Lisa and John.
Lisa and John is a multicomponent output and multimedia project that revisits, re-evaluates, and builds on a series of documentary photographs of Derby families that Moore shot in the late 1980s. The output comprises: an installation of theatrical maquettes that references museum-style dioramas; an immersive installation of new photography chosen by the original subjects of the photographs, Lisa and John; a 45-minute play with actors playing Lisa and John and a script built from verbatim transcripts of interviews with the couple. See Portfolio Booklet for documentation of research dimensions.
- Submitting institution
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The University of Westminster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- qq44w
- Type
- T - Other
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- Location
- First works exhibited at Format International Photography Festival, Derby, March 23, 2017–April 4, 2017, then various to 2019. Further details in portfolio.
- Brief description of type
- Other: Multicomponent
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- March
- Year
- 2017
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- 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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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- As a collaborative and open-ended exploration of a photographic archive, via a variety of multimedia art forms, Moore’s research interrogates assumptions concerning normally concealed processes underlying the production of realist works or documentary. In this respect, the research relocates the photographic images in the wider field of contemporary art, using the conventions of verbatim theatre and immersive environments to critique documentary production within the images. Moore calls into question the certainties of representation by using methods articulated within photography in an expanded field (Soutter). This includes the development of a Brechtian device that places the photographer as a character within the work, and by making Lisa and John, the original subjects, active agents in the new project. 3D work also further disrupts the documentary paradigm through the inclusion of the ‘photographer at the scene’ within a museum like diorama.
Collaboration in documentary practice is usually thought of in terms of working with subjects in the moment of creating the images. Instead, Moore’s project uses collaboration to disrupt and re-explore past work, and creates a future space for research, revision and reinterpretation of archives. Lisa and John has been exhibited and performed in Belfast Exposed, The Mac, Belfast, London Gallery West, and other venues.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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