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Feminist methodologies of refusal in "speaking with" Yvonne Rainer's 'Trio A'
Get PDFBeginning with Yvonne Rainers's score for 'Trio A' as a point of departure, this performative talk enacts Frasers "speaking with" methodology to examine and perform refusal as a method for feminist research and creative practices. Utilising the score, correspondence, and autofiction as forms of practice this presentation reflects on how artists come close with care to "speak with" practices, materials and subjectivities in order to enact refusal as method within art making and writing
Duality Brooches
Get PDFThe Duality brooches were made in response to the call for applications for the 'In Focus' exhibition detailed below.
Queer Metalsmiths partnered with SNAG (Society of North American Goldsmiths) for the 2024 In Focus exhibition, which was showcased digitally during the SNAG x San Diego conference and virtually both on the SNAG website and on the Queer Metalsmiths website.
This collaborative initiative aimed to spotlight BIPOC and/or 2SLGBTQIA+ artists from marginalized communities who represent the future of the metalsmithing and jewelry field, with submissions from artists working in all materials, aesthetics, levels of experience, and backgrounds
Shit Hair
No full textThis hand-made publication was given away at the Queer Materialities Live! symposium, 14 March 2024 (GSA). The work is the first output of a new interdisciplinary project which includes video, drawing, and photography. Shit Hair seeks out lost and forgotten hair and gathers the strands into clumps of matter, now repulsive. Images and textures are interwoven with snippets of Agatha Christie's Third Girl to coagulate in the viewer's hands
Anything Goes Part 2
Get PDFAn article on the few published recordings of Eleanor Kane Neary. A pianist in the mid-1930s in Chicago, Neary transformed Irish traditional music through the performance of one track. Her technique also provided a fresh model for the use of the piano in Irish music. The context in which the track was recorded is of great interest for the history of Irish-American music and provides a vital backdrop for her classic performance
Cycle 25: A Solar Fiction
No full text'Cycle 25: A Solar Fiction' is a 9 minute theoryfictional sound-essay. It tracks a number of historical, scientific but also speculative solar myths and strange solar events, as ways in which economics, planetary ecology and social transformation combine. The audio makes use of a written script narrated alongside music, musique concrete, sound effects, samples and field recordings.
It was produced and presented during residency at CAMP in Aulus-les-Bains, France in May 2024, supported by a grant from CAMP. This residency was undertaken to support my research into audio essays as a hybrid theory-fictional format using sound, spoken word and music and to subsequently explore how it can be reconciled with visual forms of essaying and fiction.
'In the midst of a podcast explosion with its glut of spoken word audio content' The residency involved 'a timely exploration of the liminal format of the audio essay, a form and method which, at its most interesting, can hold musical abstraction, argument, narrative and sonic world building in an unholy tension. Occupying a plane of legibility composed through the montage of a full spectrum of sound, audio essays exist in the delicate tension between attention and immersion.' (quoted from CAMP residency outline)
Advancing Prosociality in Extended Reality: Systematic Review of the Use of Embodied Virtual Agents to Trigger Prosocial Behaviour in Extended Reality
Get PDFAttention has increasingly been focused on the potential of Extended Reality (XR) and Embodied Virtual Agents (EVAs) to significantly influence human behaviour. While an expanding body of literature explores the individual impacts of XR and EVAs, there is a noticeable gap in the literature regarding their combined influence on eliciting prosocial behaviour in humans. The purpose of this systematic review is to explore this intersection, offering insights into their multifaceted effects on human prosocial behaviour and the implications for future research and development of EVAs in XR. Our systematic review adopted a scoping approach due to the limited number of studies directly focused on EVAs (i.e., autonomously computer-controlled entities). Despite this, we observed the use of various forms of virtual characters (VCs) to elicit prosocial behaviour. An in-depth analysis of 15 selected studies indicates complex patterns in how XR and VCs affect users’ prosocial behaviour and interactions. Our review suggests that there is promising potential for EVAs to promote prosocial behaviour. However, further research is necessary to identify the design and interaction-related attributes that enhance the effectiveness of these technologies, particularly for socially interactive EVAs in XR environments
The life of Kirkpatrick MacMillan
Get PDFA short review in 'Cycle' of The Life of Kirkpatrick Macmillan, David Hurdle
Love on the Dole
No full textCorrespondence from Queens Park Railway Club to the artists:
“We’re writing to ask if you would like take part in a group exhibition at Queen’s Park Railway Club, titled ‘Love on the Dole’. The opening evening will be on Valentine’s Day and the public will also be welcome to view the work the following weekend. The project is unfunded and for this reason we are unable to have the space open for a longer run. We think it’s important to try to keep things going during the current economic crisis. Please feel free to respond to the title of the show or to all things love and Valentine’s in any way you please.
Many thanks Patrick and Ellis”
‘Love on the Dole’ is the title of a 1933 novel by Walter Greenwood, which takes place around the time of the General Strike of 1926 focussing on the struggles of a community in the north of England.
Currently the arts and society as a whole, face uncertain times,
but love will prevail.
Artists,
Conor Baird, John Butler, Chris Byrne, Rob Churm, Jamie Cooper, Kate Davis, Raydale Dower, Solveig Einarsdottir, Alec Finlay, Jamie Fitzpatrick, Mark Fitzpatrick, Steven Grainger, Steve Hollingsworth, Stewart Home, David Hoyle, Patrick Jameson, Ellis Luxemburg, Lorna Macintyre, Billy McCall, Mandy McIntosh, Mark McGowan, Marija Nemcenko, John Nicol, Hardeep Pandhal, Mick Peter, Beagles and Ramsay, Thom Rees,
Mandy Roberts, Dave Sherry, Abigail Simmonds, Ross Sinclair, Ruth Switalski, Fran Thorburn, Anne Vance, Pandora Vaughan, Walker and Bromwich, Ric Warren, Catherine Weir, Fritz Welch, Fraser Whiting, Isabella Widger, Gregor Wright
Saturday and Sunday 17th & 18th February 2 to 6pm and again on the 24th & 25th February, 2 to 6pm
There’ll be a book launch on Thursday 29th February, 7 to 9pm with Stewart Home.
Entrance Fee: Bring Chocolates or flowers or any form of romantic gift. All gifts will be redistributed among guests
What is Creative Criticism? A Colloquium
No full textPlenary Address: Mary Cappello
The best thing “creative nonfiction” did as a category was to incite a definitional crisis around the genre of nonfiction; the worst thing it did was to extract that quality that is essential to our being alive—“creative”— and use it as an empty signifier. “Creative” as a descriptor almost always promulgates a falsehood: that some people are creative and others not; that some acts are creative and others not.
- Mary Cappello, ‘Propositions; Provocations: Inventions’
An abundance of recent work in literary studies deliberately complicates, interrogates, or thwarts the distinctions according to which writing is typically organised: such work sits at, blurs and redraws the fuzzy boundaries between the critical and the creative, the personal and the impersonal, the fictional and the non-fictional.
One of the few things that writers engaged in this kind of practice tend to have in common is a deep discomfort with the labels that get attached to their work; such labels often seek to re-categorise the deliberately uncategorisable. And yet, for a whole host of practical reasons – not least the ways in which their work is mediated by academic departments, bookshops, and other institutions – writers cannot afford to be uninterested in the work that such descriptors perform.
This colloquium will ask: are the categories in question only and inevitably experienced by writers as an imposition? If work of this kind aims in part to treat the practical circumstances of writing as conditions for its perennial reinvention, then might these organisational categories also provide opportunities for writerly practice
Plants on Paper: curatorial practice and the decolonization of collections of scientific prints and drawings
No full textABOUT THE PROJECT:
The project is funded by Getty as part of the Paper Project initiative and has the following goals (from RBGE website)
Raise awareness of RBGE’s extraordinary art collection - Identify and share relevant key works as case studies to explore the collections.
Knowledge transfer - Consider ways in which historic natural history collections of works on paper encompass, represent, and safeguard knowledge. Explore the curatorial challenges (cataloguing, digitisation, display, etc) relating to natural history art collections. Generate greater understanding of the collections and their role as a resource addressing current cultural and environmental concerns.
New Perspectives - Situate the project within the broader decolonizing practice of museum collections.
Stimulate new approaches - Recognise the game changing potential of digital platforms for both knowledge and care of collections and the opportunity to amend silences and absences from the records.
Cultural exchange – The project demonstrates RBGEs commitment to fostering cultural exchange through the creating of a long-term network for exchanging best practice, fostering collaboration and mutual support.
Increased Visibility – The project will attract media coverage and attention, raising awareness of both the host organisation and those involved in the project, positioning them as significant contributors to the international dialogue around works on paper and natural history collections