Lads of Aran.
Citation Summary:
Potter. C/ Potter R.C., (2016), Lads of Aran, essaying performance at ‘Foaming At The Mouth’ (cur. Hanna. R, and Lynch. E), Polo Clubhouse, Dublin (11/07/2015). Revised second performance, at ‘The Barlow Index’ (cur. Walker. R), Powerlunches, London (01/11/2015). Teaching resource, ‘Writing as Research: Claire Potter’ in series ‘How to research’ (ed. Stupart. L and McGarry. E), Learning Department, Tate Galleries, London (23/03/2016). Journal article ‘How does it feel when you put it on?’ in ‘Sites of Research’ (eds. Hutchens. J; Paz. A; Vogt. N; Wakeford. N), The Oxford Artistic & Practice Based Research Platform’, vol. 1. ISSN: 2399-5092 (19/05/2017). Expanded, formal translation to graphic design work in ‘The Bodies That Remain’ (ed. Beber, E), Punctum Books, New York. ISBN: 978-1947447677 (22/10/2018). Exhibited in ‘Roy Claire Potter’ (cur. De La Puente, G), Output Gallery, Liverpool. 18/07/2019 - 28/07/2019). Exhibited in ‘1-31’ (cur. Carr. A), Collecteurs, New York (01/02/2020 - ongoing).
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32RCP1
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- Phoenix Park Club House, Dublin; Powerlunches, London; OUTPUT Gallery, Liverpool.
- Brief description of type
- Multi Component Output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- July
- Year
- 2015
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Lads of Aran is a series of improvised performances and a nine-page visual essay resulting from the development of interdisciplinary practice research methods. Lads of Aran tested the literary method of essaying in a live art context of Foaming At The Mouth, Dublin, foregrounding a commonality with performance methods of improvisation. Record cards detailed unsettling personal anecdotes alongside quotations from literatures on subculture and gay culture, methods of bricolage and allegorical figuration, semiotic analysis of fashion, and a critical review enthno-documentary film Man of Aran (1937), were intuitively selected and read aloud alongside the improvised action of manoeuvring of slide projectors to collage projected images of lad and scenes from the aforementioned film. This interdisciplinary, live, performance writing research was revised and performed again, reordering the information, at live art event Barlow Index, London. Utilising graphic design software, Adobe InDesign, and techniques for laying out and typesetting publications, the interdisciplinary relation of essaying and improvisation was extended from the live art context toward the form of a visual essay. This extension sought to analyse how live audiences compare to a readership in their relation to the performative construction of a text. An experimental layout design of paratactic relations between photographic image, illustration, screenshots, advertisements, typography, lyrical writing, and quotations from literatures previously mentioned, destabilised a fixed reading of the text, offering multiple reconfigurations in each sitting. The visual essay is published in an edited collection of response to theme of writing and bodies by Punctum Books, New York. A print version was exhibited by OUTPUT Gallery, in Liverpool, and a digital version is on permanent online display with Collecteurs, New York. Accounts of methodology were published online for The Oxford Artistic & Practice Based Research Platform and in print by Tate’s Learning Department as an ongoing resource.
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- Non-English
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