Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre

Steven Paige Let’s Go Bowling 5 – 14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre Free entry Steven Paige employs re-enactment and performance to examine relationships between film, instruction, leisure and individuality. His latest moving image project, made as part of his PhD research, is a reworking of a 1950s film featuring American bowling techniques. Through a process… Continue reading Artist Film Screening by Steven Paige, 5-14 April 2016 at Plymouth Arts Centre

Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016

Presenters at the Practice Research Symposium, with Dr Rachel Hann (on the floor), 5 February 2016

BY TERI BAILIE AND JAMES HARPER We arrived at Plymouth University on 5th February 2016 for a postgraduate Practice Research Symposium, organised by Natalie Raven and Steven Paige who are PhD students in the Performance.Experience.Presence research group. We were excited to attend our first ever symposium and we were full of questions. How is a… Continue reading Report on P.E.P Practice Research Symposium, 5 February 2016

Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”

Dr Dani Abulhawa

BY ROBERTA MOCK In the UK, we are moving from a position in which the doctoral thesis, programme, research and examination are largely homogenous and singularly focused to one in which they are increasingly divergent, in order to meet a variety of external drivers. This shift has significant implications for the ways that arts & humanities PhDs are… Continue reading Feature: “Reflections on the arts & humanities doctoral thesis & training”

Talking About Practice (as Research)

Dr Phil Smith's walking workshop, Talking about Practice (February 2016)

BY LEE MILLER It’s ten years since Practice as Research in Performance (PaRIP for short) ended its five year project. Launched in 2001 with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Board, PaRIP’s remit was ‘to investigate creative-academic issues raised by practice as research, where performance is defined, in keeping with AHRB and RAE documentation,… Continue reading Talking About Practice (as Research)

2 March 2016: research seminar on the location & performance of art-making

You are warmly invited to attend our next PEP Talk (the seminar series for the Performance. Experience. Presence research group at Plymouth University)  Wednesday 2 March 2016
 ,16.30 – 18.00pm in Roland Levinsky Building room RLB 309, Plymouth University There will be two papers, by Helen Billinghurst and Kayla Parker, who both research at the intersection of visual… Continue reading 2 March 2016: research seminar on the location & performance of art-making

23 February 2016 – “Reasoning through Art: The Articulation of Embodied Knowledge” by Professor Henk Borgdorff

The Arts Institute invites you to this event, as part of its Researcher Development Series on Tuesday 23rd February, 5pm in RLB 309, Plymouth University. “Reasoning through Art: The Articulation of Embodied Knowledge” by Professor Henk Borgdorff (Royal Conservatoire / University of the Arts, The Hague) This seminar starts by asking whether research by artists, so-called artistic research, is equivalent… Continue reading 23 February 2016 – “Reasoning through Art: The Articulation of Embodied Knowledge” by Professor Henk Borgdorff