Clare Chun-Yu Liu

Chun-yu Liu (Clare) is a visual artist working with moving image with a record of international exhibitions, screenings and conference presentations. Generously funded by the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship, she is currently undertaking her practice-based doctoral research on reinterpreting British chinoiserie at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Originally she was trained to be an abstract painter and has been exploring the Chinese diaspora based on her familial experience in her practice as a video artist.

Camera as Both Performer and Spectator

Fine Art/Film, Manchester School of Art, MMU

My practice-based fine art research examines British chinoiserie and embeds new narratives into chinoiserie cultural heritage sites through art practice by assessing the chosen sites’ historiography and physicality and evaluating them with notions such as colonialism, imperialism, otherness, self/other, representation and power. Proposed artworks will be both lens-based and textual.

Alexander Martin

An independent film-maker, videographer and musician from Derby, UK, I studied International Development and later Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre. As of 2016 I have been living and working in Cuernavaca, Mexico, where I am producing documentary film projects alongside grassroots humanitarian collectives. My past work has included the production of educational and staff training resources on the subject of child sexual exploitation in the UK.

Beyond Immersion: The Single Take as a Research Method

Documentary Film/Ethnography, Alumnus of the GCVA

I am currently working towards an independent feature documentary with the bereaved of the mass graves of Morelos state, Mexico, and a documentary short exploring the social and psychological repercussions of the September 19th earthquake. My written investigations explore the single take as a research methodology, the epistemic consequences of place habitation, and phenomenology with a regional focus on North-Argentinian gaucho herdsmen.

Carol Breen

I am currently undergoing a practice-as-research PhD at C-DaRE, The Centre for Dance Research at Coventry University. I have recently completed artist residencies at Red Clay Studios in Canada and The Leveld Art Centre in Norway. I am one of the artists in the current Black Hole Club cohort, supported by Vivid Projects in Birmingham.

Litter Rhythms. How long is a photograph? Multiple Temporalities in the Here and Now.

Media Installation, C-DaRE (Coventry University)

Through practice I explore the process of remaking, working with digital technologies, I re-film,re-photograph and re-choreograph material. I am interested in the proliferation of imagerypost-internet. ​

Ian Costabile

Ian Costabile is a composer and sound artist originally from São Paulo, Brazil, residing in the UK since 2009. He is currently based at the University of Liverpool undertaking an AHRC funded practice-based research as part of the Transformation North West doctoral programme. He holds a BA degree in Composition and a MA degree in Art Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions.

Designing Interactive Sound Spaces

Sound Composition, University of Liverpool

Ian focuses his work on interactive sound spaces, particularly through spatial music, site-specific composition, three-dimensional soundscapes and sensor-based interactive media. One of his main projects consists of the design of "musical paintings", which are acoustic panels that include an array of loudspeakers and a compact multichannel system hidden behind a canvas.

Gabi Monteiro

Militant Aesthetics, researcher, fashion designer. Was born and raised between two slums, Chapéu Mangueira and Babilônia in Rio de Janeiro. Being around very contrasting places,opposing atmospheres intercalate in a matter of minutes is the differential for the construction of my artistic language.

Racism is Aesthetic

Film 

I see esthetics as a platform to encourage self-discovery and strengthen people’s potential to become the protagonists of their own story, independently of the nullification they might be subjected to mainly with a colonial perspective.

Élisabeth de Bézenac

A French architect and visual artist born in Bangladesh in 1986. Intially trained in art, architecture/urban studies, information design and visual communication, I'm refining a photographic documentary method as my artistic practice, finding commonalities in what that fascinates me about architecture, anthropology and the visual arts, using my own experience and curiosity as a research tool.This method has driven me through unexpected encounters and situations located in many parts of Europe, Amazonia, and other, engaging with artists, performers, psychotic patients, researchers of various disciplines (epidemiology, neuroscience, geography...).

Playing with Fire

Photography/Text/Film

Adopting multiple personas (insider / outsider, artist / architect / academic) as to validate my understanding of things, I intuitively use photography, text and film as a way to engage in diverse and often uncomfortable situations, attempting to depict settings from habitually disregarded angles in order to identify and reveal the often unconscious procedures from which political, social and spatial structures emerge. I tell photographic tales that stem from my avid interest discordant/conflictual interactions between peoples and places, how social phenomena inextricably embed themselves into inhabited landscapes, how environments archive endemic human behaviours, beliefs and represenational systems.

Eugenio Giorgianni

I am a Music Ph.D. candidate, a videomaker, and an anthropology - in one word: a researcher. I have spent the last five years conducting participatory researches with musicians from Morocco, Spain, Italy, the UK, the Democratic Republic of the Congo. To me, the camera is a gatekeeper, an amplifier, a research tool.

Tridimensional Canvas: The Camera Explores the Everyday Lifearts

Music/Video/Anthropology, Royal Holloway, University of London

My research concerns political debates and spirituality in diasporic Congolese music-making. I engage with Congolese artists (mainly musicians, but also painters and performers) through a collaborative use of the camera.

Rachael Allain

Rachael is an artist based in the South West, UK. Her multidisciplinary practice incorporates both experimental still and moving image, sound and installation.

Experimental Horizons

Film/Photography/Sound, University of Plymouth

Rachael’s experiments explore phenomenology in relation to site, the temporal, alchemical properties of analogue film as well as the immediacy of the virtual, scientific and digital data technology.

Dandara Catete

Graduated with Honors in Art Studio at Wesleyan University (CT - USA), I currently live and work between Madrid and Rio de Janeiro. I attended the School of Visual Arts - Parque Lage, in Rio de Janeiro and worked as assistant for Tunga for 3 years.

Culture From the Margins: A cross-cultural Exchange Between Ex-Industrial Poles of Rio de Janeiro and North England

Artist-Curator, Wesleyan University

I work with concepts surrounding themes of domesticity, intimacy, and the struggle for habitation rights. I work primarily with found household objects to create sculptures and installations. I am also Creative Director of the Jardim Suspenso Art Residency and Festival, in Rio.

Amber Kale

My name is Amber Kale and I am a Human Geography PhD candidate studying at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. I currently volunteer for the Royal Commonwealth Society as the 'Pacific Youth Coordinator', and am a professional portrait painter and a refugee rights advocate.

Refugee Journeys: Multisensory Processes of Place-Attachment in Nelson, Aotearoa New Zealand

Multisensory Art, Victoria University of Wellington

In my PhD research I use interviews, city navigation journeys, map-making activities, group discussions, and a multisensory art exhibition to explore former Burmese refugee women's multisensory and affective experiences of displacement and place-attachment in Nelson, New Zealand. Through this research, my thesis aims to critically discuss how processes of multisensory place-attachment could enhance emotional and social wellbeing, inform refugee resettlement outcomes, and contribute to an emerging body of international research exploring sensory refugee journeys.

Debbie Harman

Debbie Harman's work is an exploration of documentary forms and their capacity to search for deeper more embodied experiences of human truths. Her interest lies in pyschogeography and embodiment of the media used to explore land, the ocean and its stories.  Narrative and Documentary are vital components of her practice.  Experimenting within the subjective and objective experience, pushing at this borderline. A ‘borderline’ envisioned in the horizon, a line to float beneath and above.

Voices from the Horizon

Experimental Film, 
​Graduate UAL, London College of Communication

Debbie Harman's work is an exploration of documentary forms and their capacity to search for deeper more embodied experiences of human truths. She is interested in pyschogeography and embodiment of the media used to explore land and the stories it holds.

Clara Kleininger

Clara studied anthropology, video and film at the University of Vienna, in Mexico City as well as at the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology in Manchester. She has since filmed documentaries around the world, from Moldavia to Brazil. For the past four years, she has been living and working in Poland, teaching film and photography, has recently finished the documentary film course at the Wajda Film School and is now directing a film project in co-production with the Polish Film Institute.

Globus

Documentary Film

In my studies I have touched upon research fields like belief, magic and divination in southern Romania, the way humans define and relate to animals and later, postsocialism in Eastern Europe. Among other things these led me to the topic of my current film, a documentary about the mechanisms of change taking place in Bucharest’s State Circus, Globus.

Laura Harris

I currently hold a CASE Studentship, and am completing a PhD alongside Bluecoat, Liverpool and The University of Liverpool Sociology and Philosophy departments. I hold an MA in Aesthetics and a BA in English Literature and Classics. I am also a freelance arts journalist, mainly covering artists’ moving image, recently writing for Art Monthly and The White Review.

Object-Oriented Filmmaking Research Practice: Being in the World with a Film Camera

Film, University of Liverpool

My research uses filmmaking as a way undertake visual analysis of embodied knowledge, particularly related to objects and skill. Currently, I am exploring this topic at a contemporary art centre, Bluecoat Liverpool, where I have produced a film featuring gallery technicians and artists.

Daniel Lema

Daniel is a visual researcher and PhD Philosophy candidate at the University of Zaragoza, Spain. He completed a five-years Law & Economics Degree before studying a BA Photography in Edinburgh, where his photographic work showed a natural interest in anthropological topics, being exhibited at the University of Edinburgh. He then went on undertaking an MA Visual Anthropology at the Granada Centre, University of Manchester, where he was awarded a distinction and got his films exhibited at various European ethnographic film festivals. 

Monegros: Water, Rhythm, and Film

Film, University of Zaragoza

It is not only that observational cinema permits the possibility of rendering the world as a continuum, that is, as we live, feel and experience it. The ethnographic film offers a means of communion and participation with the world. In this way, the ethnographic film is being served by the own nature of the audiovisual medium to evoke, in a particular and intentional manner, the richness with which the Monegros farmers experience and live the surrounding world, with special attention to water and temporalities. These analogies between life and film are particularly marked when using long-sequence shots. The audiovisual medium takes place as the best-suited medium to represent that corporality through which Monegros farmers relate to the watery world.

Pavel Prokopic

Besides working on his practice-based PhD project, entitled ‘Between Formal Structure, the Real, and the Moving Body: Searching for Affective Significance in Film Performance’, Pavel is an independent filmmaker, has written and directed several dramas and experimental projects, has worked as a freelance cinematographer in London, and as a visiting lecturer in film at the University of Westminster. He holds a first class Bachelor’s degree in Film and Television Production from Westminster University, and a Master’s degree in Film Aesthetics from Magdalen College, University of Oxford. For more information, please visit pavelprokopic.com

Affective Cinema

Film, University of Salford/AHRC North West Consortium

Affective Cinema combines aspects of cinematic style, nuances of performance (which film has the unique ability to reveal to us) and elements of chance (which film has the unique ability to capture). When all these attributes align in an interesting but unpredictable way, a feeling of meaning can be produced: a moment of cinema that is engaging and captivating without trying to tell a story or communicating something specific or intentional through the film.