1 Date: Sunday, 25th November 2018 Time: 11am – 6.30pm (Registration starts at 10.30am) Location: JHB207 & Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre, John Henry Brookes Building, Headington Campus, Oxford Brookes University, Headington Road, Oxford. OX3 0BP Keynote Speaker: Dr Geof Hill Reader | Birmingham City University Supported by: Oxford City Council School of Arts, Oxford Brookes University Gen Project Event tickets: ars2018.eventbrite.co.uk www.facebook.com/events/455606768180452 2 Contents Introduction ………………………………………...………………………… 4 List of Speakers ……………………………………………………………..….. 5 Event Schedule …………………………………...………………………. 6-7 Keynote Speaker – Dr Geof Hill …………………..…………………….… 8-9 Speaker 1a Denise Ackerl …………………………..……………………. 10 Speaker 2a John Garrad …………………………………...………….…… 11 Speaker 3a Annelinde Kirchgaesser …………………….…………..…… 12 Speaker 4a Dimitra Gkitsa ………………………………...……………… 13 Speaker 5a Salem Al Qudwa ……………………..……….………….…… 14 Speaker 6a Kristina Anilane …………………………….………………… 15 Speaker 7a Dr Alessandro Melis & Dr J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez …. 16-17 Speaker 8a Anne Griffiths ………………………………………...………. 18 Speaker 9a Gill Brown………………………………….…………..……… 19 Speaker 10a Michael E. Boyle …….……………………….……….……… 20 Speaker 1b Ann Marie Newton ………………………….………..………. 22 Speaker 2b Sally Bailey ……………………………………………...……… 23 Speaker 3b Ana Rutter & Sophie Hedderwick ……………….…… 24-25 Speaker 4b Genna Gardini ………………………………………...……… 26 Speaker 5b Rhiannon Evans ……………………………..……….……… 27 Speaker 6b Hilly Raphael …………………………………………………… 28 Speaker 7b Christina Vasileiou …………………………………………….. 29 Speaker 8b Stephanie Spindler ………………………………....………. 30 Speaker 9b Mimi Tobot …………………….………………….…….……… 31 Speaker 10b Tory Gillespie ……………….……………………….……… 32 Film Screening – Alex Newton ………...…………………………………… 33 Conference Team …………..…………………………………………….… 34 What’s CARU? …………………...…………………………………………… 35 3 Introduction “What does it mean to research through art?" Welcome to the 6th annual Arts re Search Conference! Every year CARU brings together artists and researchers from a wide range of fields of study and practice for a unique cross- disciplinary exploration into arts research. The day will consist of an exciting mixture of talks and performances from a variety of creative and academic disciplines, including Fine Art, Live Art, Social Sculpture, Architecture, City Planning, Education, Photography, Filmmaking, Science and Technology, to question and debate various areas of arts research, such as themes, material/form, documentation and practice methodologies. We hope you have an inspiring day! CARU Conference Team 4 List of Speakers Keynote Speaker: Dr Geof Hill Reader, School of Education and Social Work, Birmingham City University The Investigative Practitioner, [email protected] Denise Ackerl | University of the Arts London John Garrad | University of Northampton Annelinde Kirchgaesser | Oxford Brookes University Dimitra Gkitsa | Goldsmiths, University of London Salem Al Qudwa | Oxford Brookes University Kristina Anilane | Kingston University London Dr Alessandro Melis & Dr J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez | Heliopolis 21 & University of Portsmouth Anne Griffiths | Oxford Brookes University Gill Brown | London College of Communication, UAL Michael E. Boyle | Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Ann Marie Newton | Central St. Martins, UAL Sally Bailey | Birmingham City University Ana Rutter & Sophie Hedderwick | Birmingham City University Genna Gardini | Queen Mary, University of London Rhiannon Evans | University of the Arts London Hilly Raphael | Oxford Brookes University Christina Vasileiou | Guildhall School of Music and Drama Stephanie Spindler | Chelsea College of Art, UAL Mimi Tobot | University of Northampton Tory Gillespie | University of Kent Alex Newton | Oxford Brookes University 5 Event Schedule Chakrabarti Lecture Theatre 10.30 Registration 11.00 Welcome 11.05 Keynote Speaker: Dr Geof Hill – Creative Practice as Research 12.00 Speaker 1a Denise Ackerl Performing resistance in Post-Fordism – an academic/artistic investigation of research impact and its collisions in practice- based research 12.30 Speaker 2a John Garrad Muted by the Net – With populist authoritarianism in the ascendency is altruism in decline and what is the effect on artists and their practice? 13.00 Speaker 3a Annelinde Kirchgaesser Can theory be practice? and other dilemmas of a social sculpture practitioner 13.30 Lunch (JHB206) 14.00 Speaker 4a Dimitra Gkitsa In re-search of the traumatic through curatorial practice 14.30 Speaker 5a Salem Al Qudwa Photography in a ‘Fragile’ Design Process 15.00 Speaker 6a Kristina Anilane Curating the city: Observations of an emerging global urban initiative 15.30 Speaker 7a Dr Alessandro Melis & Dr J. Antonio Lara-Hernandez Fonte Mazola Park of Culture in Italy 16.00 Break (JHB206) 16.30 Speaker 8a Anne Griffiths Are Facts Like Cornflakes? 17.00 Speaker 9a Gill Brown Visual Elements & Visual Paradigms: using graphic design practice to research the visual languages of science 17.30 Speaker 10a Michael E. Boyle Scores and Sketchbooks as Cognitive Artefacts: Exploring Cognitive Theories through (and in?) Musical Composition 18.00 Conference closing – with Margin by Alex Newton 6 Event Schedule JHB207 12.00 Speaker 1b Ann Marie Newton The wonder of weaving 12.30 Speaker 2b Sally Bailey A Space of Exchange: Exploring Mess, Play and Failure as Method 13.00 Speaker 3b Ana Rutter & Sophie Hedderwick A conversation around archiving the un-archivable and recording the un-recordable 13.30 Lunch (JHB206) 14.00 Speaker 4b Genna Gardini The Patron Saint of Multiple Sclerosis and Ice Skating: Research and playwriting 14.30 Speaker 5b Rhiannon Evans How I learned from the Hill 15.00 Speaker 6b Hilly Raphael Reflections from two voices: performing the data 15.30 Speaker 7b Christina Vasileiou National Day Celebration?? Discovering a Pedagogy of the Self Through Participatory Performance in the Making of a Primary School Show 16.00 Break (JHB206) 16.30 Speaker 8b Stephanie Spindler Love Laws 17.00 Speaker 9b Mimi Tobot Perception of the Beautiful for the over fiftys 17.30 Speaker 10b Tory Gillespie But The Frog Dies: Stand-up Comedy Practice as Research 7 Keynote Speaker Creative Practice as Research Dr Geof Hill Reader | School of Education and Social Work, Birmingham City University Practice as a research focus has a long-standing place within research – just not explicitly so named. Practitioners refine their practice using forms of trial and error like a scientific method. More recently, creative practice has emerged as a focus within the broader agenda of researching practice. Stenhouse’s (1981) iconic paper ‘What counts as research?’ drew attention to having ‘practice’ and ‘lived experience’ as a research focus. For creative practitioners, similarly iconic articles such as Gray’s (1996) paper on practice-led inquiry and Haseman’s (2006) Manifesto for Performative Research equally contributed to the understanding of what it means to investigate practice, particularly where that practice is creative or a ‘performance’. In terms of the development research practices suitable for investigating creative practice, we have reached a point of not only suggesting that practice and arts related practices can be researched, but creative modes of research articulation/dissemination are also an important part of the agenda. 8 Dr Geof Hill | Investigative Practitioner, [email protected] Dr Geof Hill’s research agenda around ways of researching emerged out of his doctoral investigation into the impact of the post-positivist inquiry paradigm on research, supervision and dissertation examination. His doctoral dissertation included a cabaret titled `Doing a doctorate' which initiated questions about how research is disseminated and initiated his agenda around creative research. Geof has been presenting one-man cabarets as academic presentations throughout his academic career. He has a background in the performative arts and training as an opera and musical theatre singer which he draws on lecturing in Communication, Management, Education and Research. His first one-man cabaret was written in 1995 on ‘Being a Reflective Practitioner’. Following his cabaret on ‘Doing a Doctorate’ he wrote and performed a subsequent one-man cabaret on ‘Research Supervision’ which was performed at the International Conference on Quality Postgraduate Research in Adelaide, Australia in 2006. Geof is the principal author and instigator of ‘the research supervisor’s friend’ – a Wordpress blog. supervisorsfriend.wordpress.com 9 Speaker 1a Performing resistance in Post-Fordism – an academic/artistic investigation of research impact and its collisions in practice-based research Denise Ackerl Doctoral Candidate | Chelsea College of Art, UAL In my practice-based research, I investigate strategies of resistance in Post-Fordist production from a feminist performance perspective. For the conference, I would like to present/perform a paper investigating how the exaggerated adaptation of production modes and constant contradiction can create an agonistic space through performance. In contrast to the antagonistic space, which sits within a hegemony, the agonistic space allows the challenging of current hegemonies such as post- Fordism. Part of my intention here is to use the conference as the site of investigation on how to re-politicize spheres that have been subject to post-Fordist production modes such as academic research. In the presentation I will analyse some of my previous performance pieces in relation to the category of research