Research deployed and shared in order to regenerate a deprived area: Fabric District Arts Strategy, Research Festivals and Projects.
Citation Summary:
Numerous multi-modal research outputs over 3 years as Festival Director, researcher, curator, co-curator, educationalist. 3066 people visited events involving 200 creatives from three continents; 80 bespoke works; 22 original exhibitions; 5 newly created venues; 15 new fashion collections shown within 3 fashion shows; 9 unique performances; 2 clubs; and 42 original street art works. It has involved 14 businesses, 4 museums, 1 community newspaper, 1 charity, and community feedback. 18 pedagogic events included 4 universities; 60 contributing students; 1 junior school and 48 child artists, following Hyatt authored cultural urban regeneration strategy.
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32JHYA1
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- The Tapestry, 68-76 Kempston St, Liverpool L3 8HL and other venues and streets of the Fabric District.
- Brief description of type
- Multi Component Output
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- July
- Year
- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- COVID-19 affected output statement
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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
- 2018 in Liverpool, a city with a USP of 1960s’ cultural radicalism, in Islington, a district of extreme deprivation, Hyatt asked, in the montage form of a new festival, ‘Time Tunnel 1968 – 2018’, 8-11 May 2018 (www.timetunnel.johnhyatt.co.uk), ‘What has happened in counterculture since 1968?’. Inquiry exposed differences and rhymes in politics, sexuality, ethnicity, economics and culture. He linked his own international research (e.g. I.C.Rapoport’s US photography), with unearthing and foregrounding new local histories (e.g. Scottie Press Archive). He curated 9 new exhibitions, co-curated 7; and co-created 4 art projects, a Situationist fashion collection and educational events. Prior, as CIC Board member, rebranding Islington ‘The Fabric District’, Hyatt engineered the strategic context for this research dissemination: he authored ‘FAB ART’ (2017) strategy for regeneration through cultural research with a bespoke methodology from analysis of international comparators, field and site-specific inquiry. He created a permanent street gallery, an event space, two new large exhibition spaces from derelict warehouses (The Tapestry won 2019 NW Inspired Spaces Award). He collaborated with local stakeholders and Open Eye and Walker Art Galleries to link working class audiences and ‘high art’. He created an independent and resilient community through research. Seeking no external grants but galvanising local business support, he gradually devolved leadership from himself to greater neighbourhood ownership of the second festival, ‘This Social Fabric’, 7-9 June 2019, (https://fabricdistrictfestival.johnhyatt.co.uk/), contributing a key exhibition himself, ‘Across the Universe’, including research originally published 28 March – 16 April 2015 as, ‘My Brush with Angels’, invited solo exhibition, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles. 2020 festival Covid-19 postponed, Hyatt created a socially-distanced street gallery solo exhibition of lockdown research, ‘Walk with Me’ (25 July 2020 – 1 March 2021). Consequently, the Fabric District was officially recognised as a part of the city’s cultural map and investment portfolio in 2020.
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- Non-English
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