Bummock: Artistic Responses to a Lace Archive
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 10 - 967043
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
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- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- January
- Year
- 2018
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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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A - Artistic Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This research developed new artwork from diagrams of machine-made lace to explore a ‘controlled rummage’ methodology for working with archives. Like the bummock – the largest part of the iceberg hidden under water – archives contain far more than is accessed. Traditional approaches to them tend to be focused on specific, known parts. Using artistic research methods, the ‘controlled rummage’ gains access to the ‘unknown, unknown’ - material inaccessible to usual methods. (Fisher, Fortnum, 2013) (Ginzburg, 2012)
Maier developed a series of responses to lace ‘drafts’ in NTU’s Lace Archive - schematic diagrams of machine-made lace – focusing on the diagrams drawn lines, which are two-dimensional representations of the thread path that creates the lace. Through redrawing, Maier examined the method of creating the lace through the imperfections in the drawn line, providing new readings of these historical diagrams.
Over 30 months working from the Lace Archive, Maier disseminated and developed the work through residencies, at hARTSlane project space; the Summer Lodge (2015/16/17); and through a commissioned piece in the Midpointness exhibition at the Airspace Gallery, Stoke on Trent. The outcomes were presented in a three-person exhibition and symposium at Backlit Gallery, Nottingham (ACE NPO) and were selected to tour to The Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge and The Constance Howard Gallery, London (Goldsmiths UoL) and a co-authored journal article in Textile: Journal of Cloth and Culture (2020) https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2020.1831895.
The work has been presented at conferences; Textile and Place (MMU/ Whitworth 2018) and at Digital Cultures Network The Archive Unbound conference (Cardiff University 2017). There is an accompanying publication Bummock: The Lace Archive distributed by Cornerhouse publishing. The residency and symposium were reviewed in Textile https://doi.org/10.1080/14759756.2019.1648724 The project was funded by the Arts Council England (£12,925) and further supported by NTU, University of Lincoln, Birmingham University, and Kingston University.
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- Non-English
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