A new book on the practice of being a singer-songwriter has just been published by Bloomsbury, co-edited by Dr Katherine Williams, who is a lecturer in music at the University of Plymouth. The singer-songwriter, someone who writes and performs their own music, is an ever-present and increasingly complex figure in popular music worlds. The Singer-Songwriter… Continue reading New Singer-Songwriter Handbook co-edited by Katherine Williams
Month: February 2017
Arts and 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. 28th February 2017 at 1pm in Roland Levinsky Building RLB 213 – Daniel Heath, a Design Knowledge seminar 1st March at 4.30pm in Scott 102 – Karen Abadie and Beth Richards, a… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
Feature: “Confessional Painting: Recent work by Chantal Joffe”
BY GEMMA BLACKSHAW Linda, you are leaving your old body now. It lies flat, an old butterfly, all arm, all leg, all wing, loose as an old dress. I reach out toward it but my fingers turn to cankers and I am motherwarm and used, just as your childhood is used. (Anne Sexton, ‘Mother and… Continue reading Feature: “Confessional Painting: Recent work by Chantal Joffe”
Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference
Dr Phil Smith, Reader in Theatre & Performance at the University of Plymouth, is presenting a keynote lecture at the Supernatural Cities II: Gothic Cities conference in Limerick, Ireland, in April 2017. This conference offers interdisciplinary conversations and activities for artists, folklorists, historians, geographers, literary, theatre and film scholars that explore urban Gothic and supernatural contexts.… Continue reading Keynote by Phil Smith at Supernatural Cities conference
1 April 2017: Future Imperfect Cinema Symposium
1 April 2017 in the Jill Craigie Cinema at the University of Plymouth Future Imperfect is a multidisciplinary symposium that brings together makers and researchers across cinema, sound and moving image. Organised by Dr Allister Gall, it seeks to examine the role of cinema today – through discussion, performance and making. We are interested in mobilising ideas,… Continue reading 1 April 2017: Future Imperfect Cinema Symposium
1 March 2017: Performance and Moving Image Artistic Research Seminar
1 March 2017, 4.30 – 6 pm in Scott Building room 102, University of Plymouth You are welcome to join us for this jointly presented seminar by Moving Image Arts (MIA), the Artistic Research Cluster (ARC) and Performance.Experience.Presence (P.E.P) research group at the University of Plymouth. The two speakers are Karen Abadie and Beth Emily… Continue reading 1 March 2017: Performance and Moving Image Artistic Research Seminar
Arts and 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. 20th February 2017 at 11am in Scott Building 102 – Lisa Talia Moretti on “Big Data & Social Listening” 21st February at 1.30pm in Roland Levinsky Building, RLB 213 – Pete… Continue reading Arts and Humanities research events this week at Plymouth University
Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2017: Voice 2.0
Friday 24th to Sunday 26th February 2017 The House at the University of Plymouth Celebrating 12 years of musical innovation Organised in partnership with Plymouth University’s Interdisciplinary Centre for Computer Music (ICCMR) Ever since the dawn of humanity, voice has always been our primary source for communication. Our ability to evolve sophisticated verbal languages distinguishes us… Continue reading Peninsula Arts Contemporary Music Festival 2017: Voice 2.0
CfP: ‘On the Moors’ postgraduate research conference
2017 PEP Talks Conference: On the Moors Call for presentations: University of Plymouth Performance.Experience.Presence Postgraduate Conference 10-11 June 2017, in Dartmoor National Park, Devon We are seeking proposals for our annual trans-disciplinary practice-research postgraduate conference. We invite contributions from arts and humanities post-graduate students and early career researchers that focus on collaborative methods and/or… Continue reading CfP: ‘On the Moors’ postgraduate research conference
22 February 2017: Seminar on Art, Science & Agency
ART, SCIENCE AND AGENCY A presentation by Professor Andrew Pickering, followed by discussion Wednesday 22nd February 2017 at 4.00 – 6.00 In Scott Building 109, University of Plymouth Andrew Pickering’s early work was in theoretical particle physics, but in the late 1970s he joined the Science Studies Unit at the University of Edinburgh and moved… Continue reading 22 February 2017: Seminar on Art, Science & Agency