Rose Butler presents doctoral research at VIII Art of Research conference, Aalto University Finland

Film frame from archival footage at the Stasi Records Agency, Berlin depicting agents during briefcase camera training in the 1970s. Ref: MfS+HA_VIII+Fi+042. Image courtesy of Rose Butler

Rose Butler will be presenting now completed doctoral research at the VIII Art of Research 2023 conference at Aalto University, Finland next week. The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and […]

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‘Translation and Stylistic Variation’ – Professor John Goodby speaks at British Centre for Literary Translation research seminar

BCLT Research Seminar - Translation and Stylistic Variation (Helen Gibson with Francis Jones and John Goodby) - 15 November 2023

On Wednesday 15 November Professor John Goodby was one of two experts on Irish poetry and poetry translation, together with Dr Francis Jones of Newcastle University, invited to speak at a research seminar in the series run by the British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT) at UEA; this event centred on the launch of Helen Gibson’s book on translations by […]

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‘Gateway II’ – Professor David Cotterrell referenced in the Guardian

Images courtesy of David Cotterrell and the Imperial War Museum exhibition - Images are research photography by Professor David Cotterrell, entitled 'Gateway II'

When is it too early to teach your kids about genocide? Professor David Cotterrell, Director of the Culture & Creativity Research Institute has had his work, Gateway II, referenced in a Guardian piece looking at the Imperial War Museum’s new galleries showcasing artistic responses to conflict since its inception during the First World War. On the photographs featured in the exhibition, […]

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November 2023 – Updates from Judith Stewart & Patrick Wichert

The Hanse: Re-imagining the North Sea research project, led by Judith Stewart & Patrick Wichert, followed up their September conference panel ‘Artists and their affective responses to archives and oral histories at the European Rural Historians Organisation in Cluj-Napoca with a return residency and exhibition at Cromer’s Artspace on the Prom. At Artspace on the Prom (November 2023), with fellow researcher and artist James Quinn, they […]

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‘Yes We Can’ – Technicians showcase exhibition

Yes We can

The ‘Yes We Can’ exhibition is a showcase of Art and Design and Digital Media technicians’ own work. Our exhibiting technicians are highly skilled people, with many of them having their own creative practice outside of their jobs. The work on show is as varied as the specialisms we cover within the workshops. Ceramics, jewellery, photography and printmaking are represented, […]

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LOOKDON’TLOOK exhibition: 17-19 November 2023

Image advertising an exhibition of site-specific sound, video, performance and interactive artworks called LOOKDON'TLOOK. Image courtesy of Max Munday.

LOOKDON’TLOOK exhibition Friday 17 – Sunday 19 November 2023 Brown St Project (old Food Hall) 62 Brown Street, S1 2BS FREE – All Welcome Please note that work on the first floor does not have lift access to it The exhibition temporarily takes over and responds to the empty building opposite Site Gallery on Brown Street. Using sound, video, performance, […]

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Prof Lise Autogena’s Foghorn Requiem holds Guinness World Record

A REQUIEM FOR THE FOGHORN, PERFORMED BY SEVENTY FIVE BRASS PLAYERS, A FOGHORN AND AN ARMADA OF SHIPS A project by Danish artist, Lise Autogena, in collaboration with Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough. Ships horns from an armada of vessels off-shore, seventy five brass players on-shore and the Souter Lighthouse Foghorn performed a Foghorn Requiem, an ambitious musical performance to mark the disappearance of the sound of the foghorn from the UK’s coastal landscape. Conducted and controlled from a distance, ships at sea sounded their horns to a musical score, that will took into account landscape and the physical distance of sound. The performance took place by Souter Light House by South Shields, UK with 8-10.000 spectators and more than 50 ships off-shore.

Foghorn Requiem, a landscape-interactive musical composition by artists Lise Autogena and Joshua Portway and composer Orlando Gough, has been selected for the Guinness World Records. It holds the record for Most ship horns in a piece of music. The piece was performed by three brass bands, 60 ships at sea and Souter Lighthouse Foghorn. The Guinness World Records entry reads: […]

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“I Sang in my Chains like the Sea” – Newly-commissioned settings of seven Dylan Thomas poems staged as part of York Late Music series, co-organised by Professor John Goodby

On Saturday 04 November, “I Sang in my Chains like the Sea“ took place involving the performance of newly-commissioned settings of seven Dylan Thomas poems by five composers. The event, co-organised by Professor John Goodby as part of an ongoing collaborative project with the composer David Lancaster (York St John University) was staged as part of the York Late Music […]

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