Exposition

Controlled Rummage Approaches for Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre (2024)

Sarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier
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'Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre' is an artistic research project involving three artistic researchers: Andrew Bracey, Danica Maier and Sarah Bennett. A bummock is the unseen — submerged — part of an iceberg, and comprises the largest volume of ice, compared with the tip — which is visible above the surface of the water. Likewise, archives hold more items than are commonly viewed or accessed. In Bummock, we choose to bypass the catalogue to engage with materials directly, establishing a 'controlled rummage' method as an alternative approach to standard archive access practice. This iteration of the Bummock project explores, examines, and creates new artistic research from five years of working with the Tennyson Research Centre (TRC), Lincoln, UK. This exposition has been collaboratively authored by the three artistic researchers and is structured into two sections. The first, labelled the 'controlled section', serves to introduce the project and its core concerns. The second, referred to as the 'rummage section', provides visitors with the opportunity to navigate their own path through the archival objects from the TRC and the artworks created. Within this section, individual reflections and critical discussions on three themes are presented: our past experiences working with archives, the research journey of the project, and potential future directions stemming from our research. The exposition concludes with a collective summary of findings and a film documenting the project. The contribution of this exposition is twofold: first, to unveil and disseminate the artistic research associated with the project, and second, to identify the key benefits that artists can bring to the archive by employing the 'controlled rummage' approach. The intention is to establish a framework that facilitates future use by other archive users. Download Accessible PDF
typeresearch exposition
keywordsarchive, artistic research, controlled rummage, Research methodologies, Practice Research, archives, research methods, bummock, art and archives, fine art, Tennyson, Tennyson Research Centre
date15/07/2024
published15/07/2024
last modified15/07/2024
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationNottingham Trent University; University of Lincoln; Kingston University
copyrightSarah Bennett, Andrew Bracey, and Danica Maier
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1576308/2474387
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/jar.1576308
published inJournal for Artistic Research
portal issue32. 32
external linkwww.bummock.org


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