1,721,017 research outputs found
Songs of place and time [Research Portfolio]
No full textPortfolio of work on a research theme. Comprises outputs:
Book: Collier, Mike, Hogg, Bennett and Strachan, John (2021) Songs of place and time: Birdsong and the dawn chorus in Natural History and the Arts. Gaia Project Press, Manchester, UK. ISBN 9780993219290
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/12931/
Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2017) Singing the World (Cheeseburn, Northumberland. 26 August 2017 – 3 September 2017).
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6692/
Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2018) Mike Collier -A Dawn Chorus (Drawing Projects UK. 26 October to 24 November 2018).
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13274/
Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2019) Dawn Chorus: Mimesis And Birdsong (Platform A, Middlesbrough.31 January– 7 March2019).
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13272/
Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2019) LISTEN: Singing the World: A Dawn Chorus (Black Swan Arts, Frome. 20th July – 1stSeptember 2019).
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13273
Ghosts of the restless shore [Research portfolio]
No full textBook Chapter: Collier, Mike (2020) Place-walking: The Umwelt explored through our creative imagination. In Edensor, T. and Kalandides, A. (eds) The Routledge Handbook of Place. Routledge. ISBN 978138320499
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13198/
Book Chapter: Collier, Mike (2019) Ghosts of the Restless Shore: A Personal Pilgrimage. In: Walking, Landscape and Environment. Routledge, London. ISBN 9781315209753
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/9394/
Book: Collier, Mike (2015) Ghosts of the Restless Shore: Space, place and memory of the Sefton Coast. Art Editions North. ISBN 9781906832261
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/13268/
Exhibition: Ghosts of the Restless Shore: Space, Place and Memory (2015) [Exhibition] The Atkinson, Southport. 22 Aug-15 Nov 2015.
https://sure.sunderland.ac.uk/id/eprint/6696
Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets [Research Portfolio]
No full textPortfolio of work on a research theme. Comprises outputs:
Show/Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2014) Wordsworth and Bashō: Walking Poets (Dove Cottage, Grasmere, UK. 24 May – 2 November 2014).
Exhibition catalogue: Collier, Mike (2014) Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets. Art Editions North/ The Wordsworth Trust. ISBN 9781906832209
Book Chapter: Mike, Collier (2014) on-ko chi-shin. In: Wordsworth and Basho: Walking Poets. Kakimori Bunko, Itami, Japan, pp. 165-169. ISBN 9781906832209 [Essay for Japanese exhibition catalogue]
Show/Exhibition: Collier, Mike (2016) Wordsworth and Bashō: Walking Poets (Kakimori Bunko, Itami, Japan. 17 Sep - 3 Nov 2016).
Book Chapter: Mike, Collier (2018) (Re)envisioning the Anti-Urban. In: Envisioning Networked Urban Mobilities: Art, Performances, Impact. Cosmobilities Network (4). Routledge, London, pp. 72-84. ISBN 978113871236
On Walking -Conference Proceedings
No full textAn online book of selected essays from the conference On Walking.
The aim of the conference ‘On Walking’ was to provide artists, designers, anthropologists, architects, academics and others with an opportunity to present their ideas, proposals and findings about the role that walking plays in the way we understand and perceive the world. We were delighted that Tim Ingold was able to deliver a terrific key note paper (‘The Maze and the Labyrinth: Walking and the Education of Attention’ – copy of which can be found in the catalogue to ‘Walk On’ (click here to see an online copy of the catalogue) which both underlined and challenged current theories about the relationship between walking and being in the world; and we were thrilled that so many people attended the conference and presented stimulating and thought-provoking papers from around the world (from Canada, North America, South America, Spain, France, Holland, Italy, Scandinavia, Hong Kong and Australia as well as throughout the UK).
The conference was genuinely multi-disciplinary, with contributions from practicing artists, designers and architects to academics from a broad cross-section of disciplines. It was timed to coincide with the exhibition ‘Walk On: Forty Years of Art Walking – From Richard Long to Janet Cardiff’ at the Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art in Sunderland.
Walk On was the first exhibition in the UK to examine the astonishingly varied ways in which artists since the late 1960s have used what would seem like a universal act – of taking a walk – as a means to create new types of art. Curated by Cynthia Morrison-Bell (Art Circuit Touring Exhibitions), Alistair Robinson (NGCA) and Mike collier (W.A.L.K.), it included photography, film, and installation works, and brought together a diverse group of artists inspired by their travels on foot.
‘Walk On’ offered an as-yet-unwritten history of a major strand of recent art practice. It argued that from land art and conceptual art, and from street photography to the essay-film, an exceptionally wide range of artists have created their work from an act of walking, in the city or the land. These artists often acted as ‘explorers’, whether making their mark on the rural wilderness, documenting small journeys, or undertaking close examination of the urban environment around them.
The show provided a valuable context for the conference and was attended by all delegates on the evening of the first day when we treated to a tour of the show by artists Atul Bhalla , Brian Thompson, Bryndis Snæbjörnsdottir, Clare Qualmann (walkwalkwalk), Mark Wilson, Mike Collier, Rachael Clewlow, Wrights & Sites (Stephen Hodge, Simon Perseghetti, Cathy Turner, Phil Smith) followed by a wine reception, a talk by Tom Chivers, and a poetry reading by Alec Finlay.
There was a generosity of spirit that ran throughout the two days of the conference which ended with delegates suggesting that this was an event which should be followed up by establishing an international committee to begin the process of organising a bi-annual conference, ‘On Walking’, that would travel the world. More information about this initiative will be posted on the WALK website in due course.
We would like to offer our sincere thanks to all those who took part in this stimulating event and hope you enjoy reading the selected papers in the following pages of this online publication. Further, it our intention to produce an edited and selected group of essays in hard copy over the next two years. This book will be published by Art Editions North and distributed by Cornerhouse Publications (please click here for further information about Cornerhouse Publications and AEN)
Heather H. Yeung and Mike Collie
LISTEN: Singing the World: A Dawn Chorus
No full textSinging The World: A Dawn Chorus Mike Collier & Bennett Hogg: paintings, prints and music
This exhibition was initially inspired by listening to a dawn chorus in a Northumberland woodland garden—a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in mid May. Together their songs, represented variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of vibrant and detailed graphic prints, music and paintings. The exhibition continues in the downstairs foyer with an animation of Mike and Bennett’s work: Chorus Lines by Merrie Snel
Bats in the Hayloft, Cheeseburn
Full text linkFor this exhibition of work in the stables at Cheeseburn Grange, I produced produced three large-scale prints, collectively called Bats in the Hayloft at Dusk; Cheeseburn. The work was developed to complement sound artist Chris Watson’s installation in the hayloft above the stables (a recording of a colony of the Pipistrelle bats that roost there) and the poetry of Linda France
Wordsworth and Bashō: Walking Poets
No full textWordsworth and Bashō: Walking Poets was an exhibition of original and facsimile copies of manuscripts by William and Dorothy Wordsworth and Matsuo Bashō. They were shown alongside new work by contemporary UK and Japanese artists who responded to the manuscripts, and what originally inspired them, in ways that were as fresh, creative and radical now as Wordsworth and Bashō were during their lives. Artists in the show include: Ewan Clayton; Ken Cockburn; Alec Finlay; Christine Flint-Sato; Zaffar Kunial (Poet in Residence at the Wordsworth trust, 2014); Eiichi Kono; Manny Ling; Chris McHugh; Nobuya Monta; Inge Panneels; Andrew Richardson; Autumn Richardson; Nao Sakamoto; Minako Shirakura; Richard Skelton; Ayako Tani; Brian Thompson and myself (with two new works based on the journals of Dorothy Wordsworth.
The exhibition (which is showing at Dove Cottage - click here for more information) was organized and curated by myself assisted by Janet Ross for WALK in collaboration with Jeff Cowton (Curator, the Wordsworth Trust) and was accompanied by a significant publication and opened to the public on the 24th May, running until the 2nd November 2014. The publication, which was published in English and Japanese, includes essays by: Professor Emeritus John Elder: Middlebury College, USA; Professor Shoko Azuma: Jumonji University; Tokyo; Dr. Kaz Oishi: University of Tokyo; Professor Ewan Clayton University of Sunderland; Pamela Woof – President of the Wordsworth Trust; Dr. Carol McKay – University of Sunderland and myself. Thanks also to Ayako Tani and Christopher McHugh for their help in liaising with the Japanese museums involved (Kyoto National Museum; Iga City Bashō Memorial Museum; Waseda Library and Kakimori Bunko)
Dawn Chorus: Mimesis And Birdsong
Full text linkThis exhibition of pictures by Mike Collier and music by Bennett Hogg was initially inspired by listening to a dawn chorus in a Northumberland woodland – a choir of sixteen birds heard early one morning in mid May. Together their songs, represented variously as digitally manipulated sonograms and musical transcriptions, form the basis of this show of screen prints, music and digital prints. Collier approached the experience of the dawn chorus in a number of different ways, collaborating with printmaker Alex Charrington (Charrington Editions), composer and musician Bennett Hogg and natural history sound recordist Geoff Sample. Working from Sample’s sonograms of individual bird recordings, Collier drew a series of notations that bore a superficial resemblance to handwritten “neumes”, a medieval form of musical notation. Together with Charrington, he subsequently developed a patterned palimpsest of sound (Dawn Chorus; 2017 and A Transitional Narrative: 2018). The circular images in The Dawn Chorus (05.00am); 2017, were, again, loosely adapted from Sample’s sonograms as Collier stretched and pulled, squeezed and pinched these visual scientific notations, searching for rhythm, tone, pattern, pitch, colour and melody. Finally, Singing the World: A Dawn Chorus: 03.30am – 05.00am re-presents the individual songs of the sixteen birds in this particular dawn chorus using an onomatopoeic circular form. Just as Collier started with electronic transcriptions that resembled medieval music notation, Hogg took this “found” music and transcribed it into modern notation, and then freely composed a series of pieces in which different birds appear in roughly the same sequence they do in the dawn chorus. Hogg didn’t transcribe the sound of the birds, and so although the music is based on birdsong, it doesn’t try to mimic birdsong, and in this it closely parallels Collier’s approach. Although to a visitor it may not be apparent which piece is being heard, or indeed which birds are ‘present’, the combination of the music and the images is intended to ‘stage’, for want of a better word, an ‘experience’, inside of which we can, of course, make our own connections. Prof Mike Collier is a lecturer, writer, curator and artist based at the University of Sunderland were he runs WALK (Walking, Art, Landskip and Knowledge), a research centre exploring the way we creatively engage with the world as we walk through it. Dr Bennett Hogg (Newcastle University) is a composer, improviser and cultural theorist. Alex Charrington runs Charrington Editions, a professional, collaborative printmaking studio. Geoff Sample specialises in recording birds and natural soundscapes as fine art and documentar
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