Blog Archive

  • What is the Effectiveness of Socially Engaged Art?

    A response to Ben Davis’s article, “A Critique of Social Practice Art: What does it mean to be a political artist?” by Elizabeth Grady: A multifaceted approach that allows for the voices (and often conflicting perceptions) of multiple stakeholders (artists, community leaders, partner organizations,…) to be heard, with parallel statistics about participation and community makeup is……

  • Multi-voices in Research: Co-interpreting Art and Architecture

    I am organising a symposium responding to the use of multiple voices and writing styles in research. The symposium will be structured around a shared meal with short contributions followed by discussion. Download more information here and get in touch to join in. Date: Sat 6 May, 2017 Location: East Street Arts, Patrick Studios, St Mary’s Lane, Leeds……

  • Guest Researcher

  • Ethnography and Art

    Combining different writing styles to explore my ethnographic position within East Street Arts.

  • Using multiple voices in research

    An extract from my Research Plan: The research will include academic, theoretical, distanced, writing styles as well as subjective narratives and storytelling.  As part of the research I would like to play with how these different writing styles (or collective voices) can be incorporated into a PhD thesis – how they can compete for space……