Faculty of Art, Design and Humanities
Collections in this community
-
School of Arts [773]
-
School of Design [274]
-
School of Humanities [1760]
Recent Submissions
-
Surface and Apparition: The Immateriality of Modern Surface
(Book)Surface is one of the most intensely debated topics in recent scholarship in arts, humanities and social sciences. This compelling transdisciplinary edited volume reveals the type of knowledge that can only be produced ... -
A Recalibration of Theatre’s Hypermediality
(Book chapter)The unique capacity of theatre, as often proposed, is that it allows all media hosted within it to manifest themselves in their own particular forms, expressed by Claudia Georgi as ‘its ability to integrate other media ... -
Blue Skies have Never Been So Blue
(Article)This was written in Lincolnshire, England in April 2020.“I sit in my garden I look up there is a clean smell in the air and the skies have never been so blue. My house has become a haven to feel safe and a place to ... -
For a Sustainable Socialist Architecture
(Book chapter)This paper was delivered as part of the 'ReciprociUdad' symposium in Seville 2020, which is part of the international seminars series 'Design Diplomacy'. The crisis of housing affordability in the UK is at its most ... -
Writing History: Thinking Beyond the Past in the Present
(Article)As a collaborative work that reflects on Stuart Hall’s early life in colonial Jamaica and his experience of the transitions that shaped the making of postcolonial Britain, Familiar Stranger offers a number of provocations ... -
Hip-Hop and Hope: Managing the Outlier Status of Barack Obama
(Book chapter) -
Revlis 'Open Up' the fluidity of Silver.
(Other)Revlis Unzipped, captures the fluidity of sterling silver and explores the notion of movement in precious material. The Artefact- represents innovative thinking and challenges the technical ability and mastery of hand ... -
Chapter 18 Mela in the UK: A ‘travelled and habituated’ festival
(Book chapter) -
The Artists’ Magazine as Archive: High Performance, 1978-1983
(Conference)Between 1978 and 1983 High Performance, a magazine based in Los Angeles and devoted solely to performance art, ran open submissions for documentation of live performances made within one year of the published issue. With ... -
“End Rape in Los Angeles”: Restaging Suzanne Lacy’s Three Weeks in May for the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival
(Conference)In 1977, artist Suzanne Lacy created Three Weeks in May, an expanded performance piece that recorded instances of reported rape in Los Angeles over a three-week period, aiming to expose the extent of sexual violence in the ... -
Documenting the Live, in History: High Performance Magazine, 1978-1983
(Conference)Between 1978 and 1983 High Performance, a magazine devoted to performance art, ran open submissions for documentation of work performed within one year of the published issue. This paper considers High Performance not only ... -
The Politics of Cultural Critique: Vomit and Disgust in Paul McCarthy’s Performances of the 1970s
(Conference)In the 1970s, Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy made visceral performances which appealed to audiences’ innermost feelings of disgust and revulsion. Using everyday materials such as hot dogs, ground meat, ketchup, ... -
Sensibilities and Censorship: John Duncan’s Blind Date (1980)
(Conference)In 1980, artist John Duncan participated in the Public Spirit festival, performances from which were documented in High Performance magazine. Duncan used conceptual, performative and sound elements in works that explicated ... -
Practice-based-research in the arts
(Conference)What are the methods and methodologies of practice-based-research in theatre, performance, and arts practices, and what might these offer to students in an educational context? Performance practitioners (particularly those ... -
Document, Audience, Affect: Johanna Went’s L.A. Club Performances
(Conference)How can we make sense of performances that continually slip between categories of art and entertainment, and which also seem to alienate and/or aggravate audiences? Such performances might be described as ‘messy’ in relation ... -
Aftermaths of Performance: Artists who make an “awful mess”
(Conference)In 1983, Los Angeles-based artist Paul McCarthy organised a programme of ‘like-minded artists’ whose performances make ‘an awful mess and walks an erratic line between horror and humor’ (1983). Featuring the work of the ... -
Document, Audience, Affect: Festival Performances in Los Angeles of the 1970s and 80s
(Conference)In 1980, John Duncan, an artist who has used conceptual, performative and sound elements in works that explicated nascent themes of violence, trauma, and male sexuality in his work, created a performance called Blind Date. ...
RSS 1.0