3,032 research outputs found
C21st RECENT HISTORY, 2016
No full textAn artist’s book comprising the artwork, documentation and conference papers of 5 collaborative projects and exhibitions by Milly Thompson and Alison Jones between 2012-16. The project rethinks the conditions of art through feminism, showing off, distinction*, luxury, glamour and ‘being hot’. It is a hand-assembled, riso and digital print book with fold-out inserts, posters ephemera etc.
C21st Recent History makes an original contribution to current understanding of gender and power in the field of art through its exploration of dialogical and opposing positions of the woman artist. It identifies and occupies a series of interrelated positions available to female artists at the start of the C21st, juggling feminism, neo-liberalism, individualism, gender power, hypocrisy, ambition, fashion and embodiment. The project acknowledges that there are many feminisms which range the political spectrum, and builds on current knowledge by opening up the terrain of feminist practice across
• A Marxist critique of commodity culture
• Institutional critique
• Individual desire
• critique of the neoliberal subject
• within the context of affective labour in the artworld
The research matters to art theorists and practitioners in the field of non-cis male art because it connects a number of previously distinct positions in relation to the creation, distribution and dissemination of art and ideas within the artworld.
The research collaborates with canonical feminist artists Rosler, Meckseper, Wermers whose works focus on a critique of commodity aesthetics. The artist book form is integral to the research being a desirable highly tactile and sexualised limited edition comprising all the documentation, polemical texts, posters, press releases as well as advertisements for the artists.
Through precise juxtapositions of artistic subjectivity with self promotion, affective labour and the art market, and the politics of feminism and the politics of post feminism, C21st Recent History interrogates the ideologies of the contemporary art world and its markets.
The various strands of the research/exhibition/projects included are:
• The exhibition Martha Rosler Reads Vogue (2010), setting feminism against post-feminism, worthiness intermingled with the guilty fandom of glamour in culture and the art world. Artists: Alison Jones, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson
• The exhibition Evasion (2012) perfomed opposition nestling in co-dependency as a trope. Artists: Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers
• Thompson and Jones’ gallery performance Evasionista (2012) and public billboard C21st Art Worker (2013/16) enacted the feminine labour of the gallery assistant through which she activates the cultural context for the objects on display.
• The magazine Vuoto elides artisic integrity and self-promotion with an editorial by Nina Power. Artists: Alison Jones, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Milly Thompson, Nicole Wermers
• An invited panel of academics addressed the ideas proposed in Evasion; the papers are reproduced in C21st RECENT HISTORY. Papers from Nicholas Cullinan, Mark Harris, Ian Hunt, Angela McRobbie and Monika Szewczyk
• Michael Archer did an introductory talk at the book launch.
C21st Recent History is held in many libraries, including the Feminist Art Library in Goldsmiths. It was included alongside 'VUOTO in the exhibition 'THE GEO POLITICS OF MONETIZED AIRSPACE — Come Fly with Me, I Meet You by the Airside Gucci Concession at 4, Fox Fur Hat', at Midway Contemporary, Minnesota, in 2017
Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell, eds. Booksellers and Their Customers 1450-1900
No full textDuval Gilles. Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell, eds. Booksellers and Their Customers 1450-1900. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°47, 1998. pp. 241-243
Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell, eds. Booksellers and Their Customers 1450-1900
No full textDuval Gilles. Arnold Hunt, Giles Mandelbrote, and Alison Shell, eds. Booksellers and Their Customers 1450-1900. In: XVII-XVIII. Bulletin de la société d'études anglo-américaines des XVIIe et XVIIIe siècles. N°47, 1998. pp. 241-243
Repositioning the graphic designer as researcher
No full textIn academic terms, the discipline of graphic design is relatively young. Consequently the position of the discipline within academic territory, and the role of the designer, continue to be debated. In part, these debates have been a product of attempts to define and defend the discipline’s borders from within, in order to establish a sense of the role of graphic design and the graphic designer as commensurate with other disciplines both within and beyond art and design. In recent years graphic designers have variously been defined as ‘authors’, ‘producers’ and ‘readers’, yet none of these definitions seem to have provided any kind of productive or lasting impact within the academy. This paper suggests that rather than continue to seek territorial definitions and positions from within, it could be more productive to look beyond the confines of the discipline. Gaining a broader, interdisciplinary perspective on, and understanding of, qualitative research methods from other disciplines may enable the graphic designer to more fully position his or her practice within the wider academy. Such a perspective could help facilitate the repositioning and redefinition of the graphic designer as ‘researcher’ - a move that would be productive in relation to the future development of postgraduate research within the discipline
Interview with Alison Frank, September 25, 2009
No full textInterview Themes: How Frank chooses research topics (00:50)
Aspects of her training as a historian Frank found useful (07:00)
Books that have inspired and informed Frank's work (11:11)
On the role of area studies for scholarship on East-Central Europe (14:00)
"Internationalizing" the history of East-Central Europe (19:30)
Advice to young historians/scholars working on the region (22:11)Interview with Alison Frank, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on September 25, 2009. Professor Frank is the author of a number of articles and an excellent book on the oil industry in the Habsburg Monarchy entitled Oil Empire: Visions of Prosperity in Austrian Galicia. She is now working on a project on the coastline of Austria-Hungary.1_9lz5ekh
Veteran Law Students: Institutional Initiatives To Transform Their Law School Experiences
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Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care
No full textThe articles included in this special issue engage these themes across a number of national settings, institutional spaces, and empirical sites, from universities to mental health commissions, to national policy in an international context. They focus, especially, on Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, where recent and significant changes in mental health governance have relied heavily on the notions of recovery and resilience, often to questionable effect. They deal, as we have said, with some of the most central themes in social justice studies. As a collection, the articles help us think through some of the pressing political questions about social justice that have arisen with the adoption of the mantras of resilience and recovery in mental health governance
Negotiating the Culture of Resistance: A Critical Assessment of Protest Politics
No full textBoth for those within the movement and the public at large, the anti-globalization movement has become increasingly defined by large-scale protests such as those opposing the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) in Quebec City. Such events successfully render visible the strength of the movement, expose an emerging global elite, politicize neoliberal restructuring, and capture the media and public's attention. Yet the privileging of large-scale protest for advancing anti-globalist politics is increasingly being questioned both by those involved in the movement and by the Left in general.Peer reviewe
Developing the methods and questionnaire (VOICES-SF) for a national retrospective mortality follow-back survey of palliative and end of life care in England
No full textThe National Survey of Bereaved People was conducted by the Office for National Statistics on behalf of NHS England for the first time in 2011, and repeated annually thereafter. It is thought to be the first time that nationally representative data have been collected annually on the experiences of all people who have died, regardless of cause and setting, and made publicly available informing palliative and end-of-life policy, service provision and development, and practice. This paper describes the development of the questionnaire used in the survey, VOICES-SF, a short-form of the VOICES (Views Of Informal Carers—Evaluation of Services) questionnaire, adapted specifically to address the aims of the national survey. The pilot study to refine methods for the national survey is also described. The paper also reports on the development of the retrospective, after-death or mortality follow-back method in palliative and end-of-life care, and reviews its strengths and weaknesses
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