Interdisciplinary Workshop on Recreative Practices in the Arts and Humanities

Presentations

PANEL 1 – THE STATE OF THE FIELD – A VIEW FROM DRESS HISTORY

Chair: Kelley Wilder, De Montfort University

Keynote: Jenny Tiramani (Principal, School of Historical Dress, London) – Reconstruction at the School of Historical Dress. The first attempt is an experiment, the second is from experience Tiramani – De Montfort

Keynote: Jane Malcolm-Davies (Associate Professor of Textile Analysis, Globe Institute, University of Copenhagen) Good recreative practice: An interdisciplinary approach to reconstructing the early modern apron Malcolm-Davies – Reconstructing aprons 110622 FINAL

This presentation will be published as Jane Malcolm-Davies, “Structuring Reconstructions: Recognising the Role of Interdisciplinary Data in Methodical Dress Research,” in Dressed: The Widespread Role of Clothes, Textile Production and Clothing Concepts in Society – Interweaving Perspectives, Proceedings of the Conference held in Berlin, 22 to 24 June 2022. Publication scheduled late 2022.

Futures of the Field: A Roundtable Discussion 

Sara Dominici (Westminster University) in conversation with Deborah McGuire (PhD candidate Oxford Brookes University), Jordan Mitchell-King (PhD candidate DMU), Rachel Neal (PhD candidate DMU), and Selene States (PhD candidate Bauhaus University (Weimar) and Teacher, Fine Art, Loughborough University)

PANEL 2 – COPIES, ORIGINALS AND THE WORK OF MUSEUMS

Chair: Richard Hudson-Miles, De Montfort University

Keynote: Julian Stallabrass (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Courtauld Institute of Art) – Actually Existing Sculpture: Replication, Mass Culture and the Art Market
Suzanne Freeman (Conservator and PhD Student, National University of Ireland) – Reading Materials – An Investigation into Materially Interpreting Artefacts for Museum Exhibition
Jo Gane (Artist and PhD candidate at Birmingham School of Art (BCU) and De Montfort University) – Calotype recreations in the landscape – re-treading, exploring an entanglement of process, place and materials

Toni Rutherford (Maker, Educator, Researcher, Historian) – Material Lessons, working with Plaster-of-Paris

PANEL 3 – ETHICS, LABOUR AND THE PAST

Chair: Elizabeth Lambourn, De Montfort University

Keynote: Nuria Garcia Masip (Calligrapher, PhD candidate Sorbonne University) – Forgotten Scripts and Recreative Practices in Calligraphy: The Case of Bihari

Calligraphy demonstration (short video extract)

Paul Wheeler (University for the Creative Arts, Farnham) – Recreating Medieval Pottery Using Low-cost Scanning and 3D Printing in Clay

Jennifer Dranttel (Textile designer, PhD candidate DMU) – Recreating Traditional and Documenting Contemporary Feltmaking Practice in Mongolia as a Tool for Decolonizing Institutions and Future Design

Neil Brownsword (Staffordshire University) – Resurrecting the Obsolete – Re-evaluating Intangible Cultural heritage in the UK Ceramic Industry

Emily Pott (The Prince’s Foundation, School of Traditional Arts, London) – Living Traditions: Contemporary Orthodox Icon Painting and Beyond

PANEL 4 – TECHNOLOGIES AND INNOVATIONS

Chair: Sara Dominici, Westminster University

Keynote:  – Mike Robinson (Century Darkroom) – The Daguerreotype: Replication, Revelations and Revisions Daguerre_Replication-Revelations-Revisions

Peter Domankiewicz (Director and screenwriter, PhD Candidate DMU) – Clickety-Click, Kerclunk Kerclunk, Wudump Wudump: The Sound of Pictures Moving
Lin Gardner (Research Assistant, University of Glasgow) –  Modelling the Sewing Machine: Simplifying and Communicating Technological Development