Description
application for funded research residency - submitted 4 Nov 2024 -This scheme gives us the opportunity to develop combined research from fine art, spatial, and writing practices using making and writing methodologies to explore human/object relations in domestic contexts. The sites are chosen for their domestic origins, public accessibility and geographic locations. How we occupy, value, visit, and encounter public domesticity holds particular significance for curators and organisations who operate as custodians of private sites with the paradox of public access. The proposal views a host site as a catalyst rather than a vessel for a research event. A short period of immersion in the familiar context of a domestic setting will allow for the exploration of the strange ‘unhomeliness’ arising from our status as temporary guests. By following inscriptive, transcriptive and prescriptive writing methods (Havik, 2014) we will write a spatial encounter, to be later interpreted through artefacts that acknowledge the role of imagination in visitors' experiences of a site. We propose a series of evocative objects that reflect a subjective rereading to support an analysis of the character, typology and atmosphere of a specific place. Our proposal conceives of making as part-memorial and part-evocation in questions around repair and renewal and sees the intended writings as essays, prose or poetic responses informed by new textual/spatial research (Machado e Moura, 2023). At the same time, our making can be viewed as a prototype, transferable to other trust’s locations in the future, installed as discrete narrative objects acting as temporary ‘visitors’ to elicit new narratives for future visitors to properties under the trust’s custodianship.
Potential Outputs;
• a series of writings generated on site exploring different ‘scriptive’ perspectives
• a prototype for future sites
• a series of physical artefacts informed by the writings above and produced off-site
• an exhibition of combined writing and made artefacts in Portsmouth and/or Dundee
• journal article in a high ranking publication
Further outputs:
• we would also hope to generate multiple research outputs, including a book compiling the different artworks and writings plus papers and articles that discuss design and the domestic setting, its maintenance and repair
• potential installation of artworks and writings at other selected Landmark Trust sites
• Impact
• It is expected that such outputs would inform research and discussion around the interaction between human and objects and spaces as agents in the generation of imagined narratives in the context of heritage sites.
result unsuccessful
Period | 4 Nov 2024 |
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Degree of Recognition | National |
Keywords
- writing
- making
- interior
- domestic
- repair
- renewal
Documents & Links
- AMILLIGAN-landmark trust -research residency-Nov 2024
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