@article{5bbb32d32556440b8b87759004d71519,
title = "Rise Flap Lick: Experimental writing on Fine Art performance event and curation ",
abstract = "Rise Flap Lick is experimental writing, taking its{\textquoteright} title from words made in coloured masking tape, on an Art School Gallery wall during a performance made with artist Anat Ben-David (of Chicks on Speed) and students from Birmingham School of Art and The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. It also expresses bodily interventions of performance art and the messy curatorial and pedagogical happenstance of this event. These were incidental but not accidental. Ed McKeon (guest editing this edition of Riffs journal) and I curated this event after conversations and collaborations in our Cultural Activisms reading group. Art Schools can occupy a romantic and mythological mid 20thC place, in popular imagination, where it{\textquoteright}s imagined that subcultures and subversions gestate and find form. The 21st Century reality is a little different, of course. Academic labour and Art History scaffold the circumstances of this event, some of which I relay here, reflexively drawing on my lived histories in curating and teaching.",
keywords = "Feminism, Contemporary art, pedagogic practice, Performance, Popular Music Cultures, Philosophy, Edward Said, Birmingham School of Art",
author = "Esther Windsor",
note = "Artist Performers in Rise Flap Lick performance: G20 Birmingham School of Art Tammy Woodrow, Lucy Clacher, Chelsea Mildenhall, Evelyn Julia Wenman, Esme Boyle (The Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) Carla Busuttil, \& Jack Valstar Smith. 2025 Artists Curated Installation in Rise Flap Lick performance: G20 Birmingham School of Art Alice Ifrim, Lia Coello, Niamh Hill, 2025 Artists: various projects: MA Fine Art students (2017-19) Birmingham School of Art f08: Alex Bird, George Casewell, Alex Cotteral, Rhianne Masters Hopkins, Jack Miles, Emily Scarrott, Vincent Stokes, Clive Roberts, Yuchen Yang. Artists: BA Fine Art (2024-5) Sophia Murray, Freya Hill, Alice Ifrim and Ella Paul Esther Windsor is an academic artist and curator, and a senior lecturer in Fine Art at Birmingham School of Art. https://www.bcu.ac.uk/subject-areas/art-and-design/staff/esther-windsor. For details of the curatorial archive from her 1000,000mph project space (2002-07) see also www.estherwindsor.com References Braidotti, R. (2019). Posthuman Knowledge. Cambridge: Polity. Colebrook, C. (2014). {\textquoteleft}Queer Vitalism.{\textquoteright} In C. Colebrook, Sex After Life: Essays on Extinction Vol.2, Michigan: Open Humanities Press, 100-125. Forkert, K., Huxtable, J., Nahaboo, Z., Nulman, E., Wilde, P., \& E. Windsor. (2022). {\textquoteleft}Revisiting Edward Said{\textquoteright}s Representations of the Intellectual: A Roundtable for Perspectives on Academic Activism.{\textquoteright} (2022). Philosophy and Theory in Higher Education 4/2, 167-186. Freire, P. (1972). Pedagogy of the Oppressed. London: Penguin, 80 Ingold, T. (2017). {\textquoteleft}Bringing Things to Life: Material Flux and Creative Entanglements.{\textquoteright} In M. Finke (ed.), State of Flux: Aesthetics of fluid materials, Berlin: Dietrich Reimer Verlag, 21-37. Lewis, P. (2019). MA Fine Art, Leeds Beckett University. https://www.leedsbeckett.ac.uk/blogs/leeds-school-of-arts/2019/06/tacit-agreements/. Accessed 25 Nov 2025. Colebrook, C. (2009) Queer Vitalism. New formations. [Online] 68 (68), 77–92 Moten, F. and S. Harney. (2004) {\textquoteleft}In the University in the Undercommons: Seven Theses.{\textquoteright} Social Text, 79 (22/2), 101-115. O{\textquoteright}Neill, P. (2007) Curating Subjects : occasional table. London: Open Editions. Reynolds, S. (1990) Blissed Out: the Raptures of Rock. Serpent{\textquoteright}s Tail 57-58 Said, Edward. (2003). Orientalism. London: Penguin, 32 ",
year = "2026",
month = feb,
day = "13",
doi = "10.82600/z6bp-be85",
language = "English",
volume = "9",
pages = "1--22",
journal = "RIFFS: Experimental Writing on Popular Music",
number = "1",
}