One Day Symposium – PACING & SPACING: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing
Eleanor will be presenting a new film work, Cormorant, at a One Day Symposium curated by Becky Beasley.
Cormorant
A film by Eleanor Goulding (11 mins)
Work in Progress (2026)
Summary
Cormorant is an experimental moving-image work developed through an Arts Council England Develop Your Creative Practice (DYCP) grant.
The work explores embodied perception, depths, and spatial orientation through poetic research, archival material, and sensory polar experience. It draws on perspectives from underwater life, geological time, and neurodivergent logic and frameworks of perception (vestibular, interoceptive, and proprioceptive systems).
Date & Time
Friday 12 June 2026
10-5
Location
QUAD, Sir John Hurt Cinema
This one-day symposium will examine some of the ways in which divergent writing processes and forms have expanded the visual arts in recent years, proposing that fevered, personal, opaque literatures are emerging out of crip/D/deaf/disabled/mad/neurodivergent/sick practices. Writing practice at the intersection of crip time is gathered here, revealing that the experimental emerges out of necessity.
PACING In literature, pace or pacing is the speed at which a story is told—not necessarily the speed at which the story takes place; an example of psychomotor agitation where a person walks around a room because of stress, anxiety, concentration, etc.; (activity management) to manage symptoms of disability and illness; Verb present participle and gerund of pace; Noun pacing (plural pacings); The act of moving in paces, or their arrangement or timing.
SPACING a formal quality in writing, the placement of words on a page, visual spacing of dynamic elements in a work; a form of worlding, the creation of space; distance for safety, space to rest, time alone, or to congregate, commune; Verb present participle and gerund of space; Noun (countable and uncountable, plural spacings) The action of the verb space; A way in which objects or people are separated by spaces; The space between two objects or people; (science fiction) The activity of working or living in outer space; the occupation of a spacer. Adjective That inserts space between two objects.
The event will also be live streamed. If you wish to book a livestream attendance ticket, please follow this link or see below. Customers who have purchased a live stream ticket will be sent the access link prior to the event.
Event Schedule
10:00 – 10:45: Delegate arrival. I Am Sitting in a Room by Alvin Lucier plays on vinyl, positioned on a stool on stage as a continuous sound piece.
10:50: Symposium begins.
10:50 – 12:00: Session 1 – Introduction, featuring presentations by Bella Milroy and Khairani Barokka.
12:00 – 12:30: Morning break. Interlude presentations by SHADE and Lou Mensah.
12:30 – 13:30: Session 2 – Presentations by Hannah Stanley and Roy Claire Potter.
13:30 – 14:30: Lunch break. Interlude presentation by Lyle Waddell.
14:30 – 15:30: Session 3 – Presentations by Daisy Lafarge and Joseph Rizzo Naudi.
15:30 – 16:00: Afternoon break. Interlude presentations by Eleanor Goulding and Becky Beasley.
16:00 – 17:00: Session 4 – Reflective panel and Q&A, chaired by Heather Peak.
17:00: Symposium ends.
Funded by Goldsmiths College, London, as part of Becky Beasley’s research grant: ‘Towards reducing ableist burdens and bridging silos by expanding understanding of crip time into the language and culture of the visual arts (and beyond)’. Professor Becky Beasley is the Lead Researcher on this project, working alongside Astrid Everall (Research Assistant) and Lyle Waddell (Research Consultant).
For full information on Beasleys exhibition and related events click here
LIVE STREAM: PACING & SPACING: Crip Process, Form and Reception in Art and Writing
Part of A Gentle Man (Part II) (1975-2029) – A Touring Exhibition by Becky Beasley
Date: 12 June 2026
Time: 10-5 pm
Location: Online
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