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INTER/her project: an intimate immersive journey inside the female body
Get PDFThe INTER/her project is an immersive installation and virtual experience. It was created to open up the conversation about phenomena experienced by women in their late 30’s (sometimes earlier) their 40’s, and sometimes after menopause. Working in consultation with a gynaecologist, the project features interviews with a number of women telling their stories.
INTER/her has a focus on female reproductive diseases explored through a feminist lens; as personal exploration, as a conversation starter, to raise greater public awareness and encourage community building
‘Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others)’ at MOUTHINGS, Part of 'Something Held in the Mouth'
Get PDF‘Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others)’ was presented as a lecture and sharing of bread at the MOUTHINGS symposium, part of 'Something Held in the Mouth', a four day festival to present a diverse programme of art, exhibitions, events, workshops and talks about the poetics of food, the politics of its migrations and the ways in which our bodies hold these stories at Custom Folkestone.
'Becoming with Wheat (and Other More-Than-Human Others)’ explores our companioning with wheat as well as the other human and more-than-human entities that are entangled within this relationship. Through cultivation, observation, conversation, filming, photography, anthotype making, etching/nature printing, wheat weaving, performance, writing, cooking and eating, I am researching and practicing a more sensitive way of being in the world, through the interconnectivity of landscape, food and the body
Last Night at the Bingo
Get PDFProject by Leigh Clarke: collaborative project/live event/site-specific installation/ with publication (designed by Tim Hutchinson) made in partnership with University of the Arts London, Liddicoat & Goldhill Project Space and Turner Contemporary for Margate NOW Festival 2019. Curated by Lucy Howarth
Mum and I
Get PDFThe research project is a collaboration with Löwenstein's mother Karin Löwenstein. It is situated in the strand of her research that focuses on the meaning of place in relation to identity and belonging. Through an earlier project 'Heimat', this strand has channelled into a closer interest in the psychology of family relationships, and this is the first project directly engaging with this context.
The format for the project is simple yet powerful. Mother and daughter each make an image each day, and the image pairs are initially uploaded to a blog each day. At a later stage, sections of the images are curated by third persons into a website, book, exhibition, installation etc. Currently, Pulitzer prize winner and editor Judy Walgren has edited/curated a section, and further collaborations are in progress.
The development of the production of the images for the project itself is experiential, in that mother and daughter have an ongoing, daily dialogue by email and Skype around the images, their content, and each other's lives. The simple exchange and publication of image pairs from mother and daughter have opened up communication that doesn't require any explanation or reconciliation of the past.
Karin Löwenstein who is in her eighties and lives with her husband in Cologne, Germany, has suffered from anxiety and depression since a life-changing event in 2011. Access to mental health provision is difficult for the elderly, in Germany as well as the UK. The project has enabled recuperation and has given Karin's life a new lease and purpose.
The scope for developing a project using 'Mum and I' like a template for use with the older population in the UK and Germany is currently under consideration.
The blog where the image pairs have been published thus far is at https://mumandiweb.wordpress.com
Last Stand
Get PDFLast Stand is a research output by Professor Catherine Yass comprising a 4 minute 10 second film which was shot on 16mm and transferred to digital media.
In the film Last Stand, Turner nominee Yass is seen standing on a concrete tower core on a development site in South London, as the camera, suspended from a crane, circles around her. Her film acts as a protest against the ongoing urban development at Nine Elms
Discourses, ephemeral sources and architectural history: personality and the personal in the story of J.M. Richards
Get PDFThis chapter, which was written with input from the book’s editors, is based on a paper Kelly delivered at a the Society of Architectural Historians Conference in 2016 on the subject of oral history in architectural history. It is an exploration of the methodological and historiographical significance of Kelly's use of oral history sources in her doctoral research on the career of J.M. Richards. As such it contributes to the edited volume, which is the first to comprehensively examine the theoretical and ontological significance of oral history as a research method and a critical tool in architectural historiography.
The chapter explores the diversity of the oral history sources in Kelly's research, which ranged from informal chats with Richards' family and former colleagues, to notes made from recorded interviews and a card index made during an oral history project in the 1970s. Kelly discusses her methodology, which was based on the concept of discourses, and explains how it related to this diversity of sources. The chapter is sub-titled ‘personality and the personal’ because Kelly reflects on how the sources revealed the intangible and personal dimensions of Richards’ work as an editor, which added breadth and depth to the historical understanding of the types of work that contributed to mid-twentieth century architectural culture. Kelly also unpacks how these oral sources correlated Richards’ position in architecture with his individual personality. She explains how rather than seeking to reconstruct a ‘real’ personality, her methodology used people’s perceptions of Richards’ personality as a tool to re-assess the criteria for what types of people and what types of activity warranted historical attention.
The chapter reveals how Kelly's PhD produced a narrative beyond individual creatively in architecture, which considers the networks and collaborations that made up the complex web of architectural culture. This is aligned with the book’s aim to challenge to the singularity of the architect as the one who speaks for and about buildings.
The book was shortlisted for the Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain Colvin Award
Why I find it unethical to write about myself as an artist
Get PDFThis essay examines the importance of indeterminate and emergent conditions of thought in relation to static identification and determinate meaning. It proposes that economic and technological processes combine to form an accelerating reductionism that de-complexifies formative and creative conditions. I argue that a forcing of standardized articulation is evolving from a fundamental tendency of ‘identity thinking’. Following Bergson and Deleuze, identity as ‘recognition’ is considered as a habit that grows from a need for self-preservation and stable self-image, and expands into social and technological structures that reflect it back in a destructive feedback loop. This accelerative reductivism, with its logics of growth and optimisation, increasingly drown-out and overwrite the fragilities of emergence and, ultimately, draw the Earth towards an Anthopocene finality of planetary death. Counter to this, I propose a practice of ‘creative ethics’ which gives primacy to the radical potential of the open over the procedures of identifiable communication. Creativity can involve capacities for receptivity and dynamic openness that might actually be nurtured. Alternative, slow and expanded spatio-temporal conditions may be developed that are conducive to the emergent, and the not quite formed, and whereby sensing and thinking might find the opportunity to arrive at something else
Clive Bowen: a world of pots
Get PDFCatalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition by Clive Bowen, 9 March to 14 April 2019, at Goldmark Gallery, Uppingham, UK
Stewardship: the leadership role of the facilitator towards curating joint ownership/authorship in community music
No full textThrough the examination of practice, this paper examines how authorship of music is related to concepts such as trust, belonging, and self and/or group expression. It describes a number of topics that surround group music making and the facilitation of groups under the lens of leadership. The paper argues that stewardship is a significant aspect of curated music making that has received little attention although it is an important part of community music making. It draws upon experience from working in disparate settings; a high-security prison, a school for children with additional support needs including autism and cross-community work in Belfast
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