Jo Hassall

March 2015 ‘Off Her Hostess Trolley’ Performed Talk for F= event Women, Visibility and Playful Acts Unconference. Leeds Central Library Artspace.

Jo Hassall and Casey Orr Performance Document ‘Menopause Manifesto’ for The Cultural Sisters in the The Workshops Exhibition. Pigdog and Monkeyfestos, Airspace Gallery. Stoke-on-Trent

‘Burn the Bra’. Walk and Burning Bra Public Event. Co-founder, co-organiser . Public walk to celebrate International Women’s Day through the centre of Leeds.

European Exchange Academy ‘ After Nature' Artists and Educators Programme Dale, Sonnjefjord Norwary Participant/Collaborator/Contributor with Liz Stirling. Participants – 13 from, Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Minerva Art Academy Groningen, Anadolu University Turkey, Bergen Academy of Fine Art & Design Norway, Goldsmiths University

‘The Ultimate Pillow’ Script written for Conway and Young performance/action at ‘We Want People Who Can Draw
 : Revisiting First Things First: Design in an era of Soft Power
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Collaborative Practices in Arts Education IJADE Conference 2014, Jo Hassall and Dr Liz Stirling Burn The Bra Collaborative teaching for a public event., Tate Liverpool. Link: http://www.chester.ac.uk/node/23882

Festival of the Body – Month-long programme of interdisciplinary events, exhibition, conference, performances, talks in celebration of International Women’s Day. Working with undergraduates, research students and staff at Leeds Beckett University, across disciplines from AAD, CSH and FMPA. Participants include community groups; Rainbow Hearts Women’s Group, Women’s Health Matters and creative practitioners; Red Ladder Theatre and Boff Whalley, Rommi Smith, Lucy Hutson, Una, Jacky Fleming, Gillian Dyson, Reetso Design Collaboration, Lizzie Coombes, Conway & Young, Helen Clark, Nasser Hussain, Bristow & Lloyd, Helen Cross, Holly McNish, Leeds Teen Guerilla Girls. In partnership with Room 700 at Leeds City Library. http://www.fequals.co.uk

Varoomlab Visionaries 2015 conference contribution/paper Off Her Hostess-Trolley: Telling it a Different Way – Birmingham City University http://www.visionaries.org.uk/programme/

Women in the City Symposium [Film screening]. Hosted by Women & the Built Environment research cluster, Leeds Beckett University We are F= with Q & A session

#DEAP17 Conference [Collaborative workshop with Ian Truelove], Leeds Beckett University. Spaces, Places and In/dependent Learning

Practice as Research Symposium [Collaborative presentation with Ben Hall, Jonny Briggs, Christian Lloyd] Leeds Arts Research Centre [LARC] Leeds Beckett University Permission to Play

Playful Learning [Collaborative paper with Ben Hall and Liz Stirling] Conference, Manchester Metropolitan University. Permission to Play.

VaroomLab Journal 4: Visionaries (Online Academic Journal) Jo Hassall Off Her Hostess-Trolley: Telling it a Different Way Journal Article. http://theaoi.com/varoom-mag/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/VaroomLab-Journal-Issue4-Visionaries.pdf

Parity like it’s 2069 F= Action performance A Big Tri-ump, exhibition and event, South Square Gallery, Bradford http://www.southsquarecentre.co.uk/index.php?/gallery/future/

Big Screen [Film screening] Millennium Square, Leeds We are F=

Speak, body: Art, the Reproduction of Capital and the Reproduction of Life [Film screening] Conference, Faculty of Arts Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of Leeds. We are F= [Film screening]

Ideas of Revolt [Paper] Graphic Design Educators Network Conference, Sheffield Hallam University Revolting Women & Disobedient Design

Architecture, Festival and the City [Paper Presentation] 14th AHRA International Conference. School of Architecture and Design, Birmingham City University

Provocative Pedagogies [Paper] International Conference, School of Education, University of Lincoln. Becoming Undone: Theatre of Pedagogy

Petcha Kucha presentation at Varoomlab Visionaries Birmingham City University http://www.visionaries.org.uk/programme/

Journal article in Varoom Magazine Issue 31 ‘Off Her Hostess-Trolley: Telling it a Different Way’ http://www.theaoi.com/shop/staging/index.php/theshop/products/varoom/varoom-31-the-visionaries-issue-november-2015-detail

F= - 1 hour live broadcast perfomance in response to Rachel Mclean’s ‘Feed Me’ at British Artshow 8 at ProjectRadio - &model Gallery, Leeds. http://www.projectradio.uk/f-introduce-women-visibility-and-playful-acts/ http://www.andmodel.com/archive.htm

‘Breaking and Entering’ Script written for Conway and Young performance/action at ‘Walk & Talk: On Foot Together; The Walk as a Site of Research, Action and Play’ – Published in Arnolfini publication as part of ‘Walk and Talk’ Series and Richard Long exhibition TIME & SPACE http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/walk-talk-on-foot-together-the-walk-as-a-site-of-research-action-and-play http://www.conwayandyoung.com/news-2/

Robinson Stirling , Jo Hassall, Ben Hall Performance & paper Symplasium, The Tetley http://thetetley.org/symplaysium/

Learning Through Visual Props – Dr Lisa Taylor research blog - writing on Jo Hassall’s staged photographs series Homework 15, Leeds Beckett University, Research media centre (online). http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/media-centre/blog/0216-learning-through-visual-props/

ProjectRadio F= live radio broadcast at &model Gallery, F= respond to Rachel Mclean’s film Feed Me from British Artshow 8 http://www.projectradio.uk/f-introduce-women-visibility-and-playful-acts/ http://www.andmodel.com/archive.htm

The Ultimate Pillow Script written for Conway and Young performance/action for Revisiting First Things First: Design in an era of Soft Power, MMU Special Collections Library event. Audience 50. http://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/events/2015/we-want-people-who-can-draw/ http://www.conwayandyoung.com

Visibility and Playful Acts Conference 2 Off Her Hostess Trolley Performed Talk for F= event Women, Leeds Central Library Artspace, Leeds City Library, Audience 80

Freedom Bin F= host public event, exhibition and conference Women Visibility and Playful Acts 2 in celebration of International Women’s Day, Leeds City Centre and Leeds Central Artspace, Leeds City Library Participators: 90 plus public http://www.fequals.co.uk

Pigdogandmonkeyfestos Jo Hassall and Dr Casey Orr, Menopause Manifesto, Performance Document Airspace Gallery. Stoke-on-Trent http://www.airspacegallery.org/index.php/projects/pigdogandmonkeyfestos

Symplasium (event as part of exhibition Think, Play, Do) Robinson Stirling , Jo Hassall, Ben Hall, Collaborative Performance and paper, The Tetley, Leeds Audience 40 http://thetetley.org/symplaysium/

Leeds Cultural Conversations F= Women, Visibility and Playful Acts, Experimental performative talk by F=, part of programme of series of talks supported by Leeds Beckett University - Centre for Culture and the Arts and Leeds City Council, Leeds Town Hall, Leeds http://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/research/research-areas/research-centres/centre-for-culture-and-the-arts/leeds-cultural-conversations/women-visibility-and-playful-acts/

Exploding the University – Graduate Summer School in partnership with UWE and The Sustainable Place, residential summer school for graduates from LBU/ UWE/ UCA Epsom http://explodingtheuniversity.com

March 2014 ‘Shop Fronts & Sinks: An Illustrated Search for Myself in Shiny Surfaces’ Performed Talk at ‘Women, Visibility and Playful Acts; The Saturday Girl Unconference’, The Gallery, Munro House

Walk & Talk: On Foot Together; The Walk as a Site of Research, Action and Play Breaking and Entering - Script written for Conway and Young performance/action at– and published in Arnolfini publication as part of ‘Walk and Talk’ Series and Richard Long exhibition TIME & SPACE http://www.arnolfini.org.uk/whatson/walk-talk-on-foot-together-the-walk-as-a-site-of-research-action-and-play http://www.conwayandyoung.com/news-2/

chapter two Off the Hostess Trolley: Performative Learning and the Visual Prop jo hassall anticipation The instructions I propose here are drawn directly from work made within my current practice-based PhD. Off the Hostess Trolley is a series of documented ‘acts of learning’ initiated as a way to test out the potential of a mobilised collage strategy to activate pedagogic sites of art-making and critical enquiry (Garoian, 2004). Produced at a significant juncture in my career, I needed to radically change my long-established commercial illustration practice into something else. I didn’t know what this could be when I turned my back on the commissioners and set up a visible space of learning in the middle of my teaching practice. Using image-making and performative processes, I embarked on exploring ways of working that would ‘un-stick’ and potentially transform my creative practice. The multi-methodology of feminist bricolage emerged as a research strategy as one that draws ‘attention to processes and the interconnections between phenomenon’ (Kincheloe, 2005: 323). I constructed a kind of performative guise for this role, making myself the Bricoleuse, performing as a woman-in-bits, and from this position I developed new ways of ‘working myself out’(Raaberg, 1998). Conquergood suggests that ‘performance-sensitive ways of knowing […] extend [our] understanding of multiple dimensions and a wider range of meaningful action’ (1998: 26). Some of the documented works from Hostess Trolley formed a narrative of my own learning. These photo….

After Nature –15 European Exchange Academy, Artists and Educators Programme. Participant alongside13 European artist/educators from Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Minerva Art Academy Groningen, Anadolu University Turkey, Bergen Academy of Fine Art & Design Norway, Goldsmiths University, Dale, Sonnjefjord Norway http://www.eeacademy.eu/eea/

Burning the Bra F= host public event in celebration of International Women’s Day 2014, Leeds City Centre, 70 participants http://www.fequals.co.uk

Women, Visibility and Playful Acts Conference designed and hosted by F=. Jo Hassall Shop Fronts & Sinks: An Illustrated Search for Myself in Shiny Surfaces performance (conference contribution), The Gallery, Munro House, Leeds. Link: https://leedsgallery.com/whats-on/exhibitions/saturday-girl/Leeds Audience 50.

From 26 February to 7 March 2024, students and staff from BA Illustration at Leeds Beckett University relocated their studio to a stall in Leeds Kirkgate Markets as part of an impulsive project, Drawing Out, the name literally mapping the activity. As the project unfolded, an additional multidimensional metaphor emerged which hinted that drawing could be used as a tool to establish unseen social alignments and invite serendipitous encounters with groups and individuals. Students and staff came away from the project with a sense that something truly magical had happened. In this presentation we set out how drawing can facilitate new opportunities for learning and how we create conditions to foster and recognise these possibilities as and when they arrive.

In the post-pandemic university, hybridity has become a widely touted norm. The term implies agility around methods of learning, though is often limited to either in-person or on-line delivery. Despite the claim, hybridity is never truly so, and is compromised further by a framework of centrally enforced metrics which divide teaching into inflexible categories based around time or subject scope. A more radical form of hybridity proposed by Colin Ward and Anthony Fyson was a pedagogic dynamite which would ‘explode’ the school into the urban environment (Ward & Fyson, 1973). Their solution was environmental education, or ‘streetwork’, a learning approach that identified ‘rich reservoirs of possibility in the everyday’ (Burke, 2014). As part of a two-week project Drawing Out, we decamped BA (Hons) Illustration students from Leeds Beckett University to a stall in the middle of Leeds Kirkgate Markets. In keeping with Ward and Fyson’s approach, the residency actively invited these hybrid overlaps and their associated opportunities for learning. Drawing Out encouraged experiential encounters that would not have been possible had we been on campus: cultural conversations, a pirate radio station interview, and a visit by indigenous artists from the Amazon. Each experience offered the students (and staff) new perspectives on their learning. Drawing critically upon the project, this paper advocates for further ‘explosions’ across academia in order to foster more meaningful opportunities for learning inside and outside of the institution. This will take the form of an animated film using drawings undertaken during the residency accompanied by a scripted reflection. Burke, C. (2014) “Fleeting pockets of anarchy”: Streetwork. The exploding school, Paedagogica Historica, 50:4, 433-442, DOI: 10.1080/00309230.2014.899376 Ward, C. & Fyson, A. (1973) Streetwork: The Exploding School. London: Routledge.