Research
Research
“All researchers in their own way are engaged in the process of inquiry, and the most salient feature of inquiry is its open-endedness. It is pursued for no reason whatsoever, it is the project of the passionately curious.” Robert Irwin
“All researchers in their own way are engaged in the process of inquiry, and the most salient feature of inquiry is its open-endedness. It is pursued for no reason whatsoever, it is the project of the passionately curious.” Robert Irwin
PhD – UAL / FU 2006-2011 Thesis: ‘Interfaces of Location and Memory’
This research project proposes that operative ‘arts’ categories such as ‘socially engaged’ might suggest a prescribed effect that is counter-productive to the processes of responding to the relational complexities of a particular site or situation.
ILM calls for a conceptual exploration of the immersive, durational and relational processes involved in a responsive approach. Practices and theoretical texts concerned with place and process within the fields of arts, geography and anthropology inform the development of the research and the fieldwork project – caravanserai – an arts residency based at a caravan site in Cornwall, UK.
Caravanserai becomes the ‘lens’ through which to consider how trans-disciplinary processes, poly-vocal responses and emergent activities might be re-presented to actively promote an ethical ‘response – ability’ to place. Through focusing on process rather than product, the project calls for a shift from philosophies of predictability toward those of uncertainty and flux.
Visiting Research Fellow (UWE 2002 – 2004)
‘threads & networks’ – practice-based research in locative media & wearable technologies.
case studies:
Pillow: produced in association with Hewlett Packard Research Labs & exhibited at Tomorrows World, Earls Court, London, Watershed Media Centre, Bristol and Kibla Media Centre, Slovenia.
Millenium Square GPS/ wearables research H.P. / Univ. of Bristol Computer Science dept.
Your Heart on My Sleeve: wearable / mobile tech project exhibited at Siggraph, LA. USA
MA Fine Art in Context. UWE 2000 (distinction)Thesis: ‘negotiated practice – InSites’
Challenging the notion that context-led / site-specific practice is a ‘new’ or recent development; arguing that iconoclastic archiving & institutional frameworks of critical discourse have isolated artworks from their context – the wider social & cultural relations within which they were created.
Exhibition case study: ‘return‘ Prema Arts Centre and accompanying catalogue ‘afterimages’ (ISBN). The catalogue essay by Martin Lister draws attention to the problematic of archiving temporal works and the commodification of artist’s strategies; with reference to a series of sited works made between 1993 –1998.
Situated in a former church & burial ground, this site-generated exhibition celebrated continuum and natural cycles of regeneration – pertinent to the shared personal and community memory of the death of a child. The work received national coverage in a double page feature for the Guardian by Simon Hattenstone.
“The show could be sentimental & self-indulgent. In fact it is anything but. The work is entrancing and typical of the way Lovejoy marries nature and technology. Her art is varied & what does unite her work is its sense of place, its rootedness– in every sense.”
Simon Hattenstone
“The show could be sentimental & self-indulgent. In fact it is anything but. The work is entrancing and typical of the way Lovejoy marries nature and technology. Her art is varied & what does unite her work is its sense of place, its rootedness– in every sense.”
Simon Hattenstone