Post-Yugoslav memoryscapes - remnants of socialism

by Ljubica Spaskovska (History)

The exhibition consists of 5 photographs taken during my field research in the former Yugoslavia, all of which reveal the subtle presence of the socialist past. Twenty years after the violent break-up of socialist Yugoslavia and after numerous policies of historical revisionism and stigmatization of the socialist/Yugoslav experience and its symbols, the region is witnessing an attempt to re-evaluate these erasures and revive some of the most prominent lieux de mémoire (sites of memory). The photographs resonate with the exhibition's themes of spatiality, identity, and in particular with the notion of continuity and change.

Transformations of the Apple: Material Fruit, Mythic Symbol, Model Object

by Richard Wells (English)

My exhibit will consist of highly illustrated panels indicating the scope of my research, and inviting anyone working in similar areas to get in touch, and to attend the paper I am giving. The exhibit will include an interactive element: one image, and one short poem, with questions inviting delegates to give their responses, as a contribution to the research. Responses will be placed in a box so they will also be publicly accessible.

Art Maps

by Cristina Locatelli (English - Centre for Intermedia)

The exhibit consists in a computer station running a beta version of the Art Maps digital application, a collaborative project between the Universities of Nottingham and Exeter, and three Tate departments in London. The application explores the relation between artworks and geographical places, allowing users to locate works from the Tate collection on a digital world map, and to feed-back more precise geographical information, or comment on artworks, artists or places. These comments are instrumental to understand the nature of the engagement offered by the application, and are constantly used by the research team to revise its final format as a downloadable mobile application.

All Conference attendees are invited to experience Art Maps here, and to leave their feed-back if they wish.

Stone No More: Dialogues, echoes and singing to statues

by Evelyn O'Malley (Drama)

This exhibit will take the form of a short live performance taken from Stone No More, an adaptation of Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Jonson's Masque of Oberon, including a fight to the infamous stage direction "Exit Pursued by a Bear" and a song from Jonson's Masque bringing Shakespeare's Hermione to life. The live exhibit will be accompanied by photographs and documentation of the original performance which took place at the Exeter Northcott in June 2012.

Create to Learn

by Faustina Brew (Drama)

‘Create to Learn’ was motivated by findings of the Drama Improves Lisbon Key Competencies in Education (DICE) project, which revealed that drama and theatre improve five of the eight key competencies in children from 12 European Countries. In this research project, I engaged Ghanaian children between the ages of 11 and 13 in various drama games and improvisation. Participants zealously practiced for 14 consecutive days, created and performed their own drama. The purpose was to ascertain how involvement in drama could impact on children from cultures that differ from the European context. In this exhibition I showcase images of various improvisation processes employed in this project.

Wall of Miracles

by Jaime Robles (English - Creative Writing)

This poetry installation represents the work of over 50 poets from around the world, who responded to a request for short poems on the subject of an animal or aspect of nature. Within strict (and probably unique) restrictions, each poem was required to fit on to a handcrafted ‘luggage tag’, which has then been attached to the metal hooks fixed to a beautiful wall on the Exeter Streatham campus. The poems raise profound questions about nature, transience and experience; some are witty, some are sad, all provoke thought.  A reading of some of these poems will take place during the conference, and it is envisioned that the poems will form the basis of another exhibition (venue tbc).

Dismantling Bodily Boundaries: M. Antonioni’s Blow-Up and A. Egoyan’s Speaking Parts

by Giulia Baso (Modern Languages)

My project is a comparative study of the work by M. Antonioni and that by A. Egoyan. Through a comparative analysis of paired films, it aims to uncover the way the technological imagery is used to reconfigure and renegotiate our experiences of modernity and its associated viewing practices. This poster consists of a visual representation of ‘posthumanism’: the cyborg as a theoretical framework permeates my analysis of Antonioni’s Blow-Up (1966) in relation to Egoyan’s Speaking Parts (1989).

The Translation of Janet Frame’s poetry into Italian: A Tec[h]reative act

by Iole Cozzone (Modern Languages)

In conjunction with the conference topic Boundaries and Translation, I am presenting four of my translations of Janet Frame’s poems. Frame is a controversial figure in contemporary New Zealand literature: she wanted to be a poet, but she mainly wrote novels, amassing her poems in a 'goose bath' whilst disseminating verse in her prose. Her novels and short-stories are translated all over the world in more than twenty-languages. The aim of this exhibition is to give voice to her poetry, both for an English-speaking and an Italian public. The poster exhibition will also include some questions to engage delegates with a topic such as verse translation, which not widely discussed in academia today.

I Need You

by Evelyn John (English - Creative Writing)

'I Need You'. It is a 250 word precis of a short story about a woman receiving diagnosis and treatment for cancer.  I think the precis works better than the story. Hopefully, something about the brevity makes the subject matter tolerable. It doesn't relate to the crime novel I'm working on for my studies, nothing of the Raymond Chandler here, although it was written as an exercise for a 'suspense writing' course. We had a week reading Poe and the combination of the gloom and the bizarre probably went into the piece.

‘A Serious and Good Philosophical Work...’: poetry responses to Wittgenstein’s philosophy of language

by Mike Rose-Steel (English)

As part of my wider research project into the inexpressible in philosophy and poetry, I am writing an extended sequence of poems using quotations from Wittgenstein’s writing as titles, epigraphs or citations. These reflect some of my study of poetics as well as wider themes. I am hoping to illustrate something of Wittgenstein’s distinction between showing and saying, and perhaps move closer to his claim that a philosophy could conceivably be written ‘...consisting entirely of jokes.’