring to Listen

Lunchtime Talks

Talk + Live stream

Please note: This event took place in Oct 2021

In this talk, Caitlin Shepherd, an artist, researcher and educator, will share research and findings arising from her practice and research PhD, Caring to Listen. Her practice examines how working-class experience is excluded from socially engaged art (and the creative industries at large), and how convivial listening practices might help to better understand and address such exclusions.

Caitlin Shepherd uses print design, sound installations and built structures to explore and listen to personal stories of everyday life, with particular interest in lived experiences of class identity, precarity and economic inequality. Caitlin has a background in socially engaged art and activism. Alongside working as an artist, she co-founded and directed award-winning campaigns at This is Rubbish (2010 - 2015) and worked as a campaigner at Oxfam (2012 - 2014). Caitlin currently teaches contextual and theoretical studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.


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