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Invoking Absence [curator]
No full textThis exhibition considers the entanglements of geological timescales and mineral layers, landscapes, waters and the invisible beings of place within a cycle of deep and neoteric time. It refers to contemporary animist narratives which acknowledge and learn from the complex interrelationality of ‘indigenous thinking’ (Yunkaporta) to re-interpret and expand upon ancient and contemporary Western pagan ‘thinking’ (Graham Harvey, Pegi Eyers). Obfuscated by time and linear narratives of colonial-capitalist progress, the entities and agents of place - water, mineral and deity - hold simultaneously past, present and future worldings
Regulating decision-making in multiple pregnancy: an inquiry into the practice of fetal reduction
No full textThis book examines the regulation and practice of medical decision-making where the context is that of a multiple pregnancy and where the question is whether or not to carry out a fetal reduction procedure. It concerns three main lines of inquiry: first, the nature of fetal reduction and the legal ground(s) for termination typically relied upon; secondly, the extent to which legal, ethical, and professional norms guide or constrain this particular kind of decision-making; and, thirdly, the adequacy of these norms. The book uses empirical sources to develop its analysis, contributing new insight and the kind of evidence necessary to shape regulation, clinical practice, and future research.
The key findings show that fetal abnormality is often given as the justifying ground; that the legal, ethical, and professional norms offer little explicit guidance for fetal reduction: and on the general question of termination, ethical norms suffer from a high level of contestation, the key norms in the UK abortion legislation are unclear and disconnected from practice, and professional norms are only marginally more adequate. Given the indeterminacy of these norms, it is no surprise that the evidence indicates that doctors are only weakly guided by them in making their decisions. Various recommendations are advanced in this book, including the need for a situational emphasis on shared decision-making and patient-centred care
Sadang B (2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textSadang B (2019) is an exhibition project comprised of three newly commissioned projects, Un-Splitting (Performance), The White Mask (Music performance) and To Paint A Portrait of a Bird (Installation).This interdisciplinary project questions the normalisation of extreme nationalism and social inequality by exploring the human-animal boundary through the lens of those socially marginalised in South Korea. Sadang B is suggested as a site where these enquiries can take place. This multi-component output Collection documents the above research project, providing evidence of the performance, music performances, and museum gallery, installation, with additional contextualising content in the form of a 300 word statement of research, research timeline, research questions, and an item documenting methods and processes towards the various components of the work
Gendered prisons, relationships, and resettlement policies; three reasons for caution for imprisoned mothers
Get PDFDrawing on the lived experiences and perceptions of five imprisoned mothers, this article critically explores female prisons, relationships and resettlement policies in England and Wales. The findings indicate how the infusing of gendered, informal social controls into penal interventions and penal policy has the potential to harm mothers. This is why three reasons for caution are proposed in relation to ‘structural obstacles’, ‘continued exposure to abuse’ and ‘ascribed reputations’. With these challenges, the mother’s aspirations for a crime- and drug-free future may be thwarted. Therefore, by showing the complex and dynamic set of circumstances that mothers in prison must navigate, more clearly, the need for a nuanced approach for working with women can be appreciated
Public acts (2015-2019) [REF2021 collection]
No full textPublic Acts brings together two projects that through temporary public intervention, seek to alter our perceptions of our daily interactions in public spaces, turning the functional and recreational into acts both poetic and performative.
This Collection comprises a multi-component output with contextualising information, evidencing two public performative projects: Conductor | 8 Movements, co-commissioned by In Certain Places and Harris Museum & Art Gallery in 2019 to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Brutalist Preston Bus Station; and Tombstone (let’s get over this), commissioned by the Crafts Council as part of the touring Acts of Making Festival in 2015. Contextualising information includes a 300 word statement, research timeline, and research questions
The Great Margin (2020) [REF2021 collection]
No full textStemming from research led by Soyinka since 2016, this research addressed a lack of inclusive models for collaborative writing. It engaged with a growing body of research seeking to foster empathy and equality within the arts. The summative output, The Great Margin, is a curatorial project underpinned by two new pedagogical resources: Dare to Write? and The Writer’s Cycle.
This Collection documents the summative output, The Great Margin (including curatorial outcomes Bulletins from the Edge, I Even Dream in Haiku and a series of online Field notes) and contextualising information in the form of a 300 word statement, contextualising evidence, a contextual report, a research timeline, 'Marginalia' documentation in the form of photographs and figures, and an additional set of appendices
Rethinking waste and the logics of disposability: Compound 13 lab (2014-2021) [REF2021 collection]
No full textRethinking Waste and the Logics of Disposability: Compound 13 Lab focuses on the knowledge politics of the informal waste management industry in the 13th Compound in Dharavi, Mumbai's largest informal settlement, where members of the project team have been working within a series of partnerships established since 2012, in particular through intensive collaboration, dialogue, and action research with Acorn Foundation, India. The 13th Compound processes approximately 80% of Mumbai's hard domestic waste, where up to 250,000 rag-pickers supply 40,000 people employed in grassroots recycling micro- enterprises, working in risky and unsanitary conditions.
Compound 13 Lab is a space for experimental design and learning, whose innovative programme introduces design and media tools, audiovisual technologies, 3D design and digital fabrication to disadvantaged, marginalised citizens who, because their socio-economic status, do not normally have access to these resources. ACORN members co-design and develop a bespoke 'living curriculum' that responds to their issues, addresses their needs, and aids their future goals. The implementation of the Lab is intended to create a space of enquiry where these local knowledges and practices can be communicated within and beyond Dharavi, through a process of increasingly self-organised making and learning.
This Collection contains information about Compound 13 Lab and the Compound 13 Lab Artist Residency Programme, as well as the Materials of Hope (2018) film and its dissemination at Media Wall, Bath Spa University (2018) and at Meetings: Central & Western Jutland Video & Performance Festival (2019). The Collection also contains a 300-word Statement about the research project, a Timeline, and a set of Research Questions
Demonstrations (2016-2020) [REF2021 collection]
No full textDemonstrations is a set of works that combines thirteen online videos, specifically on YouTube, with video documentation of fourteen live-art performances that ‘un-work’ the original thirteen online videos. The demonstrations research different kinds of ‘trace’ through combined methods that use body (subjective, communal), DIY performance, scores, video documentation, participation and event; they invoke audiences to do (or try) incomplete works that, inherently, seem un-working, mundane, politically ambiguous, and thus ‘inoperative’.
This collection contains a 300-word statement about the research project, a Timeline of research, and a set of Research Questions. Along with links to the original thirteen Demonstrations the Collection contains links to video documentation of the live-art performances. It also contains photographs and contextualising information about these performance events