[EDITOR’S NOTE: Transept announces its title for their 2021 exhibition and issues a call to artists of all genres and media to participate! It is expected that the exhibition will again run largely or wholly online, and we plan to…
Immanuel The stars shone down on a woman As she wearily marched in the way, A baby inside her weighted her steps When she went to lie down by the hay. The pain of the labor was starting As…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: This story, from Transept author Alicia Pollard, is an imaginative supposal on the order of C S Lewis’s The Great Divorce. It was inspired by works such as Lewis’s ‘The Turn of the Tide‘, John Milton’s ‘On the…
[Editor’s Note: Over the next three days, as the anticipation of Advent transforms into Christmas joy, Transept artists offer literary gifts for reflection during this season of Hope, Peace, Joy and Love.] An Advent Victory The dark-wood table…
The theme was thresholds: physical or metaphorical, small or great, looming ahead, just underfoot, or behind you. Physically and literally, a threshold is a floor or entrance, or the strip of wood on the floor under a door. Like the…
[EDITOR’S NOTE: To begin our monthly Transept series, ITIA’s Giulia Privitelli presents a poignant, richly evocative reflection on the first meetings of the Transept group this year, framing this collaboration as a response to ‘crisis’. Inspired by three diverse artworks created…
As mentioned in the first editorial post this term, during this academic year Transpositions will be featuring articles reflecting on the work of Transept; an artistic collaboration based in the Institute for Theology, Imagination and the Arts (ITIA), with links…
On Saturday, 25 April, 2020, over a dozen artists came together for a ‘Zoom-in Playback’ encounter moderated by Karen McClain Kiefer. This event was designed to follow the ‘Time and Again’ art exhibition. The dramatic performance was originally scheduled to…
In Holy Week I witnessed three tragedies. The first came while I was helping ITIA Resident Artist Daniel Drage install a sculpture, holding the ladder as he climbed up to begin preparations for the Transept space( )between event at St…