2013 Connected Researcher 5 The Joined Up Connected Researcher
Joined Up Musing
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Joined Up MusingThoughts on being a poet in the academy and community
Background
• 2006 - Trading Places (SBC)• 2009-2012 - Living Memory (CSCB)• 2012 - Union Print (BB)• 2013 - Waterloo Sights and Sounds
(CSCB)
Questions that I had pre 2006 • As a member of this geographical
community - what is my voice allowed to do?Listening to the cannon - Blake/KeatsMistress Quickly, Eliot’s Lil, Mrs ‘Arris - Crude and/or NaifListening to my neighbours - adds dimensionsand range including lyrical qualities
Trading Places
• Autumn 2006 - SBC - Project brief - to work with traders and customers in Lower Marsh Market to contribute work for a Sound/Photo Wall that would appear on Building Hoardings at SBC for duration of October - as part of Poetry International.
Trading Places
Trading Places
• Collecting tins in shops - Home for Lost Phrases
• Forms with tear off slipsLost phrase and its meaningContact details
Questions that have arisen • What do we mean when we say?
Red Hat, no drawers!
Colloquialisms as acts of translationInterrogating the phrase for both meaning andback storyWho is left out?
Red Hat, No Drawers!
• Doreen D - It means someone is a tart! A person of easy virtue!
• Doreen G - It’s not very nice, it means the person speaking likes to judge other people when they don’t even know!
Fink I Come Up Wiv The Vinegar Boat! • Dave - Well, there used to be a lot of
vinegar factories around here - so that’s why we used to say that
• Adrian - It’s from the military, at formal dinners and that - the vinegar or sauce boats and other condiments would come round last.
Black as Newgate’s (or Nugent’s) Knocker • Doreen G - it’s if your face was dirty! Your
mum’d say you was .....• Doreen D - it’s if something was bleak! Or
- someone gave you a dirty look!
Further developments
• Written work - Go Scratchyerself!, Charlie’s Dead, Lower Marsh Speaks, What you mean...
• Further projects - Slanguage! Union Press involving a wider range of coll.; W-Orte at Ludwig Maximilian University Munich - translation and coll.
What I gain as an academic from being a Community Artist
Being part of a broad discussion with participants and other artists -
Being able to experiment with thinking without needing much of a hypothesis - gives you material
Being able to respond spontaneously to events
What I bring to the Community as artist
The contribution to the end product
The writing and workshop leading
Asking questions
What is missing
The ability to draw together the participants andtheir learning process more directly to the Institution.
The Potential
Developing a broader and more democratickind of Community Education brief usingone off conference style events that allowparticipants of heritage/arts projects in to theUniversity.