Frequently Asked Questions
- Submitting institution
-
Coventry University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 21492351
- Type
- L - Artefact
- Location
- Phoenix Brighton; Tate Liverpool / Museum of Homelessness; People’s Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol; The Gallery at Foyles.
- Open access status
- -
- Month of production
- -
- Year of production
- 2014
- URL
-
-
- Supplementary information
-
-
- Request cross-referral to
- -
- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
- -
- Forensic science
- No
- Criminology
- No
- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
-
0
- Research group(s)
-
-
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The work represents a long-duration of creative curatorial research with multiple components. It represents sustained research effort between 2014 and 2020 with a large body of extended creative investigation related to homelessness over this period.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Seeking a way to research support and services available to homeless people, Luvera struck up a collaboration with a participant called Gerald Mclaverty. Together they sent email correspondence to council representatives in over 50 cities and towns across the UK, written from Mclaverty’s experience of homelessness, requesting information about the services provided, and then analysed the findings for the public. The results form the basis of a series of events that comprise a body of work: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). A contextual document describes how the project invites audiences to contemplate the information and responses, in order to draw a picture of how services both help and hinder people, giving insight into the challenges and realities faced by the most marginalised individuals in society as they attempt to access systems of care. The questions have been issued three times, in 2014, 2017, and 2019. The outcomes have been presented through exhibitions accompanied by a series of conferences, discussions and community events, performances, workshops, long-table discussions and reflective spaces to provoke discussion and debate. FAQ was first presented at the Phoenix Brighton in 2014 alongside a body of work Luvera co-created with over 50 homeless people living in Brighton and Hove (Assembly). It was subsequently further developed following additional rounds of information collection from councils, and exhibited at the Tate Liverpool (2018), The People's Republic of Stokes Croft, Bristol (2019) and The Gallery at Foyles, Foyles Bookshop (2020). The research was supported through multiple funding routes, principally Brighton Housing Trust, Brighton Photo Fringe, Museum of Homelessness, and Arts Council England.
- Author contribution statement
- -
- Non-English
- No
- English abstract
- -