https://plant-er.net Plant: Embedded Research Network Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:55:51 +0000 https://plant-er.net en https://plant-er.net/Home-1 Mon, 01 Mar 2021 18:47:02 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Home-1 To plant: to bring theoretical, live and creative reflexive practices to studies of groups, organisations and institutions.To be planted: research that grows within living organisations, through people, ideas and their meetings.To be a plant: researching in the liminal space between inside and outside, covert or overt; navigating and storytelling against/towards academic/practice positions. Plant is a network to support embedded research within art, architectural and civic organisations. We investigate the creative spaces, objects, and practices surrounding, and produced through, embedded research projects. This site is a collection of embedded research PROJECTS and associated&nbsp;RESOURCES. Plant has been established to make the diversity of collaborative hosted relations within embedded research projects visible and explore connections between peer practices. The network aims to critically reflect on the different embedded research positions which have been adopted in relation to non-academic host organisations. With this in mind, a LEXICON of embedded research has started to emerge, allowing projects to be categorised by relationships, methods, collaborators, co-productions, and spaces. Our working definition of embedded research︎︎︎ 2024&nbsp; Plant started as a series of open online meetings (2021 – 2022). For these, we picked a short reading/ resource/ provocation related embedded research as a prompt for discussion. More recently, our activities have been sporadic, and in response to specific invitations and opportunities – such as a recent article for Sluice magazine. Please get in touch if you have ideas or would like to do a project/event with Plant. https://plant-er.net/Taxonomy Sat, 20 Feb 2021 23:26:46 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Taxonomy LEXICON Relationships arms-length &nbsp;&nbsp; critical friend in-houseobserver quasi-staff member Methods archivalcreative writing curatorialethnography interdisciplinary international mapping narrative inquiry participant-observation participation practice-based public programming xeno- Collaborators artists other researchers scientists staff members students technicians visitors Co-Productions evaluation and developmentexhibitionsinterpretationpublic programming public engagement eventspublications &nbsp; staff briefings research eventsresearch workshops Spaces academic realm art residencies artist-ledgalleryhousinglibrary mailmuseum public realm sculpture park site-specific tele-communications workshop https://plant-er.net/PROJECT Wed, 24 Feb 2021 16:55:38 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/PROJECT PROJECTS https://plant-er.net/Booth-Kurpnieks Mon, 15 Mar 2021 18:46:24 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Booth-Kurpnieks Does YSP Make You Happy? Investigating Situated Narratives of Wellbeing at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park Claire Booth-Kurpnieks 2020 University of Huddersfield and Yorkshire Sculpture Park Link to thesis︎︎︎ Keywords:&nbsp;observer, critical friend, arms-length,&nbsp;mapping with visitors, narrative inquiry with visitors, participant-observation with staff members, ethnography,&nbsp;research workshops with visitors, public engagement events with students, staff briefings, evaluation and development with staff members,&nbsp;sculpture park, gallery, West Yorkshire This thesis investigates the situated experiences of wellbeing at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park through the collection and collation of intersecting wellbeing narratives with visitors. It places these experiences within their biographical, temporal, and social contexts in order to illuminate their specificity and contingency; and to explore the environmental and aesthetic conditions under which such experiences can occur and be made meaningful. https://plant-er.net/McKinlay Sun, 14 Mar 2021 17:12:04 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/McKinlay Acid-Soaked Molluscs: A Xenophoric Approach to Practicing Sculpture and Print Julia McKinlay2021Leeds Beckett University and Yorkshire Sculpture International (YSI)Link to bodies of work︎︎︎ Keywords: quasi-staff member, observer, practice-based research with artists, curators and technicians, curatorial, xeno-, public programming with curators and staff members, publications with artists and technicians, exhibitions with artists and curators, West Yorkshire, art residencies, workshop, museum This PhD by practice thesis examines three bodies of work produced while being embedded in the team delivering YSI 2019: Feeling the Underside, an artist’s book; Mollusc Series, a series of etchings; and Coiled in a Single Plane, Skimmed and Separated, an installation. <img width="1535" height="1024" width_o="1535" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4c4601defa39eed3f407944ba64cec170c8023e31ce4327944a18e96abc15c09/DSC_1055-copy_cropped.jpg" data-mid="102631171" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4c4601defa39eed3f407944ba64cec170c8023e31ce4327944a18e96abc15c09/DSC_1055-copy_cropped.jpg" /> <img width="1535" height="1024" width_o="1535" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/17f775e935fe15d85b2786338f9c0314d04fec0547eb8ff20d2db0d2df2dfdac/2F5A8780.jpg" data-mid="101988824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/17f775e935fe15d85b2786338f9c0314d04fec0547eb8ff20d2db0d2df2dfdac/2F5A8780.jpg" /> <img width="1535" height="1024" width_o="1535" height_o="1024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/479ef67caef8f1bf620cc34e261479b638da064498d3a77220db7c0c62247e5e/Composite1_small.jpg" data-mid="102630929" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/479ef67caef8f1bf620cc34e261479b638da064498d3a77220db7c0c62247e5e/Composite1_small.jpg" /> https://plant-er.net/Nadal Fri, 19 Mar 2021 21:47:34 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Nadal The Personal Library of Barbara Hepworth: A Case Study in the Curation and Interpretation of Artists’ Libraries Clare Nadal 2020 University of Huddersfield and The Hepworth Wakefield Link to thesis︎︎︎ Keywords: quasi-staff member, archival, curatorial, public programming, exhibitions, public programming, research workshops, interpretation, Wakefield, library, gallery Artists’ libraries are generally an understudied area of the legacy of an artist and have an uncertain status as to both value and use. Taking the case study of the personal library of the sculptor Barbara Hepworth, formerly housed at The Hepworth Wakefield, this thesis combines archival research with a curatorial intervention to demonstrate the value of such traditionally overlooked areas of knowledge in the study of both Hepworth’s work, and that of artists more widely. https://plant-er.net/Orlek Wed, 20 Jan 2021 16:37:54 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Orlek Moving in and Out, or Staying in Bed: Using Multiple Ethnographic Positions and Methods to Study Artist-Led Housing as a Critical Spatial Practice Jonathan Orlek 2021 University of Huddersfield and East Street Arts Link to thesis︎︎︎ Link to Artist-Led Housing: Histories, Residencies, Spaces book&nbsp;︎︎︎ Keywords: in-house, critical friend, mapping with artists and staff members, ethnography, archival, creative writing,&nbsp;research events with staff members and artists, publications with other researchers, exhibitions, artist-led, housing, Leeds This thesis is concerned with the provision of housing by artist-led organisations. It is also an embedded ethnographic study of a particular house called Artist House 45, a pilot project located in South Leeds. An understanding of artist-led housing as both collective artworks and interventions within the housing sector is developed. The research explores new strategies, rooted in and among the day-to-day processes of artist-led organisations, for communicating, translating and scaling artist-led housing. https://plant-er.net/Quinn Sun, 21 Mar 2021 19:15:27 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Quinn Integrated Knowledges, Integrated Publics: Classificatory Practices, Boundary Crossings, and Public Space at The Hive, Worcester Katherine Quinn 2020 University of Warwick and The Hive Worcester Link to thesis︎︎︎ Keywords:&nbsp;observer,&nbsp;ethnography,creative writing, participant-observation,&nbsp;publications, staff briefings,&nbsp;library, public realm, West Midlands, academic realm Thesis was a multi-layered ethnography (one year intensive with multiple catch-up visits over 4 years) of a joint-use academic and public library which used lived methods (including dwelling, doodling and ficto-critical description) to examine shifting conceptions and productions of space around hard and soft classifications (public/academic, belonging/non-belonging, private/public, valued/not-valued). The ethnography situated my experience as a “shy researcher” (albeit one with Shy Pride) and developed doodle practices that emphasised inhabiting (the library’s) rhythms rather than—necessarily—directly interacting with it. https://plant-er.net/Sharples Tue, 16 Jan 2024 16:55:51 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/Sharples Imperceptible Performance In Lieu of the Art Object, A Practice-Led, Environmental, Research Project Victoria Sharples 2021 Leeds Beckett University Link to thesis︎︎︎ Keywords: interdisciplinary, international, curatorial, xeno-, participation, mapping, archival, practice-based research with artists, scientists, technicians, and other researchers through exhibitions. Site-specific, mail, tele-communications. This practice-led PhD meditates on post-humanist performativity and ecological philosophies relative to macroscopic and microscopic matter (infinitesimal and international scales), with a focus of economic cycles. The interdisciplinary research included working with participant artists and scientists and non-human performers to produce three works: Aggregates (UK), Watercolour (Saudi Arabia, Russia, Turkey, South Korea, Svalbard) &amp; Ash (Nepal). Research areas include: new materialism, micro-performativity, (im)materiality, (im)perceptibly, the technoscentific &amp; necro-ecologies/economies. <img width="3543" height="2139" width_o="3543" height_o="2139" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/eebf2c8dc690ce9b7f7623cda9f6253c4692beb330dae12483dd8a20b83c57bb/4---GLOAM-GALLERY.jpg" data-mid="201929271" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/eebf2c8dc690ce9b7f7623cda9f6253c4692beb330dae12483dd8a20b83c57bb/4---GLOAM-GALLERY.jpg" /> https://plant-er.net/RESOURCE Wed, 24 Feb 2021 17:02:46 +0000 Plant: Embedded Research Network https://plant-er.net/RESOURCE RESOURCES