Manifesting Materiality: filmmaking as a curatorial practice in museums and archives
- Submitting institution
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The University of Manchester
: A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Unit of assessment
- 33 - Music, Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies : A - Drama, Dance, Performing Arts, Film and Screen Studies
- Output identifier
- 185712519
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- A collection of critical work
- Open access status
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- Month
- December
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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A - SALC: Drama
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Everest’s practice-based research investigation into the production of documentary film in museums and archives positions filmmaking as a museological practice capable of generating new knowledge about collections, audiences and professional practices. The research is underpinned by the questions: 1) How can film practice capture new knowledge about the sensorial, emotional and subjective qualities of the object/human encounter? 2) How can film practice generate new narratives that carry the potential to enrich and challenge existing institutional accounts?
The multi component output embeds filmmaking within museological practice through Everest's collaborative work with professional staff and audiences. The development of the filmmaker's role in the exploration of human relationships with material culture, and the narratives that are constructed by museum objects, spaces and audiences is central to this research. The practice also positions film as a way of 'collecting' for museums and archives that situates contemporary responses to objects in dialogue with permanent collections.
The three projects included:
1) Articulating Archives project. Everest worked with students from Trinity High School, Manchester, Manchester Museum, Cheshire Archives and the North West Film Archive to create a film that fictionally reimagines a history of colonial hunting.
2) Manchester Together Archive project. Observational filming and interviews were used as a research method to document and reflect on the practical, material and emotional processes involved in archiving 10,000 objects left by members of the public in the spontaneous memorial that followed the Manchester Arena bombing of 2017.
3) ‘Where Next?’ gallery re-development project at Liverpool’s World Museum. Everest worked with curators, artists and audiences to design and document workshops and consultation events through observational filming and interviews. Footage was shared with staff and participants to evaluate and inform the ongoing process whilst short edited outputs were exhibited and shared online to engage a wider public with the re-development.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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