Outputs (59)

Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The social and historical construction of Visual Culture is entangled in a false theory/practice binary that presents writing as cerebral and formulaic. Through this construction, writing is often conflated with an essay assessment and a transmission... Read More about Writing practices, socialisation and subject cultures: Visual culture pedagogies.

Black Lives Matter: How the UK movement struggled to be heard (2023)
Newspaper / Magazine

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

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.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference. In conversation with Olivia Lopez Calderon (2023)
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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 Olivia Lopez Calderon.

When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference: In conversation with Ally Zlatar (2023)
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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 Ally Zlatar.

When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Centred on voice as a lens through which we conceive of a social alterity that undermines current ideological dominance, 'When I Dare To Be Powerful International Conference' would like to invite proposals from academics, practitioners and activists... Read More about When I Dare to be Powerful International Conference.

Supporting women with learning disabilities to feed their babies (2023)
Digital Artefact

This short film was co-produced with researchers and people with a learning disability to make research findings accessible. The research looked at supporting women with learning disabilities to make decisions about how to feed their babies.

Candles (2022)
Book Chapter

In this short auto-ethnographic essay, Sobers uses material culture as a doorway into a deeply personal reflection. Focusing on a pair of candles given to him by his late brother, the chapter leads the reader through the complexity of family dynamics... Read More about Candles.

Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Sobers spoke at a roundtable discussion with 20 human rights advocates from across Europe, at the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR), Brussels. Sobers talked about the King Leopold II statue in Brussels, and points of... Read More about Reflections on anti-racism and memorialisation from South West UK.

The point of truth, beauty and knowledge (2022)
Exhibition / Performance

I was invited by the curator Debora Ando to take oart in this exhibition at Kunstlerhaus , Dortmund , Germany.

"The point of truth, beauty and knowledge" presents six positions whose artistic explorations reflect current investigations on the poet... Read More about The point of truth, beauty and knowledge.

Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: UK health care professionals' experiences (2022)
Journal Article

Women with learning disabilities are less likely to breastfeed than other women. They may find it hard to understand or learn feeding techniques or know that they have infant feeding choices. This population may be supported during their pregnancies... Read More about Supporting women with learning disabilities in infant feeding decisions: UK health care professionals' experiences.

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.

Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet (2022)
Journal Article

This article reflects upon my short visual recording Eyedrops: A Monoculogue (2021). It describes the thinking process of creative avoidance (both making something new, but recycling ideas and materials which already exist, both in the mind and close... Read More about Iris in, Iris out: Reflections on the production, exhibition and viewing of a bisected-eyeball hand-puppet.

Ways of writing in Art and Design (2022)
Journal Article

This Editorial charts the journey from an initial conversation amongst Visual Culture colleagues at the University of the West of England to this special issue on Ways of Writing in Art and Design. It describes our intention to imagine forms of writi... Read More about Ways of writing in Art and Design.

Re-visioning cultural, historical and gendered aspects of Nottingham's past and present (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

VCRC Symposium These Books... (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Presentation of a project framework that evidences how UK practitioners articulate their bodies and senses to engage with equipment and materials to enable the development of their practice within letterpress printed artists' books.

Sharing curren... Read More about VCRC Symposium These Books....

Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This performative paper explores an empirical case study and sound “data-stream”, developed as part of a four-year doctoral research project titled Bio-rhythms/ Digi-rhythms: Synthesizing the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies... Read More about Running In Rome: A bio/digi-rhythmic soundscape.

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.

Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

The environmental crisis, inequality, anti-trans discrimination and racism are some of the most pressing issues of our times. Can artists credibly claim engage with pressing issues? When does art become a form of activism? Why might we need arts ac... Read More about Visualising the muted effects of dissenting women's voices.

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.