Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt
- Submitting institution
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The University of Huddersfield
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23
- Type
- T - Other
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- Brief description of type
- Multi-component: Artefacts including Contextual Information
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2015
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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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 research project interrogates the communicability of ‘sublime’ feeling and how it both effects and is affected by our sense of time and space. The sublime is fundamentally experiential and aims to describe our encounters with the formless, the infinite, the limitless and the unpresentable. This practice research seeks to conjoin contemporary thinking with the historical treatise (Longinus, Burke, Kant) and proffers that if there is something incommunicable and unknowable within sublime feeling that traditional research alone cannot adequately elucidate then artistic production, and the examination of its acts, may be better placed to give shape and value to the phenomenon.
Through praxis, fieldwork and acts of practice the research outcomes (Work I, Work II, Work III) sought to develop a deeper understanding of sublime experience and its communicability through affect theory, ritual space dynamics and installation techniques. Using autoethnography to document emotion-generating interactions and an intuitive, practice-based approach in fieldwork to examine how the sublime moves us; the exhibition of installation artworks aimed to recreate/induce/critique the spatio-temporal conditions of sublime experience through utilising sublime ‘narratives’.
The work was exhibited at the Globe Gallery, Newcastle, Church of St Thomas the Martyr, Newcastle, Resonance FM, London (DAB), Forma, London and the Bogotá Experimental Film Festival, Bogotá, Colombia.
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- Non-English
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