Three Kings: Performance Project at Kings College London
- Submitting institution
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Roehampton University
: B - Drama
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : B - Drama
- Output identifier
- 3038736
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- King's College London
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- 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
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Three King’s was a multi-component research output examining unexplored facets of the property portfolio of King’s College, London. The components were a film installation (triptych), three artists’ booklets (‘Revenue’, ‘Plant Science’ and ‘22 Kingsway’) and a short film (‘From the Ruins’).
The documentary installation, publications, and film aimed to shift perceptions of the university’s estate beyond pragmatic rationales of procurement and disposal and to create a situated interrogation of abandoned, missing or unclassifiable aspects of a public institution.
The installation and publications were presented as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Festival in London 2016, and the film produced in 2020 for festival distribution.
Research methodologies:
1. Film and photographic survey techniques of the materiality and sonic atmosphere of ancillary architectural space – to challenge conventional hierarchies of architectural value and heritage.
2. Site-specific intervention within the Old Council Chamber (former site of institutional decision-making at King’s) involving the re-purposing of furniture as a presentational device for film, photography and writing – to create new experiences of architectural interaction between geographically separate sites within the same institution.
3. Original writing and bespoke publication of process narratives - to make public the discourses of the partnership’s creative processes to further public engagement with, and understanding of, unconventional forms of architectural appraisal.
Research dissemination:
1. Symposium ‘The Less Familiar – How Artists work with Buildings’ curated by Forster & Heighes including specialists from the commercial development sector (Urban Splash and Uncommon) and public bodies concerned with heritage and preservation (Twentieth Century Society and Historic England).
2. Artists talk - In the Ruins of the University with Professor Alan Read.
3. Online archiving at www.forster-heighes.com and the Arts and Humanities Research Institute
Three King’s drew its participants and audience from the festival’s visitors and the readership of C20 magazine.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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