Lure of the Lost - A Contemporary Pilgrimage
- Submitting institution
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Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
- Unit of assessment
- 34 - Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management
- Output identifier
- 0I/03/34
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Huntly - Venice
- Brief description of type
- Multi Component Output - Copy of Book and USB stick containing film and photographs of the walk
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
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- Year
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- 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
- While recognising that practice-based creative research welcomes unplanned, unexpected insights to emerge, this project aimed to explore the question: How can a socially engaged practice apply a ‘walking art’ methodology to reflect on traditional art making? Its conceptual legacy drew from a history of durational walking performances (e.g., Richard Long/Hamish Fullton). Such work aims to temporally extend moments of reflection and draws on Sullivan’s (2012) definition of creative research as that which challenges established ways of knowing and “emphasise[s] the role of the imaginative intellect in creating, criticising, and constructing knowledge.” The novel contribution of this research was exploring how the logics of socially engaged practice could be combined with this previously solitary endeavour. The project was framed as a ‘pilgrimage’ between two artistic nodes: the Venice Biennale (as the centre of the ‘traditional’ art world) and Huntly, Aberdeenshire (a town known for socially engaged processes) and consisted of walking 2638 km over 88 days, engaging locals along the way in a discussion on the role of art.
The research insights from this project are encapsulated through a film, photographs and a book, all of which can be read individually, but must be collectively considered to understand the research.
The key insights were:
• Understanding of the limitations of a walking-art methodology within a socially engaged practice: specifically, the physical endurance required to walk 35km a day was incompatible with developing dialogic relationships.
• Explorations of land-use and migration politics (i.e., who is ‘allowed’ to access certain lands?).
• Problematising the links between (masculine) identity and physical ability.
Between 2015 - 2020, the research insights were disseminated in the UK and internationally through 9 screenings, 6 exhibitions, 5 conferences presentations, and a monograph, each of which explored different elements of the practice research.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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