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Congrats Bram! We will make sure to add it to the WAN database of walking theses. On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 8:29 PM, Bibi Calderaro <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Congrats Bram! So looking forward to reading the whole thing and seeing > the drawings! > > wishing you the best for this next stage at Falmouth, and hopeful that our > paths might cross again, > > best, Bibi > > On Fri, Sep 2, 2016 at 7:52 AM, bram arnold <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > >> Hello fellow pedestrians, >> >> I wanted to let you know that I have recently published my PhD that I >> have been working on in Falmouth for the past few years. >> >> *'Walking Home: *The path as transect in an 800km autoethnographic >> enquiry' is a practice based research project that uses walking, memory and >> interpretation to develop an ecological form of subjectivity through a >> transdisciplinary approach to visual arts practice that started with >> walking and kept going, into drawing, performance, writing, film and >> installation. >> >> I have recently taken up a position at The Cabinet at Falmouth University >> working with the Centre for Performance Research and their extensive >> collection of performance, writing and visual art archives. >> >> Please feel free to contact me at [log in to unmask] or >> see www.bramthomasarnold.com for further works. >> >> The abstract is pasted below and the thesis should be available digitally >> through the British Library in the autumn. The 9 part series of drawings >> entitled *How to Walk* that form the spine of the thesis, were >> exhibited as part of the Plymouth Contemporary Open in 2015 >> <https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/news/cornwall-artist-voted-as-winner-of-inaugural-award>, >> winning the Audience Choice Award. A limited edition artists bookwork will >> be available of this series at Counter Plymouth in October >> <http://www.counterplymouth.com/>. >> >> Abstract: >> >> This practice-based project articulates the notion of an autoethnographic >> transect using *Walking Home, *a particular journey that I made in 2009, >> as its foundation. Borrowing key terms from the fields of ethnography and >> ecology, the project articulates a new contribution to knowledge by >> expanding the notion of a transect and using methods appropriated from >> autoethnography to generate visual arts practice in the wake of a long >> distance walk. Walking from London, England to St. Gallen, Switzerland the >> journey was undertaken in the wake of my father's death. >> >> The key principle this project takes from auotethnography is that the >> position of the emotive self, as researcher and researched, can offer >> unique insights into a given field. Methods borrowed from autoethnography >> and ecology are re-employed throughout a transdisciplinary practice and >> body of research that, through the development of an ecological form of >> subjectivity, articulates an autoethnographic transect. The project expands >> the scale of a transect, from a line drawn across a field, to a journey >> taken across Europe; one that is drawn, walked and talked into being. >> >> *Walking Home* is presented in a holistic form whereby contextual and >> critical work is interwoven with and within practice: writing, image >> making, performance and installation. This interwoven process whereby the >> practice and research become an inherent part of each other, is exemplified >> through a body of work called *Fondue, *a performance, taking place as a >> dinner party, which has evolved out of my engagement with autoethnography. >> An exhibition took place in Spring 2015, the outcomes of which are folded >> into this thesis. Articulating the notion of an autoethnographic transect >> as a new method within the field of visual arts practice this thesis will >> be of interest to performance practitioners, artists and writers engaged >> with the field of walking as a form of practice or process. >> >> >> Thank you kindly, >> >> Bram. >> >> >> >> >> *Dr. Bram Thomas ArnoldArtist, Pedestrian, Writer.* >> >> >> >> *Recent Publications: A Belgian Transect, Digital Creativity >> <http://www.tandfonline.com/toc/ndcr20/current> Arts & Ecology Special >> Issue. 2015. * >> >> *Actions For & Against Nature. >> <http://www.thisisunbound.co.uk/products/remote-performances-in-nature-and-architecture> >> Remote Performances. Ashgate. 2015. * >> >> >> >> >> >> >> *Recent and Forthcoming exhibitions:On St. Michael's Way, London / >> Cornwall 2016 >> <http://www.stmichaelsway.net/on-st-michaels-way/4591505860>Transition 2016 >> <http://newlynartgallery.co.uk/transition-2016/> Walking Home (Again) >> <http://www.bramthomasarnold.com/index.php?/news/walking-home-again/>* >> >> *www.bramthomasarnold.com <http://www.bramthomasarnold.com>* >> >> >> *@trailmixbram* >> >> *07790409721* >> >> FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending >> a message to over 300 subscribers. Please do so only if you wish to respond >> to everyone. >> >> To join, leave or suspend list postings, visit >> http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/wan >> > > > > -- > www.bibicalderaro.com > http://www.minusspace.com/bibi-calderaro/ > http://www.minusspace.com/tag/bibi-calderaro/ > 917-841-2525 > FRIENDLY REMINDER: if you click REPLY to this email, you will be sending a > message to over 300 subscribers. 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