5,319 research outputs found
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
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
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
(The) man, his body, and his society: masculinity and the male experience in English and Scottish medicine c.1640-c.1780.
No full textThis thesis examines the relationship(s) between medicine, the body and societal codes of masculinity in England and Scotland between c.1640 and c.1780. It responds to the way in which the men in histories of post-1660 masculinity are often disembodied, and to the comparative absence of men’s gendered experiences from the history of medicine. Its findings show that in both centuries the experience of being a man with a body that was the site of health and sickness was an open, candid, and often communal, one, inside and outside of the formal medical encounter. Thus, and on both sides of 1700, ill men had full freedom in the pursuit and acceptance of medical, familial and social assistance, while their physical suffering, and associated emotional distress, was met with sympathy. With their sick bodies the sites of honest self-examination and open discussion, it was in part this very public nature of their sicknesses that allowed men, as a gender and as individuals, independence and agency in their non-commercial health care. Indeed, later-seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men suffered no constraints in their ability to respond to the vulnerabilities of their bodies, even where this involved behaviours or attributes allegedly associated with women and femininity, or inconsistent with ideals of active, independent, masculinity.
These findings indicate, therefore, great continuity across the period 1640-1780, and not only in masculine ideals of and involving the male corporeality. There seems to have been significant consistency across time in men’s social and medical experiences of both sickness and their pre-emptive preparation for it, and in an apparent collective self-confidence concerning their corporeal masculinity, their sex, and, possibly, even their sexual potential. Indeed, these sources suggest that seventeenth- and eighteenth-century men had a resilient sense of self-identity (and personal masculinity), conceptually separable from the corporeal body and its known fragilities
Portrait of Alison Dolling, author and historian, Adelaide, 1978 [picture] /
No full textTitle devised by cataloguer from accompanying information.; "Dolling, Alison. Writes under Mary Broughton, Hazel de Berg collection. From Adelaide Festival, South Australia"--Compactus card.; Condition: Scratched.; Also available in an electronic version via the Internet at: http://nla.gov.au/nla.pic-vn4764650; Conversation with Alison Dolling (Mary Broughton); located at; National Library of Australia Oral History collection ORAL TRC1/1067
Throwing frame and performance of elite male seated shot-putters
No full textSeated shot-putters rely on a customized assistive device called a throwing frame. Currently, the construction of each individual throwing frame is mainly driven by an empirical approach. One way to refine the conception is to improve the basic understanding of performance of seated shot-putters. The relationship between performance and throwing technique has been well described. Remarkably, the relationship between performance and throwing frame characteristics has received limited attention. \ud
The primary objective of this study was to present a cataloguing of characteristics of throwing frames used by seated shot-putters. This cataloguing consisted of defining and grouping 26 characteristics into three main categories (i.e., whole body, foot and upper limb specific characteristics) and seven sub-categories. The secondary objective of this study was to provide raw characterisations of the throwing frames for a group of athletes who participated in a world-class event. The characterisation consisted of describing the characteristics of each throwing frame. Potential relationships between characteristics, performance and classification were also identified. The cataloguing was achieved using a 6-step heuristic approach, involving expert opinions and the analysis of 215 attempts produced by 55 male athletes during the 2006 IPC Athletics World Championships. The distribution of samples across characteristics suggested a relevant level of comprehensiveness for the proposed cataloguing. The raw data, the profile of best athletes and the frequency of characteristics provided key benchmark information for construction of a throwing frame as well as coaching, classification and officiating. Analysis of data sets relating to characteristics, performance and classification were inconclusive. \u
Podcast: Alison Whittaker’s process
No full text“The logics of law and poetry boil meaning and power down to their barest components.”We’re delighted to be able to bring you an interview with Alison Whittaker, a Gomeroi poet and author of the collections Lemons in the Chicken Wire and Blakwork, shortlisted in the Prime Minister’s Literary Award for Poetry 2019
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