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Get PDFWe are ghOSTed.
Reflectance Transformation Imaging makes visible the timespace of the erased and overlooked.
We are haunted in this old underground bank at the heart of the City of London by hOSTs of ghOSTs. The building is a shell holding itself up by memory, being prepared for regeneration.
Lost rivers echo in the basement. Traces of past occupation point to the future, divining by acronym: Open Source Threat, Outer Space Treaty, Observed Survival Time.
For the past year we have been working and talking, thinking about material culture, cultural capital, power and estrangement. We’ve visited with entities in museum stores, jumped time zones and calibrated calendars to make connections. We present here actions, images, sounds and objects
On Second Thoughts.. Original Sound Track…
OST is a project developed by participants in the Prisoners of Love project.
Prisoners of Love: Affect, containment and alternative futures [funded by the AHRC GCRF project Imagining Futures] aims to connect UK museum collection items with their trans-national home peoples and bring emerging artists from diasporic communities in the UK, curators and researchers into conversation, to work responsively with complex histories and material practices, opening out extra-institutional art and archival practices in the form of artwork, story and theory. We have been working with the Horniman Museum and Gardens and Compound 13 Lab in Mumbai, India; Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford and the Department of Archaeology at the University of Ghana in Accra; Hastings Museum and Art Gallery and the Mootookakio’ssin project based on Blackfoot homelands at the University of Lethbridge, Canada. This exhibition contains responses from Ghana, the UK team, partners on Blackfoot Territory and Compound 13 Lab in Mumbai, India and works towards further collaborations
A wen-wu Approach to Male Teenage Chinese Sports Fans' Heteronormative Interpretation of Masculinity
Get PDFThis article analyses how performatively heteronormative, male teenage Chinese fans consume sports games through the prism of masculinity, using secondary school students’ engagement with the NBA (National Basketball Association) as a case study. Drawing on focus groups of twenty-three participants, we discover that male teenage sports fans constantly evoke elite NBA athletes as male ideals to define a desirable, heteronormative wen-wu masculinity specific to the post-reform era. In this process, they often engage in a double-standard practice, manifesting as their appropriation of the CP (coupling) rhetoric to ‘ship’ athletes and their problematisation of heterosexual women and LGBTQ fans’ similar usage of it. This double-standard practice constitutes an attempt to monopolise the interpretation of masculinity both within and outside of the sporting context. It sheds light on the heteronormative male cohort’s rejection of alternative masculinities, underscoring how aspects of gender politics unfolding in wider society are reflected in China’s teenage sports fandom
Lazy Boy
No full textVideo (single screen, with 360). Made with Annis Joslin, developed between 2019 and 2023 in consultation with women from the charities Joining Hands Joining Hearts and Brighton Women's Centre
The Hope Booth: Can the action of sketching increase hope?
No full textWhat if there was a way to generate ideas, navigate uncertainty and complexity, while doing something simple like putting pen to paper? Join this speculative space for thinking through a question, using sketching and diagramming as tools to decipher, explore and engage with the idea of emergence.
After a pilot year facilitating Hope Booths, Ilga Leimanis will share her research, case studies and themes including hope as action (Solnit, 2004, Gwinn & Hellman, 2018), drawing to see (Causey 2016), notatio as a refuge (Barthes, 1979).
How could you encourage students to engage with this method of visioning to manage stress
2.1 Resonance and Reverberation in Maud Sulter’s MUSEUM
Get PDFMaud Sulter’s MUSEUM (1990) comprises three large square colour photographic prints, each of which extracts and enlarges a detail from John Collier’s painting, The Death of Cleopatra (1890, Gallery Oldham). A quotation from Gertrude Stein is affixed to each frame.
The gallery commissioned Sulter (19602008), a multidisciplinary Black woman artist, curator, poet and historian to create an artwork that would respond to the gallery’s entire collection. Given free rein to explore the stores, she selected the pride of the gallery, Collier’s massive painting measuring 3.95 x 3.15 metres (12’11” x 10’ 4”)
Emilie Grigsby’s wardrobe at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London: The challenges and opportunities of personal collections of dress for a museum of art and design
No full textIn the last decade there has been a proliferation of wardrobe studies exploring clothing accrued and worn by an individual over a lifetime. Stemming from multiple disciplines including fashion studies, sociology, anthropology, psychology and life-writing, these studies have revealed that wardrobes offer a vital resource for fashion history. This is something yet to be recognised in the UK’s national collection of fashion at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), where the great number of wardrobes in its collections remains a largely untapped resource.
My thesis examines the relationship between the V&A as a museum of art and design and these highly personal collections of dress through a case study of the wardrobe of the American socialite Emilie Grigsby (1876–1964), acquired in 1967. Through stretching its scope beyond the wardrobe’s use by the wearer into its ‘afterlife’ in the museum, this thesis considers why wardrobes such as Grigsby’s have historically been overlooked and points to their fuller potential. This is the first study to contextualise Grigsby’s wardrobe, comprising over 100 items of early twentieth-century clothing, against a backdrop of newspaper archives, photographs, census records, memoirs, oral history interviews, curatorial papers and institutional archives. This material sheds light not only on Grigsby’s wardrobe in relation to her life but also on the museum practices around collecting, archiving and exhibiting wardrobes. Highlighting the previously unexamined role of the institutions and curators that preserve wardrobes, my thesis expands the growing field of wardrobe studies and museology and reasserts the importance of Madeleine Ginsburg, the V&A’s first curator of dress. It reveals the institutional and curatorial agency that shapes wardrobes in museums and enables their survival, as well as the many kinds of loss that occur and what can be done to mitigate them. My examination of Grigsby’s clothing as a wardrobe enriches our knowledge of the wearer, her lifestyle, her bodily relationship to her clothes and her consumer practices, deepening our understanding of what wardrobes offer fashion history. Finally, it reveals the potential for wardrobes in the V&A today to disrupt dominant fashion narratives and provide a more polyphonic voice for the museum
Are MOOC learning designs culturally inclusive (enough)?
Get PDFBackground: Extensive research on massive open online courses (MOOCs) has focused on analysing learners' behavioural trace data to understand navigation and activity patterns, which are known to vary systematically across geo-cultural contexts. However, the perception of learners regarding the role of different learning design elements in sustaining their engagement in the course is still unclear.
Objectives: This study aimed to examine learners' perception of learning design elements in MOOCs and explore the ways in which these perceptions differ between geo-cultural contexts.
Methods: We conducted interviews with 22 learners from seven geo-cultural regions to gather insights into their learning design preferences.
Results: Our findings indicate that learners from regions such as South Asia exhibit a strong inclination towards video-based content and a lesser preference for reading textual resources. In contrast, learners from regions such as Anglo-Saxon demonstrate a high preference for reading texts such as articles and video transcripts.
Conclusion: The observed variations in self-reported interests in various learning design elements raise intriguing questions about the nature and extent of participation of various geo-cultural groups. This study underscores the need to develop inclusive MOOC designs and implement learning analytics approaches that adapt to the cultural preferences of learners
On Mediating Space, Sound and Experience: Interviews with situated sound art practitioners
Get PDFThis article reports on an interview-based study with ten sound artists and composers, all engaged in situated sonic practices. We propose that these artists engage the ear and shape possible interactions with the artwork by altering the relationship between sound, the space in which it is heard and the people who hear it. Our interviews probe the creative process and explore how a sound artist’s methods and tools might influence the reception of their work. A thematic analysis of interview transcriptions leads us to characterise artist processes as mediatory, in the sense that they act in between site and audience experience and are guided by the non-human agencies of settings and material things. We propose that artists transfer their own situated and embodied listening to that of the audience and develop sonic and staging devices to direct perceptual activity and listening attention. Our findings also highlight a number of engagement challenges, in particular the difficulty artists face in understanding their audience’s experience and the specificity of an artwork’s effect not just to its location but also to the disposition, abilities and prior experiences of listeners
'I may be a little dandified for suburbia': How online shopping and online communities are decentering menswear
No full textQuatro Reinos / Pedair Teyrnas / Four Kingdoms
No full textThis audiovisual performance employs artificial intelligence and open-source digital technology to imagine diverse life forms beyond the human.
From its four sections: Archaea, Fungi, Plantae and Animalia, AI generates visual data to create images of hybrid forms of digital non-life.
Morphologies of the natural world are simultaneously recognized and made strange