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Previous 2020/21:

Augusto Corrieri - Italy / UK

Mamoru Iriguchi - Japan

Traci Kelly - Germany / UK

Inua Ellams - UK / Nigeria

Amy Voris - USA

Ali Matthews - USA

Tyler Woolcott - USA

Matthew Spangler - USA

Charles Esche - Netherlands

Aidan McGarry - Ireland

Elena Cologni - Italy

Javaad Alipoor - Iran / UK

Rana Begum - Bangladesh / UK

Faiza Butt - Pakistan / UK

Gregory Sholette - USA

Cesar Cornejo - Peru

Brigid McLeer - Ireland

Jess Latowicki - USA

Josh Edelman - USA
Cross Pollination - Ireland / Portugal / Brazil / Netherlands

Forthcoming 2021/22:

Dani Abulhawa - UK / Palestine
Chloe Dechery - France

Miaria H Loh - USA

Pushpamala N - Bangalore

Leenthe Van De Cruys - Belgium

Reckless Sleepers - Belgium

Lother Götz - Germany
Renata Carvalho - Brazil
Marcia Limma - Brazil

30 international talks out of 100
June 2021 - over 3000 views

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N Ashdown (Web Officer, Manchester School of Art)

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Hosted by the Performance Research Cluster at Manchester School of Art, Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do.

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Eileen Simpson and Ben White

Latest international exhibition:
Everything I Have Is Yours, Simpson, E and White, B. BY ART MATTERS 之馆, Hangzhou, China (2021)

Latest internaltion conference:
AES New York 2017 143rd AES Convention, New York  (2017)
de_sitio, Mexico City
VBKÖ, Vienna
Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
ARChive of Contemporary Music, New York
Archive.org, San Francisco
Harry Smith Archive at Getty Research Institute, California

Contacts from recent exhibitions:
Hiroshima MoCA, Japan
Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
Synagogue de Delme, France
Polynome curatorial collective, Paris

Beccy Kennedy

- National Cheng University, Tainan, Taiwan  - co-ordinator of the AHRC Visualising Chinese Borders project
- Heidelberg University -  base of the International Research Network for Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art
- University of South Wales, Sydney – guest research lecture online

Cesar Cornejo

- Exhibitions and projects in the US, Japan, Peru, Portugal, residencies in France, Germany, Italy and the US.
- Design Art & Design Massachusetts (DATMA) - residency 2022
- Puno-Peru - Fulbright Fellowship, May-June 2022-2023

Alnoor Mitha

- Curating ATM 2021 - inviting international artists to Manchester

Brigitte Jurack

- Two exhibitions in the USA ; Ceramic Biennial, South Korea

Fionna Barber

- Extensive published research around contemporary and historical Irish art;

- Curated exhibition of contemporary Irish women’s art 2019; joint editor of

- Brexit Wounds Open Arts Journal 2020; joint editor of essay collection Ireland and the North (Peter Lang 2019) with co-editors from Denmark, Sweden.

Alison Slater

- Links with Art Center College of Design, Passadena, CA., USA.
- Memories of Dress, book for Bloomsbury (UK and USA publication)

Patrick Campbell / Jane Turner

- Third Theatre Network, Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium collaboration. Recent conference and publication. Forthcoming MA Performance programme will recruit internationally.

Michael Pinchbeck

- Link to San Jose State University and develop city-based site-specific collaboration with College of Social Sciences.

- Working with UoN and Ningbo Campus on site-specific installation, potential to expand to Manchester Met and Nanjing.

Simon Faulkner

- A project on Black Lives Matter (BLM) and images on Twitter, working with Farida Vis under the aegis of the Visual Social Media Lab. This was funded through an internal application to the Faculty Internationalisation budget. It involved working with colleagues from the Media Department at New York University as well as Patrick Williams from MMU Sociology. As the work developed we were also joined by people from Columbia University. The research involved two trips by the MMU team to NYC in November 2019 and January 2020 during which were developed coding methods to analyse a corpus of Twitter images relating BLM. The work was to be continued through the Americans coming to MMU in March 2020, with a group of students to participate in a workshop and do further analysis, but this visit never happened because of COVID-19. The project was then in hiatus until 2021 when we returned to analysing the Twitter images. We have publication plans coming out of this work that we will pursue, that will involve working again with the US collaborators.

- A project funded by the Canadian Heritage Fund on Visual Literacy and Mis/Dis-Information in Canadian Schools. This is a collaboration between myself and Farida Vis (as the directors of the Visual Social Media Lab), Karen Pashby from MMU Education, the Canadian NGO CIVIX, and colleagues in Education at the University of Alberta. The project comes out of prior work with CIVIX primarily undertaken by Farida and is focussed assessing the usefulness of a framework for analysing visual mis/disinformation developed in 2019 by the Visual Social Media Lab and CIVIX, that was piloted with a large number of Canadian teachers, a significant number of whom then used the framework in their teaching. The funding for this project ended in September 2021, but we are still working on further teaching materials developed through the work and on publications.

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Ann Carragher

- UK Irish Diaspora, Borderland

Matt Retallick

- PhD research around émigré German artist in St Ives – Karl Weschke

Qasim Riza-Shaheen

International profile as performance-based artist focusing on issues around queer South Asian identities; practice-based PhD research engaged with this; opening event at 2018 ATM

Sara Davies

PhD research around Anglo-Swedish diasporic identities

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SPILL Misplaced memoirs | Qasim Riza Shaheen - Event - Artsadmin

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Times: 11am-6pmOnly available as part of a SPILL Mix or Mega-Mix ticket SPILL Mix tickets give you entry to all SPILL events at Toynbee Studios / National

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Josh Edelman - CHANSE

Exploring Religious Communities in the Virtual Age. The project is a €1.5m, two-year funding bid under the CHANSE scheme (https://chanse.org/), starting in October 2022 if successful.

Brigitte Jurack -
Project with Nanjing Campus and VR

Alnoor Mitha - ​AHRC Standard Research Grant: How far are the current biennial models sustainable and inclusive for the future?
Amount: £750,000-£1,000,000

Michael Pinchbeck - Talking Trees 树说 述说
Project with UoN & Ningbo. Site-specific sound installations created with International students. Working with School of Language, Culture and Area Studies at University of Nottingham. Supported by NCI.

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Dr Joshua Edelman leads research into how COVID-19 has affected services, weddings and funerals

With weddings, funerals and religious holidays all impacted by the effects of COVID-19, two academics have launched a major research project into how British religious communities of all faiths have had to adapt during the pandemic.

Acts of worship and religious rituals are all being forced to change, initially at short notice, and often to a more virtual way of doing things.

Dr Joshua Edelman, Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Theatre, Manchester Metropolitan University, together with Dr Alana Vincent, Associate Professor of Jewish Philosophy, Religion and Imagination at the University of Chester, felt that it was vital to capture the experiences of both those leading these rituals or acts of worship, as well as those participating in them.

This 12-month research project, entitled British Ritual Innovation under COVID-19 (BRIC-19), is being funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of UK Research and Innovation's COVID-19 rolling call. It aims to document, analyse, and understand the new ways that religious communities are coming together, and to use those findings to help make religious communities stronger and more resilient for the future.

The project seeks to capture the experience of faith communities spanning the religious and geographic diversity of the UK. It will examine regular rituals (such as weekly worship); festival celebrations; and life-cycle events (such as weddings and funerals).

To help with the study, researchers are asking for religious leaders and people who attend religious services to complete a survey about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic.

This survey is for those who participate in, lead or develop religious rituals of any sort - whether they are regular weekly or daily worship services, celebrations of holidays, or significant events such as weddings and funerals.

Dr Edelman said: "This project will fill that knowledge gap. We're interested in the views of people from all across the UK and from all religious traditions, but this is particularly about rituals that people would normally do together - we're not looking at how people's private prayer lives or meditation practices have changed.

"The project will work with religious professionals of a range of faiths from across Britain to capture, analyse, nurture and develop these fire-forged innovations and the possibilities they facilitate. We will be using online-led methods drawn from digital religion, online religion and performance studies, including involving subjects in action research.

"That means that we will be collaborating with a working group of clergy/ritual leaders and as we gather data about what seems to be working and what doesn't, we'll be discussing that data with them.

The project will work with religious professionals of a range of faiths from across Britain to capture, analyse, nurture and develop these fire-forged innovations and the possibilities they facilitate.

"These findings will be shared broadly and accessibly for the benefit of the field. They will also contribute academically to ongoing discussions of the changing practices of religion and ritual in the era of digital culture."

Dr Vincent said: "Funerals, weddings, birth rituals, and holiday observances are vital to people's psychological wellbeing and sense of community, especially given the sense of unease created by the pandemic. But the key means by which clergy do this vital work-live communal ritual is not possible during lockdown conditions. And so ritual specialists have been forced to improvise means of moving rituals online, something which is virtually unknown to most mainstream clergy.

"Because these improvised innovations are being done quickly, by busy practising clergy, they are not being collected or studied in a systematic or detailed way. The full implications of these innovations are thus not being adequately considered or developed in ways that could be beneficial for the wellbeing of Britons of all faiths long after the pandemic is over."

Funerals, weddings, birth rituals, and holiday observances are vital to people's psychological wellbeing and sense of community, especially given the sense of unease created by the pandemic.

The project team will be sharing results with religious communities, and working with a variety of British religious leaders to put their findings into practice in their own community's religious lives during these challenging times.

The results of the study will be published in a public report, which is scheduled to be released in July 2021. A public conference is also being planned.

Monthly updates and interim findings will be published on the project website, bric19.mmu.ac.uk.

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Major study examines how religious life has adapted since pandemic

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Dr Joshua Edelman leads research into how COVID-19 has affected services, weddings and funerals With weddings, funerals and religious holidays all impacted by the effects of COVID-19, two academics have launched a major research project into how British religious communities of all faiths have had to adapt during the pandemic.

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 Next steps - RKE/International strategy

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 Next steps - RKE/International strategy

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1. Allocate A&P Research Hub funds to support thematic projects around commemoration e.g. British Council fund to mark 75 years of Independence with Indo-UK art collaborations

2. Seed fund clusters with international reach e.g. Social Art, Performance Research, Visual Cultures, Teaching Painting etc. potentially linked to commemorative thematic funding.

3. Host symposia that have specific international focus, potentially linked to commemorative thematic funding.

4. Continue online/physical collaboration with University of Lagos, Nigeria

5. Continue online/physical collaboration with University of San Jose, USA

6. Explore potential to invite visiting professors from Nigeria/USA

7. Update website and use of social media for Research Hub to advertise and promote International activity

8. Connect with MSARC newsletter and MSoA social media activity

9. Mobilise and recruit to Research Clusters at A&P Dept. Away Day

10. Share good practice with other hubs via MSARC leadership group

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