Jen Bervin | Measuring the Sun | INSIDE OUT

For the first INSIDE/OUT event of the new academic term we welcome visual artist and poet Jen Bervin to examine the history and significance of Emily Dickinsons’ writing materials.
Join Jen Bervin for ‘Measuring the Sun’ - a conceptual, scientific, and literary investigation of the material history of poet Emily Dickinson’s embossed writing materials and their entangled relationships between text and textiles.
Bervin will discuss the practice of mill embossments on manufactured cotton and linen rag papers in the Berkshire area from the 1850s. Modern technology has made these embossed marks visible once again, and Bervin will examine how they have become a portal into questions about the material history hidden within them.
'Measuring the Sun’ is in collaboration with Debora Mayer, conservator at Weissman Preservation Center at Harvard University. 
The Inside/Out Lectures demonstrates the commitment of Leeds School of Arts Research Centre to bring the best minds of our generation to Leeds Beckett University, our city as well as national and international audiences.
Invited speakers share their ideas and practice with staff and students from fine art, architecture, graphic design, sound, film, music, performance, dance and fashion.
The talks offer a global perspective on thinking and making. This enables students to think about their own ideas and the place of their creative work within current economic, social and cultural systems.
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