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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.

Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals (2023)
Thesis
Grant, W. Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals. (Thesis). University of Glasgow. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/11515380

This extended, normative case study was initiated in response to my professional concerns regarding the capacity of student art and design teachers to defend and extend their personal ideals for future classroom practice. Placement in schools, a majo... Read More about Protecting transformative optimism in the art classroom: Exploring aspirant art teachers’ shifting ideals.

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.

An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes (2023)
Thesis
Gooby, B. An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/8704673

Digital printing technology has had a major impact for the textile designer. Their design process now enables them to create complicated multi-layered digital designs incorporating photographic images and intricate detail. Artwork is no longer restri... Read More about An exploratory study of methodologies for digital colour printing in textile design, through an understanding of interwar historical colour palettes.

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 Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign (2023)
Book Chapter
Fedorowich, K., & Van der Waag, I. (2023). The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign. In M. Thomas, & G. Curless (Eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Late Colonial Insurgencies and Counter-Insurgencies (784). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198866787.001.0001

The Afrikaner rebellion of 1914-1915 is an under-studied but significant event in South Africa’s troubled history. At its core was the struggle for the leadership and direction of an increasingly polarised Afrikaner community, elements of which were... Read More about The Afrikaner rebellion 1914-15: Internal conflict and the counterinsurgency campaign.

SOL-ART Visions (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Nicoletti, E., & Upfest. (2023). SOL-ART Visions. [Exhibition]. Exhibited at Tobacco Factory, Bristol. 17 July 2023 - 31 July 2023. (Unpublished)

Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) technology enables the replacement of conventional building envelope materials with photovoltaics (PVs) that generate electrical energy from sunlight. PVs can be integrated visibly or invisibly into roofs and f... Read More about SOL-ART Visions.

The Long Partition (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Mulji, H. The Long Partition. [Watercolour on paper, audio score]. Exhibited at Philadelphia, USA. 3 July 2023 - 2 October 2023. (Unpublished)

Curators Note: Huma Mulji’s proposal consists of nine trompe l’oeil paintings of cassette tapes used by her mother to correspond with her closest female relatives. Each cassette carries an oral epistle, a Derridean “sendoff” pining for a reply, a lon... Read More about The Long Partition.

Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022) (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Laidler, P. Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022). [Artist Book]. Exhibited at Germany. 14 May 2023 - 3 September 2023. (Unpublished)

In reference to one of the first ground-breaking exhibitions in the 1970s about the then still new medium of artists’ books—"Book as Artwork 1960/72”, held in 1972 at Nigel Greenwood Inc. in London and curated by Italian critic Germano Celant with ga... Read More about Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statement (1960-2022).

Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements (2023)
Journal Article
Banou, S. (2023). Inhabitation, difference, performance: Architectural linearity in three movements. Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, 8(1), 49-69. https://doi.org/10.1386/drtp_00105_1

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.

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.

Song for a scar (2022)
Journal Article
Rogers, S. (2022). Song for a scar. The Contemporary Journal, 4,

One poem in a special issue of the journal on the theme of "Care"

Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space (2022)
Thesis
King, A. Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space. (Thesis). University of the West of England. Retrieved from https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/9303643

Game jams are intensive, time-bound videogame-development events where students, professionals, and hobbyists form teams to create games against the clock. Jams are popular, offering accessible, informal learning environments which promote teamwork,... Read More about Disruptive learning and optimal flow: Game jams in heterotopic affinity space.

Food Unwrapped - Series 23 Episode 3 (2022)
Digital Artefact
Menger, F. (2022). Food Unwrapped - Series 23 Episode 3. [Television program]

Practical demonstration of the photographic Autochrome process, invented by the Lumiere Brothers in the 1890's, for the Channel 4 program 'Food Unwrapped', on the theme of how potato starch can be used for photographic purposes.

Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Portus, R. (2022, October). Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity

As concern for bees’ survival becomes an increased focus of environmental conversations, projects that engage with bee decline have emerged as a visible fixture of the creative landscape. This invites the question of what role creative practitioners... Read More about Art and ecology: Encountering bee decline through creativity.

Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline (2022)
Journal Article
Portus, R. (2023). Performing extinction stories: Exploring creative responses to bee decline. Text and Performance Quarterly, 43(2), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2022.2134583

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
Kostourou, F., & Karimnia, E. (Eds.). (2022). Encounters. Theatrum Mundi

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
Ochu, E., & Aneja, U. (2022, October). AI and Society: Behind AI Systems. Presented at Behind AI Systems, Online

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.