Attention SFU graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty
Test Kitchen is an informal, interdisciplinary public forum for SFU graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and faculty to share their work with others. To encourage the discussion of ideas-in-progress, Test Kitchen’s atmosphere is intentionally relaxed. Selected participants gather at the Gibson Art Museum, rather than in a classroom or formal conference setting. Presenters share the floor with colleagues from different disciplines, so conversation can rove across research areas, encouraging synergies between varied fields of inquiry. Each season, Test Kitchen’s sessions will be framed by an open-ended prompt offered by the Gibson’s curatorial team. Selected presentations should be maximum 15 minutes in length, but any format is encouraged.
Test Kitchen 2: Rules of Play
What are the rules of play? For some researchers, the phrase suggests a set of parameters for defining focus, for others, a framework for open experimentation. Proposals are invited from all disciplines for presentations that might consider questions of access and participation (how rules are shared and negotiated), questions of transgression (the use of loopholes and blind spots), attention or interruption (contexts in which given rules are suspended, delayed, or rendered unenforceable).
Submit your 200-word proposal at the link in the sidebar by March 9. Selected participants will be notified by March 16.
Test Kitchen: Rules of Play will run on Wednesdays from April 8 to May 6, 12-1pm in the Gibson’s Forum. This program is free and open to all to attend. Brown bag lunch is encouraged.
Questions? Email thegibson@sfu.ca
