Outputs (34)

Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This talk will explore a long-running project that has evolved slowly, revealing different stages of how the project will be revealed over a long period of time. The Emperor in question is Haile Selassie I, and the material culture in question is a p... Read More about Exploring the use of an entertainment device in a time of trauma. A longitudinal approach to communicating the story of an Emperor in exile and the role of material culture in everyday life.

New traditions - An exhibition of modern folklore (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

The New Traditions on Modern Folklore exhibition seeks to merge echoes of ancient lore with the pulsing grind of contemporary life, inviting select artists to contribute visions of this "future-past" through conventional and experimental interpretati... Read More about New traditions - An exhibition of modern folklore.

Beyond the beautiful game (2024)
Book Chapter

Football has always been rooted in working-class culture and celebrated within working-class communities. Criticism of today’s game typically focuses on the capitalisation of some leagues, and football’s growing distance from its own roots. Yet, it r... Read More about Beyond the beautiful game.

Frankenstein Frontispiece, the Missing Phallus and the Pornographer: The Alchemy of Conceiving Monstrosities (2023)
Book Chapter

Class Action (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

People with a working-class heritage can face deeply entrenched normative and attitudinal barriers in and through education. Yet, they remain a comparatively overlooked social group in academic studies, even with those employing intersectional analys... Read More about Class Action.

Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology (2023)
Journal Article

As an artist researcher I am exploring how I orientate my queer body in an archival space. The focus of this article is how my discursive body negotiates archival relations, conflating ‘cruising’ as a method, seeking through intrigue and desire, maki... Read More about Cruising the archive: Discovering a queer methodology.

Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Specially commissioned staff development lecture for housing professionals at Stonewater, (one of UK's largest social housing providers). The lecture discussed different ways of thinking about the idea and importance of home and housing, through th... Read More about Visual anthropology of home, culture and identity.

Black everyday lives, material culture and narrative: Tings in de House (2023)
Journal Article

Review of the book "Black Everyday Lives, Material Culture and Narrative: Tings in de House" by Shawn-Naphtali Sobers.

Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations (2023)
Journal Article

Anthropocentrism has been identified as a root cause of nonhuman animal and intrahuman oppressions and the environmental crisis. Veganism has been celebrated as a philosophy and practice capable of undermining anthropocentrism, yet the anti-anthropoc... Read More about Veganism’s anti-anthropocentric capacity: A critical analysis of the advocacy discourse of three prominent vegan organisations.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: Online talk with Irene Lusztig (2023)
Digital Artefact

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.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ja' Tovia Monique Gary (2023)
Digital Artefact

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.

Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited (2023)
Journal Article

Why, 70 years after the publication of Lionel Fanthorpe’s first story Worlds Without End (1952), must his reputation as a writer of science fiction (henceforth SF) be reconsidered? In this article we suggest that Lionel Fanthorpe’s techniques and wor... Read More about Words without end: Lionel Fianthorpe's science fiction revisited.

Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements (2023)
Journal Article

This article questions the temporal and material limitations of architectural representation, as they emerge through the problematic relationship between architectural drawing, considered as a static object of fixed convention and space as an inheren... Read More about Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements.

The milieu culture of punk: Beyond the scene - A guide to thinking and researching culture (2022)
Book Chapter

This chapter looks at the idea of Milieu Cultures as a tool and theoretical framework through which to examine and understand the culture of, in this example, Punk. The chapter looks at how using the framework of milieu cultures can help us understan... Read More about The milieu culture of punk: Beyond the scene - A guide to thinking and researching culture.

Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
Journal Article

As extinction becomes one of the most pressing crises of our time, projects that engage with nonhuman lives have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This raises the question of what role creative explorations might play in shaping... Read More about Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline.

Encounters (2022)
Book

Encounters voices the choreographers, dancers, architects, and urbanists who contributed to the Movement Forum project. It narrates their experiences in London, Paris, and Lisbon which challenged the way they relate to themselves, to others, to a pla... Read More about Encounters.

AI and Society: Behind AI Systems (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Artificial Intelligence, algorithmic systems and machine decision making are being embedded in many areas of society – policing, justice, finance, banking, shopping and navigation just to name a few. These systems are affecting people’s lives in ways... Read More about AI and Society: Behind AI Systems.

Exploring stardom: Sean Connery (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sean Connery was one of a select few stars who have become an instantly recognisable cultural icon whose image and distinctive voice have penetrated deeply into global popular culture and public consciousness.

Best known as the screen’s ‘first’ Ja... Read More about Exploring stardom: Sean Connery.

Catching the light (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

Every image catches the light. Light is what we see. It is an energy which only forms an image in our heads when it interacts with our environment and is translated in our brains into a fantasy of the
world. How do we catch such an elusive entity?... Read More about Catching the light.

They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Set within the context of populism, patriarchy and the debilitating legacy of colonialism, The Art of Oppression follows three artists as they each rise to the challenge of creating a new work for the film. The women, award-winning artists, are as di... Read More about They will be heard: Representing and re-presenting voices of marginalised and racialised women through film.