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Encounters: Remix, collaborative practice, and co-authorship

text-sculpture created in the Encounters workshop

The Post-Publishing & ArtSpaceCity research strands of the university’s Centre for Postdigital Cultures held a day-long event exploring the boundaries between the scholarly and the creative. Through a mixture of talks and hands-on practice, they troubled the line between research, literature and performance, investigating co-created, genre-defying, ways of writing, annotation, attribution, presentation, and publication. The… Continue reading Encounters: Remix, collaborative practice, and co-authorship

kinaesthetic heritage

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

Kings Heath calling: A printed collection of zines

Artist-researchers Mel Jordan (Coventry University), Andy Hewitt (University of Northampton), and Michael Wright (Middlesex University) collaborated with Kings Heath residents to create zines capturing hopes and ideas for their local area. These have now been compiled into a book published by Northampton-based Silly Gooze and launched in April 2025. Working alongside the West Northants Community… Continue reading Kings Heath calling: A printed collection of zines

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

Weaving 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