[Public-engagement] Fw: Seminar: Creating research based art 10th March

[Julie Roberts]

The Maternal Health & Wellbeing Research Group are hosting the next public involvement/engagement seminar on March 10th. See details below. Everyone welcome.

Best wishes, Julie

Creating research based art: process, challenges and opportunities
Tuesday 10th March 2020 (12:00-13:00) B141 Medical School
Speaker: Dr. Felicity Boardman, University of Warwick & Esther Fox, Visual artist
Event abstract
Dr Felicity Boardman (Warwick University) and Esther Fox (Artist and Practice Based Researcher) will explore the collaborative processes that have led to the creation of a research-informed artwork Pandora’s Box, exhibited at the Science Museum London and a touring installation, I:DNA.  The use of art can widen audience engagement with research, and similarly artwork can benefit in creating a narrative that arises directly from research. However, art and research have contrasting disciplinary backgrounds that can be difficult to reconcile in collaborations. In this talk, Esther and Felicity will explore how they approached the fundamental differences between their disciplinary backgrounds and how these, implicitly or explicitly, shaped the artistic outputs that were ultimately created.
The four main themes they will consider are: the conceptual underpinning of research and artwork; the translation of these concepts into artistic products; audience engagement; evaluation and impact.  Over the course of creating artistic outputs from the research, there needed to be a careful balance between research integrity and allowing the artist to adopt the role as “provocateur”.  Achieving this balance presents many challenges, however it also provides an opportunity to foreground lesser known perspectives and create rich, nuanced work that can inspire and engage in ways that neither research nor art can do alone.
 Please email me or Jonathan Roe if you plan to attend  Jonathan.Roe at nottingham.ac.uk


Dr. Julie Roberts
Senior Research Fellow

Division of Midwifery
School of Health Sciences
University of Nottingham
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