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No full textSculptural collaboration with Maeve Brennan, for the exhibition Broken in Three Places, A Plus A Gallery, Venice, 2023.
"A plus A Gallery and The School for Curatorial Studies is excited to present Broken in Three Places, an exhibition featuring works by the multidisciplinary artists Sophie Jung and Maeve Brennan. From August 31 to October 31, visitors are invited to engage with a plurality of layered narratives in Maeve Brennan’s and Sophie Jung’s work through moving image, photography and sculpture.
Broken in Three Places brings together two practices that are both invested in an archaeology of “things”, uncovering the complex histories and narratives that objects carry and produce, exploring how the diverse perspectives placed upon them and expectations of them can be dismantled and reinformed. Revealing the objects relationship to our social functions as they relate to use, manipulation, monetary, symbolic and historical value, this show proposes to unveil and re-veil all the mechanisms and magic tricks these objects perform to both represent and produce the worlds that we inhabit.
From family values to nostalgia: Understanding Chibi Maruko Chan in a cultural context
Get PDFPopular Japanese anime Chibi Maruko Chan revolves around the daily life of a young girl named Momoko Sakura, commonly known as Maruko among her friends and family. The series has been running since 1986, is set in the 1970s and focuses on Maruko’s interactions with her family, classmates, and other people in her community. The series is known for its heartwarming and humorous portrayal of everyday life and has become a beloved cultural icon in Japan
‘Small uneasinesses & petty fears’: Life-cycle, Masculinity and Loneliness
Get PDFThe Routledge History of Loneliness takes a multidisciplinary approach to the history of a modern emotion, exploring its form and development across cultures from the seventeenth century to the present.
Bringing together thirty scholars from various disciplines, including history, anthropology, philosophy, literature and art history, the volume considers how loneliness was represented in art and literature, conceptualised by philosophers and writers and described by people in their personal narratives. It considers loneliness as a feeling so often defined in contrast to sociability and affective connections, particularly attending to loneliness in relation to the family, household and community. Acknowledging that loneliness is a relatively novel term in English, the book explores its precedents in ideas about solitude, melancholy and nostalgia, as well as how it might be considered in cross-cultural perspectives.
With wide appeal to students and researchers in a variety of subjects, including the history of emotions, social sciences and literature, this volume brings a critical historical perspective to an emotion with contemporary significance
Pissing Women 1995
No full textPissing Women is a series of photographs created in 1995, two years after graduating from LCC's BA(hons) Photography Course, while working part time as an administrator at the Financial Times Newspaper. In 2023, the series, which was featured in The Guardian Newspaper as one of the images to have 'changed the way we see women' was published for the first time in book form - the final 3 images reproduced alongside outtakes from the original photo shoots.
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"In 1994, Sophy Rickett began photographing herself and her friends pissing on the streets of London. Shot at night, dressed up in office wear, a bodily function usually performed discreetly by women was staged openly in public; an act normally reserved for men. Roaming London’s financial district after hours, the resulting images – deadpan and performative – would become Rickett’s seminal series Pissing Women, now published in its entirety by Climax Books for the first time.
Pissing Women is the inaugural publication of Climax Books and comprises 26 photographic plates. It features a foreword by Anne Turyn, a New York-based photographer and the founder of the cult prose periodical Top Stories, and a long-form interview with Sophy Rickett."
The book was edited by Isabella Burley and designed by Christopher Lawson.
40 pages, 21 × 27cm
ISBN: 978139996403
Use of artificial intelligence tools for computational-aided diagnostics
Get PDFCombining deep learning with traditional machine learning in an ensemble approach will enhance breast cancer detection accuracy from previously designed deep learning models in mammogram images, maintaining manageable computational demands. This hybrid model is expected to offer a scalable and computational-friendly solution for medical imaging
Polymerized Flow Snag 1
No full textThis was a presentation and screening of a video artwork at the symposium Fiction Machines 4: Voicing, Personification and the More-Than-Human. The video is built around a dialogue between a meteorite fragment found in a London sewer, and the 'fatberg' it becomes part of
Coastal Aural Archive of Space and Time
No full textCoaAst is a project funded by AHRC/GCRF, which involves a small community (Bamburi Beach) located in the coastal area of Kenya close to Mombasa. With the project team, children and teachers from two local schools created an archive of aural memories which is accessible to the public. CoaAST investigates the impact that changes in the environmental and economic conditions along the coastal areas of Mombasa have had upon the communities that live there, and on their cultural practices.
Children, coordinated by their teachers and equipped with audio recorders hunted for memories in the village, along the shore, and around their homes.
The interdisciplinary research method is community-based participatory research, using cooperative inquiry methods (Co-inquiry). This is defined as research with people rather than research on people. Connecting generations towards a process of self-understanding and understanding of the coastal Marine Cultural Heritage (MCH) stimulated social cohesion around themes such as economic growth and conservation.
The work exhibited at the London Design Biennale within EUREKA) consisted of a video, 5 pictures printed on aluminium and a QR code which serves as a link to the audio archive of memories collected by the children during the workshops. The idea is that with the QR code, the audience could experience the story during the exhibition but they could also take it home to experience at a different time
Laddism and Luxury: Staging Masculinity in Louis Vuitton x Kusama’s Fashion Imagery
Get PDFMagazine Photography Project: A 22-page special cover story in collaboration with French luxury brand Louis Vuitton, exploring its artistic partnership with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama. Published in Numéro Berlin (May 2024), magazine cover + pp. 212-233.
This project examines the intersection of high-end fashion and contemporary masculinity, focusing on how Louis Vuitton’s collaboration with Kusama—a figure associated with avant-garde art and obsessive repetition—interacts with ideas of laddism and rave culture. The visual narrative reinterprets the brand’s iconography through the lens of UK club subcultures, interrogating the performance of heterosexual masculinity in nightlife spaces.
Drawing on the aesthetics of 1990s and early 2000s rave scenes, the project explores how male identity is staged in clubs—through aggression, camaraderie, and self-display—and how luxury fashion enters these traditionally working-class spaces. The representation of the “lad” as both a hyper-masculine figure and an object of desire is central to the series, reflecting on the ways in which brands like Louis Vuitton engage with subcultural codes while simultaneously transforming them into commodities. By merging Kusama’s surrealist, polka-dot motifs with the raw energy of rave culture, the images blur the boundaries between art, fashion, and masculinity in contemporary visual culture
Sinatra, Netflix & the Never-Ending Story: Decolonising the Curriculum at LCF
No full textIn this short workshop participants explore what Sinatra, Netflix, and the Never-Ending Story have to do with decolonising the curriculum at London College of Fashion, UAL. The workshop provides an opportunity to explore some myths around decolonising as well as space to think about key concepts and consider how they relate to sustainability, climate, racial and social justice. This workshop has been designed and delivered by Academic Enhancement and Social Purpose teams and has been developed with partners across LCF including the Centre for Sustainable Fashion