Mobile Utopia : Art and Experiments
- Submitting institution
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The University of Lancaster
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 232156568
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Lancaster
- Open access status
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- Month of first exhibition
- November
- Year of first exhibition
- 2017
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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
- No
- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- Yes
- Number of additional authors
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2
- 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
- The exhibition launched a new platform for Art and Mobilities, developed in connection with the world-leading Centre for Mobilities Research. The exhibition encouraged artists, participants, and spectators to take a fresh look at experiences of mobility, their connection with each other, and to space. The artistic interventions forced consideration of how spaces can be reconfigured for experimentation, critique, and political communication. The aim was to create new forms of critique with the potential to reform existing mobility regimes.
The exhibition used an open call and peer-reviewed selection of proposals for artworks by 17 artists from 9 countries. Artworks included video installation, sound art, data sculpture, walking art, book works, performance, networked art, and participation. The curatorial framing identified two key methodological characteristics used by the artists: mobile art practices using vision in motion as method, and artmaking as a tool for gaining insights into new contexts. The works generated by these approaches were framed to question modalities of Infrastructures, Identity on the Move, and Mobile Mediality; a characterisation drawing on cross-disciplinary perspectives on utopias and systems of thinking.
The exhibition included 13 international artists, 12 experiments, and a catalogue of essays, with the Mobile Utopias conference hosting 300 delegates. Rose and Southern delivered papers and chaired streams.
Published with the exhibition, a catalogue of critical essays explored key concepts. The essay by Rose, Southern, and O’Keefe considered Art as a Strategy for Living with Utopias in Ruins and Monica Bȕscher developed The Mobile Utopia Experiment theme. Artworks and statements by the artists addressed other mobilities themes. The project attracted a range of funders and sponsors. The curatorial team subsequently launched the international network of Art and Mobilities, with a further symposium: The UK Art & Mobilities Network Inaugural Symposium, 3rd July 2018, with 22 delegates.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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