Research Catalogue

Islington studio flat 4, at 14 Barnsbury Road, London, 2022, privately rented. Interior design and styling, as art installation. Looted, 2024. Investigatory research with artworks, 2023-24. Interactive research blog. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loot_(magazine) My personal belongings were still at the property for two months, after I left on 27 March 2024 and was asked to collect them by 3 or 4 April from Woolwich. After I left, the landlords moved in two or three under aged, who I have never met, so that they pretend to be my daughters. Subsequently, they must have been 'removing' them one by one over the last few months and until October 2024. The company behind 14 Barnsbury Road was deemed illegal through the courts, on 22 April, 2024, shortly after I was forced to leave at the end of March. The maintenance employed many Polish citizens, all dressed in black with black caps, adopting the XRW supporters' fashion code. The household of tenants was mixed and multicultural, but mainly British natives, with the exception of a couple from Hong-Kong, an American citizen, and myself, a naturalised British citizen, originally from Greece. Twenty-one (20+1) digital photographs of the studio, for twenty (20) missing Albanian and of Albanian ethnicity, non-EU immigrants; as well as one (1) missing Italian citizen. Golden Dawn has taken responsibility. The twenty-one persons whose details got stolen were abducted by mainly Golden Dawn and, secondarily, the NRM; they are deceased. A twenty-second deceased person, a French/Belgian filmmaker, whose personal details also got stolen in connection with the case, can be added to the toll. My personal details were stolen, too. Was I going to be the twenty-third victim? Twenty-two (22) and twenty-three (23) photographs, including 2 (two) plus one (1) of myself: NOT a missing person, from the 2022-2023 period in the eventually looted, in spring 2024, Islington studio. Golden Dawn were originally pagans, drawing from the ancient Greek mythology and ritualistic practices, including human sacrifice. The visual imagery and the art included in the photographs is influenced by the marketing and advertising industry; I brushed shoulders briefly with students in the creative industries teaching at the Winchester School of Art. I used this an ironic commentary on Golden Dawn trying unsuccessfully to create a brand through propaganda, not political marketing. The art world has been traditionally male dominated. This has not changed dramatically in contemporary art. Female artists have sometimes adopted male attitudes, or personas, to break into the art scene; see Sarah Lucas and Tracey Emin from the YBA movement. I hold the view that art is not gendered, that there is no art for women or so-called women's art. Good art transcends such categories, tapping into more universal experiences. Saying this, I would like to quote Nancy Spero, who doesn't crudely distinguish between male and female art, as follows:"What if the default gender for 'artist' were female? What if, when we looked at a work by a woman, we said to ourselves, "That is art," and when we looked at a work by a man, we automatically identified it in our minds as 'men's art'?" In 1999, I wrote a long essay about the architectural uncanny, which I submitted as my graduation thesis for my first MA in architectural theory. I called it "Space as a 'Bad' Object: A criminal investigation on the notion of space". I got inspiration from detective novels and real-life crime stories. The long essay was about the role of architectural space in crime. It was completely unsupervised: I received a distinction by a Bartlett staff member. I took the digital photographs in conceptual adherence with that essay. I was a postgraduate philosophy student 9/2017-11/2019 at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. In this exposition, I include new photographs from a series of digital photography called "Forensics", taken with my mobile phone, after I was forced to leave the Islington property I was renting, on 27 March 2024. I gave the photography series that name, because it has served the purpose of investigating, recording and tracking a crime, for which architectural space, such as private rentals, has been used. For Chris, my former neighbour, who was suddenly transferred by his employer, from London, where his daughter lives, to somewhere outside of London; and for Lawrence, a second generation immigrant from Nigeria, whose temporary post was prematurely terminated, though he was planning to return to his legal studies. And for Ali. And for Oliver, also my former neighbour. In memory of Howard, also a tenant at Bellview, and former neighbour. To all those who don't just "play" the cultural and racial diversity clause; they don't just rely on identity politics, because the class problem has not been resolved for them, either. Saying this, the UK must still be scoring high on racism, especially for people of African descent. A Nigerian was amongst the Golden Dawn victims of assassination in Greece. I was listening frequently to Massive Attack, a British trip-hop band, when I was living in Islington. Sophie Calle is a French writer and photographer, working on themes of identity, intimacy and everyday existence. Her work is partly inspired by the detective fiction genre.

An overview of Elisabeth Belgrano's artistic / performance / research and teaching in higher arts education 2004-ongoing

In this work, I want to show some excerpts from my grandmother's patriarchal resistance. The narrative and the photographs will be at the center. They will clarify Esters Lindberg's attempt to negotiate and renegotiate her position within the usual norm. The narratives and photographs will hopefully give an expanded understanding of what it could be like to live as a woman with a desire for freedom in Sweden during the early 20th century.

I doktorgradsprosjektet Jording med (blå)leire har jeg jobba med kunstneriske prosesser og øvelser som knytter oss tettere på blåleira i landskapet. Gjennom seks års utdannelse innenfor det keramiske kunstfeltet og kunsthåndverk2 ble vi aldri introdusert for leire ute i naturen som en del av undervisningen. Vi lærte å lage forskjellige leirer ved hjelp av råstoffer som kaolin, kvarts, pipeleire og chamotte fra innkjøpt pulver i sekker blandet med vann, men var aldri ute og gravde leire og prosesserte denne selv. Vi jobbet med importerte leirer der sintringsintervall, grovhetsgrad, farge etter brenning og krymp-prosent var printet på plastpakningen. Leirene var homogene og klare til å modellere med, og man kunne stole på at den alltid var lik fra pakke til pakke. Keramikk- og kunstfeltets gjengse oppfattelse av leire som et stabilt universelt materiale, som er relativt lik uansett hvor man kjøper den fra, blir i dette prosjektet satt i kontrast til det spesifikke og skiftende i landskapet, leira og menneskene involvert. Denne situerte kunnskapsproduksjonen i det kunstneriske doktorgradsprosjektet er et av de potensielle bidragene til fagfeltet.

Brent blåleire fra Feiring bruk avdeling Kulmoen, opprinnelig fra Alnabru, blandet med sagflis fra KHiOs treverksted, chamotte og breavsetningssand. Del av relieff til kunst i offentlig rom oppdrag, som feilbrente. Her kuttet igjennom med diamantsag på KHiOs keramikkversted.

Landaktig poesi/Poetics of landness/Tiémpo de las tierras er en pågående samarbeids- og utvekslingsplattform mellom Stacy Jo Scott (OR, USA), Arely Amaut (Cusco, Peru) og Sigrid Espelien (Oslo, Norge).