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Feminism and art in Postwar Italy: The legacy of Carla Lonzi, Francesco Ventrella and Giovanna Zapperi (eds) (2020) (2021)
Journal Article

Review of: Feminism and Art in Postwar Italy: The Legacy of Carla Lonzi, Francesco Ventrella and Giovanna Zapperi (eds) (2020)

London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 296 pp.,

ISBN 978-1-78453-732-6, h/bk, £95.00

In conversation with Melissa Chemam: 'Here, there… Evenwhere' (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

For six decades, Arnolfini has brought the works of many thousands of artists, from all over the world, to many millions of people here in Bristol. There are many different ways in which this history can be told, many different threads of development... Read More about In conversation with Melissa Chemam: 'Here, there… Evenwhere'.

The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses – Part 3 - Black flags and dumb peals: The spread of news of the defeat (2021)
Digital Artefact

The following series of three articles examine initial public responses to the news of the defeat of the Second Reform Bill in the House of Lords on 8th October 1831 across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. The evidential basis of this article is... Read More about The defeat of the Second Reform Bill in October 1831 – An overview of public responses – Part 3 - Black flags and dumb peals: The spread of news of the defeat.

Investment into R&D will be vital for the recovery of creative and cultural organisations (2021)
Digital Artefact

Tarek Virani looks at the impacts of the pandemic on the UK's creative and cultural sector, and why the evidence shows that investing into R&D is vital for helping organisations recover from COVID-19.

And some of us are silenced (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In Mangrove the first of the Small Axe films, bio-chemist student Althea says “We need to challenge the system… We mustn’t be victims but protagonists of our stories and what better way of representing ourselves but self-representing ourselves.” A bo... Read More about And some of us are silenced.

The dark economies of sexual myths (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

According to Foucault, the Victorian obsession with sexuality proliferated through discourse. This paper will begin by exploring how it spawned a lucrative industry in anti-masturbatory self-help books and devices, which for males rested on the pseu... Read More about The dark economies of sexual myths.

Roots/Routes Series: The Important Role of Black Studies (2021)
Digital Artefact

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: The Important Role of Black Studies.

Roots/Routes Series: Black Thought, Imagination and Intellectual Presence (2021)
Digital Artefact

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

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

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

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.

‘Speaking the data’: Renegotiating the digitally-mediated body through performative embodied praxis, sound and rhythmic affect (2021)
Journal Article

This article explores an alternative autoethnographic methodological approach, using embodied praxis and sound, for critically re-thinking contemporary subjective health practices of digital ‘self-tracking’; popularized in recent years through the ri... Read More about ‘Speaking the data’: Renegotiating the digitally-mediated body through performative embodied praxis, sound and rhythmic affect.

How can racism against people of African descent be tackled? (2021)
Digital Artefact

A United Nations report set out a four-point plan of action to tackle systemic racism.

“Systemic racism needs a systemic response.”

That is the call to action from the UN Human Rights chief Michelle Bachelet, who released a scathing report into... Read More about How can racism against people of African descent be tackled?.

Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture (2021)
Book Chapter

This chapter analyses how the social circulation of milk is performed in realist-naturalist writings of the late nineteenth century. Milk becomes an unalienable property of the nurturing body, a circulating property of instrumental modernity and, at... Read More about Fluid performances: The circulation of milk in late-nineteenth century fiction and culture.

Make, Do and Mend: The Art of the Maker series 20/05/2021 (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The Art of the Maker Series (2021-2023)
In collaboration with Arnolfini, Bristol, CFPR are launching an exciting series of lectures and events.
A series of practitioners-in-conversation from different backgrounds will talk about their research ski... Read More about Make, Do and Mend: The Art of the Maker series 20/05/2021.

WHERE? (2021)
Book

In 2017, Simon Moreton's father fell suddenly ill and died. His death sent the author back to his childhood home in rural Shropshire trying to process his grief by revisiting his family's time as transplants to the countryside. The story centres arou... Read More about WHERE?.

Documentary Premier - The Art of Oppression (2021) (2021)
Digital Artefact

At the intersection of art, social injustice, and womanhood, The Art of Oppression'(2021), directed by Patricia Francis, is a documentary about resilience and hope. The film follows three women artists who use their art to articulate their experience... Read More about Documentary Premier - The Art of Oppression (2021).

Perfect storm for a Black revolution (2021)
Digital Artefact

Postgraduate researcher and filmmaker Patricia Francis addresses the ongoing questions regarding the perceived value of Black lives.

Conversations between spaces and screens (2021)
Exhibition / Performance

This exhibition comprises four films that present an investigation of ‘Touch’ through the staging of an online event, planned previously as a physical one:
1. Touch Vignettes
2. Familiar spaces
3. letterpress/noletterpressproject
4. Ritual, g... Read More about Conversations between spaces and screens.

“Such works of handwork and hybridity remember the body. Heavy on this planet and in this space and moment, the book in hand completing the circle from artist, to press to reader, and completing us in turn” (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In setting phenomenology within the context of art-making it is possible to investigate how we use our minds and bodies through the experience of practice. This discussion considers that contemporary artist-publishing activities that employ the lette... Read More about “Such works of handwork and hybridity remember the body. Heavy on this planet and in this space and moment, the book in hand completing the circle from artist, to press to reader, and completing us in turn”.