All the Others: Creative responses to gender based violence

This Seedcorn Ideas Exchange funding will be devoted to developing the research groundwork for All the Others. This project will explore how to work with person-centred approaches for representing experiences of gender based violence (GBV). Against the backdrop of mainstream media and public discourse, which tend to misrepresent GBV by conveying stereotypes of victimhood (e.g., over-representation of physical and extreme violence; white, able-bodied and heterosexual female-sexed subjects), the project will aim to use creative life writing across different forms – drawing, poetry, story-telling – to construct life story portrayals in collaboration with participants and showcase them in a co-curated online website. Using interdisciplinary artistic forms as an emotional distancing tool, the team will develop a framework for creating a responsive, ethically-informed project to collect and curate anonymised stories.