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All the Other Things Are Not This Thing
No full textIn their 10 new Text Paintings, the two artists make use of piercing irony to scrutinize, and engage in the deconstruction of language, videos and neon lettering as they similarly explore the dimensions of the everyday by fusing reality and fiction.
The works of John Wood and Paul Harrison disrupt ordinary thought patterns, overturn our perspectives and reveal how irony can become an effective tool in seeing see beyond what may appear obvious.
Phrases dealing with art, mundane statements, and common thoughts are reproduced in the neon and coloured canvases of the Text Painting series. Each work is self-contained, but is nonetheless whimsically connected to the others which elicits ironic or contradictory associations of thought.
On the other hand, the videos depict concise, occasionally paradoxical and, at times, repetitive actions that take place in the space of the white cube, as in Demo Tape, or in more distinctive settings such as in Tall Buildings. The minimal space of action becomes a miniature theatre that links to the Shakespearean concept of "the world as a stage" where Wood & Harrison's very bodies are the protagonists of the videos and move in the ad hoc context, experimenting with different and unexpected possibilities of action, ranging from the predictable magic tricks in The Magicians, the unexpected transformation of things through colours in Semi-Automatic Painting Machine, to the staging of aesthetically appealing murder which makes use of compressed air and fake blood in 13 Assassinations
Make Room! Creative conversation workshops researching LGBTQIA+ accessibility: Bath workshop findings report, March 2024
No full text‘Make Room!’ was a research project exploring accessibility for LGBTQIA+ disabled people.
We explored the accessibility of LGBTQIA+ events and how they could be improved.
The research was completed through creative conversation workshops and surveys engaging people throughout the South West.
This report focuses on the Bath creative workshop. The report is about the preparation and outcomes of the workshop. It also shares insights from the research project and considers next steps for future research projects led by and for disabled people about LGBTQIA+ accessibility
Make Room! Creative conversation workshops researching LGBTQIA+ accessibility: Bristol workshop findings report, March 2024
No full text‘Make Room!’ was a research project exploring accessibility for LGBTQIA+ disabled people.
We explored the accessibility of LGBTQIA+ events and how they could be improved.
The research was completed through creative conversation workshops and surveys engaging people throughout the South West.
This report focuses on the Bath creative workshop. The report is about the preparation and outcomes of the workshop. It also shares insights from the research project and considers next steps for future research projects led by and for disabled people about LGBTQIA+ accessibility
Service children’s wellbeing in the context of three- to four-year-old Army children experiencing a parental deployment
Get PDFWhere ‘wellbeing’ is referred to in relation to children from Armed Forces (service) backgrounds, it is often done so in absence of an exploration of this conceptually vague term. This is problematic, as there are multiple interpretations and discourses of wellbeing which, in turn, influence how it is both understood and operationalised by practitioners and policy makers worldwide. This article examines the deployment-related wellbeing of an under researched group; pre-school children (aged three to four years) from British Army families. Framed within a cultural historical approach, this study employed interviews (n = 30) with ten non-deployed/at home mothers and fourteen pre-school practitioners. Six of the pre-school children also took part in the interviews. Findings highlight that young children’s relationships and socio-cultural environments influence the impact of a parental deployment on their different domains of wellbeing. Drawing upon different discourses of wellbeing further affords the reframing of young children’s deployment-related wellbeing away from the traditional deficit approach of observable problematised behaviours towards a more positive approach, considering the reasons behind such behaviours. Findings led to the creation of a model to aid practitioners and policy makers seeking to understand and support young Army children’s wellbeing
Differences in audiovisual temporal processing in autistic adults are specific to simultaneity judgments
Get PDFResearch has shown that children on the autism spectrum and adults with high levels of autistic traits are less sensitive to audiovisual asynchrony compared to their neurotypical peers. However, this evidence has been limited to simultaneity judgments (SJ) which require participants to consider the timing of two cues together. Given evidence of partly divergent perceptual and neural mechanisms involved in making temporal order judgments (TOJ) and SJ, and given that SJ require a more global type of processing which may be impaired in autistic individuals, here we ask whether the observed differences in audiovisual temporal processing are task and stimulus specific. We examined the ability to detect audiovisual asynchrony in a group of 26 autistic adult males and a group of age and IQ‐matched neurotypical males. Participants were presented with beep‐flash, point‐light drumming, and face‐voice displays with varying degrees of asynchrony and asked to make SJ and TOJ. The results indicated that autistic participants were less able to detect audiovisual asynchrony compared to the control group, but this effect was specific to SJ and more complex social stimuli (e.g., face‐voice) with stronger semantic correspondence between the cues, requiring a more global type of processing. This indicates that audiovisual temporal processing is not generally different in autistic individuals and that a similar level of performance could be achieved by using a more local type of processing, thus informing multisensory integration theory as well as multisensory training aimed to aid perceptual abilities in this population
Increasing awareness of dyslexia; a knowledge exchange project linking schools, the Gloucestershire Dyslexia Association (GDA), and Bath Spa University
Get PDFWe present the results from a teacher workshop co-created with a local dyslexia charity
which aimed to raise awareness of dyslexia. Research evidence indicates that the teachers
feel that initial and subsequent teacher training does not adequately cover dyslexia and
other SEN. Approximately sixty teaching staff members from six schools (four primary and
two secondary) participated in the workshops. We administered a pre- and post-workshop
survey to capture the training needs and the impact of the targeted action-led workshop.
Results from qualitative and quantitative analyses indicated that the teachers at the end of
the workshop felt confident and powerful in identifying and supporting learners with dyslexia.
The educational and policy implications of the initiative are discussed
Building better wargames
No full textOur games are actually weak models of conflict situations. This talk demonstrates previous examples of failure and makes tentative suggestions on how to produce better games for future use
Being River
No full textBeing River delves into the embodiment of identity and the entanglement between dancing bodies and cutting-edge technologies, including virtual reality, motion capture, real-time interaction and sensors. This innovative performance explores the concept of intercultural identity and transcultural experiences, metaphorically represented through the inherent qualities of a river—fluidity, continuous movement and adaptability. By merging the artistry of dance with advanced technological interventions, Being River prompts audiences to reflect on the dynamic and ever-changing nature of identity