In Search of Shortcuts : engaging with sites of history and narrative
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 30
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Book Chapter and Exhibitions including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- 2017
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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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
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- This body of research contributes to current debates on the importance of drawing, its entanglements with sites of history and its role in the creation of narrative. The main finding of the research was that drawing practice can be a connective node between place, body, memory and time. The enquiry utilised a drawing and walking methodology and its outputs were presented via a bespoke project online space, six curated exhibitions and a book chapter.
The research process was informed by Freud’s texts Remembering, Repeating and Working Through (1914) and Screen Memories (1899), considering specific forms of childhood memories and how fragments of them return later in life. The expanded drawing and walking methodology resulted in the production of drawing artefacts and also encompassed musical performances in the gallery space, which represented the collaboration and multidisciplinary negotiation integral to the enquiry.
Beyond the gallery and a bespoke online space, insights were further disseminated in the book chapter 'In Search of the Shortcuts' in Body, Space, Place in Collective and Collaborative Drawing: Drawing Conversations II (eds. Journeaux, J., Gorrill, H. and Reed, S.). The chapter contributes to current discourse around drawing in the expanded field through discussion of the author’s practice-led research and theoretical analysis of how walking and narrative interact in physical, virtual and psychological realms.
The research and all its outputs demonstrate new ways of presenting live practice, by aligning the importance of both the physical and virtual realms in an experiential mapping of collaborative artistic practice through expanded drawing, promoting a supportive model as a resource to be shared, passed on and added to.
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- Non-English
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