Sensing the Familiar: Opening the Capacity for the Other to Express
- Submitting institution
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University of Plymouth
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 1891
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
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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
- Sensing the Familiar is a photographic installation (part of a multi-component body of work with diverse outputs) which combines three forms of practice by merging realist documentary photography, posthumanist texts and digital technologies to produce new nonmaterial and material forms of expression. This arts-practice-based and literary research is intended to provide insights into the complex real-life problems arising from dog control policies in Cyprus.
Sensing the Familiar was developed during a residency in Cyprus and emerges from an extended iterative research process into animal consciousness that combines affective and critical realist methodologies that allow ethical practices to emerge through speculative experimentation. It uses arts practice to offers a critique of conventional knowledge with its linguistic bias and colonialist hierarchies in order to reveal nonhuman consciousness. Similarly, by choosing to disseminate this body of work (including Sensing Familiar) across a range of audiences including policy-makers, journalists, gallery directors, educators, artists, rescuers, activists, it brings new insights into both animal consciousness and photography as a way of shifting perception.
A first iteration of the work, tested in Eastern Kentucky University, explored multiple ideas and modes of dissemination, which were subsequently responded to and advanced, in the work in Nicosia.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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