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The expanded librarian: Text+image relations in post-photographic contexts and literary environments
No full textResearch network: The Expanded Librarian: Text+Image relations in post-photographic contexts and literary environments in collaboration with CRASSH (Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities), University of Cambridge. The Expanded Librarian follows the ‘Writing Photographs’ research project that Beverley Carruthers and Wiebke Leister have been co-leading since 2015, which focused on how contemporary lens-based media integrates text and writing in cross-disciplinary installation and performance contexts. The Expanded Librarian project aims to understand wider intermedial and intertextual approaches in theory and practice to investigate contemporary modes of collaborative image-text-production. Call for participation: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/sites/the-expanded-librarian/ Working groups: Group 1: Text+Image Migrations - translation, transcription, transformation (Paula Muhr, Sarah Blair, Laura Bivolaru, Sharon Young, Tom Rodgers). Group 2: Text+Image Remediations - intermediality, reproduction, intertextuality (Jane Partner, Simon Tyrrell, Sylee Gore, Sarah Messerschmidt). Group 3: Text+Image Interpretations - (creative) mis-recognitions & mis-identifications (Emma Bolland, Nicolas Lambouris, Jane Glennie, Wiebke Leister). Group 4: Text+Image Automations - constructed & generated content (Laura Rosser, Robert Good, Beverley Carruthers). Network meetings: Fri 9 Jun 2023: network meeting 1, CRASSH - speakers: Chris McCabe & Piotr Mirowski. Fri 15 Sep 2023: network meeting 2, CRASSH - speakers: Emma Cocker & Peter Liversidge. Fri 01 Nov 2023: online. Fri 26 Jan 2024: online. Symposium: 08/09 March 2024 Workshop: Grace Gelder, Trinity Hall, University of Cambridge Symposium of 4 group presentations and talk by Angus Carlyle with invited critical friends, CRASSH. Keynote: Delphine Grass Exhibition: 15 Feb - 15 Mar 2024, CRASSH, Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP. Description: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41769/ Artist statements: https://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/41769/#artist-statements Conference group presentation: 09-11 April 2024: SAR - Society for Artistic Research, Tilburg, NL. Group presentation at Language-based Artistic Research session Title: 'The Expanded Librarian: An homage to Canetti - a series of characterisations'. Recording on Research Catalogue: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/835089/1656336 Reading Group: Historical and contemporary methodological approaches to theorising Text+Image relations. Fri 28 June 2024, 10-11.30am Fri 12 July 2024, 10-11.30am Fri 26 July 2024, 10-11.30am (ongoing)
The alphabet tax
No full textA dytopian realist novel. The rise and fall of a system of silence in a montage of documents: following trails of paper, conference presentations, building specifications, first-person testimonies, from concept to strategy to delivery and final tragedy
Kathrin Böhm: Art on the scale of life
Get PDFThis volume critically profiles, contextualizes, and theoretically elaborates the unique practice of the UK-based German artist Kathrin Böhm. Combining visual and textual material, it offers an overview of Böhm's exceptional modus operandi that is rooted in a highly original artistic synthesis of a range of practices. Over the last three decades, Böhm has expanded the terms of socially engaged ways of working to an unprecedented scale and breadth by producing complex organizational, spatial, visual, and economic forms. These often entail the production of complex infrastructures, manifested via projects such as Culture is a Verb (2018–21), The Centre for Plausible Economies (2018–ongoing), Company: Movements, Deals and Drinks (2014–ongoing) and the Eco-Nomadic School (2010–ongoing). The book follows a major mid-career exhibition at The Showroom, London, in 2021. Offering a significant addition to debates on contemporary art and architecture, social action, and public culture, Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life brings together critical reflections by internationally acclaimed contributors. Spanning a wide range of critical positions and disciplines, these include Dave Beech, Céline Condorelli, Elvira Dyangani Ose, Wapke Feenstra, Katherine Gibson, Joon-Lynn Goh, Lily Hall, Yolande Zola Zoli van der Heide, Grace Ndiritu, Gerrie van Noord, Paul O’Neill, Doina Petrescu, Gregory Sholette and THEMM!!, Kuba Szreder, Gavin Wade, Mick Wilson, Stephen Wright, and Franciska Zólyom. In addition, material derived from Böhm's international networks and projects provides an in-depth impression of the deeply ingrained collaborative and durational nature of her way of working. Photographic, diagrammatic, and typographical imagery runs through the book, demonstrating the rich visual and spatial languages embedded in Böhm's work. This visual register of the book is therefore much more than a series of illustrations and acts as a counterpoint to, and extension of, the ideas elaborated in the texts
The architecture of weather #1: Have you seen the weather?
No full textTo design in, with and for our destabilised global climate, weather must be understood as multi-dimensional. Through the lens of recent dramatic weather events, Christina Leigh Geros draws-out relationships between atmospheric architecture and various sociopolitical dynamics of our time
The architecture of weather #3: Water weight
No full textWhat can we learn if we read weight in the sky? As we continue exploring the complexities of atmospheric architecture, Christina Leigh Geros looks up and delves into what clouds might have to say about our increasingly destabilised climate
Playing with (my)self: Reconfiguring 21st century performance art as an emerging encounter amongst the becoming-stage, the becoming-actor, and the becoming-audience
Get PDF“Playing with (my)Self: Reconfiguring 21st Century Performance Art as an Emerging Encounter amongst the Becoming-Stage, the Becoming-Actor, and the Becoming-Audience” This practice-based PhD revolves around the stage, the actor, and the audiences as three primary locations where performance emerges via an encounter between those entities: the interplay between the stage, the performer, and the audience feeds back on itself to create the conditions with which it is possible for these encounters to generate emerging performance. This PhD relocates the stage onto the surface and intensity of the performer; creates multiplicity within a single performer/space; and produces a new sense of aesthetics through techniques of improvisation, use of costume, props and constructed spaces, led by notions of becoming and immanence, as both object and action of performance itself. In the context of performance studies, theatre technique and theory are explored to contribute to new performance in its expanded field, including theatre, moving image, and live performance, and works through notions of archetype, humour, and staging to create several new works of art as research. Theatre theorists and practitioners researched include Konstantin Stanislavski, Lee Strasberg, Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, Bertolt Brecht, Richard Foreman, and Tim Etchells. The main contribution and intention of this PhD is to show how theatre theory and technique positively inform fine art performance practice,in that builds a new sense of self, in that the actor or performer becomes one part of many co-emergences amongst the stage, the actor, and the audience, and seeks to add knowledge in the field of performance studies by establishing a new condition for the stage as an encounter with the performer, who is positioned as a structure from which performance emanates, and includes practical research into the mechanics of acting including the work of Konstantin Stanislavsky along with Lee Strasberg’s ‘Method Acting’ technique, and examines the space between the audience and the performed event as a co-producers, with a particular emphasis on Bertolt Brecht’s ‘Alienation Effect’. By putting myself in the role of actor in this research, I am examining how such a role can be decoupled from the actor in question, and how it can be totally linked within the co-emergent space of stage/actor/audience; in this way performers within performance can be viewed as one element among many within the constellation of performance-making. This research situates itself among Jos de Gruyter and Harald Thys’ moving image work; Diane Torr’s “Man For a Day” workshops; Andy Kaufman’s “Foreign Man” persona; Liz Magic Laser’s “I Feel Your Pain”; Marcus Coates’ shaman practice; Keren Citter’s moving image work; Mike Kelly’s musical “Day is Done”; Tino Seghal’s performance “These Associations”; Lindsay Seers’s photographic and installation practice; Ryan Trecartin’s video “Center Jenny”; Anna Deveare Smith’s verbatim theatre; and Cindy Sherman’s character-based photographic practice, among others. Bruce Nauman and Paul McCarthy, whose physical and conceptual spaces have been important points of departure researching sculpture as stage, and thresholds as they relate to perception and audience engagement are also examined. This research is also indebted to the performance practices of New York-based theatre artists Mabou Mines, Richard Foreman, and The Wooster Group, all of whom worked towards an aesthetics in theatre which bumped into the conceptual and practical space of performance art since the 1970s. Important theoretical contributions include Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy; Sartre’s essay The Look, Bertolt Brecht’s A Short Organum for the Theatre and particularly the Alienation Effect; Deleuze and Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus; Deleuze’s essay One Less Manifesto; Strasberg’s A Dream of Passion with particular reference to Method Acting; Stanislavski’s An Actor Prepares; Ranciere’s The Emancipated Spectator; Bogart and Landau’s Viewpoints; and Lyotard’s Libidinal Economy
Ways of seeing design research: A polyphonic speculation
Get PDFWe present six speculative designs that all explore the challenge of representing the broad corpus of Design Research in the form of an interactive data repository. We describe the development of the ideas, identify common themes, and highlight two related challenges: (i) The challenge of reflecting the diversity of Design Research in a repository; (ii) The challenge of capturing context(s) during the Design Research process. We argue that these challenges constitute a ‘causality dilemma’ that is inhibiting the Design Research movement. We offer insights into potential responses to the dilemma, signpost opportunities for future work and reflect on the value of ‘polyphonic speculation’ – dialogue between design researchers speculating through design on a common topic – as a design tool for probing complex challenges
Terrestrial aesthetics. Transforming the understanding of and engagement with extreme events
No full textThe climate emergency presents a deep ecological, anthropological and cosmological crisis, demanding an urgent re-conceptualisation of the frameworks in which we conceive the world and our place in it. Bruno Latour’s concept of the ‘terrestrial’ (2018) invites us to decentre the human toward an ecological mode of thinking that recognises the agency of earth systems and their dynamic interaction with human life worlds. Around the globe, extreme weather events are increasingly demonstrating this agency into a palpable devastating force in response to human-driven global warming. Advances in technology have greatly supported the scientific exploration of occurrences such as wildfires and flash floods (e.g. via sensors, mathematical and graphical modelling). However, current state-of-the-art technological systems as yet fail to support the transformation of such data into embodied understanding. Yet, the latter is required to enable effective preparedness by researchers, frontline personnel and communities – in technical as well as cultural terms. We argue that this is due to an aesthetics that prevents conceiving the human, terrestrial and technological as co-constituents of an integrated sphere, in which each determines and transforms the other through dynamic and open-ended transaction. The creative arts and humanities hold the key to reformulating the aesthetic relationships that underpin current scientific practice. An interdisciplinary team comprised of researchers from The University of New South Wales’ iCinema Centre (Sydney), Queensland University of Technology’s Design Lab (Brisbane) and Royal College of Arts’ Computer Science Research Centre (London) will discuss how innovations in full-body immersive creative visualisation, intuitive interface design and intelligent human-machine interaction may be leveraged to transform the aesthetics underpinning extreme event exploration, understanding and preparation. We do so by investigating how creative digital systems may be deployed as a ‘remediating pharmakon’ (Stiegler 2011) that deliver visceral experiences that can prime users to a deeper recognition and capability to engage the symbiotic processes that bind and determine our planetary life
Understanding tactics and conflicts of urban marginalised women as facilitators to reclaim access to (im)mobile urban public spaces: Case studies from New Delhi and Hong Kong
Get PDFThis paper highlights the conflicts faced and the tactics adopted by urban marginalised women (UMW) while accessing central urban spaces in Asian global cities. By adopting qualitative methods of inquiry, comprising participant observations and semi-structured interviews, this paper reveals the issues concerning access to mobility and public spaces endured by two different groups of UMW. The first case focuses on the daily survival mobilities of UMW residing in the peri-urban areas of New Delhi. Within this context, women's mobility is impacted by the existing socio-cultural norms in addition to the non-inclusive spatial infrastructure of the city. Through this study, we highlight mobility as capacity, i.e., arising from the aspects of informality, the UMW use social interdependence to negotiate the socio-spatial exclusions and facilitate their daily mobility and access to otherwise inaccessible public spaces. The second case shares the endeavours of one of the largest dance groups funded by migrant domestic workers, low-income temporary live-in carers in Hong Kong. Zumba Feels taps into established power dynamics present in the oldest pedestrianised street in Hong Kong, Chater Road. We illustrate how the activities and space of one group co-exist with others and how the Zumba group's activities, sound and repeated occupation help to sustain UMW's presence and visibility in the city centre. Through these cases, the paper opens a discussion for leaving space in the city planning process for the emergence of bottom-up initiatives through (marginalised) stakeholder activities, thus making urban public spaces more inclusive
Space-grounded: Developing an antidepressant inhalation device using natural materials to enhance crew well-being
No full textThe journey to Mars is the next possible space venture for human space explorers after the Earth-Moon system. The psychological health of the crew may be impacted by spending roughly 1000 days in a confined habitat. To address this, tools and devices must be developed to improve the crew’s health by addressing their higher-level needs beyond basic physiological and psychological needs. In this context, we present a portable and natural antidepressant inhaler device that takes into consideration human factors. The device creates a chemical called geosmin from dry soil to generate petrichor. Inhaling petrichor may help treat depression by increasing specific brain chemicals, such as serotonin and norepinephrine. We describe the steps we took in implementing natural material - soil - in our design process, including the ideation, developing the device, and a preliminary usability testing, to explore the potential of utilizing natural materials for space well-being