Jade Monseratt - Wolverhampton University

- Jade is influenced by Joséphine Baker who led the civil rights movement after Martin Luther king 's death

- looking at how we use the body

- care and the body and how its not cared for within education from day 1.

- looking at embodiment performances

- inspired by Stuart hall

- the rainbow tribe - her thesis

- embodied performance as a cursive tool

- visual artist

- she looks at the rural areas of England

- colonial unconsciousness

- Trauma- ancestral trauma - can see links to this in her work

- focusing on negrotude

- the rainbow tribe - born from a trip to reading

- fairytale aspirations

- she sees tattoos as a brand/project on oneself

- jade has Vimeo where she shares her performance works

- she also has a website

- am I a feminist? - she questions

Ekphrasis - Greek word describing a work of art produced by rhetorical exercise

- activism through movement

- sematic research

- how do we read bodies?

- marginalised education within art - how can we change that?

- care- no one asked about how the performer cared for herself just paid her and left.

- some people use body as an object, exploiting the body, not understanding the theoretical framework behind the performance

- precarious life - Judith butler idea

- no need for clothing - performance installation - on Vimeo

- what do we need?

- phycophysical threats

- the work in dialog with itself and the readers

- the trauma process - the book

- madernity and double consciousness - the book

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Question time

Using trauma as art can be exploitive? - question asked

- she's an optimist- depressed by the system she was born to, were all playing catchup, pedagogical routes.

- connecting an interdisciplinary curriculum emerges the story of roots

- she hopes there are many of us as the masters gates are collapsing.

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- Trauma is in your dna? - literally and emotionally?

- her focus on action in education

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- Is quiet protest a weak protest? or is it a stronger protest that makes a greater change? or does it have to be a loud/aggressive protest of change? - questions that arose in my mind

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- exhibition at bluecoat- jades- look deeper

- perhaps email her for a meetup?

- conversations with text whilst feeling safe

- looking at the history of trauma - trauma in the body - something that isn't currently taught