Constructing Connections: Fiction, Art and Life.
Citation Summary:
Mackinnon-Day, P. (2017), (with Gabie, N. & Rooney, P.), Constructing connections: Fiction, Art and life, curated exhibition, Croxteth Hall, Liverpool 10th September - 30th September 2017.
Mackinnon-Day, P. (2017) (with Holtaway, J. Gabie, N. & Rooney, P.) Constructing connections: Fiction, Art and life, blog: https://croxtethpandorama.wordpress.com
Mackinnon-Day, P. (2017) Constructing connections: Fiction, Art and Life (with Jackson, T. O Donghaile, D. Gabie, N. & Rooney, P.) Published by Axis Projects
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32PMD1
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Croxteth Hall, Liverpool.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- September
- Year of first exhibition
- 2016
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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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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5
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Constructing connections: Fiction, Art and Life was a series of art works and public events held in Croxteth Hall. This research was based on an interrogation of Tressell’s 1914 seminal socialist tract, The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. It investigated and made parallels with current societal inequalities and of the historical period as described in Tressell’s book. MacKinnon-Day engaged daily with the staff at Croxteth Hall during a year long residency. This interaction was a key onsite catalyst for her research and was disseminated through blogs, seminars, community engagement, exhibitions, and public talk at the Liverpool Irish Festival.
This interrogation of place as seen, through the lens of Tressell’s text, formed the basis from which further academic discussion took place at the Centre for Literature and Cultural History at LJMU. The project extended Mackinnon-Day’s previous research enquiry: An Artist's Anthropological Approach to Sustainability. This was published in The International Journal of Art and Design October 2016, 3000 copies have been distributed throughout the UK and abroad. The works produced are now incrementally integrated into the Hall’s permanent public displays. On completion of the exhibition, the imagery and text were circulated nationally in a ‘newspaper’ publication with essays offering a critical review of the exhibition from Tessa Jackson OBE and academic Dr Deaglan O’Donghaile. The onsite research created ideas for artworks in a place where contemporary art is not normally practiced or seen. Impact events included a symposium and schools workshop, introducing students to the book, the artists, the Hall, and receive the same brief. The aim was to test how the process extended their understanding of the book and the artists’ working methods at Croxteth Hall June 2017.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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