'nou', Peter & nou' and www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com - A multi component output comprising of digital media, an artist’s book and a website.
- Submitting institution
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The University of Cumbria
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- Topping1
- Type
- Q - Digital or visual media
- Publisher
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- Month
- April
- Year
- 2018
- 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
- This multi-component and multi-layered output comprises of a digital film (18mins), a collection of two artists book (120 pages and 224 pages), a smaller publication, exhibitions and film premiers, as well as the web-work www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com. The research took place over a two year period.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- The video nou (2018), publication Peter & nou (2018) and the web work www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com (2018-ongoing) are interconnected artworks. Bound in a complex system of intertextuality these works appropriate the biographies and literature of Philip K. Dick and Naomi Mitchison using them as material. Established lines of association are cut-up and reassembled into new narratives and alternate realities which in turn become self-perpetuating. These works are a continuously developing weave of quotations, narratives and realities which reach beyond the screen and gallery, enabling contribution to discourses across disciplines including fine art, filmmaking and literature. The video nou (2018) appropriates the radical life and works of Naomi Mitchison and her feminist science fiction novel Memoirs of a Spacewoman (1962) in particular, creating a new discourse around Mitchison’s contemporary importance nou performs the science fiction trope of alien invasion, reframing it from a feminist perspective, to foreground the fluid nature of identity and to problematise a human-centred world view. Thus nou contributes to current discussion around human and non-human relationships, proposing a new way of ‘making kin’ (Haraway 2016). Peter & nou (2018) is a publication which secures the bond between the videos Peter (2014) and nou (2018) while linking their narratives to the form and content of www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com (2018). The publication is an experiment in adaptation and intertextuality which transports visual and textual narratives of the videos Peter and nou from moving image to the page, taking the formal and conceptual opportunities that the move brings to thicken the texts. www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com expands the intertextuality of the video works Peter and nou , increasing the number and type of readings possible of the works. A digital wunderkammer filled with the material of practice, one effect of www.rabbitcottontoothcottonrabbit.com is its revelation of the complex nature of personal and cultural associations in the viewer’s mind.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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