‘On Attachment’ investigates the micro-social dimension of place attachment and its effect for wellbeing, through adopting dialogic sculptures. The research includes site-responsive interventions, a solo exhibition, public talks, and publications in collaboration with, including: Museums Quartier, Vienna; New Hall Art Collection of the Murray Edwards College of the University of Cambridge; Freud Museum, London; Nottingham Contemporary; University of Bologna.
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 913
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- T - Other
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- Location
- Vienna (Austria); Cambridge, London, Nottingham (UK); Bologna (Italy); Chicago (US); Riga (Latvia)
- Brief description of type
- Creative body of enquiry including 2 public space interventions, one solo exhibition, public events, conference presentations and a peer reviewed publication
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- 2016
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/55f33ae7a57873e7ae9e
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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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Additional information
- The research was developed through art residencies in Vienna, Austria (Q21, Museums Quartier) and Cambridge, UK (Margaret Lowenfield Library, Centre for Family Research, University of Cambridge), and in collaboration with New Hall Art Collection (University of Cambridge) and the Freud Museum (London) among others, with funding from the Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts scheme (2016).
Through adopting dialogic sculptures, it investigated how developing place attachment through a routine, might be enhanced by the mother-child relationship (eg. during the daily school run). The awareness of these dynamics is crucial for wellbeing. The strategy adopted is articulated as a form of ecofeminist (Buckingham 2020), spatialized and dialogic art practice in the publication ‘Caring-With Dialogic Sculptures. A Post-Disciplinary Investigation into Forms of Attachment’. In this, I also discussed the multidisciplinary ‘art practice as research as art’ approach.
The outcomes refer to Seamon’s book A Geography Of The Lifeworld: Movement, Rest, And Encounter (1979), in which he explains how “people encounter the world as they move and rest, dwell and journey” (p.139), and develop place attachment. A process Degnen C. (2015) thinks is bound up in social memory, and embodied knowledge.
The research was publicly presented in numerous international contexts, including College of Art Association (New York, 2019), the Freud Museum (London, 2018), as it evolved through stages. Further collaborations include: Sainsbury Centre for the Visual Art, Norwich; Eleanor Glanville, Research Centre, University of Lincoln; Applied Social Science Group, University of Cambridge; Jenny Bavidge (environmentalist, Cambridge University); Virginia Held (philosopher, New York City University), and the participants. The project won the first prize of “The Shape of the Public’s Health,” organised by Royal Society of Public Health and Royal Society of Sculptors (2019), in recognition of the impact art can have on enhancing awareness of the experience of place for our wellbeing.
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