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In The Garden: Giggles In The Greenery
Get PDFGraphic Anthology of New Works by 12 International Artists collectively
Initiated, curated, and Riso-printed by Dominica Harrison
With support from
Manchester Metropolitan University
and University of the Arts London
The graphic anthology ‘Anima Mundi inaugural book explores inter-species communication between humans, plants, fungi, and minerals. Anima Mundi’s books are artefacts that draw viewers’ attention to the diverse and wonderful life within the more-than-human world. The protagonist, Seraphina, who travels the Four Kingdoms, represents open-minded curiosity and respect when encountering other life forms. As we navigate an era dominated by information saturation, a mental health crisis, and pressing environmental issues, we urgently need to reimagine our relationship with nature. ‘In The Garden’ explores entheogenic plants and their potential to expand consciousness. Every plant featured in the book has a rich history of medicinal and ritual use. These plants have enabled humans to probe the mysteries of consciousness, bridging human experiences with a greater sense of the Spirit and facilitating our recognition, acceptance, and engagement with the more-than-human world.
Kim Noce Statement
For “In The Garden: Giggles In The Greenery” I created illustrations and animations that research the mystical history of Datura in witchcraft. This work explores the role of women healers and their historical mislabeling as witches, using medicinal herbs, symbols, and movement to tell their stories. Inspired by “Witches, Midwives, and Nurses,” my illustrations highlight the suppression of women in medicine as male-dominated practices took over. Central to this narrative is Datura, a plant with a rich and mysterious history. Known for its psychoactive alkaloids, Datura has served as a potent medicine and a powerful toxin. Datura is historically linked to witch hunts in the Middle Ages, symbolizing the complex intersection of herbalism, medicine, and societal fears. Its anticholinergic properties, which cause vivid hallucinations and profound disorientation, have been both revered and feared. The plant’s history includes its use in traditional medicine for asthma and its role in rituals, embodying the fine line between remedy and poison. By exploring Datura’s legacy, we uncover layers of forgotten wisdom and the political history of medicine, revealing the intricate relationship between society and the women who practised healing.
The book was created as a collective journey
Gaddafi in Rome: Dissecting a Neocolonial Spectacle Crafting a genealogical strategy for an accountability-based framework
Get PDFThis practice-based research project has developed a set of tactics for the dissection of a twentyfirst-century media event that spectacularised neocolonial relations between Italy and Libya. Through a situated and genealogical approach, it proposes a strategy based on accountability for analysing sensitive political events that require a complex approach, capable of engaging with the extended timelines and continuities of imperial politics. This is achieved by engaging with Critical Discourse Analysis, Media Event Studies, investigative aesthetics, post and decolonial theory. Framed by an investigation into the Treaty on Friendship, Partnership and Cooperation between Italy and Libya, this research focuses on the Italian press documentation of the meeting between Silvio Berlusconi and Mu‘ammar al-Qadhdhafi in Rome (2009). These materials (a photograph and a collection of live news updates) are the departure for the production of a series of experiments that translate the essay film form into other media: a performance-lecture (Gaddafi in Rome: the Expanded Script) and a three-channel video installation (Gaddafi in Rome: Notes for a Film). Based on the format and language of screenplays, this body of work highlights the spectacular character of the meeting, thus exposing how neocolonial spectacles (a concept developed in this research) are performed and narrated. Rooted in the essayistic – a metafilmic and reflexive format – it translates and sheds light on the temporal structure of contemporary, instantaneous news forms by addressing their gaps and lacks and exposing their colonial biases. Through a personal, reflexive point of view, it proposes an accountability-based framework that can counteract the Italian nation’s nonperformative (Ahmed, 2006) attitude to accountability. A wide array of found material (referred to as archive of coloniality) is analysed through an approach inspired by the early history of medical and public dissection, which is inherently spectacular, discursive, demonstrative, and pedagogical. Through the symbolic deployment of dissection, and the subversion of its normative and disciplinary framework, the practical outputs are predicated on the tension between the topical (the news and its spectacle’s surface) and the systemic (neocolonial politics and colonial memory)
Exploring the relationship between practice and writing in Master’s final projects
No full textThis talk reports on a recent qualitative study on the written components from a range of practice-based Master’s projects. What form does this writing take? What language practices are involved in the construction of this kind of writing? What is meant by academic writing in this context? To address these questions, an ethnographic approach was adopted in order to allow for more ‘exploration [of] cultures, processes, and experiences of academic writing’ (Paltridge & Starfield, 2012), which in turn allows for more visibility around the language, structure and discourse of these types of dissertations (Lillis & Curry, 2010). Data was drawn from a series of semi-structured interviews with both staff and students from a range of Master’s courses that all use variations of the practice-based dissertation. The findings from this kind of study can help to build not only a better understanding of the relationship between practice and writing within these disciplines but can also inform those who teach and study on them. Furthermore, understanding more about the writing practices in these dissertations can also help to offer alternative, more innovative, versions of dissertations to other disciplines (Vaughan, 2021)
Doris Uhlich's Extraordinary Sun: Notes towards a not-quite-yet-planetary theatre
No full textShe pointed the light directly at us, causing an uncontrollable reflex to ‘look away’. On a cold and dark December evening I visited the Volkstheater in Vienna, Austria to see the premiere of SONNE (Sun, 2023) by Austrian choreographer Doris Uhlich. Uhlich’s performance is dedicated to this extraordinary celestial body, which illuminates almost all matter and has the capacity to both sustain and destroy existences. “The theatre”, Uhlich tells me, “is inestimably designed to keep the sun out.” She insists “This is what this show is about. What does it mean to bring the sun into the theatre?” My presentation explores this curious question with reference to Uhlich’s work and its premise as a show that (I want to suggest) has nothing whatsoever to do with the climate emergency – yet might help us think differently about how we relate to that which is so ordinary it is with us every day; part of (making) us even, yet remains a total stranger. I am interested in thinking through Uhlich’s performance in terms of what Gayatri Chakravorti Spivak calls ‘Planetarity’ – rejecting the global – that which is good for imperialism and capitalism – in favour of its ‘subalternizing tendency’. For Spivak ‘the planet is in the species of alterity, belonging to another system’. The same could be said for the sun, ‘one we cannot make sense of but inhabit “on loan”’. Despite its revered and beloved status, the sun is a blazing paradox: both a life-giving force and an existential threat. It contains us as much as it flings us away. I want to grapple with this sensation, through my experience of watching, writing and thinking with Uhlich’s Sonne from the “cheap seats”. A vantage point that I suggest brought me closer to the sun, while also positioning me to engage in a cultural and material history of the sun and the theatre. By moving towards the planetary but never mastering it, I make a case for theatre’s capacity to draw attention to that which is both ordinary but ‘out of this world’ (i.e extraordinary); to re-think our relationship to alterity; to engage in awe of an ineffable presence, to be blinded by its light, and to feel its burn – as energy – as solar friction: solar fiction
A Sentimental Android? M3GAN (2022) and Monstrous Doubling as a Negotiation of the Gendered Neo-Liberal Self
Get PDFThis paper analyses the android M3GAN in the 2022 film of the same name, problematising recent framings that celebrate M3GAN as a gay icon, a feminist figure, or understand her as embodying our collective fear of artificial intelligence. Instead, I place M3GAN in a long line of narratives that mediate on the role of women in society, following the loosening of possibilities for woman brought about in the Enlightenment. I go on to suggest ways in which contemporary neoliberal values are forcefully communicated in popular culture and how in turn, the subject reacts and internalises ideology
‘Written Honour’: Wagner, Beuys and Stendhal in Marcel Broodthaers’s Magie: art et politique
No full textBook chapter looking at the practice of citation in the work of Marcel Broodthaers, in particular at his use of citations of Wagner and Stendhal in his artist's book Magie: art et politique to develop an allegorical critique of the politics and political stance of his contemporary Joseph Beuys
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No full textVideo work included in a screening event held in 'SideShow' an exhibition held in the Lethaby Gallery, CSM about the role of music in Artists' videos.
Artists included were: Fiona Banner, Mick Finch, Oona Grimes, Andrew Hart, Mario Rossi, Alex Schady and John Seth
Voices: Interviews with Women in Contemporary Publishing, Interview 8: Rathna Ramanathan
No full textExplores the diversity of women’s work in transatlantic and continental publishing across the twentieth-century. This chapter is an interview conducted by the editors with Rathna Ramanathan.
The first international edited collection to explore women’s diverse work in book and magazine publishing in the twentieth century. Specially commissioned, archivally-rich chapters from leading established and early-careers scholars, edited by an international research team. Transatlantic and European/continental in focus, going beyond the Anglosphere, and modelling the best new comparative work in global print cultures. Cuts across aesthetic divisions in twentieth-century literary history and bridges the gap in understandings of women’s contributions to publishing from first to second and third/fourth wave feminisms. Includes interviews with 8 contemporary women in publishing, plus new oral history research. Women’s creative labour in publishing has often been overlooked. This book draws on dynamic new work in feminist book history and publishing studies to offer the first comparative collection exploring women’s diverse, deeply embedded work in modern publishing. Highlighting the value of networks, collaboration, and archives, the companion sets out new ways of reading women’s contributions to the production and circulation of global print cultures. With an international, intergenerational set of contributors using diverse methodologies, essays explore women working in publishing transatlantically, on the continent, and beyond the Anglosphere. The book combines new work on high-profile women publishers and editors alongside analysis of women’s work as translators, illustrators, booksellers, advertisers, patrons, and publisher’s readers; complemented by new oral histories and interviews with leading women in publishing today. The first collection of its kind, the companion helps establish and shape a thriving new research field
Ten Texts on Sculpture 6: Entropy
No full textThe sixth of a series of reading group podcasts on sculpture. In this episode we talk about entropy in relation to sculpture. We look at two texts. One is Robert Smithson’s 1966 essay, ‘Entropy and the New Monuments’, and the other is a 2015 publication on the work of Beverly Buchanan from the late 1970s to the early 1980s, edited by Park McArthur and Jennifer Burris Staton. We talk about entropy, ruins, major and minor approaches to work, and the relationship between wider culture and formal developments in art
Advancing sustainable manufacturing: a systematic exploration of Industry 5.0 supply chains for sustainability, human-centricity, and resilience
Get PDFThe emergence of Industry 5.0 provides new perspectives for the manufacturing sector, aiming to create sustainable, human-centric, and resilient approaches. Supply chains perform a vital role in realising these objectives by connecting suppliers to customers and providing value-added products and services. However, despite growing interest, the consideration for this paradigm shift in the manufacturing industry remains amorphous. In order to address this gap, this paper presents a systematic literature review of 103 research articles from an initial corpus of 8,079 and proposes a conceptual framework for Supply Chain 5.0 within the manufacturing sector. The framework is scaffolded on a thematic analysis of the literature, including drivers to transition, impacts on manufacturing supply chains, challenges, and outcomes. This study provides valuable insights for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers seeking to examine the implications of Industry 5.0 supply chains, highlighting its potential to enhance sustainability, social well-being, and economic growth. Furthermore, the proposed conceptual framework and research opportunities serve to guide future research and practical applications around this emerging topic