Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Adam Whiting in Heaven is a Place (2014)

A film made by Plymouth University practitioner-researchers, Kayla Parker, Roberta Mock and Ruth Way, is currently screening for a month as part of the Out of Borders Venice International Experimental Art Festival. Heaven is a Place is a community dance film made in collaboration with the advocacy organisation, Pride in Plymouth. It was part of an EU-funded cultural project… Continue reading Plymouth LGBT dance film exhibited in Venice until 16 January 2017

Saying goodbye to ’16 via Mr Key’s Brief Lives

Drawing of Ronald Firbank by Augustus John

Throughout this frankly challenging year, we have gained frequent strength and fortitude by regularly flipping through the pages of Mr Key’s Shorter Potted Brief, Brief Lives (Little Brown, 2015). Its author and compiler, Frank Key, is a small press legend, blogger and radio personality. Taking as its starting point John Aubrey’s Brief Lives, Mr Key has attempted… Continue reading Saying goodbye to ’16 via Mr Key’s Brief Lives

Feature: “The Political History of the English Plum Pudding in the Long Nineteenth Century”

BY JAMES GREGORY   One enduring item in the British culinary self-imagination has been the plum pudding – often closely associated in festivities with the roast beef (of old England). The pudding – so named for the dried fruits which may have included fruit other than prunes – was not just for Christmas time but… Continue reading Feature: “The Political History of the English Plum Pudding in the Long Nineteenth Century”

Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing

Dr David Sergeant, Lecturer in English at Plymouth University, has co-edited and published a chapter in the book Doris Lessing and the Forming of History (Edinburgh University Press). Co-edited with Kevin Brazil and Tom Sperlinger, the volume considers Lessing’s writing as a whole and in retrospect, focusing on her innovative attempts to rework literary form to engage with the challenges thrown up by the… Continue reading Plymouth researcher, David Sergeant, publishes new collection on Doris Lessing

24 January 2017: Talk on Museums & the Role of a Curator

Led by Joanna Norman (Deputy Head of Research, Victoria & Albert Museum) 2.30pm-4.30pm at Plymouth University What does a curator actually do, and how does their role fit into the work of a museum as a whole? This session – co-organised by the Arts Institute, Doctoral Training Centre in the Arts & Humanities and the Graduate… Continue reading 24 January 2017: Talk on Museums & the Role of a Curator

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. Message Workshop: Mandy Russell on Elements. 4pm on 12th December 2016 in RLB 703 Design Knowledge Seminar: Marc Trotereau and Tavs Jorgensen. 12.30pm on 13th December  Land/Water Seminar: 3pm on 14th December in Scott 102… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Peace - Burial at Sea exhibited 1842 Joseph Mallord William Turner 1775-1851 Accepted by the nation as part of the Turner Bequest 1856 http://www.tate.org.uk/art/work/N00528

Professor Sam Smiles, an internationally-recognised expert on British painter J.M.W. Turner, will be giving a paper in next week’s Art History Research Seminar. Professor Smiles will be discussing the critically-acclaimed exhibition he co-curated at Tate Britain, ‘Late Turner: Painting Set Free’ of 2014, and the challenges he faced as an academic-curator in meeting the museum’s… Continue reading 14th December 2016: Art History Research Seminar

Feature: “Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between”

BY LEE MILLER AND JOANNE ‘BOB’ WHALLEY  How do you write about writing in a way that is engaging, resists becoming a self-regarding meta-commentary, and makes people want to read your other work without looking like an advert? It’s quite a tall-order, but that’s what we hope to do over the next few paragraphs. In… Continue reading Feature: “Between Us: Audiences, Affect and the In-Between”

Dr Allister Gall screens new film in Australia

Plymouth University researcher Dr Allister Gall is screening his film Everything Imperfect at the ‘Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy’ conference, RMIT University, Australia. Everything Imperfect was made in 2013 and submitted alongside his PhD thesis. The film utilised diary/documentary footage of micro-cinema events organised as part of the practice, films submitted for the project, filmed interviews with participants,… Continue reading Dr Allister Gall screens new film in Australia

Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University

The following research events are taking place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities this week. Please contact theartsinstitute@plymouth.ac.uk if you would like further information. MIA (Moving Image Arts) Seminar: Tom Trevor on ‘The River Tamar Project’. 4pm on 6th December 2016 in Jill Craigie Cinema  ICCMR (Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music Research) Seminar: Edward Braund on ‘Music… Continue reading Arts & Humanities Research events this week at Plymouth University