{"id":10916,"date":"2022-04-22T11:21:31","date_gmt":"2022-04-22T10:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=10916"},"modified":"2022-04-22T14:51:16","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T13:51:16","slug":"professor-esther-johnson-to-present-ships-in-the-sky-at-changing-places-space-place-seminar-wednesday-27th-april-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/professor-esther-johnson-to-present-ships-in-the-sky-at-changing-places-space-place-seminar-wednesday-27th-april-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Professor Esther Johnson to present SHIPS in the SKY at ‘Changing Places’ Space & Place seminar – Wednesday 27th April 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

Professor<\/b>\u00a0Esther Johnson<\/a><\/b>\u00a0will present research from her ongoing\u00a0social history arts project\u00a0SHIPS in the SKY<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0at the next ‘Changing Places<\/b>‘\u00a0Space & Place<\/b>\u00a0group seminar convened by Dr\u00a0Luke Bennett<\/a>.\u00a0This will take place on\u00a0Wednesday 27 April\u00a0<\/b>between\u00a02-4pm<\/b>. You can\u00a0sign up for this on\u00a0Eventbrite<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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SHIPS in the SKY<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0is a social history arts project recording the many lives of the majestic Hull & East Riding Co-operative Society store (later a BHS) in Hull City Centre. The building has had many lives \u2013 a department store, an indoor market, a dance hall, a music venue and nightclub. The project also looks at the trio of murals in the building by Alan Boyson, including the 1963 ‘Three Ships\u2019 adorning the store entrance, reputed to be the largest mosaic in the UK. The mural was grade II listed in Nov 2019 after a long campaign. Demolition of the surrounding building commences in spring 2022.<\/p>\n

Through the lens of one building, the research emphasises how buildings and associated public art can be crucial for civic place and memory-making, and geographical and historical local identity. Research themes include the effects of public art on peoples\u2019 navigation and memories of the public realm; cooperatism; retail; labour; club-culture; postwar regeneration and local identity. For instance, the ‘Three Ships\u2019 mural has an explicit connection to Hull\u2019s fishing and maritime heritage.<\/p>\n

Approximately 100 oral history recordings from many perspectives have been completed to date, from store shoppers and employees, to construction workers, and recollections of gigs in the buildings \u2018Skyline Ballroom\u2019, later \u2018Bailey\u2019s\u2019 nightclub and then \u2018Romeo\u2019s & Juliet\u2019s\u2019. Community engagement workshops and exhibitions in Hull libraries, plus publications and presentations have also taken place as part of the project. The research will culminate in a series of public events, workshops, and a large-scale exhibition including a multi-screen artist moving-image work, donated ephemera connected to the building, and art inspired by the Boyson\u2019s murals. .<\/p>\n

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See detailed project elements\u00a0HERE<\/b><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0HERE. <\/b><\/a>Further information on work by Esther can be found via the various links\u00a0HERE<\/a><\/b>.<\/p>\n

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Changing Places #2: change and the material fate of place<\/b><\/em><\/p>\n

The Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group’s second interdisciplinary seminar on the theme of ‘changing places’,\u00a0Changing Places #2: change and the material fate of place<\/i><\/b>\u00a0will be running\u00a02PM-4PM on Wednesday 27 April 2022<\/b>. This online session will look at how (and why) people change places. Change of place, whether as regeneration, ruination, redevelopment or altered forms of use is a materialised expression of a complex amalgam of social\/cultural, economic and political factors playing themselves out across a variety of scales. But rather than looking outward to frame instances of change of place within wider structural processes, our presenters will each in their own way ask how the material manifestations of that\u00a0localised<\/em>\u00a0change can be foregrounded, in order to restore the local connection\/disconnection that is often lost via analysis that is more concerned with the wider – and more abstract – narratives and interpretations of change.<\/p>\n

Presenters for this session will be:<\/p>\n

Eve Stirling <\/strong>(Art & Design, SHU)<\/p>\n

Stories Home Tell: Thinking Net Zero through speculative property particulars<\/em><\/p>\n

Joanne Lee<\/b>\u00a0<\/em>(Art & Design, SHU) & Rosemary Shirley <\/strong>(University of Leicester, School of Museum Studies)
<\/em><\/p>\n

Staying Local<\/i><\/p>\n

Esther Johnson <\/b>(ADMRC\/Media, SHU)<\/p>\n

SHIPS in the SKY: civic place and memory-making<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Professor\u00a0Esther Johnson\u00a0will present research from her ongoing\u00a0social history arts project\u00a0SHIPS in the SKY\u00a0at the next ‘Changing Places‘\u00a0Space & Place\u00a0group seminar convened by Dr\u00a0Luke Bennett.\u00a0This will take place on\u00a0Wednesday 27 April\u00a0between\u00a02-4pm. You can\u00a0sign up for this on\u00a0Eventbrite.   SHIPS in the SKY\u00a0is a social history arts project recording the many lives of the majestic Hull & East Riding Co-operative Society store […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20701,"featured_media":10917,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[103,139],"tags":[1648,1296,1866,140,1650,1494,1025],"class_list":["post-10916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-news","tag-admrc","tag-art-and-design","tag-changing-places","tag-esther-johnson","tag-film-and-media-arts","tag-media","tag-ships-in-the-sky"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/files\/2022\/04\/1-Ships-in-the-Sky.jpg?fit=2500%2C1444&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8oFHo-2Q4","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12022,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/johnson-updates-march-april-2023\/","url_meta":{"origin":10916,"position":0},"title":"Updates from Professor Esther Johnson for March & April 2023","author":"Amy Lander","date":"01\/03\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"Professor Esther Johnson\u00a0will screen and discuss her research\u00a0'Dust & Metal\u2019\u00a0during the inaugural\u00a0REAL Documentary Festival, at the Phoenix Cinema and Art Centre, Leicester, screening on 21 April at 5:30.\u00a0She will also present a paper on 'Dust & Metal\u2019 at\u00a011th Annual BAFTSS Conference:\u00a0Sustainable Futures: Ethics, Responsibility and Care in Film, Television, Screen\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":10892,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/changing-places-2-change-and-the-material-fate-of-place-wednesday-27-april-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":10916,"position":1},"title":"Changing Places #2: change and the material fate of place, Wednesday, 27 April 2022","author":"lh1112","date":"12\/04\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The Sheffield Hallam University Space & Place Group's second interdisciplinary seminar on the theme of 'changing places',\u00a0Changing Places #2: change and the material fate of place\u00a0will be running 2-4pm on Wednesday, 27 April 2022. 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