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Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. (2025)
Book Chapter
STEED, J., CROSS, K. and WILSON, B. 2025. Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed. In Kosmidou, E.R. and McMurtry, L.G. (eds.) Intangible cultural heritage and new methodological frameworks: media, performance and the public space. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 121-137. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003415329-11

Scotland’s Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) is diverse with many situated in rural and remote northerly peripheries, today still retaining human idiosyncrasies free from the uniformity created by mass-globalization. They include textile craft pract... Read More about Weaving a community: securing the intangible cultural heritage created by Harris Tweed..

Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. (2025)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2025. Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe. In Bittanti, M. and De Mutiis, M. (eds.) Fotoludica: fotografia e videogiochi tra arte e documentazione. Milan: Mimesis Edizioni [online], pages 459-491. Available from: https://milanmachinimafestival.org/fotoludica-book

In this chapter DeLappe and Leuzzi argue that screenshots and other artefacts created to document Joseph DeLappe's performative, activist, and interventionist actions within contemporary game spaces are at once inspired by war photography while also... Read More about Head shot! Artefatti del giocare interventista: le schermate estese di Joseph DeLappe..

Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. (2024)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2025. Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation. In Sansi, R. and Tinius, J. (eds.) The trouble with art: an anthropology beyond philistinism. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 9, pages 171-190. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003283683-13

This chapter considers the possibility of a 'symmetrical' anthropology by examining three 'parasitic' projects – collaborative, public projects at the borders of art and anthropology, which address the politics of authorship, intimacy and knowledge –... Read More about Parasitic projects and the politics of research-creation..

Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. (2024)
Book Chapter
SMITH, F. and MCKAY, F. 2024. Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood. In Le Clue, N. (ed.) Gender and the male character in 21st century fairy tale narratives: from enchanted heroes to modern masculinities. Leeds: Emerald Publishing Limited [online], chapter 6, pages 75-86. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-788-420241007

Red Riding Hood is said to have been assembled from folktales that pre-date the collector Charles Perrault's 1697 re-telling and initial publishing (Dundes, 1989; Zipes, 1993). Since then, it is a story that has been re-told and re-imagined many time... Read More about Transformative masculinities: re-examining the role of the male in Red Riding Hood..

Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. (2024)
Book Chapter
CROSS, K., STEED, J. and JIANG, Y. 2024. Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories. In Schramme, A. and Verboven, N. (eds.) Sustainability and the fashion industry: can fashion save the world? Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 4, pages 56-69. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781032659053-4

As part of Augmented Fashion, an interdisciplinary research project involving fashion, textiles and computing disciplines, a series of workshops were facilitated; this chapter discusses the emergent themes from the 'Redesigning for Creative Recovery'... Read More about Provenance and production in Scotland's fashion sector: shifting stories..

In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1110, pages 53-56.

This chapter - a short essay - forms Laura Leuzzi's chapter contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, scholars an... Read More about In dialogue: for an approach to activist curating..

Coming together differently. (2023)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2023. Coming together differently. In Johanna Billing: each moment presents what happens. London: Whitechapel Gallery [online]. Available from: https://www.whitechapelgallery.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Johanna-Billing_essay-by-Judith-Winter.pdf

In this essay, Judith Winter reflects on the origins and inspiration for Johanna Billing's work, "Each Moment Presents What Happens". The author looks back in particular towards John Cage's undocumented 1952 work, "Untitled Event (Theater Piece No. 1... Read More about Coming together differently..

Aphorisms on art and activism. (2023)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2023. Aphorisms on art and activism. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1100, pages 45-48.

This chapter - a compilation of aphorisms - forms Jon Blackwood's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate responses from artists, schol... Read More about Aphorisms on art and activism..

European values. (2023)
Book Chapter
ZEĆO, M. 2023. European values. In DeLappe, J. and Leuzzi, L. (eds.) Incite: digital art and activism. Aberdeen: peacock and the worm, chapter 1111, pages 57-60.

This chapter - a selection of quotes within variously decorated pages - forms Maja Zećo's contribution to the collaborative artists' book, "INCITE: Digital Art and Activism", edited by Joseph DeLappe and Laura Leuzzi. The book sought to collate respo... Read More about European values..

She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter] (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. In Laks, D. and Sassu Suarez Ferri, N. (eds.) Transmission and gender: women artists as teachers in the XXth century. Passages online, 26. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University; arthistoricum.net [online], pages 39-48. Available from: https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1148.c16188

The introduction of the portable video recorder enabled women artists of the 1970s to experiment with a medium that was considered easier and cheaper to operate than film, as well as free from the heavily male-dominated imprint of traditional artisti... Read More about She became my teacher and mentor: uncovering the legacy of women video pioneers in art schools and academies in Europe. [Book chapter].

Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. (2023)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2023. Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video. In Dreckmann, K. and Vomberg, E. (eds.) More than illustrated music: aesthetics of hybrid media between pop, art and video. New York: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 8, pages 93-105. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781501381263.0015

Since its commercial inception and availability in the late 60s and 70s, video has acted as a powerful tool for women artists to explore feminist issues and debunk stereotypes re-perpetrated over the centuries by patriarchal society. In resonance wit... Read More about Facing the lens of the camera: bodies, self-portraiture, portraiture and identity in women artists' video..

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..

Making politics: engaged social tactics. (2022)
Book Chapter
DELAPPE, J. and LEUZZI, L. 2022. Making politics: engaged social tactics. In burrough, x. and Walgren, J. (eds.) Art as social practice: technologies for change. New York: Routledge [online], chapter 10, pages 126-136. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003169109-13

In this interview, Joseph DeLappe describes a lineage of works and circumstances that led to a series of community-based and crowdsourced projects to encourage participation and creative critical action with participants, volunteers, and collaborator... Read More about Making politics: engaged social tactics..

Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival. (2022)
Book Chapter
DOUGLAS, A. 2022. Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival. In T. Ingold (Ed.), Knowing from the inside: cross-disciplinary experiments with matters of pedagogy. London: Bloomsbury Academic [online], chapter 9, pages 189-211. Available from: https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350217171.ch-009

In the early 1970s Allan Kaprow, artist, theorist and educator, wrote three essays entitled The Education of the Un-artist I, II and III. From the late 1950s Kaprow had been instrumental in the development of what he called 'Happenings' and was part... Read More about Dada and the absurd: pedagogies of art and survival..

The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. [Book chapter] (2022)
Book Chapter
DAVIDSON, A., BREMNER, P. and PERKINS, J. 2022. The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. In Norton, S. and Penaluna, A. (eds.) 3 Es for wicked problems: employability, enterprise and entrepreneurship: solving wicked problems. York: Advance HE [online], pages 41-47. Available from: https://bit.ly/3sm0rYF

This case study presents the Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA), which aims to recognise students' high-level skills development within existing academic modules, as well as providing an opportunity for students to confront problems in new ways... Read More about The Scottish Innovative Student Award (SISA): preparing students to tackle wicked problems. [Book chapter].

The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues. In Watson, A. (ed.) Demarco 2020. Dundee: Laura Leuzzi, pages 40-41.

In his memoirs Richard Demarco has often stressed the importance of his Italian upbringing. His maternal grandmother being from Barga in Tuscany, his grandfather from Picinisco near Frosinone, by virtue of his origins he is the embodiment of the quin... Read More about The many roads to Italy: Richard Demarco's Italian dialogues..

Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. (2021)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2021. Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest. In Schor, G. (ed.) Feministische Avantgarde: Kunst der 1970er-Jahre. Vienna: Sammlung Verbund; Munich: Prestel Germany, volume 2, pages 178-181.

In her art, Elaine Shemilt uses the image of the body to powerfully illustrate her exploration of identity, and her problematization and questioning of the representation and objectification of women. Her work challenges society as a whole and the ar... Read More about Elaine Shemilt: Doppelgänger in protest..

Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. (2021)
Book Chapter
FREMANTLE, C. and DOUGLAS, A. 2021. Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison. In Villanueva-Romero, D., Kerslake, L. and Flys-Junquera, C. (eds.) Imaginative ecologies: inspiring change through the humanities. Nature, culture and literature, 17. Netherlands: Brill [online], chapter 5, pages 81-106. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004501270_007

The approach we take to understanding, whether framed as 'measured, objective and in control' or 'entangled and adapting', is key to the health of the life web and ourselves. The problems associated with the measured, objective and in control version... Read More about Foregrounding ecosystems: thinking with the work of Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison..

Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? (2021)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2021. Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now? In The Roland Barthes Reading Group (eds.) Setting a bell ringing. The constellations, 17. London: MA Bibliothèque, pages 31-39.

I was moved to respond to the request to reflect on my experience of the Roland Barthes Reading Group partly because of the beautiful phrasing around ‘the situation of encounter'. I had joined this group as a visitor, intent only on dipping my toe in... Read More about Sono mama: what goes without saying, right up until now?.