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CAMC Curates is the Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities newsletter with suggestions and news from our expert and engaged researchers.
Research Projects
EU funded project AccessCULT
AccessCULT is a European Funded Erasmus programme, funded with 250.244 EUR, started in September 2020-February 2023, under the direction and lead of the CAMC co-investigator Professor Louise Moody. AccessCULT aims to improve accessibility of cultural heritage across Europe through exchange of good practice and by developing, implementing, testing, improving, and promoting an innovative multidisciplinary HE module for students, future experts, and an adult training for existing cultural workers.
Image: British Motor Museum entertainment on the 3D Virtual Tour to CU and Erasmus partners, on the 24th of November 2020.
City of Culture Black Arts Movement in Coventry
Carolina Rito leads on the Black Arts Movement in Coventry project for the City of Culture, exploring the unique and exceptional role of Coventry and the Midlands in the foundation of the British Black Art Movement in the 1980s. Although underrepresented in the local art scene, art-related syllabi and prevailing local narrative; Coventry was home to a paradigm shift in British art history. This project, in partnership with the Herbert Gallery and Museum and MAOKWO, includes workshops, a conference and a working group to explore this history and its contemporary resonances. Full programme to come out soon.
Image: Poster First National Black Art Convention, Wolverhampton, 1982.
NIHR i4i funded project SHAPES
CAMC researchers Louise Moody and Elisavet Dimitrokali have been funded for 3 years by the NIHR i4i scheme to develop ‘A new therapy for post-stroke arm spasticity: Sheffield Adaptive Patterned Electrical Stimulation (SHAPES)’. The project is led by Devices for Dignity.
SHAPES will design and trial a self, or carer-managed intervention deployed after stroke to treat post-stroke elbow spasticity. The CAMC contribution will focus on the design, usability and acceptability of SHAPE to ensure that it is easier to wear and use at home through a combination of qualitative research and co-design with stroke survivors and healthcare professionals.
Image: British Motor Museum entertainment on the 3D Virtual Tour to CU and Erasmus partners, on the 24th of November 2020.
Boats on an Ocean: Healthcare workers experiences of COVID-19
If you haven’t already seen it, take a look at our Coventry Creates project Boats on an Ocean. Louise Moody and Sally Pezaro collaborated with project lead Kerry Wykes (HLS) and practitioners including China Plate Theatre in response to the first wave of COVID-19 to explore the ‘human’ experiences of healthcare workers – in contrast to the public and media portrayal of them as ‘heroes’.
The resulting audio artwork represents the stories, experiences and emotions of healthcare workers, gathered during an online creative workshop. The project and emerging themes will be picked up and expanded upon up by new PhD student Stacey Moon-Tracy who joins CAMC during January and will be supervised by Louise and Sally.
The latest Critical Practices Talks is now live. Carolina Rito invited curator and researcher Beatrice von Bismarck for an in-conversation about the postgraduate research programme “cultures of the curatorial”, the role of education in curatorial studies, and Bismarck’s latest book on curatorial anachronics. See the video here.
Use of digital self-management technology by older people with long-term health conditions
Abbeyfield Research Foundation funded project, in collaboration with Devices for Dignity, will explore the reasons why the provision of digital self-management technology to older people with long-term conditions may not be effective. The study focuses on three conditions common in the older population: chronic kidney disease, diabetes and dementia. Following a systematic literature review, a CAMC researcher will implement the Delphi method to aggregate opinions from experts and form recommendations for practitioners and technology developers to guide the design and prescription of technology to older adults.
Events
Samantha Clarke at Work in Progress Seminar
Working in Progress
Wed 20 Jan at 2pm
Sam Clarke on perceptual and empathic curiosity in education
Samantha Clarke will present one of her recent papers showcasing the use of playful curiosity, narrative and games design used in the re-design of a HLS Sports Science Master’s module at the Work in Progress Seminar. All CAMC colleagues and students are invited to share comments, feedback and questions about the presenter’s current work. Materials are circulated a week before each seminar: please have a look at this material before you come to the seminar. See the link to text here.
Carolina Rito will be at the European Artistic Research Network (EARN) Conference as part of the Curatorial Issues Workshop presenting a paper on “The Infrastructures of the Exhibitionary”. The series of workshop explores: how do we think through the protocols of exhibition as enquiry in the era of the algorithmic? Between the 26th and the 30th of January, international researchers and practitioners will discuss the Postresearch Condition. EARN conference is organised by HKU University of the Arts Utrecht, Dutch Research Council, and BAK, basis voor actuele kunst. Register here.
Hilary Nesi at Understanding English Dictionaries
‘Understanding English Dictionaries’ is a FutureLearn MOOC developed at Coventry University with Hilary Nesi as the lead educator, in partnership with Macmillan Education and The Alan Turing Institute, University of Cambridge. It enables participants to learn from established dictionary editors and researchers and explore the affordances and benefits of a wide range of different English dictionaries, enhancing their understanding of dictionary types, entry components, the content and wording of definitions and the latest developments in dictionary design and research. This is the 4th run of this MOOC, with 8,843 enrolled participants, taking place for six weeks from 18 Jan 2021. Register here.
Publications
Imogen Racz's new book: Art and the Home
Imogen Racz, Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday, Bloomsbury, 2020
Imogen Racz provides a theme-led discussion about how the physical experience of the dwelling space and the psychological complexities of the domestic are manifested in art, focusing mainly on sculpture, installation and object-based practice; discussing the work and ideas of artists as diverse as Louise Bourgeois, Gordon Matta-Clark, George Segal and Cornelia Parker within their artistic and cultural contexts. Art and the Home: Comfort, Alienation and the Everyday is the first single-authored, up-to-date book on the subject.
Call for Papers
CFP: House, Home and the Domestic CAMC International Symposium
Our ideas of and relationships with the home continue to evolve, particularly now in the era of COVID 19. Focusing on the home as an enclosed space with its surrounding parameters, this international symposium aims to encourage dialogues between different areas of expertise and highlight how these new meanings have been experienced within different countries. We welcome papers, posters and art works from a range of disciplines including, but not limited to, art history, art, history, literature, architecture, geography and psychology, that explore the physical and mental spaces of house and home.
The deadline is the 30th April 2021. Find more here.
Image credit: Graham Chorlton, Headlights, acrylic and oil on canvas, 122cm x 200cm, 2019.
Image credit: Yellow House, by John Devane
