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Presents Square-Eye Online Festival | 3-6 December 2020 | Watch on Facebook LIVE & ZOOM
Category: Combined Arts
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China Plate and Deaf Explorer commissioned four films by Deaf artists to celebrate the winter solstice. Deaf Explorer were delighted to co-commission Maral, Rinkoo Barpaga, Asnath Mokeka Losala and Ishtiaq Hussian. Each clip was to last no longer than 60 seconds and was the artist’s response to the statement; “It gets lighter from here”. More…
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At time of writing this blog Karachi witnesses spike in COVID-19 cases and Birmingham has the ban on inter-household gatherings in private homes. In Summer 2020 Deaf Explorer CIC successfully applied to Transforming Narratives digital, to create a visual dictionary of new signs emerging in the Deaf community representing lockdown and the pandemic in Birmingham…
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Omeima Mudawi-Rowlings My 2019 R & D project R&D worked with experts to find practical solutions to making a large-scale Zoetrope that would display my fabric design, It involved a collaboration with Oud musician Rihab Bazar, who composed and played the music, and Ruth Montgomery, who gave musical interpretation to what I was trying to…
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Maral Mamaghanizedeth’s research and development project, funded by Arts Council England, 2018 – 2020. Maral uses British Sign Language to communicate, so this report has been translated from BSL into written English. My work explores barriers I encounter everyday; being Deaf, female and a refugee. Arriving in the UK in 2016 without written English or…
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Finn wants to be a pioneer in haptic art. Finn will explore “Beauty is in the hand of the beholder?” and develop prototype’s for the making of a human sized fish tank. The Disruptive Media Learning Lab (DMLL) are the TECH partner eager to find out more, with Finn’s guidance After briefing, DMLL staff research…
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In January Choreographer Mark Smith tested his Alan Turing inspired workshop in schools in Milton Keynes. 3M Maths|Movement|Music. Funded By Arts Council England and Bletchley Park. Amazing the concept/theory of intersecting maths music and movement and use code and cyphers to bring a new angle for children to learn and engage (about these topics) in a…
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RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT SHARING BIOMORPHIC BONE CHINA JEWELLERY AND SOUND. On January 29th 2019 audiences interested in cutting edge jewellery making and Deaf artists work were invited to Join Maral in an immersive soundscape and explore feminism, sound and deaf culture through the experience of a deaf political & artistic refugee by wearing bone china…
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On 3 October 2019, Finn invited to pitch haptic art at Unlimited Connects at Stoke On Trent. Watch the video presentation. Finn had a BSL interpreter at the event, apologies but we do not have resources at moment to make all our videos accessible with sub titles.
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Finn reports on his night in London! Recovering from the Private Viewing of Outside In..What shocks me was the sheer size of the exhibition.. The noise was deafened.. The size was huge. I admit, I was overwhelmed by this.. and the imposter syndrome kicked in big time. Walking around in daze, Victoria my wife being…
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Box opening Maral Mamaghani bone chine over ear jewellery Composer and sound designer Chris Bartholemew gets to work on designing a sound scape when wearing Maral Mamaghani bone chine over ear jewellery. If you want to be alive…read my lips Testing work August/September 2019
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