Reflections on Sculptural Thinking in Fashion Design

This paper explores three-dimensional thinking in fashion design; it does this by engaging with theories, concepts and philosophies related to thought and the experience of creating three-dimensional artifacts, which are common to both sculpture and fashion. Central to this relationship is the employment of the senses with respect to perception and cognition. Of particular interest is the sense of touch,and how sensory experience encounters notions of empathy and mimicry in a phenomenological encounter with others: whether animate or inanimate. The research emerged through conversations between a fashion designer, Kevin Almond and a contemporary artist, Stephen Swindells. The sensibility of the paper, and much ofthe analysis and debates, thus adopt a creative practitioners perspective. A conceptual current running through the conversation, and subsequently the paper, touched upon whether following a line of thought becomes analogous to visually and mentally tracing a human form in a psychological space – and what is the significance for fashion of the interrelationships between sculptural thinking and phenomenological encounters with others within urban environments

The University of Salford Sound of Laughter project

What follows is a report of the University of Salford’s Sound of Laughter Project (2018). This pilot study was set up as an initial attempt to ascertain whether it is possible to discern any meaning from the different laughter sounds that audiences might make during a stand-up comedy show. The experiment also aimed to discover whether comedians can recognise variations in the properties of laughter responses made during the act of public joking. Further, the study aimed to establish whether performers can discern these different audience laughter sounds in real time and use them as identifiable ‘cues’ to check the efficacy (or otherwise) of their comic communication. This combined report on the pilot study has been prepared by a group of researchers at the University of Salford, all of which were involved in different stages of the experiment and whose initials are appended to each relevant section of the report. Keywords: Audience laughter; stand-up comedy; joking; psychoacoustics, audience respons

Queen Bee (for Bronze Sculpture)

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Coyote: I like America and America likes me

One week's performance on the occasion of the opening of the Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY, May 1974.full view, Coyote and Beuys with cane, Rene Block Galler

Chaise de graisse

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wie man dem toten Hasen die Bilder erklärt

"Beuys was wearing wide shoes with felt and copper soles, his face was covered with honey and gold leaf as he affectionately cradled the dead hare in his arms, explaining 'art' to him for three hours whilst walking him around the paintings. He then sat on a stool speaking confidentially to the hare, addressing the corpse in an incomprehensible murmur that over-intellectualized people could no longer or could not yet comprehend."full view, Beuys sitting on stool with dead hare

The Secret Block for a Secret Person in Ireland, Untitled (SB 179)

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Infiltration homogène pour piano à queue

Materials include: felt-covered Bechstein pianofull vie

Coyote: I like America and America likes me

One week's performance on the occasion of the opening of the Rene Block Gallery, New York, NY, May 1974.detail, Beuys beings brought into the gallery on a gurne

In the Shaman's House

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