Creativity, Communities and Culture
A day of presentations, performances, workshops and music, exploring and celebrating the contributions that arts and humanities research can make to our places and communities.
Dada Dinnertime at the Tabula Rasa
by Artist A & Artist B
(Dr Heather Ross and Dr Jackie Haynes)
Recognising their collaborative artistic potential, and that their interests in Schwitters would outlive their doctoral research timescale, they began planning post-doctoral artworks, resulting most recently in their new body of ACE and BTB-funded work, The Surplus Badge.
Dada Dinnertime at the Tabula Rasa is a site responsive performance based on our respective practice-based PhD research into the work of Kurt Schwitters. The work combines Schwitters’ collaged/ sound based poetry and Merz/Dada approaches to making, which are applied to the re-construction and re-imagining of an ex-MOD cargo parachute.
Artist A & Artist B is the name of the collaboration between Heather Ross and Jackie Haynes. Jackie and Heather have both recently been awarded PhDs for their respective art practice-based research of Kurt Schwitters. They initially met and began working collaboratively at the site of Schwitters’ last work, the Merz barn, in Elterwater, Cumbria. They supported each other artistically, intellectually, and humorously throughout their PhDs, bringing their diverse artistic practices together for Merzwomen & the Daughters of Dada, a co-presented exhibition and performance at the Vallum Gallery in Carlisle, in 2018.
Place Based Collaborative Design by Professor Charles Quick
Using the bespoke stalls in Preston's Covered Markets to discuss collaborative functional design for a particular place and how artists and designers can work with architects and communities.
The C.A.R.E. Audit by Shonagh Short
Not a care in the world.
A creative exploration of care in the city centre environment.
Carrying a watermelon, representing the size of a 40-week foetus and to remember being carried or to experience the notion of carrying someone. Carried is a celebration of motherhood, which makes motherhood visible and maternal experiences heard.
Carried by Krissi Musiol
A Preston-based community samba band who meet weekly to learn and play Afro-Brazilian percussion pieces. Our samba drummers perform around Lancashire with a repertoire that includes carnival samba, candomblé arrangements and original compositions.