Running as a Performance and Mediated Practice.
This includes a series of mediated performances: The Thames from Source to Sea via Google Earth; Thames Run (Greater London); London to Cambridge Run Commute; In the Absence of Running; The M25 in 4,000 Images A Proposal to run the Périphérique. These are accompanied by the Journal Articles: In the Absence of Running: from injury to medical intervention to art; and The Great Orbital Run (Or the M25 in 4,000 images).
- 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
- 914
- Type
- I - Performance
- Venue(s)
- Totally Thames 2020 International Arts Festival; Neo gallery, Bolton; UCL London; Beaney Museums, Canterbury; Seacourt Gallery, Bangor, Northern Ireland; Ruskin Gallery, Anglia Ruskin University; the University of Kent Paris, School of Arts and Media
- Open access status
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- Month of first performance
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- Year of first performance
- 2014
- URL
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https://figshare.com/s/b20953e4c20463fe7830
- 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
- No
- Criminology
- No
- 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
- No
- Additional information
- This research develops my inquiry into the performative nature of human physical activity, examined through the practice of
running. I align this to performance art practices in the ways in which the limits of my body are tested through the physical demands of long-distance running, whilst the limits of technology are challenged through the ways in which I communicate that experience.
Research begun in 2014 is presented through the 8 outputs listed in the portfolio. Each have supporting artworks related to the main outputs and Talks, Articles, Paper Presentations, Book Contributions, Exhibitions, Festivals, Interviews, Web and Social Media Links listed in the Dissemination/ Impact Section. The Appendices has links to live tracking and streaming used in the work. The research furthers the above line of enquiry to consider through the key research questions, how the activity of running and its technological mediation brings new insights to a sense of embodiment, place and representation.
Insights: The status of the document is challenged in its creation within the live action of the run, its live mediation and in subsequent representations. The status of the image is reconsidered as a record of a journey undertaken, and through what the images and the document depict and represent. The hybrid status of the document as a sculptural artwork and artist’s book enables a further interrogation of the latter, a new development. Another development is the consideration of injury.
Dissemination: 2 International Arts Festivals (Totally Thames 2019 and 2020), and exhibitions in the UK and abroad. 2 published articles : SI Artists’ books in Journal of Medical Humanities (Springer) and Arts, Open Access Journal (MDPI); Presentation: British Library(2018); Paper Presentations: CRASSH ‘RE’ Interdisciplinary Conference: Tacit Engagement in the Digital Age, Cambridge University(2019) and Avanca Cinema International Conference, Portugal(2017), awarded Honorable Mention and published in Conference Catalogue.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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