Some immediately spring to mind: Beyonce & Jay Z, Tosh & Marley, Kahlo & Rivera, McFadden & Whitehead, Westwood and McClaren, Laurel & Hardy…I love hooking up with other artists to try things. The effort of mutual attunement. The challenge that...
Category: Uncategorised
PhD Survival: 7 Bullets To Dodge* (Pete Kalu)
The poet, Coleridge was famously interrupted as he was writing his brilliant work, Kubla Khan. He said he dreamt the entire poem (some reaearchers say possibly under the influence of opium!) then sat down to write it. He was halfway through when someone knocked on...
Confessions of A Secret Art Lover
I’m a writer but sometimes I get sick of writers. Then I hang out with visual artists. I like to listen to agonising about light, shade, colour, shape, framing etc. I feel they are indirectly talking to me about my own work. Recently, I found myself looking at the...
Grandma’s Big Eyes: Reflections on Getting Lost In Research (Pete Kalu)
When we sign up for this journey we know we’ll be going off-track: veering into the unknown to try bring back something new, something that adds a little (even if that little is infinitesimal small in the astronomical scale of things) to what is already there....
Bum notes: The poor language of arts professionals
Blog post by Frances Williams, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference.Director of the Whitworth, Maria Balshaw, began her keynote speech at the conference, The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North, by quoting at length from an editorial in...
An Interview with Common Ground
We had a chat with Pauline Hadaway and Sarah Feinstein, organisers of a new research community, 'Common Ground'. Back in May 2016, Pauline and Sarah convened a one-day conference, partly funded by the NWCDTP, at the University of Manchester.In their own words, 'Common...
Interview with Jackie Haynes, artist and Kurt Schwitters PhD Studentship holder (Interviewer: Pete Kalu)
Q:What’s your PhD focused on?JH: The Kurt Schwitters Studentship, University of Cumbria, is focussed on an art practice-based exploration of selected aspects of Kurt Schwitters’ one-man art movement - Merz. It has an underlying theme of movement in both the research...
The Art of Devolution: Culture and the North Conference review
Conference review by Bob Dickinson, PGR policy correspondent for the Art of Devolution Conference.A week before the Referendum in which Britain voted by a narrow majority to leave the EU, a conference gathered in the old studios of Granada Television in Manchester....
Placement at National Football Museum: Plunging In (Pete Kalu)
I recently started a placement at National Football Museum, UK. There's no doubt about the centrality of football in any analysis of UK nationalism and constructions of national identity. The terrace chants of "two world wars and one world cup", and the more recent...
What Dick Whittington Learned At London Book Fair (Pete Kalu)
From a seasoned professional: “flip your ID Badge so AUTHOR doesn’t rub in the face of anybody.” My guess at the best badge name? INTERNATIONAL RIGHTS BUYER. Everyone loves an international rights buyer.By size of space and position in the hall, Hachettes is the...
Recent Comments