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Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) and Hypermobile Spectrum Disorders (HSD) in Scotland: A Scrapbook of Lived Experiences
No full textThis scrapbook was created by participants of the ‘Translating Research Into Change’ event at the Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, and offers the reader a look into the real lived experiences of people who live with a diagnosis of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome and Hypermobile Spectrum Disorders in Scotland
Catalogue: It Will Seem a Dream
No full textCatalogue: It will seem a dream is the title of an exhibition project at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC) Leon, Spain, 18 February – 4 June 2017. The exhibition consisted of an installation (FIG. 1) and a book (FIGs. 2–3). The installation comprised 10 video works, 1 slide work, 1 sculpture, 10 prints and 1 typed piece. The book was published by MUSAC and Occasional Papers in 2017.The project addressed questions about ways in which artists might reinterpret and curate their own work. Situated within the context of contemporary practices that are not object based, the research questions the extent to which works made through such practices might be able to generate and be understood through several forms, thus challenging expectations, based in object based practice and to some extent museology and conservation, around the singularity and stability of the artwork. The research was also an investigation into impact and practical implications of the digital within conceptual art. The exhibition was widely reviewed and the book was launched at an event at Matt’s Gallery 6 June 2017 and during the Artists’ Book Fair at Wiels, Brussels, 9 September 2017, in both cases with readings by Cruz
Double Exposure
Get PDFThe output is a garment, designed and made by Claire Ferguson. The research used fashion design to explore how fashion silhouettes signify accepted notions of female beauty within the Renaissance and contemporary eras. It was initiated in response to current issues relating to body image in fashion and contemporary culture. Ferguson’s aim was to raise awareness of these issues and explore historic trends and fashions and ideal body types. The garment is composed of two dresses layered over one another. The under dress is made from fine lace in a minimal, modern form. The outer is a knitted dress combining innovative knit structures and contemporary yarn, to create an accentuated Renaissance silhouette. In contrasting the theatrical dress of the Renaissance period with the simplicity of contemporary design, the garment invites us to reflect on the changing meaning of beauty. Double Exposure was created for ‘Beauty By Design’, an exhibition of contemporary fashion design and Renaissance painting at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery, 14 November 2014 – 3 May 2015. A collaboration with the fashion designer Malcolm Burkinshaw and the art historian Jill Burke, ‘Beauty By Design’ explored relations between contemporary fashion design and historic portraiture to interrogate changing ideals of body shapes and beauty from the Renaissance to the present day. Visitor numbers for the exhibition were in excess of 146,000. A range of associated events were attended by audiences of 1,166 in total
Untitled
Get PDFThe output is a life-size figurative sculpture, produced as a publicly-funded commission for Edinburgh Art Festival, 2016, an annual city-wide festival of international contemporary art. It was made by carving into a section of a 19th century marble statue to alter its shape by replacing the torso with movable, interlinking forms. This intervention rendered the statue unstable, leaving it intact and upright but shifted into a new posture. The work is one of a series of deconstructions of neoclassical sculpture that Owen has made over the past five years. For the duration of the festival, the work was exhibited inside the Burns Monument, a neoclassical temple on Edinburgh’s Calton Hill. It received an audience of 13,058 people. The sculpture was subsequently exhibited at Frieze London, 2016, where it was acquired for the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne. It was exhibited in the NGV Triennial 2017–2018, with an audience of 1,231,742 people
The Dunbar Battery
Get PDFThis practice-led research output is a new public gathering and performance space within the Category B Listed Lamer Island Battery in Dunbar. The civil defensive bastion was built in 1781. The new battery design exploits the site’s palimpsest, using the layers of history to inform and guide the design and distribution of various contemporary interventions. The project demonstrated how a crossdisciplinary approach to design in the public realm under the leadership of regeneration landscape architects can impact positively on communities locally and further afield. As a work of conservation, adaption and renewal, the project provides a model for the radical reinvention of coastal ruins and the greater understanding and dissemination of Scottish coastal history. A process of archaeological investigation preceded and informed the design work at each stage. A responsive and sympathetic approach was taken to the discovery of further elements of historic interest as they were uncovered during the course of construction. The most significant new structure, the amphitheatre, is integrated into the void formed by the walls of the former hospital building so as to leave the trace of the hospital untouched. Community engagement was continuous over the course of the project with a dedicated website set up to gather views and inform local residents of progress. Since its completion in spring 2017 the battery has hosted numerous musical concerts, private functions, performances, and a Christmas carol service. The space continues to be maintained by local people including those who care for the coastal garden. In addition to its increasing use by local people the new battery plays an important role in attracting visitors to the town from further afield. The project has been published in a number of journals and websites internationally and has received a number of national design awards
Sculpting the Spirits
Get PDFMendelle and Luis Correia (co-director & co-producer) were the first filmmakers to visit the Bijagós archipelago and, after spending time with the village chiefs, were invited by them to film their daily life, beliefs, and rituals. Mendelle and her team lived with them for extended periods, twice yearly for 5 years. The elders, alert to radical changes coming their way and conscious that their culture is only orally transmitted, saw a unique opportunity to document their way of life and preserve it for future generations. Their collaboration was essential, both in terms of access and understanding the meaning of their rituals, but more importantly how they perceived change. The film gives voices to the Bijagós in their language without any commentary.However, unknown to the film makers and the islanders at the time, the film ended up capturing their downfall and their absorption into a modern capitalist and global society. The film explores how, in the context of a tribe, the dialogue between generations involves other layers of power beyond the living and how their philosophy of life will be affected by their cultural transformation. Through observation of two main protagonists in a father/son relationship, the audience begins to understand the cultural gap growing between two generations. This is universal to most cultures, but for the Bijagós any change threatens the equilibrium between human beings, nature and the spirits who contribute to tribal decisions about daily and social life. The film premiered 15 September 2014 at the Gulbenkian Museum of Modern Art, Lisbon, Portugal
Close Encounters: Berlin. Experiments with Data, Nature, and Collective Life in the Urban Milieu
Get PDFDegree Show Catalogue documenting an ESALA MArch (Modular Pathway) studio ‘Close Encounters: Berlin. Experiments with Data, Nature and Collective Life in the Urban Milieu’. Studio Leaders: Andrea Faed and Miguel Paredes Maldonado, with Andrew Brooks and Jack Green. 2023-2024. 
Radical Harvest: Earth/Care/Reuse
Get PDFDegree Show Catalogue documenting an ESALA MArch (Modular Pathway) studio ‘Radical Harvest: Earth/Care/Reuse’. Studio Leaders: Simone Ferracina and Asad Khan. 2023-2024
Perspectives on HIV and sexual health in Spain
Get PDFThis report explores the perspectives of the situation of HIV and sexual health in Spain from numerous stakeholders, including healthcare professionals, policymakers, civil servants, activists and artists. It employs a multidisciplinary analysis to distill key problems and issues: including significant rises in STIs, a process of sexual transformation, a crisis of identity and loneliness, and a lack of coordination among services. The report includes key recommendations. This report also includes a prologue by the Spanish Secretary of State for Health, Javier Padilla
Seven Songs for a Long Life
Get PDFSeven Songs for a Long Life is a documentary film that resulted from an interdisciplinary creative collaboration between the documentary film-maker Amy Hardie, medical and health care professionals and patients at the end of life. When the research project began in 2011, the UK health system was based on a medical model emphasising a disease-led approach to care. Challenging this model, and working with patients, families and staff, Hardie explored documentary interventions in palliative care in Strathcarron hospice in Scotland. Hardie worked with 15 families to make films in an iterative process that included reflective listening and screenings. These films were, variously: legacies, made for those facing bereavement; portraits taking stock of patient life stories; play spaces, expressing parts of themselves that get submerged in the problem-solving ethos of dealing with illness; and unspoken observations where families used the camera to communicate emotions hard to express in words. Between 2013 and 2018, demand by UK palliative care policy makers grew for these short films which screened, for instance, to an audience of 2,500 at ‘Building Bridges’ conference in London, at ‘Changing Capacities’ in Liverpool, and ‘World Congress of European association of Palliative Care’ in Prague. The participation of patients and staff continued as Hardie directed the final feature documentary, (supported by UK and international funding of £302k), and designed post-screening workshops. These deepened audience engagement with the themes of the film, i.e. values at end of life, capacity of carers, and fear of mortality, developing into seminars for health professionals and NHS policy makers. The cinema feature premiered in October 2015 in Scotland, and was then bought by 8 countries and distributed by Argot Pictures and Cargo in the USA