The history that this space holdsThe lineages of those who have gathered and danced here beforeThe lineages of the people I hold in my bodyThe languages I hold, I cradle,The tongues in my mouth. L’histoire ensevelie dans cet espaceLa lignée de celles et ceux qui, autrefois, se rassemblaient ici et qui dansaientLa lignée de celles… Continue reading kinaesthetic heritage
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qualitative research in artistic practices
This seminar by José Dias, he shared insights from his practice in jazz performance and ethnography. He observed that artistic research can feel too personal, or conversely like social work. But how to generalise? We need contexts for meaning. Generalising means, ideally, making the research relevant to us all Inquiry, he said, is a way… Continue reading qualitative research in artistic practices
documentation/exposition 2025
Photo: graphic novel created for Riar Rizaldi: Mirage exhibition We started with a basic definition of research: as defined by UK research councils: ‘A process of investigation leading to new insights, effectively shared’. Breaking this down: a process (as well as product) of research; investigation = methods; new insights – in the PhD, an original… Continue reading documentation/exposition 2025
This Extraordinary Ordinariness
A film by Hugo Glendinning, with Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows. This film proposes living archive as a document of contemporary dance methodologies and questions at a moment of rapid change and precarity within the field. Choreographers Siobhan Davies, Rosemary Lee and Jonathan Burrows draw upon long embodied histories of practice to reflect… Continue reading This Extraordinary Ordinariness
Curatorial Training for Cultural Professionals in Cape Verde
This professional development programme focused on the critical role of curatorial practices within museums, fostering professional growth and cross-cultural exchange. Carolina Rito was guest curator of the curatorial training programme in Cape Verde. Rito organised a week-long programme of workshops, seminars and project development for cultural professionals based in Cape Verde. The focus of the… Continue reading Curatorial Training for Cultural Professionals in Cape Verde
a conversation
14 January 2025 This was an open session for practice research postgraduate researchers in Creative Cultures. At Coventry University Creative Cultures is made up of four research centres: Centre for Postdigital Cultures (CPC), Centre for Dance Research (C-DaRE), Centre for Creative Economies (CCE) and Centre for Arts, Memory and Communities (CAMC). The practice research postgraduates… Continue reading a conversation
Weavıng Wet Worlds: Buket Yenidogan
This practice-based PhD project is developing a methodology of new media art making specifically using the praxis of hydrofeminist world-ing, in order to explore the impact of transmedia storytelling and collective making on creating cultural change about the climate crisis using emerging technologies. An original methodology of hydro-feminist, posthuman worldbuilding is developed, in addition to… Continue reading Weavıng Wet Worlds: Buket Yenidogan
Creative Collaboration with AI: Designing and Coding Motion Capture Systems with ChatGPT
Alex Masters of Centre for Postdigital Cultures on using AI and Raspberry Pi for frugal design. Read about it here.
documentation/exposition 2024
Work by Sarah Sze, photographed by Kevin Walker This is documentation of a seminar about documentation and exposition in relation to practice research, run by Kevin Walker in July 2023 and July 2024. This seminar is about process, tools and materials as well as products of practice research. ‘Exposition’ refers broadly to a wide range… Continue reading documentation/exposition 2024
Creative Cultures exhibition
Since emerging in the UK university context in the early 1990s, practice research has expanded the horizons of knowledge production, challenged institutional hierarchies, and generated innovative impact at the intersection between academic disciplines and publics. Coventry University’s Institute for Creative Cultures (ICC) is host to world-class practice researchers in the arts and humanities from the… Continue reading Creative Cultures exhibition