{"id":3961,"date":"2023-03-31T10:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T10:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/?page_id=3961"},"modified":"2023-03-31T14:48:12","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T14:48:12","slug":"in-conversation-with-victoria-burgher-and-lonceny-kourouma","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/graduate-school-festival-2023\/in-conversation-with-victoria-burgher-and-lonceny-kourouma\/","title":{"rendered":"In conversation with\u2026 Victoria Burgher and Lonceny Kourouma"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In Conversation With\u2026 Victoria Burgher and Lonceny Kourouma\u200b<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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3:00 - 4:30pm, 6 June 2023<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire\n<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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Victoria Burgher, School of Arts\n<\/h6>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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My interdisciplinary practice-based research uses porcelain to reveal and challenge hegemonic whiteness as a legacy of empire. Porcelain, cherished for its \u2018purity\u2019, delicacy and strength, is an apt material to critique white supremacy. I am interested in how and where an artistic practice can be effective as antiracist activism.\u00a0<\/p>

Victoria Burgher is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in East London. She exhibits nationally and internationally and has an MA Art and Politics from Goldsmiths College, University of London, and a BA Ceramics from the University of Westminster. She is interested in art\u2019s ability to challenge histories and a fascination with materials and process inform her approach to making.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Examining the Black doctoral students\u2019 lived experiences in the UK within a sociological decolonising lens.<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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This research aims to highlight lived experiences of Black PhD students in the UK \u2013 including the researcher \u2013 through their own voices and examine this through a decolonising lens. The Black lived experience in the West has historically been mired by negative assumptions and stereotypes, which were often imposed, not self-told from said groups themselves. As such, Adams et al. (2015) encourages a \u201cdeliberate attempt to understand reality from the perspective of the oppressed\u201d (p. 218), and outlines how storytelling can do this through recollection of history and experiences from racialised voices.<\/p>

To best do this, a narrative, qualitative, and decolonial methodology will form the basis of this research, with mixed-methods of storytelling on the move infused with photovoice, plus the researcher\u2019s own auto-ethnography. The narrative methodology helps examine and conceptualise the human experiences and in essence help form a space wherein the researcher might immerse his own story with those of the participating UK Black doctoral students through dialogical sharing, observing, reflecting, and becoming a part of them.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Conversation With\u2026 Victoria Burgher and Lonceny Kourouma\u200b 3:00 – 4:30pm, 6 June 2023 Fyvie Hall, Ground floor, 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW Crafting counter-hegemony: using porcelain to interrogate constructed ideologies of whiteness and empire Register here Victoria Burgher,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":0,"parent":3638,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3961","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3961"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3961\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3961\/revisions\/4376"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.westminster.ac.uk\/graduateschoolfestival\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}