I Don’t Love Soccer Because Soccer Never Loved Me: Football through the Critical Lens of Graphic Arts
Citation Summary:
Mitchell, I. (2014) curator, I Don’t Love Soccer Because Soccer Never Loved Me 2014, group exhibition, BSC, Liverpool, (05/07/2014 - (13/07/2014) and publication (ed. Mitchell, I.) Studio Editions, Liverpool, ISBN: 978-0-9930113-0-6; featuring artwork La Historia Paralela (author. Mitchell, I.). Featured in World Cup Clichés: Graphic Design’s Approach to Football article (author. Mitchell, I), The Double Negative (2014), available [online] http://www.thedoublenegative.co.uk/2014/07/world-cup-cliches-graphic-designs-approach-to-football. Revised second edition, Mitchell, I. (2018) curator and editor, I Don’t Love Soccer Because Soccer Has Never Loved Me 2018 group exhibition, Art and Football, Camp and Furnace, Liverpool (29/06/2018 - 15/07/2018) and catalogue (ed. Mitchell, I.), Studio Editions, Liverpool, ISBN: 978-0-9930113-3-7. Results published online, idontlovesoccer.co.uk (author and editor. Mitchell, I), first edition (2014), second edition (2018), available [online] at http://idontlovesoccer.co.uk. Featured artwork Walk Out on 77 (author. Hayes, E.) held in National Football Museum Collections, Manchester (2020).
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32IM2
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- National Football Museum collection, Manchester; [online] http://idontlovesoccer.co.uk/
- Brief description of type
- Multi Component Output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- June
- Year
- 2014
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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
- This practice-based research explores how graphic design and illustration can be used as a critical lens to examine the cultural phenomenon of football and the World Cup. To coincide with the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups, Mitchell initiated, curated and led a diverse research team of international graphic artists to produce artworks in response to an essay titled “The World Cup and Its Pomps” written in 1978 by Italian semiotician, Umberto Eco. A review of commercial work, exhibitions and self-promotional design collaborations produced by the creatives industries in the lead-up to the 2014 Brazil World Cup identified that most graphic art and design took a celebratory view of the World Cup, in comparison to other media, which examined the tournament more critically. Addressing the lack of criticality from graphic arts practice Eco’s essay was used as a catalyst for artists to examine issues such as the commercialisation of the game, its inherent prejudice and exclusivity and its (a) political morality. The Russia 2018 Edition advanced this critique, presenting new original artworks from internationally renowned practitioners including Jonathan Barnbrook, Geneviève Gauckler, Craig Oldham and Patrick Thomas. The research outputs were disseminated as an exhibition and print publication. In 2014 the publication reached an international audience via online features in People of Print and The Double Negative. The 2018 exhibition formed a key part of The Art of Football - a month-long festival exploring the creative culture and social fabric underpinning football, which took place in locations across Liverpool and was featured in local and national press (Observer Review, 17/06/2018). Artwork from the research (author. Hayes, E), has been acquired by the National Football Museum for their permanent collection. Both editions are documented and analysed on a project website designed to achieve continued impact both within and outside of academia.
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- Non-English
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