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Event
- Title:
- Shoes and Social Fabric
- When:
- 09.05.2009 - 31.05.2009
- Where:
- Goldsmiths, University of London - New Cross
- Category:
- Art
Description
SHOES AND SOCIAL FABRICS: Exploring the journeys and life-worlds of a pair of flip-flops
Exhibition in the Kingsway Corridor at Goldsmiths, University of London
Goldsmiths academic Professor Caroline Knowles is preparing for a series of events which will reflect on a global project which saw her explore the journeys and life-worlds of a pair of flip-flops.
In 2007, she received a British Academy Small Research Grant to explore an innovative means of compiling raw information about the world’s complex interactions.
Through her inaugural lecture at Goldsmiths and three subsequent exhibitions, she will give a taste of the project which took her from China to Ethiopia – a journey documented in photographs by her collaborator, Michael Tan.
The research project is an experiment in what anthropologists refer to as an ‘object biography’. Object biographies take the life trajectory of a single object as a vantage-point onto the landscapes, people and processes entangled with it.
Knowles’ project asked the question: What can we learn about the social world by studying shoes?
The project is an experiment in the synergies between anthropology/sociology on the one hand and art on the other. Knowles and Tan visited field sites together, bringing different questions, perspectives and ways of working. They encountered and recorded their data digitally in different ways; Tan with the lens and Knowles with a recorder, notebooks and maps.
Venue
- Venue:
- Goldsmiths, University of London - Website
- Street:
- Lewisham Way
- Postcode:
- SE14 6NW
- City:
- New Cross
- Area/Borough:
- London
Description
Ground-breaking, challenging research puts Goldsmiths at the forefront of developments in fields like creativity, culture, and digital technologies.
Phone: 020 7919 7171
Bus: 21, 36, 53, 136, 171, 172, 177, 225, 321, 343, 436, 453.
Rail: New Cross Station/New Cross Gate
From New Cross stationFor the Richard Hoggart and Rutherford Buildings
- Cross New Cross Road at the pedestrian traffic lights into Amersham Road, keeping to the right hand pavement.
- Follow the road round to the right into Parkfield Road.
- Cross at the pedestrian lights and Richard Hoggart Building is ahead of you. Rutherford Building is to your right.
For Deptford Town Hall Building and Ben Pimlott Building
- Walk along New Cross Road, past the first set of pedestrian lights.
- Cross over Pagnell Street.
- Continue walking and then cross by the next set of pedestrian lights.
- Turn right and walk along New Cross Road, cross Laurie Grove (on the left).
- Deptford Town Hall Building is ahead on your left.
- Ben Pimlott Building is in St James which is the next road on the left.
Turn left out of the station and cross the road at the pedestrian lights.
- Deptford Town Hall Building is to your left. For the Ben Pimlott Building, turn right and take the first left into St James. You will see the entrance through on the left hand side, just before the nursery school.
For the Richard Hoggart Building
- Once you have crossed the road, turn left and walk along New Cross Road, past Laurie Grove on to Lewisham Way.
- Walk past the glass-fronted Rutherford Building, and cross over Dixon Road (on the right).
- Richard Hoggart Building is on the right immediately after this
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