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Covid‐19 as a breakdown in the texture of social practices
Get PDF‘A lot of things need to be repaired and a lot of relationships are in need of a knowledgeable mending. Can we start to talk/write about them?’ This invitation — sent by one of the authors to the others — led us, as feminist women in academia, to join together in an experimental writing about the effects of COVID‐19 on daily social practices and on potential (and innovative) ways for repairing work in different fields of social organization. By diffractively intertwining our embodied experiences of becoming together‐with Others, we foreground a multiplicity of repair (care) practices COVID‐19 is making visible. Echoing one another, we take a stand and say that we need to prevent the future from becoming the past. We are not going back to the past; our society has already changed and there is a need to cope with innovation and repairing practices that do not reproduce the past
Fast forward and rewind: voices of women photographers
No full textRevisiting an archive of women’s voices talking about the reasons they create work using photography, reveals more than just the questions asked, the topics discussed, and the words spoken, but whose narratives are being told and who is missed. Each photographer has a different story to tell, but they are all linked by gender and tenacity. Some were drawn to using photography as a political tool, others to find a new language to interpret the world around them, still others as social commentary. All the interview extracts are from Wainwright's archive of artist interviews that now number over 1,600 and which she began twenty-five years ago. From the 96-year-old Dorothy Bohm to the New Zealand feminist Alexis Hunter, who sadly died in 2014. From Violeta Bubelytė working in Lithuania to the German photographer Steffi Klenz working in Britain, from the African American Nona Faustine and her personal interrogation of black history in New York to Haley Morris-Cafiero and her engagement with Fat Shaming and the Internet
Performance drawing: new practices since 1945
Get PDFWhen does a drawing turn into a performance? Is the act of drawing in itself a performative process, whether a viewer is present or not? Performance Drawing: New Practices Since 1945 is an exploration of interdisciplinary artists who actively use the term or express the ‘performative’ in their drawing practice or are connected by both performance and drawing. Drawing upon their own practice-based research, original interviews, literature review, reflections on and analysis of artists’ works, the authors illuminate what it might mean to perform, and what it might mean to draw, in contemporary practice since 1945.
As the first book to be published on this subject, the term ‘performance drawing’ is used as a trope, or a thread of thinking, to describe a process of drawing dedicated to broadening the field through resourceful practices and cross-disciplinary influence. While engaged in the act of drawing as a performative process, the book addresses themes of ephemerality and immediacy that encompass body and energy, time and motion, light and space, intention and execution, liveness and documentation. It examines dynamic interactions through cross-disciplinary influences, addressing key developments and future directions that are dedicated to broadening the field of drawing and inspiring a diverse range of approaches to performance drawing.
Acclaimed practitioners since 1945, such as Alison Knowles, Carolee Schneemann, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Trisha Brown and William Kentridge, have been instrumental in instituting and exposing the relationship between drawing and performing. This book provides the foundation behind these pioneers, alongside a platform for current and emerging international artists, and for those working between the boundaries of the genre. Merging experiences and disciplines in the expanded field has established a vibrant art movement that has been progressively burgeoning in the last few years
Review: Amak Mahmoodian, Zanjir, RRB Photobooks / IC Visual Lab
No full textThis is a review of Mahmoodian’s latest publication, Zanji, that reframes her own personal archive alongside portraits from the Goleston Palace Library, 1860. In this book Mahmoodian uses both words and images, to draw links between her own personal history and Iranian heritage
"Let's massage the curriculum and have more swag": re-imagining third space in workshops and technical spaces
Get PDFThis presentation shed light onto early stage research into Re-imagining Third Space in Workshops and Technical Spaces at UCA based on an ethnographic study with international students and technicians. The data helped generate discussions around strategies to encourage the development of cross-cultural communication skills amongst both students and technicians. Hopefully, the presentation will enable exploration of how creative arts institutions' technicians can work together to internationalise the technical spaces to ensure good academic outcomes and positive feedback from international students
Seaside: photographed
Get PDFHAYLING ISLAND SERIES, made 1985, featured in the major exhibition 'Seaside: photographed' at Turner Contemporary, 2019.
The exhibition will examine the relationship between photographers, photography and the British seaside from the 1850s to the present. It is Turner Contemporary’s first ever photography exhibition.
As well as featuring the work of eminent photographers including Jane Bown, Henri Cartier Bresson, Vanley Burke, Anna Fox, Susan Hiller, Paul Nash, Martin Parr, and Ingrid Pollard, the curators have included rich and often unknown work from across photography’s history, including Raymond Lawson’s remarkable chronicle of family life in Whitstable.
Curated by Val Williams and Karen Shepherdson, Seaside: Photographed is a touring exhibition organised by Turner Contemporary. The exhibition will take place at Turner Contemporary in summer 2019, touring to three other UK venues in 2020, each with their own unique connection to the seaside; John Hansard Gallery, Grundy Art Gallery, and Newlyn Art Gallery and the Exchange
Assessing wellbeing in people living with dementia using reminiscence music with a mobile app (Memory Tracks): a mixed methods cohort study
Get PDFThe number of people living with dementia is growing, leading to increasing pressure upon care providers. The mechanisms to reduce symptoms of dementia can take many forms and have the aim of improving the wellbeing and quality of life of the person living with dementia and those who care for them. Besides the person who has dementia, the condition has a profound impact upon their loved ones and carers. One therapeutic approach is the use of music, an area recognised as having potential benefit, but requiring further research. The present paper reports upon a mixed methods cohort study that examines the use of a musical mobile app as a way to promote song-task association in people living with dementia. The study took place in care home environments in the UK. A total of fourteen participants (N = 14) were recruited. Quantitative measurements were taken on a daily basis prior to, and during, use of the mobile app over several weeks. Metrics came from the complete Self-Assessment Manikin scale (arousal, valence, and dominance), and a subset of three from the Quality of Life in Alzheimer’s Disease questionnaire (physical health, memory, and life as a whole). Subsequently, semistructured interviews were conducted with staff at the care home to assess the impact of the app upon their role and the residents they care for. No significant differences were found in the combined quantitative measures for the ten (n = 10) sets of responses sufficient to be analysed. However, the qualitative results suggest that use of the mobile app produced positive changes in terms of behaviour, ability, and routine in the life of residents living with dementia. These findings contribute to the growing body of evidence-based research in the field of musical therapies for reducing symptoms of dementia and highlight elements where further study is warranted
Hedley Roberts
No full textAn in-depth interview between Hedley Roberts and Stephen Featherstone where Roberts discusses his artistic process, his interest in how humans perceive each other, and his personal evolution from art student to professional artist
The transatlantic view: 22 years of ACJ
No full textFounded in 1996 the ACJ is the field's leading artist network in the UK, members include makers, curators, gallerists, educators, collectors and journalists. The Association for Contemporary Jewellery promotes the art form, supports and represents the makers, and works to develop and intrigue the audience. This presentation will show & tell the story of ACJ’s work, showcasing the best of work of our members, contrasting pieces through from 1996 to today, including how styles and thinking has changed.
Rebecca Skeels MA is Postgraduate Craft & Design Leader at the University for the Creative Arts & a Director of ACJ (Association for Contemporary Jewellery). Materials and processes are her obsession, bridging her roles as designer-maker & educator. She has exhibited in Europe, China and the USA. Her practical manual 'Soldering for Jewellers' was published in 2017. ACJ works to support the makers, promote the development and increase the understanding of contemporary jewellery in the UK and overseas.
SNAG celebrates its 50th birthday at the 2019 Conference in Chicago. The programming for this special gathering is rooted in the history of the organisation and of metalsmithing, jewellery and adornment over the past 50 years, but also strives to examine these through a wider lens. The conference is also interested in considering metals and jewellery in the larger context of art and craft, and creating a dialogue between what came before and what comes next.
Rapid fire presentations are a trio of 15-minute individual presentations back-to-back, designed to be quick, enlightening and inspiring around a central theme
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