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The living contradiction
Get PDFThe living contradiction is a five-day residency culminating in a series of works that respond to the site that is PS2. Through installation, film and live performance Burgoyne’s practice is a rule based, process led but expansive drawing practice wrestling body, site relations and their subsequent paradoxes. Often verging on the absurd, the outcomes he sees as residual scraps of that forming and unforming that is the interplay between appearance and presentness. During his time in PS2 he seeks to continue his focus on phenomenological concerns around invisibility and visibility e.g. what is present when we draw, and where is this actuality located.
The title of this new project, and his first in Belfast, derives from a term discussed by Emmanuel Levinas, living contradiction is namely the past orientated nature of our daily existence alongside a future directed intentionality, as such our lives oscillate between two fluid and divergent paths. In terms of drawing, Burgoyne seeks to both expand and paradoxically disperse the traditional trope of drawing as a means to cover. Contesting that drawing is a manifestation of surfaces or exteriorities, Burgoyne offers up situations that by the act of covering are in fact seeking to unconceal the thingness of drawing that resides within that materiality- itsdrawingness. In doings so, Inside drawing-The living contradiction offers a series of propositions in the form of installation, film and live performance less based on what has appeared or appearance per se, but instead indicative of drawing as an incessant coming into appearance. Between thing and event, object and subject, embodiment and worlding
"It's the time you got to wear whatever you wanted": Pre-teen girls negotiating gender, sexuality and age through fashion
Get PDFWorries about the marketing of fashion to pre-teen girls and the power of fashionable clothes to sexualize these girls, have been on-going for some time. However, there is little research with this age of girls that explicitly explores the ways in which fashionable clothes are understood and worn by the girls themselves and the impact on their sense of identity. Yet girls are increasingly considered in childhood sociology to be competent social actors able to articulate something of their own interactions and understanding of their social worlds. This study uses focus groups, participant photography and interviews with 32 predominately white, middle-class girls from the South of England, to examine pre-teen girls' fashion practices to address this gap in knowledge. This article argues that young girls are active and thoughtful in their consumption of dress, aware of the construction of gender norms in responding to aged sexual expectations as they decide what to wear. In considering the context of their constructions of aged, gendered and (a)sexualized identity, girls code-switched between identity forms, actively constituting their subjectivity through clothing
Artist talk - INTER/her: an immersive journey inside the female body
No full textAn immersive installation and Virtual Reality artwork focussed on post-reproductive diseases and pain over 40’s women experience: endometriosis, fibroids, polyps, Ovarian and other cysts, cervical, ovarian, uterine and endometrial cancers. The sensory and emotional experience moving from the outside in within a real dome space into VR space, with a 3D audio soundscape of the voices and stories of real women recounting their experiences, making it an intimate, emotional and possibly haunting experience, with accompanying wearable haptic garment providing a visceral vibration responsive experience on the lower abdomen, where the various diseases occur
Cold Light : Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK. 22.10.22 - 08.01.23.
No full textCold Light is a new video installation and virtual reality work by Lindsay Seers & Keith Sargent. Its title draws on historic references to the first electric light bulbs: no longer reliant on fire for illumination, the new electric lights were referred to as ‘Cold Light.’
The exhibition has been shaped by the artists’ research into the life and work of Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) – an inventor, engineer, and futurist whose ideas about using naturally occurring electromagnetic fields to provide energy remain remarkable. Tesla performed scientific experiments theatrically, as a showman, believed in alien life forms and considered himself to be an automaton reacting to internal and external stimuli. Today, he is best known for his contributions to the design of the Alternating Current (AC) electrical system. Cold Light takes its inspiration from Tesla’s visionary revelations in science, his extraordinary consciousness, and his non-normative brain.
Research on these subjects has been sustained over many years and developed through dialogue with scientists Chris Frith, FRS FBA, Professor Emeritus at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at University College London; Anil Seth, Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience at the University of Sussex; Paul Fletcher, Bernard Wolfe Professor of Health Neuroscience, University of Cambridge; and science writer Philip Ball
Exosomatic route choice in navigation; evidence from video game player data
Get PDFWe investigate the extent to which navigation may be performed using exosomatic cues directly viewed in the environment, as opposed to relying on memory of a map or mental representation. Using trajectory data from a virtual navigation game app, Sea Hero Quest, we analyse the moment to moment route choices of 200 participants and compare these against the expected routes based on several spatial variables measured from current isovists. Observations suggest that there is substantial evidence that for most participants navigation in a novel environment is indeed largely based on direct exosomatic information, and is based specifically on the space actually viewed, as opposed to that inferred by the shape of occluding edges. We also find evidence that strategies differ between individuals, in that the better navigators will deviate more from the exosomatic method and rely more on their own memory and internal knowledge of the environment
Source credibility theory: SME hospitality sector blog posting during the covid-19 pandemic
Get PDFDuring the recent Covid-19 pandemic SMEs in the hospitality sector had to develop new ways of increasing consumer engagement and maintaining business activity. This study examines the effect of using blogs to counter the detrimental effect of pandemic lockdowns. A survey method was deployed with 449 respondents. Analysis used SEM PLS. The findings show trustworthiness and reputation positively affects credibility, but promotional incentives and expertise do not affect credibility. The findings also suggest that unverified information sharing mediates the relationship between credibility and loyalty. Information System (IS) researchers can systematically develop approach using big data to identify false information. This research contributes to knowledge of both IS researchers and SMEs in hospitality sector. SMEs in hospitality sector can partner IS and use this research as an example of method for recovering from crisis by the adoption of blog posts, as well as working remotely with IS researchers to explore data sources and research techniques to investigate false information
Textiles in text: text in textiles
No full textThis audio-visual presentation intends to deepen the understanding of the ontology of crafts curation. Specifically, this paper discusses Beyond Trauma (2021) which brought together textile artist Tara Kennedy and creative writer Dr Lynn Hamilton to communicate the impact of trauma through textiles and text. The intention was for the viewers to consider how the material and immaterial properties of textile and text could produce or affect and change perceptions of each discipline. The decision to select a textile artist was based on the etymology of the word “text”. “Text” relates to “texture” and “textile” and traces back to “texo” – “to weave”, referring to the way words and sentences are “woven” together. The curator identified conceptual links between Kennedy’s practice and Hamilton’s stories. Moreover, Kennedy was selected based on her emphasis and priority to making process, the performance of making rather than the outcome.
Attempts to understand media beyond the materiality of them in a literal sense have accelerated inquiries into the relations between different media where often another medium takes its form. The exhibition 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, language) (Baudrillard, in Wardrip Fruin, 2003: 284). Baudrillard states that “reciprocity comes into being through the destruction of mediums per se.” (ibid). Composed of the “immaterial” code, yet still to be “destroyed,” a medium here is fully charged with its materiality.
This paper demonstrates how contemporary craft curation makes room for pluralistic practices that combine and cross formerly distinct borders, disciplines, materials, techniques, and histories
Disaster relief and the materiality of aid: humanitarian imaginaries and design interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976
No full textCo-authored book chapter in Ashby, C., and Crinson, M., Ed. Building-Object: Shared and Contested Territories of Design and Architecture, Bloomsbury Press, London.
The chapter, 'Disaster Relief and the Materiality of Aid: Humanitarian Imaginaries and Design Interventions at Oxfam, 1971-1976', argues that the rationality of Oxfam's shelter, aligned with wider shifts within Western humanitarian circles, when ideological, technical and logistical transformations expanded zones of interventions and aid responses were re-conceived. The project also arose from modernist and counter-cultural experiments in predominantly Western architecture and design circles, where mobility, standardization and vernacular building typologies overlapped. Emerging from these entwined discourses and practices, and spurred by conceptions of ‘distant suffering’, portable, standardised and easily reproducible approaches to housing became envisioned as a possible response to post-conflict and natural disasters in so-called developing countries. As such, the chapter aims to shed light on the many cross-disciplinary influences and imperatives which shaped Oxfam’s Emergency House within wider discourses on disaster relief and development in the 1970s
Stress and turnover intentions within healthcare teams: the mediating role of psychological safety, and the moderating effect of COVID-19 worry and supervisor support
Get PDFEmployees at healthcare organizations are experiencing more stress than ever given the current COVID-19 pandemic. Different types of stress are affecting diverse organizational outcomes, including the employees’ voluntary turnover. This is the case of cognitive stress, a type of stress that affects how individuals process information, which can influence employees’ turnover intentions. In this study, we look at the mechanisms that can reduce the adverse effects of cognitive stress on turnover intentions, particularly the role of employees’ perceived psychological safety (i.e., how safe they perceive the interactions with their colleagues are). We hypothesize that psychological safety mediates the relationship between cognitive stress and turnover intentions, and COVID-19 worry and supervisor support moderate the relationship between cognitive stress and psychological safety. To test our hypothesis, we invited two public health care organizations in Chile to join this study. In total, we obtained a sample of 146 employees in 21 different teams. Using a multilevel model, we found that psychological safety prevents the harmful effects of cognitive stress on employees’ turnover intentions. In addition, while COVID-19 worry can worsen the relationship between cognitive stress and psychological safety, supervisor support only directly affects psychological safety. This study contributes to expanding the stress and psychological safety literature and informs practitioners in healthcare organizations about how to deal with cognitive stress in the “new normality” that the pandemic has brought
Modern corporations and strategies at work
No full textStrategies are integral to growth, expansion and sustainability of modern corporations. The agile strategies are central to overcome challenges of the turbulent times accelerated by risks, pandemics, wars, political instabilities and environmental disasters. This book on ‘Modern Corporations and Strategies at Work’ focuses on different strategies followed by corporations. This book makes critical reading of corporate strategies and evaluates them. This book offers insights into the way corporations develop and implement strategies to face different challenges. This book explores wider world of corporate strategies and their limitations.
The future of world economy and international business is shaped by large modern corporations and their rapidly changing business, management and marketing strategies. This book explores the way modern nation states are standing behind the corporations to ensure that their strategies are successful in a world of complex challenges. This book further examines how collaborations between the state and modern corporations are part of the corporate strategy at work today. Further how modern strategies are integral to the start, growth, expansion and sustainability of modern corporations. This book explores operational agilities and organisational abilities of modern corporations to engage with diverse challenges and overcome the crisis. The volatile business environment is creating conditions of instabilities for the market to function effectively and efficiently. Such conditions are weakening all agents and structures operating within international business and world economy.
This book argues that there is an urgent need for a profound reshaping of the corporate strategies to deal with a post pandemic society. It is perhaps as far reaching as that the remaking of corporate strategies are in the crossroads today due to its intrinsic profit motives. The remaking of modern corporate strategy comes in the wake of pestilence of a global health crisis; its full impacts are yet to be felt, evaluated and understood. A comprehensive shift in corporate strategy from formulation, implementation and evaluation to remaking is at the heart of this transformations in the working of the corporations and their fundamental ideological apparatus
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