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The "curious effects" of acting: homosexuality, theatre and female impersonation at the University of Cambridge, 1900-1939
No full textThe University of Cambridge educated a significant proportion of Britain’s elite in the early twentieth century. The homosocial environment of the colleges was similar in many ways to that of the single-sex public boarding schools which many of the undergraduates had attended. Student theatre was a popular activity, and because such shows were acted by single-sex ensembles, there was a strong tradition of female impersonation on stage. The interwar diaries of Cecil Beaton, who identified privately as a homosexual man, provide an unusually detailed source of information about a period when sexual controversy began to surround theatrical cross-dressing. In the 1930s, when moves were made to open previously men-only university drama clubs to women, the issue of male homosexuality and its alleged connections with student theatre came to be widely discussed. This reflected significant changes in the ways in which queerness was accommodated within the predominantly male environment of the University
Entangled Dimensionalities
Get PDFConvenor/organiser and presenter within a day of talks revisiting The Incident exhibitions and symposia held in 1995 & 1996 to consider their intergenerational themes in relation to artistic and political questions of our time held at University for the Creative Arts, UK
Raid
Get PDFAn exhibition curated by Venice Bienalle curator Camilla Boemio, exploring key works by Burgoyne that wrestle with materiality of absence
Discovering the pro-filmic: conversation with Helga Fanderl
Get PDFOne of a series of dialogues between filmmakers, in this case myself and Helga Fanderl, who has made an enormous body of work excluively in Super 8 film. We discuss how we became interested in working with film, filming procedures, medium specificity, teaching film and related topics
The Hybridization of Cultures in My Creative Practice in Nollywood: Sidibe Screenplay in Focus.
Get PDFMy study which is a practice -based thesis investigates the portrayal of ‘Cultural Hybridity’ in Nollywood. Cultural hybridity as postulated by Homi Bhaba (1994) argues for the (re)creation of new transcultural forms following the influence of colonialism. Conceptualising the notion of “third space” Bhabha observes that most colonised persons have a third culture, thus my study seeks to interpret this ‘third space’ within the context of films. Nollywood is the mainstream post-colonial Nigerian film industry that has earned a remarkable recognition in African Cinema for its subtle revolutionalisation of African cinema through its culture of low budget productions (Obaiya, 2011). My research therefore interrogates the extent to which hybridity has manifested in the construction of identity in Nollywood filmmaking practice in Nigeria. The study stems from over 25 years of my practice in Nollywood and establishes my position as a female filmmaker in the context of filmic storytelling. I approach the study from the framework of post -colonial and feminist theories using auto-ethnography methodology.
This practice-based thesis will examine cultural hybridity as the conceptual underpinning of (trans)national cinema in Nollywood filmic culture and situate Nollywood, a ‘home grown’ film industry within the context of hybridity by examining the effect of ‘third space’ on selected Nollywood films. A critical analysis
of two purposively sampled case study films; Wedding Party (Adetiba, 2016) and Namatse Wahala (Ahuja, 2020), as well as my own films; Special Jollof and Love is in the hair is embarked on with the aim of underscoring how Homi Bhaba’s “third space” has influenced hybridity in Nollywood. Scholars like Bhaba and Fanon have argued that the originality and purity of cultures are unattainable. The question of hybridized cultural forms continues to resurge in scholarly discourse with emphasis 6 on the influence of post-modernism, migration, religion, and digitalization on cultural identities. The expression or nuances of the film space in Nollywood is interpretable via the lens of post colonialism and the sophisticated
framework/theories which hybridity belongs. This research practice aims to redefine a deliberateness in Nollywood storytelling by engineering a thinking in society via our narratives that will contribute to the new understanding of Nollywood using my
practice; a detailed screenplay; Sidibe- The Castaway, which hopes to propose a variant model of film hybridity in Nollywood
Stalking the atmosphere: journeys into the Hoo Peninsula through a multi-disciplinary fine art practice
Get PDFThis thesis argues for ways of experiencing the atmosphere of the Hoo Peninsula, developing methods to represent the tangibility of the phenomenon. Through a practice-based approach and research, I investigate the presence of an atmosphere and how it manifests itself in this particular landscape: a coastal area at the edge of the Thames estuary in North Kent. Using a means of site-analysis that locates my body at the centre of the research, I encounter atmosphere through a psychogeographic methodology, immersing my body in the field of study. Whilst atmospheres are airborne and hard to fathom, this research aims to make the
phenomena tangible through a multi-disciplinary fine art practice.
The research draws upon a wider field of information reflecting upon evidence from or about the Hoo Peninsula which, when seen as a cumulative body of data and reflections, articulates how the atmosphere can be evidenced (historical material and archaeological matter, as well as intangible, elusive and ephemeral materials such as the effects of weather, mists and memories on the atmosphere).
A psycho-geographic approach through walking is key to the research, a solitary pursuit that brings my position as a female figure in the landscape, into the frame of the research. On foot in the peninsula, my identity raises the question of how atmosphere may be activated and experienced through my gender and this is further implicated by walking in character, as the fictional Edwardian amateur archaeologist, Louisa Cornford. As a result of these journeys, a number of artistic works have emerged, primarily Louisa Cornford’s Archive of Atmosphere, an archive built upon a collection of found objects from the peninsula which have attributes of atmosphere.
The research also develops enquiries into mapping as a visual means of cognition to locate atmosphere; the post-phenomenology of the camera lens as a provocateur or fogging device that may reveal or obscure atmosphere; and how formative childhood experiences of atmospheres lay dormant and were re-ignited by this landscape.
Ultimately, the research aims to make an original contribution to knowledge by identifying the particular and unique atmosphere of the Hoo Peninsula, by noting how atmospheres are important contributions to our understanding of landscapes and presenting the findings through a creative body of work that centres upon an Archive of Atmosphere, where the sensory and phenomenological aspects of atmosphere conceptually exist as tangible materials
Hidden Sound/Lost Language Endpiece Article
No full textThis end piece and the frontispiece are a visual and emotive record of a journey
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