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Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. (2019)
Book Chapter
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories. In Grau, O., Hoth, J. and Wandl-Vogt, E. (eds.) Digital art through the looking glass: new strategies for archiving, collecting and preserving in digital humanities. Krems: Edition Donau-Universität Krems [online], pages 161-177. Available from: https://www.donau-uni.ac.at/dam/jcr:a29638aa-f334-4abb-9601-10e36652d09f/Digital_Art_through_the_Looking_Glass_updated.pdf

This paper will discuss re-enactment as a relevant tool for practice-based research to investigate pioneering video performances and video artworks from the 1970s and 1980s from a theoretical, art-historical and curatorial point of view. Since the ea... Read More about Re-enacting early video art as a research tool for media art histories..

Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. (2019)
Journal Article
LEUZZI, L. 2019. Edimburgo – Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery. Storia dell'arte [online], 151/152, pages 205-215. Available from: https://www.storiadellarterivista.it/shop/articoli/edimburgo-roma/

Since the 60s, the Italo-Scottish artist and cultural entrepreneur Richard Demarco (Edinburgh, 1930), has played a fundamental role in the production and promotion of European - and in particular Italian - visual and performing arts in Scotland. Dema... Read More about Edimburgo - Roma 1967: connessioni italo-scozzesi sulle tracce della mostra Contemporary Italian Art alla Richard Demarco Gallery..

Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. (2019)
Book Chapter
WINTER, J. 2020. Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 7, pages 115-132. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-7

The term 'curator' obviously encompasses a broad spectrum of practices. Like all disciplines the activity of curating is continually being redefined. This is a process that is pushed, challenged and accelerated in correspondence with artists and vari... Read More about Coming together differently: art, anthropology and the curatorial space..

From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. (2019)
Book Chapter
CLARKE, J. 2020. From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology. In Sansi, R. (ed.) The anthropologist as curator. Abingdon: Routledge [online], chapter 8, pages 133-146. Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003086819-8

As lines between 'social practice' in art and social research blur, anthropologists are increasingly taking on curatorial roles in contemporary art settings and/or employing artistic methodologies in exhibition-making. This chapter explores some dyna... Read More about From of, to with, to and? Anti-disciplinary exhibition making with art and anthropology..

Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings. (2019)
Conference Proceeding
RUGGERONE, L., ALTENBERGER, I., HACKETT, C. 2019. Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings. In Swartz, J. (eds.) Proceedings of 2019 Indisciplines: research in arts practice conference, 28-30 November 2019, Barcelona, Spain. Barcelona: University of Barcelona/Campus de les arts [online], pages 242-252. Available from: https://www.campusdelesarts.org/proceedings

While the experience of refugees is explored via various avenues, the voices of the workers who support their resettlement are rarely heard. Hence, rather than focusing on the Syrian refugees and their experience of settling in the North East of Scot... Read More about Working with refugees an exploration through conversations and drawings..

Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. (2019)
Thesis
ZEĆO, M. 2019. Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. Robert Gordon University, PhD thesis. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://doi.org/10.48526/rgu-wt-1713018

This practice-led research explores how personal identities shape listening experiences in the context of sound art discourse. The research aim is to develop a contextual approach to sound art practice, informed by personal experience of listening to... Read More about Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice..

Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices] (2019)
Dataset
ZEĆO, M. 2019. Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices]. Hosted on OpenAIR [online]. Available from: https://rgu-repository.worktribe.com/output/1831816

These multimedia appendices accompany a thesis that formed part of a PhD awarded by Robert Gordon University. The practice-led research represented in both the thesis and these appendices explores how personal identities shape listening experiences i... Read More about Placing sound: a contextual exploration of personal identities in sound art discourse through performance art practice. [Appendices].

An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
CHALMERS, P. 2019. An empirically grey area. Solo exhibition, 16 November - 8 December 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

How can we approach making in the face of a threat from meaninglessness? Beyond a question of whether one should be making at all, Peter's work is centred around a question of what and how to make, and whether the act of making can in itself create m... Read More about An empirically grey area. [Solo exhibition].

Valuing arts and arts research. (2019)
Report
SARATSI, E., ACOTT, T., ALLINSON, E., EDWARDS, D., FREMANTLE, C. and FISH, R. 2019. Valuing arts and arts research. Valuing nature paper, 22. UK: Valuing Nature [online]. Available from: https://valuing-nature.net/valuing-arts-and-arts-research

Arts have a significant impact on the way we understand the world. It is widely accepted that arts are able to inspire people and direct attention to things that really matter; they help not only to understand how the material world affects us, but a... Read More about Valuing arts and arts research..

Drawing ideas society. (2019)
Journal Article
DOUGLAS, A.E. 2019. Drawing ideas society. TRACEY: drawing and visualisation research [online], 14(1): drawing/phenomenology: tracing lived experience through drawing, article 385. Available from: https://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/index.php/TRACEY/article/view/385/361

This article explores the possible relationship between drawing and contemporary art practice in the shift of art into public life. In this shift artists have invented ways of working that situate their work socially, economically and aesthetically i... Read More about Drawing ideas society..

A funeral march for economic valuation. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
FREMANTLE, C. 2019. A funeral march for economic valuation. Presented at 2019 Valuing nature annual conference, 28-29 October 2019, London, UK.

This presentation will explore the various ways that we can think about ecosystems that are degraded or dying and how this relates to questions of economic valuation – what does it mean to attribute a monetary value to the Great Barrier Reef, apparen... Read More about A funeral march for economic valuation..

Edward Allington: things unsaid. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Edward Allington: things unsaid. Exhibition held on 25 October 2019 - 23 February 2020, Henry Moore Institute and the Upper Sculpture Study Gallery at Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds.

Seeking new ways of 'moving and matching the complexity of the world', Edward Allington (1951-2017) was part of a generation of artists responding to changing aesthetic, social and cultural values at the end of the 1970s. A sculptor, writer and educa... Read More about Edward Allington: things unsaid..

Embedding. [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Embedding. [Exhibition]. Exhibited 19 October - 10 November 2019, Look Again Project Space, Aberdeen.

The partnership between Gray's School of Art (Robert Gordon University) and RockRose Energy has been one of unexpected outcomes. By placing students within the workplace and challenging them to respond to the threads that connect the people who make... Read More about Embedding. [Exhibition].

Disciplinarity and peripheries. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
FREMANTLE, C. 2019. Disciplinarity and peripheries. Presented at the 2nd Gray's research conference 2019: the periphery, 5 October 2019, Aberdeen, UK.

By analogy disciplines are a form of ‘centre’ and work across disciplines involves focusing on edges. Some people conceptualise disciplines to have ‘near’ and ‘far’ relations i.e. visual art is ‘near’ art history and ‘far’ from environmental modellin... Read More about Disciplinarity and peripheries..

Notes on a periphery. (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Notes on a periphery. Exhibition held 4-18 October 2019, Gray's School of Art, Aberdeen.

An exhibition of recent photography and video work by four artists: Anne Campbell, Sapphire Goss, Lottie Davies and Eugene Schlumberger. Whilst peripheral regions have loomed large in traditional histories of art made in the British group of nations,... Read More about Notes on a periphery..

From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future. (2019)
Presentation / Conference
STEED, J., JIANG, Y. and CROSS, K. 2019. From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future. Presented at 2019 Shoormal conference: new coasts and shorelines: shifting sands in the creative economy, 18-21 September 2019, Lerwick, UK

As our understanding of the provenance and inherent value of artisan textile and craft skills alters through our increasingly digital and fast paced world, there needs to be a revaluing of hand/human processes that reconnect people and products in an... Read More about From augmented to authentic: weaving the past into the future..

Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. (2019)
Conference Proceeding
LEUZZI, L., PARTRIDGE, S. and LOCKHART, A. 2019. Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects. In RE:SOUND 2019: proceedings of 8th Histories of media arts international conference 2019 (MAH 2019): sound, media and art; theories, histories, practices, 20-23 August 2019, Aalborg, Denmark. London: BCS, pages 274-282. Hosted on ScienceOpen [online]. Available from: https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.14236/ewic/RESOUND19.41

This paper will discuss methodologies, approaches and issues, emerging out of three major research projects that have investigated early histories of video art in Europe: REWIND (2004 ongoing), REWINDItalia (2011-2014) and EWVA (2015-2018). The paper... Read More about Approaches, strategies and theoretical and practice-based research methods to investigate and archive video art: some reflections from the REWIND projects..

The art of life adapting: drawing and healing. (2019)
Journal Article
FREMANTLE, C. 2020. The art of life adapting: drawing and healing. Leonardo [online], 53(1), pages 83-84. Available from: https://doi.org/10.1162/leon_a_01833

If more people are living with long term conditions, e.g. cancer, how can we think about the adaptations involved? Are there lessons from adaptation in environment policy and practice, e.g. in the writings of Wendell Berry (b. 1934) on scarred landsc... Read More about The art of life adapting: drawing and healing..

On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991. (2019)
Book Chapter
BLACKWOOD, J. 2019. On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991. In Leuzzi, L., Shemilt, E. and Partridge, S. (eds.) EWVA: European women's video art in the 70s and 80s. East Barnet: John Libbey Publishing.

Written from our vantage point, the categories of ‘Yugoslavia’ and ‘video art’ are historical. Having grown up in the 1980s with video art as the most contemporary of the new art practices, and with Yugoslavia seemingly a permanent fixture on the map... Read More about On women's video art in the context of Yugoslavia, 1969-1991..

Ever after [Exhibition] (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Ever after. Exhibition held 24 July - 24 August 2019, The Scottish Gallery [online], Edinburgh. Available from: https://issuu.com/scottishgallery/docs/tsg_derrick_guild_ever_after

An exhibition, held at the Scottish Gallery for The Edinburgh Festival 2019. In Ever After the artist has looked at the most traditional of Joshua Reynold’s orders: portraiture and forced us to interrogate how we look and so what we learn. He takes... Read More about Ever after [Exhibition].