I had such a lovely time back as an alumna at King’s College Cambridge, with fellow artists Joanna Jones and Helen Lindon.
Despite the not-ideal screening conditions – the curtains just would not move and probably had not been closed for years – A Parable for Endeavour – went down well and prompted a truly inspiring and wide-ranging discussion covering everything from scale, to beauty, to collaboration, agency, slowness, the difficulties of interpretation, vulnerability and the importance of care.
“…the care was so visible that it was mesmerising to watch…”
“… the slowness of the first section ….. makes slowness important in a way that is refreshing….”
“… a story of paper trampled on and given a chance to shine again by three women” as if to say “you can’t trample us down, we are able to tell our story”
“… 3 women working with their hands … making art not food was powerful and feminist”
We all sat in on the panel discussion – women in academia and then glammed up for the evening dinner with a keynote speech by Kum-Kum Bhavnani about her work promoting human rights, social justice and the work that women do across the globe.
We stayed overnight which gave us a chance to find good places for breakfast and lunch and to go to the Fitzwilliam Museum to see the rather wonderful current exhibition Madonnas and Miracles, which was highly appropriate given the weekend’s theme. While at the museum we also went to the Sunday lunchtime concert and were bowled over by the young pianist, Julian Trevelyan.
We now have a website for A Parable for Endeavour and hope we can screen it again, perhaps as a visual paper at a conference or symposium.
