The Train Track and the Basket
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 68
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- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Artefact, Exhibition and Article including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- Year
- 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
- The site-specific installation, The Train Track and the Basket, commissioned by Hull UK City of Culture 2017 Limited, is a practice-based outcome from ongoing research investigating transmigration and its points of contact with woven structures. The installation combined photographs of train tracks and entangling images of baskets into the thirteen, seven-meter-high window spaces encountered in the entrance/exit vestibule of Hull’s Paragon Station, a transport interchange for rail, bus and coaches.
The research methodology included research in collections, paying attention to the relationship between the audience (in this case the artist) and object. The experience of seeing objects behind glass informed the presentation of the work. As well as a grounding in historical enquiry relating to a specific site, ‘The Train Track and the Basket’ is a reinterpretation of Nicholas J. Evans research ‘Work in progress: Indirect passage from Europe Transmigration via the UK, 1836-1914’ (2001); an examination of European migrants who made the decision to travel overseas via the United Kingdom.
The outcome is a site-specific aesthetic experience of history, acknowledging the 2 million people who arrived from mainland Europe by ship into Hull between 1836 and 1914, and an exploration of the way craft skills migrated with passengers. The research reflects a complex artistic reality and layering process involving photographing train tracks in Hull and at other railway stations in the United Kingdom, United States and Europe.
The research was further disseminated in an article titled: ‘The Train Track and the Basket: Interpreting transmigration within a site-responsive practice’ commissioned by The Critical Fish, an artist-led publication that promotes research-led writing. The commissioners were Lauren Saunders and Jill Howitt. The project was supported by Arts Council England and Hull City Council.
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- Non-English
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