‘CARE: from periphery to centre’, including: an exhibition, symposium, public talks and a permanent sculptural installation as part of the 250th Anniversary of Homerton College, University of Cambridge, and in collaboration with Gibberd Art Gallery, Harlow Arts and Moleskine Art Collection.
- Submitting institution
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Anglia Ruskin University Higher Education Corporation
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 912
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Homerton College, University of Cambridge
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
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- Year of first exhibition
- 2018
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/e916c3336f1622a3f9e2
- 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
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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- 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
- The project CARE: from periphery to centre was commissioned for the 250th Anniversary of Homerton College, University of Cambridge in 2018, in collaboration with Moleskine Foundation (Milan). My artistic research had previously looked at undervalued practices of care in society through people’s experiences of place. For this project, I collaborated with the 250 Archive Working Group including archivist Svetlana Paterson, historian of science Dr Melanie Keene, and social historian Dr Peter Cunningham. I responded to the domestic, social and political dimensions of care in the work of Homertonians Maud
Cloudesley Brereton and Leah Manning, while researching the College’s archive and its architecture. The research was underpinned by care ethics principles in conversation with philosopher Virginia Held. Through site and context responsive exhibition and installation my work unearthed the College’s historic concern with, and contribution to, health, well-being and education.
Part of the installation is now permanently on view, while the drawings are kept in the archive collection. The public display
was accompanied by a number of events, in partnership with the Gibberd Gallery, Harlow Arts Trust, and the Moleskine
Foundation, Milan Italy. The latter also now has one of the two artist books in their Art Collection, and through this I contributed to a program the public talks ‘Inspiring Morning- creativity for resilience’, now archived on their website and celebrated in a special edition notebook.
Some of the conversations from the project are collected in the catalogue Keene, Melanie and Held, Virginia and Cunningham, Peter and Scardi, Gabi and Cologni, Elena (2020) CARE: from periphery to centre. Homerton College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. The research was also further disseminated and aspects presented in international contexts, while my understanding of care has become quite relevant after the pandemic, feeding into further international new research.
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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