Angela Piccini
Plymouth University, Fine Art, Faculty Member
- University of Bristol, Film and Television, Department Memberadd
- Aesthetics, Archives, Cinematic Space, Community Engagement & Participation, Contemporary Archaeology, Cultural Heritage, and 15 moreDigital Media, Documentary Film, Material Culture Studies, Media Studies, Museum Studies, Video Art, Visual Culture, Art Practice as Research, Archaeology of the Contemporary Past, Digital Humanities, Media Archaeology, Television Studies, Heritage Studies, Film Aesthetics, and Film Studiesedit
- My research, writing, practice and teaching focus on the moving image and its intersections with place, space and mat... moreMy research, writing, practice and teaching focus on the moving image and its intersections with place, space and material culture. I have a particular interest in archaeology on and of screen media, including materiality and artists' moving image, the circulation of heritage on urban screens during mega-events and archival film as archaeological record. I am a full-time faculty member of the School of Arts, University of Bristol. Full publication details are here: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/school-of-arts/people/angela-a-piccini/overview.html
From 2013-18, I am Deputy Principal Investigator (2014-15, Acting PI) on the Connected Communities 'Productive Margins' programme www.productivemargins.ac.uk and from 2013-15, I was Co-Investigator on the Connected Communities project, 'Know your Bristol on the Move' www.knowyourbristol.blogs.ilrt.org/, where I had primary responsibility for collaborative tools for community co-production.edit
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This chapter explores how contemporary social practice art materialises interactions between regulatory regimes and low-income families with children and enables disruptions of regulatory regimes in ways not possible using traditional... more
This chapter explores how contemporary social practice art materialises interactions between regulatory regimes and low-income families with children and enables disruptions of regulatory regimes in ways not possible using traditional social science approaches. It focuses on a research team that included artists Close and Remote. Here, the chapter explains how the team co-produced, with community members and academics, a socially engaged artwork — Life Chances — that aimed to generate new knowledges about the regulatory regimes that low-income families with children experience. Aiming towards a form of improvisational empathy, Life Chances worked with Thomas More's (1516) Utopia and Ruth Levitas's (2013) Utopia as Method as ‘a form of speculative sociology of the future’. By staging and troubling contradictory notions of ‘life chances’ through art, the chapter specifically asks how the regulatory services that families encounter in two urban settings — the Easton area of Bri...
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This chapter examines three case study projects that came out of University of Bristol and Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) collaboration. Within those projects, it looks at the positioning of arts practices as knowledge producing, rather... more
This chapter examines three case study projects that came out of University of Bristol and Knowle West Media Centre (KWMC) collaboration. Within those projects, it looks at the positioning of arts practices as knowledge producing, rather than instrumental or facilitative. The chapter addresses some of the issues around collaboration and regulation, and analyses how arts-based projects are shaped through institutional structures. KWMC and the University of Bristol have been collaborating across a number of research projects over the past decade. KWMC works with media artists to engage citizens often excluded from decision-making and research through exploring local, national, and international issues in order to co-produce and co-design the testing of ideas, products, and technologies.
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Research Interests: History, Archaeology, Indigenous Studies, Indigenous Archaeololgy, Collaboration, and 11 moreArchaeological Theory, Indigenous Peoples, Cultural Resource Management (Archaeology), First Nations of Canada, Community Based Participatory Research, Postcolonial Archaeology, Collaborative Archaeology, Partnership, Canadian Archaeology, Ethical issues in archaeology, and Community Based Archaeology
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On 15 September 1971, I participated in one of North America's early eco-logical performances. The Don't Make a Wave Committee chartered an 80 ft vessel, nicknamed it The Greenpeace and sailed it from Vancouver, BC to the... more
On 15 September 1971, I participated in one of North America's early eco-logical performances. The Don't Make a Wave Committee chartered an 80 ft vessel, nicknamed it The Greenpeace and sailed it from Vancouver, BC to the Aleutian island of Amchitka to protest ...
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There is an urgent need to rethink the relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. The contemporary transfer of state regulation to the market-based regulation of corporate interests has marginalised many... more
There is an urgent need to rethink the relationships between systems of government and those who are ‘governed’. The contemporary transfer of state regulation to the market-based regulation of corporate interests has marginalised many communities in the regulatory systems of everyday life. Exploring a broad range of intersecting areas including immigration, social work, food regulation, space and surveillance, older people, ethnicity and faith, this book takes a ‘bottom up’ approach that brings to the fore the experiences and expertise of these communities in order to examine ways that we can better design regulatory systems that support the knowledge and creativity of citizens.
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Research Interests: Archaeology, Humanities, Art, Film Studies, Cultural Heritage, and 4 moreSpace, Memory, Planning, and Place
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This conference paper looks at the British TV entertainment series &amp;amp;amp;quot;Bonekickers&amp;amp;amp;quot;, based around a fictional team of archaeologists. The paper looks at reasons for the critical failure and poor... more
This conference paper looks at the British TV entertainment series &amp;amp;amp;quot;Bonekickers&amp;amp;amp;quot;, based around a fictional team of archaeologists. The paper looks at reasons for the critical failure and poor reception of the series.
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The Media Archaeologies Forum in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology presents the first meeting of archaeologists with interests in the media assemblages of the contemporary world and media scholars with interests in ‘media... more
The Media Archaeologies Forum in the Journal of Contemporary Archaeology presents the first meeting of archaeologists with interests in the media assemblages of the contemporary world and media scholars with interests in ‘media archaeologies’, variously enacted. It was inspired by the Archaeology as Such panel at the Archaeologies of Film and Media Conference (Bradford, UK, September 2014), a panel organized by Angela Piccini and the Committee for Audio-Visual Scholarship and Practice in Archaeology (CASPAR). Where some media archaeologists have dismissed archaeology-as-such as a practice of dirt and deep time, archaeologists have critiqued media archaeology for its lack of methodological rigour and specificity. What the contributors to this Forum demonstrate, however, is the rich diversity of scholarship within and across fields. All acknowledge a shared focus on the media networks and technologies that produce conditions for the observable and the sayable. They understand that the...
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Concerns with screening embodiment have focused on the way in which cinema invites the spectator to consider a lived sense of the human body as a material subject that feels its own subjectivity. In this paper, I suspend the return of... more
Concerns with screening embodiment have focused on the way in which cinema invites the spectator to consider a lived sense of the human body as a material subject that feels its own subjectivity. In this paper, I suspend the return of gesture to the transcendental human body. Gesture practises and produces complex and diverse bodies, bodies that do not precede their intra-actions but emerge through them. Drawing on the work of Karen Barad, I consider gesture in television that concerns archaeological practices in order to ask how gesture operates in this televisual subgenre to invite new ways of thinking about the human and other-than-human. Focusing on archaeology on television, I consider entangled gestures as intra-acting, material-discursive boundary-making practices that congeal and fix what we come to know as discrete, bounded bodies.
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This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which... more
This book surveys an archaeology “in and of the present.” It investigates the challenges and pitfalls of an archaeology of the contemporary world as well as the methodologies for doing it. It consists of a collection of chapters in which authors from within and outside of archaeology reflect on cross-disciplinary concerns. Contributors discuss topics ranging from scale and time to ruins, memory, authenticity, sectarianism, heritage, modernism, and disaster. To extend and complicate the interdisciplinary overviews and archaeological thematics, the book presents in-depth case studies on mobilities, space and place; media and mutabilities; and things and connectivities. Three contributors?representing disciplinary interests in archaeology, geography and photography?produce photo essays in which they reflect on some of the central themes in an archaeology of the contemporary world. The book pursues questions of materiality that appear to owe much to Walter Benjamin's unfinished Arca...
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This paper discusses the circulation of archaeological heritage through moving image practices associated with the Olympic Games. From the Athens Games of 1896 to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Olympic ‘mega-events’ (Roche 2000,... more
This paper discusses the circulation of archaeological heritage through moving image practices associated with the Olympic Games. From the Athens Games of 1896 to the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Olympic ‘mega-events’ (Roche 2000, 2003) continue to produce media narratives of place grounded in archaeological practices. I discuss the performativity of varied and distributed screen practices that extend and modify
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A history and analysis of the first years of video art in England and Scotland based on extensive archiving and oral history, this book restores a lost period in British art history with a claim to being the only true avant-garde of the... more
A history and analysis of the first years of video art in England and Scotland based on extensive archiving and oral history, this book restores a lost period in British art history with a claim to being the only true avant-garde of the British art scene. Including artists and critics active at the time as well as younger svcholars, the anthology opens a new era of creative endeavour to scholarly debate, while also, in associated DVD release and exhibitions, bring the works to a new generation of audiences
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How to use this Publication Acknowledgements Practice-as-Research: An Introduction B.Kershaw The Courage of Complementarity: Practice-as-Research as a Paradigm Shift in Performance Studies S.Jones Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for... more
How to use this Publication Acknowledgements Practice-as-Research: An Introduction B.Kershaw The Courage of Complementarity: Practice-as-Research as a Paradigm Shift in Performance Studies S.Jones Of Fevered Archives and the Quest for Total Documentation A.Piccini & C.Rye Making a Difference: Media Practice-as-Research, Creative Economies and Cultural Ecologies J.Dovey Collaborative Ethics in Practice-as-Research C.Bannerman & C.McLaughlin Digital Archives: Plus Ca Change, Plus C'est La Meme Chose B.Smith Peer Review and Criteria: A Discussion J.Adams, J.Bacon & L.Thynne Modes of Practice-as-Research Knowledge and Their Place in the Academy R.Nelson Practice-as-Research in France 2008 L.Allegue & M.Costin Transnet a Canadian-Based Case Study on Practice-as-Research, or Rethinking Dance in a Knowledge-Based Society H.Daniel Performance Research in Australia 1988-2007 A.Richards Images List of Colour Images Catalogue Bibliography Index List of Catalogue Contributors DVD
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In The Impact of Co-production (Policy Press, 2017), edited by Aksel Ersoy https://policypress.co.uk/the-impact-of-co-production#book-detail-tabs-stison-block-content-1-0-tab2
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Anglo-European theatre history. By attending to those practitioners in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, Artaud) and those who held influ ence in the mid-to late-twentieth century (Gro tow... more
Anglo-European theatre history. By attending to those practitioners in the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Stanislavsky, Meyerhold, Brecht, Artaud) and those who held influ ence in the mid-to late-twentieth century (Gro tow ski, Barba, Brook, Mnouchkine), her discus ...