All Outputs (10)

Thinking with the Harrisons. (2023)
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DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. [2024]. Thinking with the Harrisons. Leuven: Leuven University Press. (Forthcoming)

This book asks a fundamental question around the place of the arts in the global environmental crises. In arguing that the arts have an important role, we are also suggesting that the arts need to be rethought, reimagined and reconfigured through new... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons..

Overcoming art. (2021)
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BLACKWOOD, J., SAMANDOVA, I., VITANOVSKA, A. and IVANOV, B. 2021. Overcoming art. Skopje: Mala Galerija. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1481532

The origins of this project are in the pre-COVID world. It grew in part out of a desire to map and understand visual culture beyond Skopje; the conflation of contemporary art in North Macedonia with contemporary art in Skopje has been something of a... Read More about Overcoming art..

Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts. (2018)
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DOUGLAS, A. 2018. Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts. Bristol: University of Bristol/AHRC Connected Communities Programme [online]. Available from: https://connected-communities.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Contemporary_Arts_2.pdf

Imagine a man standing in a covered market place. Other stallholders around him sell fruit and vegetables, clothes and household goods. However, he is undertaking an altogether different kind of exchange. He offers to insure the shoppers and other st... Read More about Redistributing power? A poetics of participation in contemporary arts..

Critical art in contemporary Macedonia. (2016)
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BLACKWOOD, J. 2016. Critical art in contemporary Macedonia. Skopje: Mala Galerija.

This book is the first in-depth study, in English, of contemporary art in Macedonia. Featuring a critical introduction, and over twenty interviews with contemporary artists, cultural workers, curators and writers, this book offers space for a range o... Read More about Critical art in contemporary Macedonia..

Introduction to contemporary art in BiH. (2015)
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BLACKWOOD, J. 2015. Introduction to contemporary art in BiH. Sarajevo: Duplex100m2

This will be the first ever book on contemporary art in Bosnia & Herzegovina, in any language. The book derives from a period of three years of research and participatory observation around the differing art activities in BiH. In a challenging contex... Read More about Introduction to contemporary art in BiH..

Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution. (2012)
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MACDONALD, S. 2012. Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution. Alresford: Zero Books.

Central to Scotlands creative economy is Creative Scotland, the national agency, which sits within the broader context of creative and cultural provision. For the first time a corporate plan has been produced that includes working across the span of... Read More about Designs on democracy: architecture and design in Scotland post devolution..

Alcohol: through our eyes: young people's representations of drinking in Scotland. (2012)
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HACKETT, C., SEAMAN, P. and EDGAR, F. 2012. Alcohol: through our eyes: young people's representations of drinking in Scotland. Glasgow: Glasgow Centre for Population Health.

This book is based on a research project that explored how young men and women use alcohol as they move from their mid teens through to their late twenties. This period of life is sometimes referred to as the transition to adulthood. We wanted to fin... Read More about Alcohol: through our eyes: young people's representations of drinking in Scotland..

Calendar variations. (2011)
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COESSENS, K. and DOUGLAS, A. 2011. Calendar variations. Banchory: Woodend Barn.

This small book offers a visual and verbal reflection on the process of artistic practice and the ephemeral traces left by these. It is part of the exhibition 'Calendar Variations', held at the woodend barn, Banchory, Scotland in April 2011. It consi... Read More about Calendar variations..

The artistic turn: a manifesto. (2009)
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COESSENS, K., CRISPIN, D. and DOUGLAS, A. 2009. The artistic turn: a manifesto. Leuven: Leuven University Press.

Despite innovative developments in research in-and-through the arts in the past decade, the emergent field of artistic research remains controversial, and is accepted with varying degrees of enthusiasm in academic institutions. It is our contention t... Read More about The artistic turn: a manifesto..

Edge FM 87.9 MHz. (2004)
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CARTER, P. 2004. Edge FM 87.9 MHz. Aberdeen: Robert Gordon University.

Edge FM was developed in partnership with the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses, Fraserburgh, On the Edge Research and the artist, Paul Carter. The research challenge offered up by the project partners was to find a way of drawing young people living lo... Read More about Edge FM 87.9 MHz..