The Macaronic: Verbal and Visual
- Submitting institution
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University College London
: B - UoA32B The Slade School of Fine Art
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory : B - UoA32B The Slade School of Fine Art
- Output identifier
- 14986
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
- Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea UK
- Brief description of type
- Exhibition: The Macaronic: Verbal and Visual, Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea (2017). Book: (Artist’s Book) The Moon and a Smile published by Enitharmon Editions (2017).
- Open access status
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- Month
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- Year
- 2017
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Request cross-referral to
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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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0
- Research group(s)
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- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The request for double-weighting relates to the undertaking of extensive research of the C19th photographic archives of the Dilwyn Llewelyn family and research of macaronic materials and theories, as well as the production of twelve booklets and scrolls that make up the submission. This output merits double-weighting because it represents the generation of new perspectives and applications for a particularly complex concept, developed through and in tandem with analysis of a large archive and visits to see macaronic artefacts, as well as representing complex work involved in composing macaronic poetry and the printed material for output.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Macaronic poetry, incorporating more than one language within the frame of a poem, is generalised as a methodology for verbal, visual and archival research. Writing poetry in both English and Welsh within the same poem, Morris uses the C16th form of the macaronic as a means of interrogating the colonising effects of translation. Extrapolating this method to include the visual presents a further innovation in conceptualising the verbal-visual relation. In analysing medieval stones inscribed in Latin script and Ogham, the concept of the macaronic applied to the appearance of Latin and early Irish, has produced a new way of thinking about these monuments relevant to medieval studies. Similarly, the concept of the macaronic serves as a research method to approach archives as syncretic and expose their hierarchies. This methodology is key to the output’s range of artworks, poetry, and critical writing produced during this REF period. Primarily located in west Wales, the thematic of place has been approached through research into the geology and ecology, myths and histories, and legacies of languages, that inform the present and possible future. In contradistinction to the palimpsest of history, the macaronic affords a means of figuring rupture and the incommensurable. Commissioned by the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery to respond to the C19th photographic archives of the Dilwyn Llewelyn family, Morris created a series of photographic works and an artist’s book of 12 sections with images and poems, excavating the landscape as an archival source using the methodology of the macaronic. This work was also made public through readings and performances, lectures, critical essays and reviews. The significance of using the macaronic as a methodology has also been raised at the research seminar, UCL-PsL SCRIPTA, and is a research theme of the Slade-IES (UCL-SAS UoL) Medieval in Contemporary Art research group.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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