7,114 research outputs found
I, Penguin
No full text'I, Penguin' is a performance by Susan Diab as an animated reading of a script written after time was spent 'conversing' with a taxidermy penguin of the species 'Little Blue'. Alluding to post-humanist, New Materialist theories and drawing on the 'vegan poetics' of Anat Pick, the performance shows its audience insights gleaned by the author into what it means to look at an object in a museum which was once a living creature. ( Susan Diab)On the 16th November 2017, the Booth Museum hosted a sell-out late event ‘Uncovering the Muse’, as part of its MUPI relationship with the University of Brighton. This event brought together academics from across the university, whose brief was to investigate the Booth collection and develop a talk or workshop aimed at the public. Our wonderful presenters were:Dr Marcus Winter (Computer Science), Ross Adamson/Digital Storytelling Collective (Media), Susan Diab (Critical Fine Art Practice) and Dr Rachel White (Biology).(From event report by Craig Jordan-Baker)<br/
Lecture: Author Susan Orlean
No full textShaker Library and the Shaker Schools Foundation present Susan Orlean, SHHS grad and author of The Library Book, who will speak about her love of libraries and the impact of books on her life.
Susan Orlean grew up in Shaker Heights and graduated from Shaker Heights High School in 1973, where she was editor in chief of the school’s yearbook, The Gristmill. She graduated with honors from the University of Michigan in 1976. She has written for the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Globe and has been a staff writer at The New Yorker since 1992. She is the author of seven books, including Rin Tin Tin, Saturday Night, and The Orchid Thief, which was made into the Academy Award–winning film, Adaptation. She lives with her family and her animals in upstate New York
Autoethnos
Get PDF‘Autoethnos’ was an exhibition at the C&C Gallery in London April-July 2018, featuring works by three sculptors, Susan Diab, Caroline Pick and Isobel Smith, each using autoethnographic approaches. The exhibition was curated by Diab, who created four of the sculptures and developed the intellectual groundwork in autoethnographic practice. To date, autoethnographic methodologies and analyses have favoured narrative forms, particularly the written word. Diab drew on her own practice and those of fellow autoethnographers to develop an understanding of the relationships between fine art practice and its exhibited form. Using the process of sculpture and curation, and drawing on her own research into narrative and linguistic studies, Diab investigated the elements of autoethnography that informed artefact production. The research addressed two specific questions: how can autoethnographic research processes translate into the making of new visual artworks for public exhibition; and what is revealed when physical materials, rather than words, are worked upon autoethnographically. Diab convened a symposium in the early weeks of the exhibition which brought Dr Alec Grant, an authority on autoethnographic methods, together with other autoethnographers and a public audience. This generated debate on the process and reception of the artefacts, leading to new understandings of the relationship between making and thought, and fostering the development of autoethnography beyond narrative practices. Deeper understanding of the work arose from contemplation of the artworks after the exhibition, a process taken to Open Studios discussions with visitors and other artists, for example at the Art Producing Economic Community (APEC) Open Studios. Diab disseminated the findings further in a conference paper, ‘Autoethnos: stories from the self’, at the Fifth British Autoethnography conference, Bristol, July 2018
Artist Residency on 'In Control By Design' at The Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford University Medical Research Council Brain Network Dynamics Unit, Oxford Branch of Parkinson's UK:'In Control By Design'
No full textSusan Diab is currently (June 2019 - February 2020) Artist-in-Residence at the Pitt Rivers Museum in conjunction with Oxford University's Medical Research Council's Brain Network Dynamics Unit and the Oxford branch of Parkinson's UK. The aim of this project is to develop wearable technologies to assist people living with Parkinson's to negotiate its effects. Susan's role is threefold: to visualise prototypes, to interpret the Pitt Rivers Collection of artefacts for clues it may yield towards the project aim and thirdly to facilitate the participants' creativity as expert co-designers
Citizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbot
No full textCitizen piece on the Harvey Prager controversy. The author, Susan Clark Abbott, is executive director of the Hospice of Maine in Portland, and takes exception with the judicial system and the media for implying that caring for the terminally ill is similar to a prison sentence
Sustainability Awareness Week 2021: Climate Anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton
No full textFive current FIT students and recent graduates will join Daniel Benkendorf and climate anxiety scholar, Dr. Susan Clayton.In this session, Daniel Benkendorf (Psychology) will discuss the issue of climate anxiety with Dr. Susan Clayton, a psychologist who is both an internationally-recognized scholar on this topic and who is also a lead author on the Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A panel of current FIT students and recent graduates will join Benkendorf and Clayton as they define and explore the features and peculiarities of climate anxiety and consider ways to ameliorate it.Sustainability is a key component of FIT’s mission and is embedded in the college’s curriculum and operations. During virtual Sustainability Awareness Week, we invite our community to learn about recent innovations from leaders in the industry, FIT students, faculty, staff, and alumni; experience FIT’s efforts to make a positive impact on the earth; and discover new ways to live with a smaller footprint
'Pilings of Thought Under Spoken': The Poetry of Susan Howe, 1974-1993.
No full textPhDThis thesis discusses the poetry published by contemporary American poet Susan
Howe over a period of almost two decades. The dissertation is chiefly concerned with
articulating the relationship between poetic form, history, and authority in this body
of' work. Howe's poetry dredges the past for the linguistic effects of patriarchy,
colonialism and war. My reading of the work is an exploration of the ways in which a
disjunctive poetics can address such historical trauma. The poems, rather than
attempting to reinstate voices lifted from what Howe has called "the dark side of
history", are a means of reflecting the resistance that the past offers to contemporary
investigation. It is the effacement, and not the recovery, of history's victims, that is
discernible in the contours of these highly opaque texts. Notions of authority are most
often addressed in the poetry through the figure of paternal absence, which has a
threefold function in the work, serving to represent social authority, an aporetic
conception of divinity and an autobiographical narrative. Alongside the antiauthoritarian
currents in the writing - critiques, for example, of the doctrine of
Manifest Destiny or of scapegoating versions of femininity - my thesis stresses Howe's
engagement with negative theology and with a strain of American Protestant
enthusiasm that has its roots in 17th century New England. The dissertation explores
the dissonance caused by the co-existence in the poetry of elements of political dissent
and religious mysticism. Finally, I consider Howe's engagement with literary history
and authors such as Shakespeare, Swift, Thoreau and Melville. The manner in which
Howe deploys the words of others in her work, I argue, allows for a mixture of textual
polyphony and a more conventional notion of authorial 'voice'
PAPERS OF SUSAN HAWTHORNE
No full textThis record was harvested from a previous catalogue system and will be withdrawn in 2025. Information in this record may be superseded or incomplete. Visit this record in UMA's new catalogue at: https://archives.library.unimelb.edu.au/nodes/view/68973Comprises records from all aspects of Susan Hawthorne's life from her student activities to her role as an author and publisher. They include her early women's liberation and political involvement; her literary involvement as a writer, publisher and conference organiser; written drafts of her publications: correspondence with her mother and friends; the lesbian feminist movement; and her activities as a writer and circus performer for Performing Older Women.
The arrangement of this collection has been carried out by Susan Hawthorne and it is a box list, that is, it describes the content of each box rather than the detail of each file within each box. Nevertheless, it was her practice to arrange her papers into one or more multi-subject files per year and this arrangement has been followed for these papers. Her manuscripts are also arranged by year. Boxes are titled by Susan Hawthorne's name and a sequence number in most cases, and their contents are well described.46169
Acquisition: [2014.0033] "PAPERS OF SUSAN HAWTHORNE
Autoethnos:stories from the self
No full textThree artists jointly present new works in this intriguing group exhibition conceived specifically for C&C Gallery and curated by Susan Diab. At heart sculptors, their common concern is to face and expose secrets of the inner world, expressing the intangible and emotional via material means. Autoethnography is an approach within academic research and writing which places personal, lived experience at the centre of its investigations. It recognises that individuals, living at a particular time within a set of conditions peculiar to them, are representative of and relevant to the wider society.The artists in ‘Autoethnos’ each speak out from their own centre of lived knowledge via the visual aspects of material objects. Yet, a material thing may still be in the process of discovering the shape it wishes to present to the world. An object may break down to become a ‘thing’ when it loses its function or take on other meanings due to the emotional connections it adopts. Sculptural things move in and out of recognition and definition. To a certain extent, this might be what the works of all three artists have in common – yet hasty reconciliations and resolutions may prove to be premature. In approaching ‘Autoethnos’ the viewer is asked to bring their selves opened to the untidier and messier sides of life. Bodies, fragments, associations and damaged goods are on offer so neither refunds nor exchanges may be negotiated
Transgender Literature Celebration: An Interview with Susan Kuklin
No full textAs part of Columbus State University\u27s Transgender Literature Celebration on November 16-18, 2020, Dr. Ben Baker interviewed Susan Kuklin, photographer and author of the book, Beyond Magneta.https://csuepress.columbusstate.edu/marketing/1002/thumbnail.jp
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