By Shannon Rose Riley, Lynette Hunter

Even though the sciences have lengthy understood the price of practice-based study, the humanities and arts have tended to constitution a spot among perform and research. This publication examines variations and similarities among functionality as examine practices in quite a few group and nationwide contexts, mapping out the panorama of this new box.

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He is also reboxing the records of LA practice. The other intern is now working as part of the project-team Capturing the Past, Preserving the Future: Digitizing the National Review of Live Art Video Archive [an AHRC-funded resource-enhancement project hosted by the Department, the purpose of which is to preserve the video records of this major performance festival by migrating them from analogue-tape formats to a digital platform]. HELEN: In terms of joint projects, for instance, with Goat Island, we were showing the work, but because they are also researchers and teachers, there was another facet to their work that we could not really engage with to the depth that we eventually did when we started working the Department.

RUTH: The scheme allows you to fast-forward making your work public. You have a sense of the kind of connections and relations you hold. For me, the opportunity was the Lebanese artists event I organized [2006]. I had the idea and one week later it was happening. This allowed me to connect all the things I was thinking about, not reflect too much, and throw it out there to a public and see what came back from that forum. Being able to surface and say this is what I am doing during the process of doing it.

And in Arnolfini as an organization that is always looking forward rather than backwards, it’s good to have that critical partner and help discover ways to approach the archive. JO: There are no tensions between what we are trying to do with the archives in a university, research-oriented context, and what Julian is trying to do within an arts organization. Working on the Middle Ground: A Case Study: Jones 23 HELEN: We have benefited from the visual arts greater respect for objects. So, Arnolfini has always collected documents and artifacts from its activities, making it unique as it crosses the various disciplines.

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