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A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation (2024)
Presentation / Conference
Hughes, K. (2024, March). A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation. Paper presented at 2024 International Symposium on Autoethnography and Narrative Inquiry, Online

This audio-visual presentation recontextualizes postmodern ‘punk’ feminist writer Kathy Acker’s essay ‘Against Ordinary Language: The Language of the Body’ (1993) as a critical experimental work of narrative autoethnography. It will be proposed that... Read More about A 'language of the body': Weightlifting and (reptilian) rhythms of regulation.

Rivermaids (2024)
Digital Artefact
Berridge, S., McEwen, L., & Chun, K. (2024). Rivermaids. [Audio]

This play - a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, has been co-created with community members of Tewkesbury and in partnership with The Roses Theatre. It is a response to a research call encouraging new collaboration between D... Read More about Rivermaids.

Let’s play together (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Lovesmith, G., & Rasbash, Z. (2023, November). Let’s play together. Presented at Sustainability and health: the nexus of carbon-neutral architecture and well-being. The 56th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association, University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

Throughout 2022-23 Watershed (cultural cinema & creative technology centre) have been working with an architect & socially-engaged artist on plans to adapt their building for the Climate Emergency. Watershed leads within its communities with a proud... Read More about Let’s play together.

The alchemy of metaphor (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Mahood, K. (2023, November). The alchemy of metaphor. Paper presented at Alchemy: Exploring Metaphorical Transformations and Arts-Based Research, St Anne's College, Oxford

In Joan Didion’s biopic ‘The Centre Will Not Hold’ there’s a moment when she speaks of seeing a five year old girl on acid in Haight Ashbury. ‘It was gold,’ she says, sharp-eyed and birdlike. Didion knew the power of writing to transform... Read More about The alchemy of metaphor.

The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films? (2023)
Book Chapter
Francis, P. (2023). The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films?. In T. Austin (Ed.), ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (1-226). Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press

Prime time Sunday evening viewing across five weeks of Steve McQueen's penology offered the opportunity to give volume to the silenced, to offer an alternative social historical account of the plurality of the Black British experience, to represent... Read More about The burden of expectation: Where are the women in Steve McQueen's small axe films?.

Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Berridge, S., McEwen, L., & Chun, K. (2023). Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.

Flood-prone places and people often face conflicting interests that hinder their ability to cope with, and adapt to, wider water security issues. To enhance capacities of these places and people, interdisciplinary researchers (UWE, Bristol) and Acta... Read More about Co-developing participatory dramabased methods to gather diverse community voices on water relationships in the riverside town of Tewkesbury, UK.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig. [Online Talk]

When I Dare To Be Powerful Online Talk Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing questions relating to... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig.

Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice? (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Francis, P. (2023, June). Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?. Paper presented at Oral History Society Making Histories Together Conference 2023, Nottingham

In 2020, documentary filmmaker Reece Auguiste and his colleagues speculated that ‘[c]o-creation functions as a utopian idea that may never be fully actualized.’ Co-creation and collaboration are concepts that dissemble the power and control intrinsic... Read More about Is collaboration and co-creation an illusionary practice?.

Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Other
Francis, P. (2023). Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard. [Online Newspaper Journal]

In response to the killing of George Floyd in May 2020, international protests under the banner of the Black Lives Matter movement asserted the global inequity of the Black experience. But the Black Lives Matter movement was formed much earlier than... Read More about Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2023). When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary. [Podcast]

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference Podcast Series. When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference brought filmmakers, artists, writers and activists together with conceptual thinkers and cultural theorists to answer pressing... Read More about When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary.

Downstream UK (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Berridge, S., Mc Ewen, L., & Chun, K. Downstream UK. [Performance]. December 2022 - December 2023. (Unpublished)

‘Downstream UK – a Pilot’ Dec’22-Dec’23: A community play: a drama piece about local water resilience and climate change, co-created with community members of Tewkesbury and in partnership with The Roses Theatre and acta Community Theatre. It was m... Read More about Downstream UK.

Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence (2021)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2021). Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence. [Film]

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence.

Roots/Routes Series: Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham (2021)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2021). Roots/Routes Series: Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham. [Film]

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Community Organising and Creative Practice in Nottingham.

Roots/Routes Series: Why Research? (2021)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2021). Roots/Routes Series: Why Research?. [Film]

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Why Research?.

Roots/Routes Series: Our Story (2021)
Digital Artefact
Francis, P. (2021). Roots/Routes Series: Our Story. [Film]

Drawing inspiration from Paul Gilroy, this series reimagines the exploration of Black lives taking place in the local community. It arises from current conversations about how we write, reflect and create as Black people working in and around Black s... Read More about Roots/Routes Series: Our Story.