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Gender & Gesture: Thinking Photography Beyond the Visual
No full textThis video documents the workshop interaction and gallery presentations at IIT Hyderabad and Woxsen University 2023. This is a cross-cultural collaborative project that raises questions about cultural responses to Gender & Gesture. This work has been brought together through an open call and extended through our research networks. The work returned to the Foyer Gallery at UCA in Farnham in 2024, curated as an exhibition by Molloy
Staging Sermon: performing autobiographical memory through “The Waste Land”
No full textThis chapter provides a self-reflexive evaluation of the Sermon photographs from Waste Land (2005-2010), that was produced by the author for her practice-based PhD. T.S. Eliot's poem “The Waste Land” (1922) was used to examine her adaptation methodologies and self-representational strategies. Waterman visually translates her own experience of parental divorce through a close analysis of the text and literary criticism (Brooker and Bentley, Ellman, Miller, Parsons), acknowledging her biographical connections to Eliot's marriage to Vivienne Haigh Wood, to produce cathartic re-enactments, informed by phototherapy (Martin, Spence), memory and trauma studies (Barthes, Freud, Kaplan), feminine metaphors (Gilbert and Gubar, Horner and Zlosnik), and photographic self-portraiture (Chadwick, Lingwood). By interweaving these cross-disciplinary strands and reflecting on the actual process of making each photograph through a unique auto-criticism, Waterman demonstrates how her autobiographical literary interpretations offer a means of restaging memory through the creation of photographic narratives
Text/techne: a curatorial approach to explore an auto biographical poetic collection as an aesthetic experience
No full textThis is a joint audio-visual presentation by a curator and a poet aiming to deepen the understanding of the ontology of interdisciplinary curation. Specifically, this paper discusses Ariadne (2023) interactive installation which brought together curator Loucia Manopoulou and poet Vicky Samara to communicate an autobiographical manifestation of traumatic experience through text and techne. The intention was for the viewers to consider how the material and immaterial properties of poetry and curatorship could create or affect and change perceptions of each discipline.
Attempts to understand media beyond their materiality in a literal sense have accelerated inquiries into the relations between different media where often another medium takes its form. The interactive installation drew on the notion of materiality as seen in Jeehee Hong essay ‘material/materiality’ (2003), where materiality plays a crucial role in locating the media as a paradigm, which is articulated by its relationship to form and content of a medium. And on materiality of medium as seen in Jean Baudrillard’s characterization of a medium as a system administered by the code that is interwoven with a technical apparatus (sound and image) as well as the corporeal one (gestures, narration) (Baudrillard, in Wardrip Fruin, 2003:284). Baudrillard states that ‘reciprocity comes into being through the destruction of mediums per se.’ (ibid). Comprised of the ‘immaterial’ code, yet still to be ‘destroyed,’ poetry here is fully charged with is materiality.
This presentation demonstrates how contemporary curation creates spaces for practices that combine and bridge formerly distinct borders, disciplines, medium, and storytelling
'Paradoxical drawing'
No full textA catalogue text and essay by Burgoyne to accompany his solo commission exhibition 'the one who was standing, apart from me' at The Lowry Manchester 2023
Thinking big: here comes the sun
Get PDFIn 2000, Pincott and Branthwaite published ‘Nothing New Under the Sun?’ which discussed the role of the internet in research both in terms of the hazards and opportunities this confers. Specifically, Pincott and Branthwaite argued that whilst the advent of the internet offers up new approaches and techniques, this must not be at the detriment of methodological rigour and standards we have grown accustomed to in the industry. In this paper, it is argued that the advent of big data, big qual and the emerging potential of the metaverse present new opportunities in research but pose the same questions originally conceived by Pincott & Branthwaite, 2000. Moreover, methodological rigour and standards are framed by three interconnected themes, namely, the role of data science and big data, the importance of softer skills of interpretation and narration and finally, the role of theory in elevating and grounding research
Opportunities for circular business models and circular design related to fishing gear
Get PDFThere is growing interest in circularity and fishing gear-driven emerging legislative, standards, NGO interest and other stakeholder pressures. At present, there has been little focus on new circular business models (CBM) or circular design of fishing gear. The chapter will overview fishing gear, highlight key legislation and introduce CBMs and circular design in this context providing: (i) description of fishing gear used for fishing, (ii) European Commission (EC) Single Use Plastics (SUP) Directive and the related Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) legislation as it relates to waste fishing gear, (iii) opportunities for more circular business models (CBMs) from fishing gear and (iv) design strategies to the improve the product circularity of fishing gear (circular design)
Collaborative creative practices to address and deconstruct gender stereotypes: a transnational dialogue between Italian and Chinese cultures.
No full textThe workshop brought together ICI students, ICI colleagues, and members of the local community. It aimed to be inclusive and diverse, bringing together people from diverse cultures, identities, ethnicities, ages, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
The workshop aimed to develop a dialogue between the artist and the workshop participants concerning Chinese and Italian gender stereotypes, as well as to engage in artistic activities such as collages and drawings. By comparing depictions of Chinese women in Chinese visual culture to representations of Italian women in Italian visual culture, workshop participants commented on their meanings and proposed visual ways to deconstruct them.
Participants selected images of well-known Chinese women, which during the workshop they printed, cut, painted, drew on top of, pasted, and changed however they saw fit. By doing so, the participants gave their deconstructed visual artifacts new meanings and significations
Abolish the Family!
No full textWe work, not for inclusion into the family, or a queered version of it, but for a queer mode of being together which retains what Lewis calls the “abolitionist freight” of the word ‘queer’, “signifying resistance to capitalism’s reproductive institutions: marriage, private property, patriarchy, the police, school” (19). This non-contingent, non-privatised way of living is what Abolish the Family offers us, as people and as SF scholars. We hope that those in the business of creating, shaping, reading and tearing apart the imagined worlds of SF texts will take Lewis’ challenge to think more critically about the family to heart. More than this, we hope that they will work to nurture the “latent utopian kernels” of family abolitionist possibility located in our present (82)
The Chinese way: alternative policy perspectives and challenges
No full textThis volume seeks to develop new narratives on China's alternative policy and challenges policy makers on gender, regional, income and wage inequalities among rural migrant workers in China.
The book also looks at China's social, environmental, economic and governance policies aimed at implementing a sustainable financial and corporate system for a prosperous society. The argument that China follows 'capitalism or socialism with Chinese characteristics' emanates from the Eurocentric ideological narratives based on 'varieties of capitalism' and 'national socialism'. This book attempts to move away from the duality of ideological criticism and dichotomous defence of China based on the ideological prisms of capitalism or socialism. It rejects the flawed analysis of both sides of the ideological divide. For all its limitations within the world capitalist system, China's achievements can't be undermined. The attempt to undermine Chinese achievements is a process and a strategy to delegitimise the Chinese state, the Communist Party of China, the Chinese success story, and to hide the available alternatives from the experience of The Chinese Way.
The book will be a great read to students, researchers and scholars of Chinese studies, political economy, development studies and those interested in China's economic and public policies in general
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