A film about a city (2015) [single-component output with contextualising information]
- Submitting institution
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Bath Spa University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 3389
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Carroll/Fletcher, London, England; Gallery von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland; and Gallery Vera Cortes, Lisbon, Portugal.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2015
- URL
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https://doi.org/10.17870/bathspa.c.4973333
- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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1
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- This project was an opportunity to develop a new video work in a response to the geology collection at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, much of which is not on public display. The work draws upon the history of geological maps, walkers and individual geologists whose histories are tied up with the collection at the museum. Collecting, collating and classification of materials in relation to museums was of particular interest, inspired by the work of William Smith who produced the first geological map of the UK in 1815 and this project marked the 200-year anniversary of that map. _x000D_
This project problematises the interpretation of a sets of materials, artifacts and texts, and through this process reveals that simultaneous interpretations and alternative narratives are possible calling into question the protocols and veracity of museum narratives and more broadly the concept of documentary narrative. This dissemination of information was directly addressed by the format that Wood and Harrison utilized, specifically the narrative device of a lecture with no spoken words, based upon the idea of a field trip and the collection and subsequent display and interpretation of materials. Here the classic show-and-tell lecture format is turned upside down to splinter the relationship between words and images, inducing thought through disjunction. The work has the feel of a children’s picture book in which simple sentences accompany illustrations or actions. Erdkunde’s written captions, however, function to disconnect rather than explain. Museum labels and gallery texts, typically conceived as serious objective conveyors of information and clarification, are never neutral. The production of the work was supported by Arts Council England’s Grants for the Arts programme, in partnership with 15 museums from across England the National Trust and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network and selected for New Expressions 3 at Bristol Museum and Art gallery.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
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