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“The Silent Village: Humphrey Jennings, Peter Finnemore, Rachel Trezise, Paolo Ventura”
No full textResearch ContextThe curation of this exhibition and associated texts were based on research addressing the contemporary relevance and historical specificity of Humphrey Jennings’ original film ‘The Silent Village’ (1943) made for the Ministry of Information. Research ImperativesFor this new interpretation, the curatorial research context concerned methods of reconstructing histories through a contemporary critical response to the original film, its themes and methods. The main focus was how atrocity has been/might be represented, and what roles visual art and literature might play in this through medium of exhibition
Miller’s answer: making, saying and the impulse to write
No full textStarting with attempts by several authors, in particular Arthur Miller, to explain the nature of the impulse to write, this paper examines the tensions and relationships between conceptions of the act of writing as ‘making’ and as ‘saying’. Writing conceived as craft is explored using recent ideas from sociology and neuroscientific research into how we learn to read and write. Writing as ‘saying’ is examined in terms of its capacity to ‘bear witness’ to the world and the nature of consciousness and some of the ethical implications of this. The capacity of fiction and poetry to represent consciousness is examined in terms of the interdisciplinary debate on the relationship between language and cognition
‘Curtain’ At 3rd edition of Videoholica, Varna, Bulgaria
No full textResearch Context‘Curtain’ is part of a long-term photographic research project that looks in detail at construction sites from locations situated on the upper floors of major high-rise developments. Most of these spaces exist on the cusp of design and function and are as yet brand new. Bobby, after the philosopher Marc Augé has deemed these spaces ‘non-places’ where a person is “relieved of his usual determinants” and because they are transitional spaces, is suspended from every-day life temporarily for the time it takes to transport us from one place to another.Research ImperativesThis research through practice attempts to explore the philosophical and strategic aspects of representation in a manner precise enough to allow interpretive formulations that not only serve to enhance the work, but also question our understanding of our environment, our place therein, and our passage through it.Project methodsThis body of work develops ideas of stasis and movement and explores the borders of contemporary photographic practice. Bobby uses a combination of both interior and exterior still images and video. Straight editorial like images, video pieces taken from a fixed camera position (including sound), and more abstract responses to the subject matter are placed within the same exhibition, allowing the three approaches to create an intriguing dialogue and critique of these exclusive locations
Friendly Enemies: Britain and the GDR, 1949-89
No full textThe book represents a major archival project in Britain and Germany. The book covers a wide range of aspects of bilateral relations and motivations for these and locates them within wider British-West German and Cold War relations
Slave Wales: the Welsh and Atlantic slavery 1660-1850
No full textAtlantic slavery does not loom large in the traditional telling of Welsh history. Yet Wales, like many regions of Europe, was deeply affected by the forced migration of captive Africans. Welsh commodities, like copper and brass made in Swansea, were used to purchase slaves on the African coast and some Welsh products, such as woollens from Montgomeryshire, were an important feature of plantation life in the West Indies. In turn, the profits of plantation agriculture flowed back into Wales, to be invested in new industries or to be lavished on country mansions. This book looks at Slave Wales between 1650 and 1850, bringing the most up-to-date scholarship on Atlantic slavery to bear on the Welsh experience. New research by Chris Evans casts light on previously unknown episodes, such as Welsh involvement with slave-based copper mining in nineteenth-century Cuba, and illuminates in new and disturbing ways familiar features of Welsh history - like the woollen industry - that have previously unsuspected 'slave dimensions'. Many Welsh people turned against slavery in the late eighteenth century, but Welsh abolitionism was never a particularly powerful force. Indeed, Chris Evans demonstrates that Welsh participation the slave Atlantic lasted well beyond the abolition of Britain's slave trade in 1807 and the ending of slavery in Britain's Caribbean empire in 1834
Towards an aesthetics of theatre technology
No full textThis thesis establishes groundwork for producing an aesthetic language for
theatre technology by creating and testing a model for looking at theatre technologies
in a critical manner. This model has several functions: Firstly it identifies theatre
technology as something which can have a specific or a psycho-plastic scenographic
effect. Through processes of re-invigoration and diversification the model allows a
device to be regarded in its own context while historiologically allowing for
precedent technologies to be acknowledged and compared. Lastly, because the
model is ouroboric, self-consuming, it accounts for theatre technologies to be able to
interpolate (and be interpolated by) other technologies whilst maintaining its own
aesthetic integrity. This allows a critic to treat technology as a text rather than as a
medium, and therefore enables it to be closely "read" as a text of the stage affording
the technology a content of its own.
Through problematising this model against theories of media and remediation,
the thesis observes that the common critical position in theatre and
performance studies is to treat theatre technology merely as a theatrical technē -- a
tool or craft of the art. The arguments presented in the thesis reposition theatre
technology from the position of craft to a position of art -- as alētheia, an artistic
truth revealed through poiētic means.
In the repositioning of attitudes towards technology, and by identifying
theatre technologies as separate alētheuein, this thesis is then able to investigate
theatre technologies aesthetically. Examining the contexts of technologies through
the ouroboric model, and then critically studying their content, usage and meaning
textually, this thesis is able to take a theatrical technological effect and begin to
identify its affect. It posits that technology as an art in its own right can be
aesthetically criticised and awarded meaning of equal weight to other elements of
performance and theatre art
Managing health services support to military operations
No full textThis is a submission for a PhD by portfolio on the subject of managing health services
support to military operations. It is based upon my prior published work supported by an
‘action research’ analysis of the application of this prior knowledge to my experiences
from spending a year in the South of Afghanistan from October 2009 to November
2010. The submission is structured around three thematic areas; medical planning to
support military operations, management of military medical operations and
international military medical engagement with indigenous health sectors. The
submission presents evidence for my contribution to original thinking in each of these
thematic areas by means of a review of my published work, my application of these
concepts in support of NATO operations in Afghanistan and evidence of the impact of
these concepts in influencing other military organisations.
The first theme area on medical planning to support military operations will be
supported by 3 monographs. These will describe the context of medical support to
military operations in the current security environment, the use of the ‘estimate’ process
to develop a medical plan and the analytical process termed ‘the casualty estimate’.
The second theme covers the management of military medical operations. This is the
largest section and contains monographs on pre-hospital helicopter medical evacuation,
aeromedical evacuation movement between hospitals, managing casualty flows,
deployed hospital care, and quality assurance of the medical system. The final theme
covers international military medical engagement with medical support systems for
indigenous security forces and indigenous civilian health systems.
The closing section of this submission reflects on my two tours in Afghanistan
comparing my recent experiences with my views at the end of my first tour in 2006/07.
My whole thesis provides evidence of my considerable personal learning from my
experiences managing medical support to military operations. This section will highlight
how I have tried to share this experience both personally and across multiple
stakeholder organisations to ensure my observations can be converted into lessons
learned