Down on the farm 2019: Where the Eyes Never See: Site writing and artefacts
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 23 - 1402809
- Type
- T - Other
- DOI
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- Location
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- Brief description of type
- N/A
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month
- December
- Year
- 2019
- 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
- No
- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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A - Artistic Research Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- Yes
- Double-weighted statement
- The book produced by Higgins is the outcome generated from research that involved a set of primary sources which were extended, complex and difficult to access. The material for the work was created through site-writing where the author wrote, edited and tested the content through a set of site-specific responses that reacted to objects, cultural contexts, testimonial accounts and visual articulation of events and personal histories. The fieldwork took place in a number of countries; north Russia, Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus and Norway.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Published by M. K. Čiurlionis Lithuanian National Museum of Art and The University of Bergen WTENS enhances public understanding of particular conflicts in particular former Soviet countries, in which the individual’s experience, expression and voice has been an un-represented narrative,
Constructed as an interwoven polyphonic narrative container, Higgins produced WTENS by collating visual material from his 5 years of fieldwork and Site-Writing on the Solovky Archipelago in north Russia, and also at particular locations in Lithuania, Poland, Cyprus and Norway. The book takes an innovative form of texts, images, as well as the transcribed testimony of a 92year old Lithuanian gulag survivor, reflecting on her deportation with her family at the age of 8. Higgins wrote, edited and tested the text and images through Site-Writing - direct site responsive and reflexive production, in relation to sites, objects, cultural contexts, testimony literature and visual articulation in the case study sites.
WTENS was designed, peer reviewed and edited to sit between documentation, history, poetic fiction, artists publication/artefact and educational tool. It is this recognition that led the Museum to publish and distribute WTENS as a creative tool that contributes to our unfolding dialogues with social history, memory studies, and museum studies to enable the exploration of social narratives and their representation. In this work, Higgins builds on Output One (OP1 ‘Down on the Farm’) questioning how the production of the image, the act of making images and how they perform can communicate or describe moments of either erasure or remembering of ‘Our image’. ‘Our image’ is at the heart of how we continually construct our current ethical positions and social conduct, making both specific historical and personal narratives and embodying our relationship to our voice/s in our representation/s.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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