BOOK LAUNCH: LEAP INTO ACTION (16/12/19) AT LONDON COLLEGE OF COMMUNICATION

It was an absolute pleasure to be able to launch my edited collection Leap into Action in the company of such a diverse range of thinkers and practitioners as part of a UAL The Exchange event at London College of Communication on December 16th 2019. 

Thank you Catherine Smith and Katherine Dwyer and all those involved within the Exchange who helped make the launch happen. It was wonderful to see so many of the collection’s contributors here today as well as seeing my friends, colleagues and members of my family. From a visit I made to Peter Lang in New York back in early 2017 to propose the volume to now, it’s been quite a journey. 

I was introduced by Julian McDougall, Prof of Media & Education, Centre for Excellence in Media Practice at Bournemouth. 

The contributors of Leap into Action then joined me and we performed sections of the volume. The audience were invite to read along with us, to read the text out aloud whenever they felt like starting and stopping.

'A lovely murmuring and chaotic presentation as Lee and his collaborators read from the text, deliberately asynchronous' The Exchange

'Contributors reading and performing the text.. where voice ebbs and flows in disconnected unison' Rachel Marsden 

With the other people sitting at their table, I then instructed audience members to hold a marker pen together, ready to draw onto the paper on their table. 

As I read passages from Leap, I instructed the audience to respond to certain things that caught their attention and draw together. This produced so much (uneasy) laughter.