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“They Would Plant the Rose Garden Themselves”: Femme, Complicity, Solidarity, and the Rewiring of the Sensuous
Get PDFThis article theorizes how femme sociality and world-making provide a counterpoint to a politics that aims for neutrality or innocence, arguing that neutrality or innocence are hallmarks of different forms of patriarchy. Instead, the authors offer embracing complicity as a concept that structures practical ethics, and centered in abolitionism and nondisposability. Complicity is formulated as a mode of self-understanding that guides action, evading the social hierarchies demanded by a claim to innocence, uprooting (neo)liberal attitudes that look to evade friction by doling out punishment and exclusion. The proposal to embrace complicity is followed by a proposal for solidarity based on openness. Rather than being “right” or “solving problems,” a turn to the sensuous provides a form of world-making that can hold difference—without reducing life to the single organizational forms characteristic of liberalism. As a key part of this form of solidarity, the authors show how trans femmeness emphasizes possibilities for social and sensorial transformation. Practices of care and solidarity allows one to entangle with different forms of life. Instead of reforming the structures of oppression, femme practices encourage us to unlearn and uproot institutional forms that reproduce social and material oppressions, and to take agency in (re)constructing and nourishing one’s own worlds—to collectively plant the rose garden of struggle for liberation
Wild Research
No full textA free two day conference which sought to open up a conversation on how academics and artists might reject the straightjackets increasingly imposed on their way of working through a discussion of what we have termed ‘Wild Research’. I was an organiser and convened one of the four sessions (including 10 speakers) and gave a paper. The conference was jointly organised between the University of Glasgow, The Glasgow School of Art, the University Rovira i Virgili, Valencia, Spain, and the Journal of Media Practice and Education (Taylor and Francis) at the Revelator (Wall of Death Venue) in Glasgow 13th and 14th September 2024
Beyond Formal and Informal: Mid-twentieth-century Residential Architecture in Barcelona's El Carmel Neighbourhood
Get PDFThis article discusses houses on the periphery of Barcelona and in particular in the El Carmel neighbourhood, which were built by poor country-to-city migrants from southern Spain in the post-Second-World-War period. They were constructed following two typologies: barracas (sheds), one-storey huts on an irregular street plan, and coreas (‘Korea houses’), more formally-looking one-to-three storey structures lined up on orderly laid-out streets.
Based on archival documents, contemporaneous publications and interviews with former autoconstructores (self-builders), the article analyses both social conditions and physical structures. While these buildings were often unauthorised and constructed by informal means, they were just as often built with the landowner's consent, involving architects and building professionals, and retroactively legalised. The article concludes that in this respect Barcelona's ‘informal neighbourhoods’ in fact straddled the realms of the formal and the informal, to the extent that the habitual distinction between formal and informal architecture has to be considered inadequate
Chaos, Clocks, and Watermelons Part 2
Get PDFThis is the second and concluding part of an essay exploring the influence of archeology, anthropology and folklore studies on contemporary folk music
Wormwood, lizards and the railroad man Pt. 2
Get PDFPart 2 of an analysis of John Francis Flynn's album 'Look Over the Wall, See the Sky' (2023)
'Ingress' (working title) [experimental film/ provocation]
No full textAn experimental film/ provocation, made as one of the creative responses to discussions and explorations held in relation to the Sustainable Households Seed Fund's 'More-than-Human' strand, funded by the Scottish Research Alliance for Energy, Homes and Livelihoods. The work was presented at a writing retreat held to explore ways in which the project, or the above themes might be further developed
Speaking With the School Run
Get PDFThis text uses auto-theoretical, diaristic and narrative writing methods to think through how correspondence operates in my writing, performative painting and moving image practice through a method I refer to as ‘speaking with’.
I understand ‘speaking with’ to be a feminist method of practice, of coming close to works, ideas, other artists and writers and their texts, and to converse with them through practice. Practices and research that utilizes ‘speaking with’ methods acknowledge and articulate proximity and subjectivity between conversational interlocutors in drawing on, and thinking with, the works of others. By engaging with creative materials, texts, archival gaps and bodies, subjectivities are held in dialogue, from which work arises. As a method of conversation in fine art practice, research and writing, and in thinking through the potential of the term ‘correspondence’, I am opening this term out to account for different forms of engaging with an interlocutor in practice. This includes forms of art writing, autofiction and auto theory, as well as non-textual, material driven creative and research practice, articulating these conversational encounters as fine art practice including moving image, performance, painting, sculpture, installation and more. In this text I enact ‘speaking with’ in correspondence with Amy Sillman’s concept of ‘awkwardness’(Sillman 2020: 79), the work of Lynda Benglis, haptic memory of touch, and feminist thinking around the horizontal (Irigaray 2002) thinking through an expanded painting, sculptural, moving image and performance practice, and the role of the floor as an important dialogic space in my work
Class Matters: Exhibition
No full textCo-curated exhibition by Deborah Jackson and Elizabeth Hodson.
Class Matters is an exhibition that invites participants to respond to Class Matters as a theme, as a method, or as a set of practices or principles that underpin art practices. It is the second Class Matters event (following http://radar.gsa.ac.uk/9602/)
Veterinary Infection and Prevention through Visualisation (VIPVis): can infection in veterinary practice be reduced by using an educational simulation tool
Get PDFAntimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a growing issue within veterinary practice. Despite initiatives to address the issue, there remains a need for innovative intervention-based strategies to tackle AMR, with a focus on Infection Prevention and Control (IPC). Appropriate IPC is influenced by our perception of what infection risk is, and how we interact with our surrounding environment. The focus of this study is the application of a simulation tool, Veterinary Infection and Prevention through Visualisation (VIPVis). VIPVis demonstrates the real-life interactions between humans, animals, pathogens, and the veterinary environment making ‘the invisible, visible’, i.e. bacterial contamination, to those using the tool. The aims of the project are to: 1) Evaluate whether use of VIPVis has a positive impact on the behaviours and attitude of veterinary staff towards IPC; and 2) Determine whether this contributes to a lower bacterial burden within veterinary practice, resulting in fewer infections and reduced use of antibiotics. This will be investigated through an intervention utilising the VIPVis App, together with questionnaires for veterinary staff to complete and the collection of environmental swabs from the veterinary practice environment. We hypothesise that VIPVis will increase the implementation of effective IPC measures and reduce the level of microbial contamination throughout the veterinary practice. We predict that this will result in lower levels of infection, decreasing antibiotics used, thus contributing to reducing the emergence of resistance. If successful, the VIPVis tool could provide universal training for veterinary staff and students in veterinary and healthcare settings, thus contributing to improving antimicrobial stewardship
The Yellow Paper: Journal for Art Writing
No full textThe Yellow Paper Edition 5 includes work by Art Writing graduates of 2024 and other notable contributors.
New writing from Laura Haynes, Hilary White, Lisette May Monroe, María Garay Arriba, Kiah Endelman Music, Maria Howard, Francis McKee, Hayley Jane Dawson, RS Dennis, Rosie O’Grady, A-J Reynolds, Carlotta Riechmann, Leah Sinforiani, Olivia Wiles, Kate Wu and Percy Miranda