Neither USe Nor Ornament: A Memoir of Bolton: 1920's

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Artist Kruse used the #NUNO project to explore issues of isolation, autistic community and walking. Kruse podcasts about her work as an artist, you can listen to a podcast about her first #NUNO journey here.

As part of the Centre for Critical Theory's research strand on Sensory Studies, we welcome Sanne Krogh Groth from Lund University in Sweden where she is an associate professor in musicology. Her research explores historiographic, aesthetic, political and institutional issues within the fields of contemporary music, electronic music, sound and performance art in the 20th and 21st Centuries. In this talk, which takes place in room B4 of the Trent Building at 5pm on the 7th of November, she will discuss global and situated aesthetics in experimental music on the Indonesian island of Java. Postcolonialism, including anti-colonial resistance and critiques of globalization as a form of neo-colonialism In support of the Digital Cultures Research Network, we welcomed Dr Crystal Abidin all the way from Deakin University in Australia where she is a Lecturer in Communication. Dr Abidin is a digital anthropologist and we invited her to give a talk about her most recent book, Internet Celebrity: Understanding Fame Online which takes a truly global perspective on viral stars, meme personalities and 'influencers' on social media. Not All Surfaces Catch The Light At The Same Time– A curated selection of blog posts by Sonia Boue, written during the NUNO project (PDF) WEBworks – a mentor’s view– A short essay written by Miranda Millward, in response to the NUNO project. (PDF)

The penultimate meeting in the Nottingham-Dublin Lacanian Studies Series saw Geert Hoornaert, a psychoanalyst who teaches at Ghent and works at Le Courtil, taking us through his reading of Lacan's fifth seminar based on the concept of the 'senseof life' during the workshop in the morning. In the afternoon, Geert offered constructions of three cases which showed how flexible and adaptable psychoanalysis needs to be in the diverse institutional spaces in which clinical work takes place today. You can work it all out for yourself via the Bandcamp link below, but as far as I’m concerned, Neither Use Nor Ornament is a great little of album of sensible length, and a must for lovers of marmalade on toast. Many thanks to Arts Council England (ACE) for supporting The NUNO project exhibition which was the outcome of artist Sonia Boué’s original ACE funded research. Poet, playwright and #NUNO artist Rhiannon Lloyd Williams wrote about her experience of being part of the project. Read Rhiannon’s blog post here.

Psychoanalysis and related research, especially Freudo-Lacanian psychoanalysis, Guattari, institutional psychotherapy and ‘schizoanalysis’, critical interest in hypnosis, ethnopsychiatry The Centre places an emphasis on the rigours of traditional scholarly research and on the importance of situating ideas, concepts, and theoretical frameworks within the intellectual and material framework – the histories and geographies - of culture. At the same time, the Centre seeks to facilitate the engagement of critical thinking with practices, histories, and traditions that fall outside of the sometimes narrow remit of scholarly expertise. Artist Panel video – Artists Sonia Boué, Dawn Cole and Jenni Dutton were in conversation with curator Sarah Mossop at the OVADA gallery in Oxford. (link takes you to You Tube) Ecology in its broadest sense, encompassing social, subjective, unconscious, affective, and sensory processes Neither Use Nor Ornament showcased the work of 14 artists, including writers, who engage with objects in their practice and included performance, photography, new writing, art walks, sound art, drawing, digital art, sculpture and installation.Odilon Escapes From The Charcoal Oblivion. But Endeavours To Return And Rescue The Cactus Men (18:39) Artist and performer, Naomi Morris used the #NUNO project to research her practice and explore new outcomes and new venues for her work. Watch Naomi’s research residency video here. The Centre’s work privileges critical approaches to thinking that move beyond academic interdisciplinarity. Its work in key areas of research interest - Sensory Studies, Ecologies and Aesthetics, Institutional Analysis, the Critical and the Clinical - exemplify an understanding of theory that emphasises the importance of its transversal links with the present.

New materialist, object-oriented and more-than-human theory, with specific reference to questions of non-human agency and the ‘stuffliness’ of human life Science, Technology and culture, with particular reference to software, experimental metaphysics (Latour, Stengers) and media theoretical approaches to technology Noise in a Tropical Underground: Global and Situated Aesthetics in Experimental Music on Java', Sanne Krogh Groth (7th November 2018): The exhibition ran from 30th March to 28th of April 2019 at OVADA, Oxford. The launch was well attended and extremely well-received. Visits from the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress, and MP Annalise Dodds were among the highlights. The exhibition itself, two performances by Naomi Morris, and a live poetry reading by Rhiannon Lloyd-Williams created many memorable moments.

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