So I Guess my Body Pretty Much Hates Me Now
Autobiographical comic book produced during a postdoctoral Researcher in the Archives residency at University of the Arts London’s Archives and Special Collections Centre (ASCC) at London College of Communication.
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Kingston University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-73-0000
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- L - Artefact
- Location
- London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, U.K. (launch)
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- Month of production
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- Year of production
- 2019
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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
- So I Guess… (2019) is an autobiographical comic book, produced during a postdoctoral Researcher in the Archives residency at University of the Arts London’s Archives and Special Collections Centre (ASCC), London College of Communication, which invited proposals for projects that encourage new investigations of the Collections through the production of new scholarly or artistic works.
The research aimed to: Firstly, enable a means of further exploring and applying arguments developed in Miers’s PhD thesis, Visual Metaphor and Drawn Narratives (2018), in which he considered how the depiction of a fictional world guides reader expectations regarding the events that take place within it, through the use of varied drawing styles. Secondly, explore the use of visual metaphor in processing and expressing the trauma caused by Miers’s diagnosis of multiple sclerosis, which he received 19 months prior to the residency.
Primary research focused on two collections: The Les Coleman Underground Comics Collection and the Lindsay Cooper Archive, both held at University of the Arts, London. Les Coleman was an artist, poet, curator and collector of American and European underground and independent comics and illustration from the late-twentieth and early-twenty-first centuries. Lindsay Cooper was an avant-garde musician and composer, who suffered from multiple sclerosis.
The residency concluded with a symposium held at London College of Communication (April 4–5 2019), at which Miers launched his comic book. The research has been disseminated at conferences in Brighton, Manchester, London and Amsterdam, and through workshops that derive from the drawing techniques developed during the residency, in London and Amsterdam. The comic is held in the Wellcome Library, and extracts were exhibited at the dotMD festival, Galway (September 2019). Miers was invited to produce a new comic strip based on the Lindsay Cooper Archive for the academic journal Biography: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly.
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