Storm-Cloud: Observations of the Sky workshop with Tom Payne

Impressions of the Matter: Workshop

Join artist Tom Payne for a short, practical workshop introducing the international live brief Impressions of the Matter. This is a creative call to respond to Storm-Cloud, a contemporary performance lecture that reimagines John Ruskin’s 1884 address The Storm-Cloud of the Nineteenth Century.

PLEASE NOTE: this workshop is particularly aimed at English, Acting and Performance students at Manchester Metropolitan University but it is open to all. This is a free event, sponsored by the Manchester Centre for Gothic Studies and the Long Nineteenth-Century Network.

In order to attend this workshop, it's recommended that you also book onto the free performance of Storm-Cloud which will take place earlier on the same afternoon, also in the Grosvenor Theatre. Please sign up via this link.

Through conversation and creative exercises, participants will explore fragments of the lecture and experiment with ways of responding - visually, textually, sonically, or performatively. The session offers an entry point into the wider Impressions of the Matter archive, where contributions from artists, students, and researchers worldwide are gathered as “footnotes” to the evolving artwork.

No prior experience is required - just curiosity, and a willingness to participate.

Further details about the brief can be found here: https://www.storm-cloud.online/impressions-of-the-matter

Dr Tom Payne:

Dr Tom Payne SFHEA, FRSA is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Sheffield Hallam University and Director of Moot Works, a studio focused on climate, place, and participatory performance. A Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, Tom’s work sits at the intersection of ecological performance, civic engagement, and higher education. -https://www.drtompayne.co.uk/

Photography by Becky Payne