42 research outputs found
Lancashire to Lahore 15 - Publication 'INSPIRE'
Through a series of skills-based workshops, cultural sharing and the development of an understanding of socially engaged arts practice, the project culminated in a three- day arts exhibition and symposium called ‘International Networks & Local Landscapes’. With delegates from Pakistan, London and Texas the three-day event included an art exhibition ‘Right Here – Right Now’, a presentation at UCLan and a symposium in a derelict mill in East Lancashire
INSPIRE
Through a series of skills-based workshops, cultural sharing and the development of an understanding of socially engaged arts practice, the project culminated in a three- day arts exhibition and symposium called ‘International Networks & Local Landscapes’. With delegates from Pakistan, London and Texas the three-day event included an art exhibition ‘Right Here – Right Now’, a presentation at UCLan and a symposium in a derelict mill in East Lancashire
Social art as material and process: Towards a new method and ethos for social art
This thesis presents an argument for the existence of unidentified materials utilised
by social artists, including chance and often serendipitous encounters with people,
environment, and place, which play a critical role in social art. I emphasise the need
for a new ethical-social aesthetic model founded on a more comprehensive
understanding of the materiality that comprises social art. My contribution to the field
reveals the potential of such materiality in the three new artworks and developing a
model of creative participatory approaches to art-making. By recognising this
potential of seemingly insignificant things and ephemera, I explore a new model of
aesthetics within my social art practice that influences the direction of the creative
process and, ultimately, the form of the artworks. Through a closer examination of
the nuances of social art practice, this thesis presents a fresh perspective on the
potential of social art materials.
This thesis investigates a new aesthetic in social art practice rooted in a more
productive relationship between hylomorphic and morphogenetic qualities (as
discussed by Tim Ingold, 2013). To accomplish this, I draw upon Grant Kester's
dialogical aesthetics (2004), Tim Ingold's binary approaches to making (2013), Erin
Manning's potential of minor gestures (2016), and Yuriko Saito's familiar aesthetics
(2017). To undertake this exploration, I reflect on and analyse field notes and
personal diary entries from my involvement in creating three new social artworks
(two interactive sculptures and a film) 'The Gentlemen's Wardrobe' (2016), 'Time
Machine' (2017) and '[birdsong]' (film, 2019). Additionally, I conduct participatory
observation in two internationally recognised social art projects: Rick Lowe's Project
Row Houses, Texas (1995 - ongoing) and Suzanne Lacy's ‘Shapes of Water -
Sounds of Hope’ (2016 - 17) in my local neighbourhood of Pendle, Lancashire
Brief Encounters: A Walk Around Canterbury with an Old Polaroid Camera and Some Out of Date Film
In The Critique of Everyday Life (Vol. II) Henri Lefebvre distinguishes moments from the everyday, and suggests that the precursors to such moments “are there in embryonic form, but it is difficult to make them out with any clarity.”1 Lefebvre’s “moments” hold value and spring forth from everyday life only to fail, ultimately fading away and returning us back to everyday-ness. It is the embryos of those moments that I am interested in revealing for this short paper. Using an extract from my personal journal, made while the experience was still fresh in my mind, and together with samples of instant photographs, I will attempt to pin down some of the “partial moments” I encountered during a walk around Canterbury in Kent
Lancashire to Lahore 3 - Publication 'Lahore - Chandigarh'
A 'strait' road is an artificial line. William Titley's photographs take us through the meanderings of city spaces where people carve out roads of humanity in an organic, self-organising weaving and bobbing to and fro, at once directed yet directionless, an interconnected mass of relationships that meet, connect and are gone again, on another thread of the urban complex, still joined but elsewhere
Lancashire to Lahore
INSPIRE : International Strategic Partnerships in Research and Education
The product of a month long residency at The National College of Arts (Lahore) in 2008 (funded by the Juliet Gomperts Trust in collaboration with The Beaconshouse National University (Lahore). The project exchanged artworks on the theme of 'This is England' and 'This is Pakistan', and was exghibited in both countries at academic and local community venues
The Time Machine - A performative lecture for The Asia Triennial Manchester 2018
This was a performative lecture titled ‘IT’S AN ILLUSIVE, SLIPPERY SOMETHING. ME TODAY YOU TOMORROW, A FICKLE FRIEND. WE, AS IN ME AND I AS IN YOU. A REPETITIVE YET SLIGHTLY OUT OF EARSHOT RHYTHM OF BECOMING.’
It was performed to a backdrop of 16 Vinyl records all playing simultaneously.
A paper delivered at a conference for the Asia Triennial 2010 at The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
‘Community, Environment and Place – 10 Years of In-Situ’
‘It is not only In-Situ’s position as a bricks-and-mortar venue in the heart of the community which qualifies it as being embedded.” On the occasion of In-Situ’s 10th anniversary, co-founder William Titley reflects on the organisation’s mission to embed art into everyday life...
Lancashire to Lahore 10 - Exhibition 'Lahore Vs Chandigarh'
An installation of 200 photographs (A3 C-Type Prints) - 100 from Lahore Pakistan and 100 from Chandigarh India.
Exhibited on campus at Lancaster University in collaboration with arts organisation LICA.
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A dialogical investigation and visual comparison of the two Panjabi cities of Lahore, Pakistan and Chandigarh in India.
Chandigarh was built to replace the loss of the Capital of the Panjab (Lahore, after Partition) and was created using Masterplanning approaches to urban development and modernist ideals.
The project aims to open communication channels between the two neighbouring countries using art as a catalyst for conversation