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Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition] (2023)
Exhibition / Performance
Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition]. Exhibition held on 3-19 March 2023, Aberdeen.

Aberdeen Open City is an exhibition which aims to showcase the range of contemporary art practices shaped by, or located in, the city and identifies loose overlaps and problematics that each of these addresses. The trio of trials that have warped the... Read More about Aberdeen open city. [Exhibition].

Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Article] (2023)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2023. Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? Field: a journal of socially-engaged art criticism [online], 23. Available from: https://field-journal.com/issue-23/thinking-with-the-harrisons-what-does-now-demand

"The reversal of entropy requires considerable energy and imagination and is accompanied by risk." This statement from the designer, planner and ecologist Frederick Steiner evokes the core challenge of the current environmental crisis: the energy tha... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Article].

Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. (2023)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video. Arts [online], 12(2), article 42. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts12020042

This essay is an initial study that examines selected contemporary video artworks addressing identity and representation by contemporary Italian women artists. The author shows how these women artists seek to avoid the objectification and sanitisatio... Read More about Representation and identity in contemporary women artists' video..

The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review. (2023)
Journal Article
MESJAR, L., CROSS, K., JIANG, Y. and STEED, J. 2023. The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review. Sustainability [online], 15(4), article number 3761. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su15043761

Fashion industry emissions, resource use and waste are attracting increasing consumer and government attention, with broad agreement that a new approach is required along the supply chain. Following the COVID-19 pandemic, a move to digitalisation fac... Read More about The intersection of fashion, immersive technology and sustainability: a literature review..

Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among middle-aged European citizens. [Dataset] (2023)
Dataset
RUGGERONE, L. and HACKETT, C. 2023. Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among middle-aged European citizens. [Dataset]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1893116

This study ran between October 2021 and June 2022. Using a combination of participant-created artwork and semi-structured interviews, the project aimed to examine the effects of the Coronavirus epidemic and Brexit on the emotional wellbeing of middle... Read More about Living through the pandemic in post-Brexit Britain: emotional damage and forms of resilience among middle-aged European citizens. [Dataset].

Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. (2022)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2022. Searching for the ethos of a lost art school. In Ingold, T. (ed.) Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 165-188. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-008

This search is motivated by an abiding belief in the possibilities of art schools. It is a response to many conversations over recent years around the future of art education and the significant role it has played in weaving the social fabric. I cont... Read More about Searching for the ethos of a lost art school..

Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. (2022)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2022. Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s. In Leuzzi, L., Partridge, S. and Shemilt, E. (eds.) Richard Demarco: the Italian connection. Barnet: John Libbey, chapter 7, pages 105-113.

During the Cold War period, relations between the UK and Yugoslavia were couched entirely in the frames of politics, economics or military history; in the later years of socialist Yugoslavia, from the later seventies onwards, links were also develope... Read More about Demarco and Yugoslavia in the 1970s..

Passing the torch. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Passing the torch. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 25 November - 2 December 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

The "Fired Up" event on the 30th October 2022 was the first communal firing of the on-campus wood-fired kiln that had been jointly constructed by both staff and students. The works resulting from this firing were then presented at the "Passing the To... Read More about Passing the torch. [Exhibition].

Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
CAMPBELL, A., CONNOR, F., MACPHERSON, J., MCKIE, M., MILNE, J., MORRIS, K.A., MUNDAY, M., PARTRIDGE LOVE, H., RILEY, C., SHEARER-ANDERSON, A., VAN LOON, J. and WILKINSON, C. 2022. Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 4-11 November 2022, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

This exhibition featured works by support staff at Gray's School of Art, Robert Gordon University. The works represent a wide variety of artforms: painting, photography, illustration, cartooning, ceramics, jewellery, costume, textiles, film and sound... Read More about Dirty hands, fine work. [Exhibition].

In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. (2022)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2022. In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. Women eco artists dialog magazine [online], 13: the art of empathy. Available from: https://directory.weadartists.org/in-conversation-a-poetics-of-empathy

Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison are pioneers in the creative development of art and ecology. It was Helen who read Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, a critical influence in their decision in the early 1970s to do no work that did not in some wa... Read More about In conversation: a poetics of empathy: Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison..

Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art. (2022)
Presentation / Conference
AMIES, L. and STEED, J. 2022. Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art. Presented at the 2022 RGU annual learning and teaching conference (RGU LTC 2022): enhancing for impact, 21 October 2022, Aberdeen, UK.

The paper discusses a project that aimed to develop academic and student understanding of sustainability at Gray's School of Art. The project sits in the context of RGU's Net Zero actions, with the objective of embedding net zero narratives within RG... Read More about Embedding sustainability within the curriculum at Gray's School of Art..

Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post] (2022)
Digital Artefact
MAURILLON, C., MORRIS, K. and WILCOCK, M. 2022. Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post]. Posted on RGView [online], 12 October 2022. Available from: https://bit.ly/3Y5yHVX

This post was created in order to promote the first communal firing of an on-campus wood kiln that was jointly built by staff and students. In the post, staff members Kevin Morris and Matthew Wilcock talk about their practice and research in ceramics... Read More about Fired up: the ancient art of ceramics celebrated at Gray's first communal wood firing. [Blog post].

Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 29 July - 25 September 2022, Summerhall, Edinburgh.

This exhibition presents a parallel exploration of the intersection between imagination and technology, and explores the rich aesthetic of Afrofuturism through the work of six contemporary mixed-media artists; Igor Bošnjak, Mladen Bundalo, Lana Čmajč... Read More about Nothing's guaranteed: exhibition of Bosno-futurism. [Exhibition].

Aberdeen, city of culture? How best-laid plans "gang aft a-gley". (2022)
Journal Article
CHARLES, S. and NICOLL, H. 2022. Aberdeen, city of culture? How best-laid plans "gang aft a-gley". M/C journal [online], 25(3): cities, article 2903. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5204/mcj.2903

This article explores the phenomenon of the Creative City in the context of Aberdeen, Scotland's third-largest city. The common perception of Aberdeen is likely to revolve around its status, for the last 50 years, as Europe’s Oil and Gas Capital. How... Read More about Aberdeen, city of culture? How best-laid plans "gang aft a-gley"..

Lockdown in post-Brexit Britain: how did it feel for EU citizens? (2022)
Presentation / Conference
RUGGERONE, L. and HACKETT, C. 2022. Lockdown in post-Brexit Britain: how did it feel for EU citizens? Presented at the EU Nationals Study webinar on living in post-Brexit Britain during the pandemic, 13 June 2022, [virtual event].

This study (https://www.eunationalsstudy.com) examines the effects of the Coronavirus epidemic and Brexit on the emotional wellbeing of middle-aged European citizens who have transnational caring responsibilities in the UK and in Europe. This qualita... Read More about Lockdown in post-Brexit Britain: how did it feel for EU citizens?.

No place like home. [Exhibition] (2022)
Exhibition / Performance
No place like home. [Exhibition]. Exhibited on 5 June 2022, Fittie Community Hall, Aberdeen.

This exhibition featured artworks that were created as part of an RGU research project into the impact of Brexit on EU nationals living in the UK. The exhibition explored migration and diversity across Aberdeen and was held as part of the opening of... Read More about No place like home. [Exhibition].

Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference. (2022)
Thesis
FREMANTLE, C.N. 2022. Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1712793

This PhD by Public Output contributes to the wider understanding of 'ecological thinking' in the arts, through the portfolio of peer reviewed research publications of a producer of public art projects in the healthcare and environment settings. A tim... Read More about Working together on ecological thinking: relationality and difference..

Contextualities of listening to soundscapes: the past and the present converging in Sarajevo. (2022)
Journal Article
ZE?O, M. 2022. Contextualities of listening to soundscapes: the past and the present converging in Sarajevo. Journal of sonic studies [online], 23: Sounds of the Balkan, exposition 1599648. Available from: https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1599648/1599649

This article discusses the relationship between autobiographical memories and personal and group identities in the post-conflict soundscape of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The discussion will focus on the perspectives of residents and their in... Read More about Contextualities of listening to soundscapes: the past and the present converging in Sarajevo..

Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Presentation] (2022)
Presentation / Conference
DOUGLAS, A. and FREMANTLE, C. 2022. Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? Presented at Listening to the web of life, 17-18 March 2022, San Diego, USA. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1629026

How can we learn to think ecologically when our technological, social, aesthetic and political systems are built on the primacy of human rationality? Helen Mayer Harrison (1927-2018) and Newton Harrison's (b. 1932) practice as artists borrows from th... Read More about Thinking with the Harrisons: what does now demand? [Presentation].

About performance: a conversation with Richard Schechner. (2022)
Journal Article
MADEIRA, C., CRUZEIRO, C.P., DOUGLAS, A. and ELIAS, H. 2022. About performance: a conversation with Richard Schechner. Arts [online], 11(1), article 14. Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/arts11010014

Richard Schechner is University Professor Emeritus at New York University (https: //tisch.nyu.edu/about/directory/performance-studies/3508301, accessed 13 December 2021). As an experienced theatre director, scholar, and researcher, he pioneered the f... Read More about About performance: a conversation with Richard Schechner..