Artist as Superconnector/ Superconductor: Pedagogical Provocations 23 March – 7 April 2017

Artist as Superconnector/Superconductor: Pedagogical provocations an accompanying exhibition to the recent NAFAE Annual Symposium held on 24th March 2017, in the Lanchester Research Gallery, Graham Sutherland Building. Artists frequently operate within a web of networks or ‘meshworks’, navigating complex situations and events, in creative (ex)-change. As active agents they are at times chameleonic, interconnected, charged, finding creative ways to work across and through the social, in dialogic relation, (directly and remotely). Sometimes inhabiting a fugitive space in institutional infrastructures or occupying para educational positions, they collaborate with others in diverse communities of practice to contribute to a rich social and cultural ecology. This exhibition presents a series of creative responses that address these ideas and that critically reflect on the implications of collaborative, connected, dialogic and social modes of practice for Fine Art pedagogy at a point when arts education, the arts generally and the fabric of the social are being challenged. The works presented here were selected from a national call, and have been co-created by students / artists / academics / researchers from across the UK. The exhibition has been curated by Jane Ball, Course Director for Fine Art and doctoral researcher in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University. It forms part of the National Association for Fine Art Education (NAFAE) Annual Symposium, a one-day event-taking place on 24th March 2017, hosted by the Visual Arts Research Group, in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Coventry University. NAFAE is the Subject Association for Fine Art education in the UK. It advocates the interests, promotion and cultural relevance of Fine Art education at Foundation, BA, MA and PhD levels. The Association aims to be instrumental in anticipating and shaping decisions that impact on the enhancement and future development of Fine Art by engaging with a range of constituencies. The exhibition includes artwork by:- Joe Woodhouse, University of Sunderland: Foundation Press, John Hammersley, Independent artist educator: Conduct and Connectivity Jane Ball, Coventry University: Carousel: Ruination and Reconnection @.ac: The Precarious Universit

Calculated phase equilibria in K(2)O-FeO-MgO-Al(2)O(3)-SiO(2)-H(2)O for silica-undersaturated sapphirine-quartz-bearing mineral assemblages

Silica-undersaturated, sapphirine-bearing granulites occur in a large number of localities worldwide. Such rocks have historically been under-utilized for estimating P–T evolution histories because of limited experimental work, and a consequent poor understanding of the topology and P–T location of silica-undersaturated mineral equilibria. Here, a calculated P–T projection for sapphirine-bearing, silica-undersaturated metapelitic rock compositions is constructed using THERMOCALC for the FeO-MgO-Al2O3-SiO2 (FMAS) and KFMASH (+K2O + H2O) chemical systems, allowing quantitative analysis of silica-undersaturated mineral assemblages. This study builds on that for KFMASH sapphirine + quartz equilibria [Kelsey et al. (2004) Journal of Metamorphic Geology, vol. 22, pp. 559–578]. FMAS equilibria are significantly displaced in P–T space from silicate melt-bearing KFMASH equilibria. The large number of univariant silica-undersaturated KFMASH equilibria result in a P–T projection that is topologically more complex than could be established on the basis of experiments and/or natural assemblages. Coexisting sapphirine and silicate melt (with or without corundum) occur down to c. 900 °C in KFMASH, some 100 °C lower than in silica-saturated compositions, and from pressures of c.≤1 to ≥12 kbar. Mineral compositions and composition ranges for the calculated phases are consistent with natural examples. Bulk silica has a significant effect on the stability of sapphirine-bearing assemblages at a given P–T, resulting in a wide variety of possible granulite facies assemblages in silica-undersaturated metapelites. Calculated pseudosections are able to reproduce many naturally occurring silica-undersaturated assemblages, either within a single assemblage field or as the product of a P–T trajectory crossing several fields. With an understanding of the importance of bulk composition on sapphirine stability and textural development, silica-undersaturated assemblages may be utilized in a quantitative manner in the detailed metamorphic investigation of high-grade terranes.D. E. Kelsey, R. W. White and R. Powel