Annie Lovejoy
Annie Lovejoy
Interests
context led/responsive arts practices, transdisciplinary processes and collaborations
Bio
Research Interests:
Context-led arts practice - trans-disciplinary (lay, professional, academic) processes that generate outcomes in response to a particular site, situation or place.
My research sits within the broad field of contemporary public art and draws on over two decades of professional experience in generating artworks in response to a variety of locations and situations both physical and virtual... from lightships to new builds, from shops to radio stations, from ‘places’ of intimacy, work or landscape to ‘sites’ of distribution and collective authorship. A range of these projects are archived at http://www.annielovejoy.net
current project:
SAILING FOR GOLD - A & B (Annie Lovejoy and Belle Benfield) commissioned by b-side multimedia festival 2012
A & B have penned a shanty inspired by stories and conversations with Portlanders and those who have made the island their home.
singing the world up from the ground in the nooks and crannies of Portland during the Paralympics
Recent outputs: PhD thesis:
Context-led arts practice - trans-disciplinary (lay, professional, academic) processes that generate outcomes in response to a particular site, situation or place.
My research sits within the broad field of contemporary public art and draws on over two decades of professional experience in generating artworks in response to a variety of locations and situations both physical and virtual... from lightships to new builds, from shops to radio stations, from ‘places’ of intimacy, work or landscape to ‘sites’ of distribution and collective authorship. A range of these projects are archived at http://www.annielovejoy.net
current project:
SAILING FOR GOLD - A & B (Annie Lovejoy and Belle Benfield) commissioned by b-side multimedia festival 2012
A & B have penned a shanty inspired by stories and conversations with Portlanders and those who have made the island their home.
singing the world up from the ground in the nooks and crannies of Portland during the Paralympics
Recent outputs:
- Lovejoy, A. Heart on Your Sleeve. In Rieser, Martin (ed.) 2011. The Mobile Audience, Media Art and Mobile Technologies. Amsterdam/New York, NY. pp455-453
- Lovejoy, A (ed.) 2011. Discovering what’s on our Doorstep. A limited edition ‘guidebook’ Caravanserai / RANE- Research into Art, Nature and the Environment, UCF
- Lovejoy, A. 2009. Caravanserai fieldwork project. Paper presented at Association of International Art & Design Schools (AIAS) annual conference, UCF
- Hawkins, H and Lovejoy, A. 2009. InSites- a notebook. Limited edition artists’ book produced for the Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, Manchester
- Leyshon C and Lovejoy, A. 2009. Caravanserai fieldwork project. Paper presented at Royal Geographical Society & Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference, Manchester
- CABE. 2009. Case Study Public Art Programme: Barton Hill Primary School and Children’s Campus, Bristol in Creating excellent primary schools, a guide for clients. Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment. pp 48-49
- Lovejoy, Dunlop and Hall (eds) 2008. Insites: Barton Hill Primary School and Children’s Centre Public Art Programme. Bristol, RiO - Real Ideas Organisation
Interfaces of Location and Memory: an exploration ‘of’ place through context-led arts practice.
Practices and theories concerned with place and process within the fields of arts, geography and anthropology inform the development of the research and fieldwork project – caravanserai - an arts residency initiated by Lovejoy and Dunlop at a caravan and camping site on the Roseland peninsula in Cornwall,UK.
Expanding on Lippard’s educative proposal for ‘place ethical‘ arts practice (1997: 286-7) Interfaces of location and memory invites a perceptual shift in understanding arts practice as a modus vivendi where the emphasis is on responding to the interwoven complexities ‘of’ place rather than a model of practice or modus operandi that is applied ‘to’ a place, site or situation.
