All Outputs (22)

Hubert Crackanthorpe and The Zola Effect (2021)
Journal Article

Adivasi life and folklore event (2021)
Digital Artefact

Seral Murmu is an Adivasi filmmaker from Jharkhand in India whose films draw on oral Adivasi narratives, magical realism and experimental cinematography. His film Sondhayni (2019), for example, is a modern folktale that critiques the exploitation and... Read More about Adivasi life and folklore event.

The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture (2021)
Book

The art and literature of our time is pregnant with catastrophe, with weather and water, wildness and weirdness. The Anthropocene – the term given to this geological epoch in which humans, anthropos, are wreaking havoc on the earth – is to be found b... Read More about The Anthropocene Unconscious: Climate Catastrophe Culture.

Introduction - Special issue: Nineteenth-century women's ghost stories (2021)
Journal Article

Architecture (2021)
Book Chapter

The essay retraces the relationship between Marxism and architectural theory, from Marx and Engels' texts to contemporary literature. It's part of the SAGE Handbook of Marxism, a showcase of essays that rigorously map and renew the concepts that have... Read More about Architecture.

Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama (2021)
Journal Article

Lander offers a glimpse of the elusive holy grail for participatory dramatists; a way to offer audience members a role within the narrative and to give them genuine agency over events and even the outcome.
He describes the use of a “conversational a... Read More about Audience as co-writers: Using conversational AI to deliver audience agency in a participatory drama.

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 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.

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.

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.