susan young animation

Research and upcoming screenings

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I’m convening this autoethnography symposium for the Royal College of Art Doctoral training Programme, for anyone interested, may be some seats spare on Monday, on Eventbrite, here

Speakers include: Dr Alec Grant, Dr Neil Armstrong, Tony Gammidge and Hannah Shakespeare.

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Interesting summary here by Laura-Beth Cowley for Sqwigly on symposium: 

THE ESSAY FILM FORM AND ANIMATION: INTERSECTIONALITY IN MOTION

Derek Jarman Lab at CAPA, 12-13 June 2019

(I presented The Betrayal and my paper: ‘Using Animated Autoethnography to Resist and Reframe Psychiatric Othering and Iatrogenic Harm’)

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28 February 14:00-17:00

Presentation + screening: Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma

At Systems of Practice Research Seminar, GH 229, Royal College of Art, Garden House, Dorando Cl, White City, London W12 7FN

Presentation of my animated work, including student films, commercials, titles and commissioned films, and discussion of her influences, motivations and career challenges over 30 years involvement with film schools, advertising and the music industry.

I will also discuss my current RCA PhD research exploring animation’s potential as a therapeutic medium for processing psychological trauma. Influenced by cognitive science research into mental imagery and new materialist methodologies, my practice centres on autoethnographic animation (films exploring personal experience and connecting to wider issues). I will conclude by screening this part of my study, and discussing the ethical, psychological and political implications of using animation in this way.

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3 February 18.00

The Betrayal is screening in programme 3 Persist

2019 WOFFF Best of the Fest Tour

Mother's Ruin Gin Palace, Ravenswood Industrial Estate,

Shernall St, London E17 9HQ, tickets free Eventbrite

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On Tuesday 13 November 2018, 3.30pm  at

University of Oxford, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, 51/53 Banbury Road Oxford OX2 6PE

I’m presenting my PhD films in a discussion: 

'First do no harm?' Mental health, healers and stigma in ethnographic focus

at the GTC Medical Anthropology Film and Discussion Group - GTC Barclay Room (details here)

Convened by Dr Neil Armstrong

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30th October 2018, 10.00- 16.30

I’m participating in an MPhil/PhD Research Symposium, School of Communication, Royal College of Art 

Its a one-day event exploring the diversity and interconnectivity of communication (details here)

Location: The Westworks, White City Place, 195 Wood Lane, White City, London, W12 7FQ

Advance registration required Eventbrite

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I’m just back from the 5th British Conference of Autoethnography, info here, Arnolfini and Mshed, Bristol Harbourside.

Highlights included discussion with speakers (pictured L to R) Jonathan Wyatt, Ken Gale, Hannah Shakespeare, Sarah Helps, Alec Grant and David Carless. Hannah is senior commissioning editor in research methods at Routledge, who’ve just published International Perspectives on Autoethnography Research and Practice (including contributions from Jonathan, Sarah, Alec and David), and Ken’s Madness as Methodology.

There were many exciting presentations, personal favourites included contributions from Travis Heath (rap as narrative therapy), Claire Williamson (poetics and suicide), Kitrina Douglas (cowboys and identity) David Jackson (war veterans and witnessing),  Joane Craviero (finding my Dad), Joan B. Williams (no-one asks, or sees),  and Russell Heywood (auto-ethno-satire). 

Overall, a wonderful event, thanks so much to the organising committee (David, Kitrina, Melissa, Andrew, Alys and Jane) and hope to see you all next year!

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23-24 July, its the annual British Conference of Autoethnography 

Arnolfini and Mshed, Bristol 

I’m presenting on Tues 24, 2-3.30 at Mshed in session 8: new materialism. Conference line-up looks great, + there are pre-conference workshops and events on Mon morning, and new autoethnography book launch Mon evening 

 Book here for workshops and conference, should be a great event!

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Tues 26 June 2018 11.30-12.45, I’m part of a masterclass with ReCP at:

The Royal College of Psychiatrists International Congress 2018

Re-CREATE Psychiatry: Redefine Peer Support-a future practice model for mental healthcare, will be dialogue-led. We will encourage participants to think creatively about how clinicians and service users can work together as peers, sharing insights and expertise, and challenging conventional diagnostic labelling and practices. I’m particularly keen to talk about narrative entrapment within psychiatric diagnoses. Should be interesting + there are still places left!

Venue: Hall 9, ICC, 8 Centenary Square, Birmingham,B1 2EA

rcpsych.ac.uk

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Really enjoyed presenting my research at the 2018 Animation and Public Engagement Symposium, Beaumanor Hall, Leics. on 22 May. 

Many thanks to Melanie Hani and Roberta Bernabei for organising it, and there’s a comprehensive review of the day here

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Sunday 10 June, 2-4pm, with ReCp @ Arts in Mind, I’m taking part in a discussion: Collaborative Strivings, Measurable Parities and Mutual Resistance, an event concluding IoPPN’s Arts in Mind Festival, 4-10 June 2018. We’ll be exploring how interfaces between the arts, psychiatry and ‘lived experience’ can create new ways of thinking about clinical practice and how we interrelate.

Contributors include: Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, David O’ Flynn, Sally Marlow, Stan Papoulias, Peter Macrae and Hannah Ali, Matthew Swann, Lauren Gavaghan, Mao Fong Lim and myself.

Download programme here + booking here

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On 22 April, 3-5pm, I’m speaking on a panel with RE:CREATE Psychiatry

At: Hysteria – after affects, The Anatomy Lecture Theatre, King’s College.

Our round table panel debate closes an all-day symposium programmed by Victoria Tischler (Professor of Arts and Health, Head of the Dementia Care Centre, University of West London) and RE:CREATE Psychiatry

The symposium reflects upon collaborations that may evolve between artists, medical, psychiatric and mental-health professionals and those with lived experience of mental ill-health. The relationship between hysteria and contemporary art practice, and the place of artistic and scientific collaborations within mental health services and contemporary society will be addressed and reevaluated. The event is an opportunity to further explore work that has emerged from the Hysteria season at The Dragon Café (March 2018)

Other speakers include: collaborators Dr Stephanie Courtade (psychiatrist) and Jocelyn Pook (artist and composer); Dr Errol Francis (PS/Y director); Dr Dominik Havsteen-Franklin (Consultant in Arts Psychotherapies, CNWL NHS Foundation Trust); Amneet Johal (RE:CREATE Psychiatry); Mette Kjærgaard Præst (curator PS/Y and Hysteria programme); Prof Sashi Sashidaran (consultant psychiatrist and Director of Mental Health Rights, Glasgow); Prof Victoria Tischler (Professor of Arts and Health, Head of the Dementia Care Centre, University of West London).

Tickets: £10, book/directions here

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Discussing the concept of the unreliable narrator at: Hysteria: Contested, Popularised, Diagnosed

12 Mar 2018: Dragon Cafe

Crypt of St George the Martyr Church Borough High Street SE1 1JA

A RE:CREATE Psychiatry,  Dragon Café and Ps-y.org event, examining the politics of language, gender performativity and the concept of the unreliable narrator in relation to the psychiatric diagnostic gaze.

Grounding our study within PS/Y’s research and wider Hysteria programme, we will explore our understanding of the term hysteria within a RE:CREATE Psychiatry contextual framework.

RE:CREATE Psychiatry is an exploratory platform facilitating dialogue between those who use mental health services and those who provide them. Through conversation, facilitated yet unfettered, RE:CREATE Psychiatry carves out a space where engagement is predicated on experience not role, and allows clinicians and service-users to address  the challenges of working in and  through the mental healthcare system.

To receive further information about RE:CREATE email [email protected], or visit www.recreatepsychiatry.com

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Ecstatic Truth II – Lessons of Darkness and Light, 27th May, 2017, Royal College of Art. 1 day symposium on animated documentary.

My presentation and film screening examines my use of autoethnographic animation methodologies, and how I use myself as an experimental case study in order to bear witness to the lived experience of psychological trauma, and to challenge related, often stigmatising and ‘othering’, psychiatric diagnoses.

Full list of symposium presenters here and symposium details here

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My American Football title sequence is screening during Nov 2017 in exhibition: The Beautiful Frame: Animation and Sport at the National Football Museum Urbis Building, Cathedral Gardens, Todd St, Manchester M4 3BG.

Curated by Professor Paul Wells, Director of the Animation Academy, Loughborough University, the exhibition features a global roster of real and fictional sports stars and sporting action as visualised by a range of animation artists and studios. More info here also a two-day symposium Nov 14-15 with keynotes from Mike O’Mahony (University of Bristol) and John O’Shea (National Science and Media Museum, Bradford) Symposium tickets/registration here: http://bit.ly/2mRg0UE  

More info re: Susan Young’s American Football animation here: http://www.susanyounganimation.com/commercialstitles/american.html

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Another vintage spot, commissioned  in 1987 to front a multi-million franc campaign for Parfum Bic, a perfume spray that sold for 20 francs. There’s an interesting story behind the launch of the perfume see article in L’Express  (1997) and the New York Times (1988). I had enormous fun with the animation and will never forget Baron William Desazars de Montgailhard, the elusive Baron Bich’s right-hand man. I unwittingly sparked a heated argument  between William and the agency (Y&R Paris), when I confessed I didn’t much like the soundtrack they’d chosen. He demanded to know if the agency would have asked Van Gogh to paint dahlias if he’d wanted to paint sunflowers? When they said: ‘Of course not’, he said: ‘So why are you asking this artist to work with music she doesn’t like?’ A massive row ensued in French, people left the room in tears, passions were inflamed. It was worth it in the end, William loved the spot, but this article from Perfume Shrine comments that from a marketing point of view, the campaign was an ‘epic fail’. However, as Baron Bich said: ‘The more you risk, the more you have the chance to win–or lose.’

More info about spot on my website: susanyounganimation.com

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Just digitised my Island 25 titles. I was commissioned by Island Records to make this animated sequence for their 25th anniversary in 1987. I designed cover art for several of the accompanying releases (LP’s/CD’s, boxed sets, etc, such as this one. Had fun with this project, the party, over 3 days in July ‘87, was great!

More info about spot here: susanyounganimation.com