Bare Red. 3x Chinese books recording the COVID19 lockdown between March and June 2020
- Submitting institution
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University of Wales Trinity Saint David / Prifysgol Cymru Y Drindod Dewi Sant
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32-SW6
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Gallery Ten
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- June
- Year of first exhibition
- 2020
- 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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1
- 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
- BARE RED is a series of 3 Chinese books painted by Williams during the months of the covid19 lockdown. The volumes create a linear visual diary of Williams’s personal experience and feelings stretched out over days/weeks/months of the lockdown. They record her daily thoughts and emotions in flux, reacting to the frightening news, anger at the new world outside, loneliness of isolation, the longing for family and friends, the grief of losing connections, the boredom of monotony, the need for physical touch and sexual release, the bizarreness of newly adopted routines of a new normal. Williams had the books custom made in Hangzhou market by traditional art book-makers (the humble house of four treasures) during a research trip to China. The four treasures refer to the four materials used in Chinese painting/calligraphy - brush, ink, paper + ink stone. Each accordion-fold book includes 25 pages measuring 40 x 40cm, making the total length of each volume a continuous 10 meters between two fabric covered, with embroidered hard covers. A mix of materials are used: ink, spray paint, highlighter pens, acrylic paint and pencil together with torn paper, magazine cut-outs and cardboard collaged throughout. The creative outcomes are developed in CONVERS[ISOL]ATION, a collaborative project between Williams and art theorist Marilyn Allen, responding to the experience of social isolation during the lockdown. A joining of paintings and text, each ‘conversation page’ comprises an image and two dialogic pieces of text, generated over 40 consecutive days. Emphasis is placed on the dialogue between art theory and practice, rather than an analysis of one by another. Dissemination Bare Red 1, 2 & 3. Studio10. Exhibition by appointment and online display. Opened July 20th 2020
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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