SSW 30 Knots or Boukadoura & On the Accounts of the Deceased - Multiple Exhibitions and Journal Article
- Submitting institution
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York St John University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 482
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Selfscapes, Dalby Forest, Yorkshire
- Brief description of type
- Multiple exhibitions and journal article
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- August
- Year
- 2018
- URL
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http://ray.yorksj.ac.uk/id/eprint/4840/
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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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- 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
- SSW 30 Knots or Boukadoura is an installation piece, which was presented alongside Dr Murphy McCaleb's music performance entitled: Heart of The Matter. This site-specific collaboration was developed as part of SelfScapes; a curatorial initiative inviting a group of international artists in artistic dialogue with the narrative of Dalby Forest, Yorkshire. An imaginary sailing boat installed at Dalby forest (SelfScapes, 2018) accompanied by the sounds of sea waves, the wind blowing through trees and the sound of the foghorn (trumpet), creates a feeling of displacement associated with that experienced during long journeys, relocation and the drafting of personal maps. This piece has been influenced by Peck’s writings, which define psychotherapy as “a process of map-revising” (Peck, 1978, p.97). SSW 30 Knots explores the notion of personal mapping as symbolic landscape, using images from the researcher’s family album to explore the relationship between inherited and attributed self. Life-size sails installed on trees depict performances of old family photographs of relatives standing on residential roads; the road, becomes a symbolic place for the journey of self, negotiating the relationship between personal and family narrative, between past and present. In a parallel exhibition entitled On The Accounts of The Deceased, the original photographs from Kolaiti’s family album, have been enlarged and printed on sails. A boating performance led by Optimist boats in the Saronic gulf (this sea surrounds the artist’s island of origin in Greece) forms an autobiographical cross-generational trail between Greece and the UK (the countries of the author’s origin and relocation.)
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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