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Chris Wainwright (Head of College, CCW) in conversation with Venu Dhupa
No full textVenu Dhupa and Chris Wainwright will discuss the role and responsibility of thematic enquiry within the art school – in relation to a broader field of policy, curating and commissioning.
Venu Dhupa is a Patron of the Asha Foundation and Minorities of Europe. She lead the development of a new Creative Innovation Unit at the South Bank Centre, and has held the posts of Director of Arts and Creativity for the British Council, Fellowship Director at NESTA, Chief Executive at the Nottingham Playhouse and Producer (Mobile Touring) at the Royal National Theatre.
In 1999 she was appointed as the inaugural Chair of the East Midlands Cultural Consortium by the Secretary of State at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, a role she held until 2002. She has been awarded the prestigious Asian Woman of Achievement Award for her contribution to the Arts and Culture
The art of Jessica Voorsanger
No full text'The Art of Jessica Voorsanger' is a comprehensive monograph of multimedia artist Voorsanger's work, dealing with the subjects of popular culture and celebrity, identity, obsession, escapism, and the changing relationship between the fan and the idol.
The book explores a range of her work, from karaoke performances, kitsch installations, paintings and sculpture, with a particular focus on new work emerging from her ongoing project, The Impostor Series. By using humour and parody in The Impostor Series, her work is also able to tackle tough topics including her personal cancer treatment, gender politics, and the discomfort that we can feel as an audience through humour.
As a book 'The Art of Jessica Voorsanger 'operates on the same plain as the world she is critiquing, the design itself drawing on celebrity annuals, memories of falling in love with David Cassidy, and a childhood spent celebrity-spotting in New York's Upper East Side. The publication takes on board all of the playfulness, seriousness and vibrance of Voorsanger's work, contributing to the wide-reaching current discussion in society around celebrity in an engaging way.
Although she has featured in several publications, this book has particular significance as it is the first specific to her work.
The book is edited by Jean Wainwright with contributions from Jean Wainwright, Kathy Kubicki, Louisa Buck, Ralph Rugoff, Emily Druiff and Deborah Robinson
[Letter to George Converse from Richard Wainwright]
No full textIn this letter, Chief Intelligence Officer Richard Wainwright provides an extract from a letter of the Naval Attache, Paris, addressed to the Chief Intelligence Officer
Successful return to work with chronic pain? Stakeholders' negotiation strategies
No full textThis paper discusses findings from Wainwright et al (2014) (research with doctors and patients) and Wainwright et al (2013) (research with employers and employees) into issues and potential ameliorating factors regarding sickness certification and return to work processes for chronic pain patients and stakeholders. They found that fit notes were perceived to be helpful if used in combination with other strategies for managing sick leave and RTW for people with chronic pain. These strategies may be applicable to other fluctuating, long-term conditions with medically unexplained elements
Loudon Wainwright III posing holding two instant camera prints, c. April 1978
No full textFolk singer Loudon Wainwright III holding two instant camera photographic prints of himself, c. April, 1978. This photograph was taken by Don Hamerman and originally appeared appeared in the article “Loudon’s Meaningful Music with Humor Loud and Clear” by Tom Hill in the May 1978 issue of Unicorn Times. Hamerman was then a staff photographer for Unicorn Times, a monthly performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C
Disturbing pasts: Memories, controversies and creativity
Get PDFThis themed issue of the Open Arts Journal, ‘Disturbing pasts: Memories, controversies and creativity’, brings together a range of artists, curators, policy-makers and academics from around the world, who explore creative engagements with controversial and traumatic pasts in art practice, curating and museums. The material is presented in three parts: ‘Difficult Pasts and Public Space’ (writings on historical issues and museums), ‘Visual Investigations’ (artists’ statements and criticism), and ‘Collaborations’ (visual analysis and artist-scholar pairings of writings and original artworks). This collection was developed through a two-year international research project led by Leon Wainwright, which involved three consortia of researchers from universities throughout Europe, and focused on a major public event at the Museum of Ethnology Vienna/ Weltmuseum, Wien (November 2011). The project is funded by HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area, the European Science Foundation)
[Letter] 18[50?] April 18, Washington [to] Dr. Wainwright / William Prescott.
No full textThe recto of the letter bears a raised seal for "Delarus & Co London."Prescott asks, "When did I ever forget a friend-- especially when it was to do myself a good turn" and states that he will be with Wainwright on Monday. He says that he has much to share when they meet in the great "Yorker metropolis" where he will stay until Wednesday. Prescott was a historian who specialized in Spain and Latin America; he wrote about the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella as well as an account of the conquest of Peru and Mexico
Return to work with chronic pain: employers' and employees' views
Get PDFThis conference papers given to the Society of Occupational Medicine's Annual Scientific Meeting discusses tensions and some possible ameliorating activities from our 2013 paper of the same name., published in their journal: Wainwright, E., Wainwright, D., Keogh, E. and Eccleston, C. Return to work with chronic pain: employers’ and employees’ views. Occupational Medicine 2013: doi:0.1093/occmed/kqt109. The conference homepage is here;http://www.som-asm.org.uk/Programme_SOM_ASM.aspAbstractBackgroundThe sickness certification and return to work (RTW) of people with chronic pain are important health and economic issues for employees, employers, taxpayers and the UK government. The ‘fit note’ and a national educational programme promoting RTW were introduced in 2010 to curb rising rates of sickness absence. AimsTo investigate employers’ and employees’ experiences of managing RTW when someone has taken sick leave for chronic pain, and to explore the perceived efficacy of the fit note.MethodsA qualitative study, comprising semi-structured interviews with employers who had managed sick leave cases and employees who had experienced sick leave for chronic pain. Interviews were recorded, transcribed and the data analysed using constructivist grounded theory principles.ResultsFive themes were elicited. Firstly, frequent enquiry after health status was seen as intrusive by some employees but part of good practice by employers and acknowledging this difference was useful. Secondly, being able to trust employees due to their performance track record was helpful for employers when dealing with complex chronic pain conditions. Thirdly, feeling valued increased employees’ motivation to return to work. Fourthly, guidelines about maintaining contact with absent employees were useful if used flexibly. Finally, both parties valued the fit note for its positive language, interrogative format and biomedical authority. ConclusionsThe fit note was perceived to be helpful if used in combination with other strategies for managing sick leave and RTW for people with chronic pain. These strategies may be applicable to other fluctuating, long-term conditions with medically unexplained elements. <br/
USS Wainwright (CG 28)
No full textThe guided-missile cruiser USS Wainwright, a Belknap-class destroyer leader was the third ship of the United States Navy to be named for members of the Wainwright family; specifically, Commander Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, his son, Master Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, Jr., and his cousin, Commander Richard Wainwright, as well as Rear Admiral Richard Wainwright, the son of Commander Richard Wainwright, and Commander Richard Wainwright, the son of Admiral Wainwright. Her keel was laid down on 2 July 1962 at Bath, Maine, by the Bath Iron Works Corporation. She was launched on 25 April 1965 sponsored by Mrs. Richard W. Wainwright and commissioned on 8 January 1966 at the Boston Naval Shipyard with Captain Robert P. Foreman in command. (Wikipedia)https://nsuworks.nova.edu/nasfl_ships/1070/thumbnail.jp
Finding a Way Forward. Lessons from the Corbyn Project in the UK (James Schneider interviewed by Hilary Wainwright)
No full textWithin hours of Jeremy Corbyn becoming leader of the British Labour Party, the gloves were off. The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP), the mainstream media (assisted by much of the Labour Party’s administrative apparatus) and the British capitalist class were all intensely hostile and launched a relentless attack that constantly stymied Corbyn’s project of a transformative socialist government, culminating in the party’s heavy defeat in the general election of December in 2019, in which the right-wing populist project of ‘Brexit’ (leaving the European Union) split Labour’s members and its electoral base. Corbyn and his supporters were quickly marginalized, as the right wing reasserted its grip under the new leader, Keir Starmer.
James Schneider not only had a ringside seat at all these events, but was sufficiently part of the team to feel keenly the moments of exhilaration, sweat and pain of the five-year struggle, while all the time knowing, from his year as Momentum’s National Organizer, the vast untapped potential for movement initiative and mobilizations that lay beyond the ‘tyranny of the immediate’ which dominated life in the Leader’s office in Westminster. In this interview, he assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the extra-parliamentary forces that backed Corbyn, from the low ebb of trade union organization when Corbyn first became leader to the limited but important ways in which the new leadership of the Labour Party revalidated trade unions, and the positive legacy of the Corbyn leadership in encouraging popular self-confidence and politicization. At a time when many on the left are leaving or considering leaving the Labour Party, Schneider urges a strategy which transcends the ‘inside the party or out of it’ dichotomy which has constantly exhausted left thinking in the UK. Instead, he outlines the idea of a hybrid movement rooted primarily in communities and workplaces while at the same time, without compromising its mobilizing and campaigning energies, continuing the struggle for democratic control of the Labour Party.
Schneider is interviewed in May 2021 by Hilary Wainwright, editor of Red Pepper and contributing editor to the Socialist Register, and author of numerous books on the politics of the left. Wainwright has long been an advocate of the need for the left across Europe to experiment in ‘parties of a new kind’ that would break from both traditional social democracy and the vanguard party models of the far left
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