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Punks Listen: The Fanzine
Get PDFDesign of collection of essays by musicians, promoters, managers, journalists, artists and designers. All proceeds to Red Cross Ukraine, published by Hope Publications, Dublin, July 2024
Impact Storytelling: the Ecosystem, the Evidence and Possible Futures
Get PDF“Impact Storytelling: the Ecosystem, the Evidence and Possible Futures” is a ‘go-to’ report for storytellers, artivists, students, scholars and impact practitioners interested in impact storytelling (often referred to as "storytelling for social change").
This large study from UAL's AKO Storytelling Institute has been designed to help answer questions such as: what is 'impact storytelling'? What evidence is there that impact storytelling works? What is the history and current landscape of impact storytelling, in the UK and internationally?
It maps the structure of the impact storytelling ecosystem, identifies its key players, listens to current live debates and questions how to better collaborate in an emerging space that is still fairly siloed. By bringing to the foreground some of the ecosystem's gaps and blind spots, it hopes to open a space for reflection and debate. The intention is to serve as a base towards cross-industry collaboration and cross-disciplinary consolidation
Engaging Feeling: The Subject of Landscape in the Twenty-First Century
Get PDFAs an artist my research involves reappraising the visual-spatial structures that define the conventional landscape idea, in order to move landscape from ‘de facto’ representational image towards an idea of mutuality and embodied form. This includes the study of pre-genre landscape backgrounds, exploring how to access difference from within the Western landscape tradition. Through a discussion of recent works derived from these early Italian paintings, this paper examines how empathy becomes a key tool in reshaping landscape’s image.
Drawing from recent feminist theories that address the binaries of Western thought through materiality and affect, the examination explores ways that the painted landscape form – rather than existing as the visual ‘object’ to the viewing ‘subject’ – carries agential properties in itself that facilitate empathic connections. Developing Bernard Berenson’s notion of ‘tactile values’ and Vernon Lee’s associated concept of ‘empathy’, the relationship between materiality and signification within these artworks is examined, in order to gain an understanding of landscape that is shaped through empathy and affect, and that situates the visual within embodied experience.
Focussing especially on the trope of the cave, the paper examines how these wilderness backgrounds collapse the intractable dualisms associated with landscape. Their craggy spaces connote embodied rather than exclusively visual experience and suggest physical affinity rather than a visually-orientated construction of space. This presents an opportunity to align human and landscape in ways that befit 21st Century concerns, addressing the dissonance between landscape as aesthetic image and landscape as material source
Managing Routes to Fashion Markets chapter, In Fashion Management A strategic Approach
Get PDFCo-authored chapter within the 2nd Edition of book, Fashion Management A Strategic Approach
Linger Awhile
No full text'Linger Awhile' is a 2024 painting by Kimathi Donkor which was first exhibited at Thamesside Studios in London for the 2024 group exhibition, 'Standing Ground'
Single Motherhood, Sexuality, and Mediated Intimacies on Dating Apps
Get PDFThe article explores the nuanced and multifaceted experiences of single mothers who use dating apps. Drawing on autoethnographic reflection and participant observation of online community groups, it examines the emotional, psychological, and sociocultural dimensions that influence single mothers’ engagements with dating apps. It unpacks the complicated relationship of motherhood and sexuality, challenging prevailing cultural and social stereotypes such as the myth of mothers being asexual beings. The core questions are: What type of intimacies exist in this context? And how does the tension between single motherhood, single womanhood, and sexuality impact subjectivity and self-representation? By examining how single mothers navigate their roles as parents, women, and individuals seeking intimacy in online dating cultures, the study contributes to a broader understanding of contemporary social dynamics and the interplay between technology and identity. The article discusses self-representation, constructions of sexuality, sexual agency, the negotiation of connection and boundaries, and privacy. It argues that when single mothers engage on dating platforms, they navigate the complex terrain of sexual capital through strategies of visibility. In sum, the article delves into the increasing role of technology in the everyday lives, experiences of intimacy, and formations of connections by a contested yet diverse community of single mothers
Making a living moment more resonant: an exploration of the role of the artist in co-creative work with people living with dementia
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Despite a growth in interest in recent years in the benefits of working co-creatively with the Arts for people living with dementia, little attention has been given to understanding the role of the professional artists within this context. Our main question here is ‘How do professional artists apply their skills and knowledge in co-creative arts groups with people with dementia?’ This paper has been informed by the insights gained from a series of conversations, observations and journals that were kept by four UK based artists (two musicians and two dancers) who reflexively interrogated what they were doing during the course of an 8-week co-creative arts project with people living with dementia.
Methods
The research used an empirical case study methodology, with the authors adopting a thematic approach to the analysis of the data.
Results
Thematic analysis resulted in three main themes: Authenticity, Enabling Risk and Togetherness. These themes characterise the skills, techniques and specialised knowledge used by the artists during the co-creative sessions.
Conclusions
Following this analysis, the article argues that the beneficial effects for people living with dementia of co-creative art-based work come about through the conscious application by the artists of their shared skills and knowledge, acquired through training and ongoing artistic practice. Rather than an assumption that ‘The Arts’ are in themselves beneficial for people living with dementia, we must consider the active role played by the artists who are so integral to the process.
In recent years, there has been increasing interest in the role that the arts might have to play in supporting the wellbeing of people living with dementia. Indeed, to a large extent the positive effects of engaging with music and dance is now generally accepted. In particular, there has been increasing interest in the benefits of working with the arts co-creatively. Working co-creatively means that the artists are working alongside all other members of the group, with everyone using improvisation so that each person can be equally involved. Structures for the co-creative sessions are kept loose and flexible, and the main focus is on relationships and the shared creative experience, rather than deliberately trying to work towards an end goal. Whilst there has been research which demonstrates the beneficial effects of this approach, there is a gap in understanding about the ways that professional musicians and dancers use their skills and knowledge in this context.
To try to understand this better, the researchers analysed journals that were kept by a group of musicians and dancers as they took part in 'With All', which was a co-creative music and dance project with people with dementia and their families and friends. Through their analysis, the researchers identified three key areas which are of particular importance in understanding the skills and knowledge that the professional artists contribute to the co-creative sessions, and which suggest that although the arts are generally accepted as being helpful for supporting those living with dementia, we need to consider the contribution made by the artists themselves
Callaloo People: The Designs of Robert Young and Celia Ledón
Get PDFThis chapter discusses the work of two Caribbean fashion designers and how they have sought to represent particular factors indicative to their islands in their designs. The effects of the 60+ year embargo on Cuba is looked at in the work of Celia Ledon and the use of carnival and the idea of Callaloo people (a Trinidadian terms referring to a mixture of different people) is analysed in the fashion of Robert Young from design house The Cloth
Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things
Get PDFThis introduction to the special issue ‘Inheriting the family: emotions, identities and things’ briefly explores how attention to different forms of inheritance as emotional practices offers new ways to understand ‘intergenerational emotion’. It explains the importance of new methodologies to interrogating this emotion and introduces a range of possibilities that are taken further by the contributors in the issue. These include analysis of emotional concepts, object-oriented investigations, particularly as parts of interviews and ethnographies, postmemorial creative practices and researcher self-reflexivity, notably in relation to family history research
Ethylcellulose oleogel lip glosses: the effects of different emollients and pigments on rheology and textural properties
Get PDFEthylcellulose (EC) is an organogelator that forms stable oleogels with castor oil (CO). This work aimed to investigate the effects that different emollients and pigments have on the physical properties of EC oleogels for lip gloss applications. Oleogels and lip glosses were tested via shear rate sweep and oscillatory stress sweep. Their textural properties were also tested. Stable, shear-thinning oleogels were obtained. Higher concentrations of CO resulted in higher viscosity and rigidity, and lower elasticity. Lip glosses had similar viscosity and higher rigidity compared to their respective oleogels. Favourable textural properties were obtained only at lower concentrations of CO (~30%). The chemical properties of oils affected the rheological and textural properties of EC oleogels and lip glosses. The physical properties of EC and CO oleogels have shown great potential in lip gloss applications