Exposition

Acts of Transfer: Documentation as Creative Reimagining. (2025)

Katy Beinart, Lizzie Lloyd

About this exposition

This exposition presents parts of a practice-based artistic research project, Acts of Transfer, a collaboration between artist Katy Beinart and writer Lizzie Lloyd (2020–2021). The project consists of a series of ‘chapters’ which revisit artworks from the recent past that involved social engagement or public participation, documenting both the process and outcomes of our returns. Acts of Transfer was interested in what the afterlife of such artworks might be and how they might be meaningfully represented in the future. Each return or ‘chapter’ generates new artwork, while retaining some sense of the original. They include a range of outcomes: excerpts (screenshots, photographs, readings, instructions etc.) from the original artworks made by our participants, as well as our own documentation through photography, drawings, and notes taken during our returns, alongside passages of experimental writing and films. In presenting parts of this project in Acts of Transfer: Documentation as Creative Reimagining, we further explore how documentation might serve as a means to reenact and reimagine the artworks to which we returned. In each case, we consider how aesthetic, emotional, physical, psychological or conceptual transfer might signify to those involved and to future audiences. We expose the complicated relationships that underlie practices that rely on participation, and highlight how meaning develops beyond the immediate duration of such projects. What follows renders these complications tangible, leading to new artworks that are intentionally emergent and fragmented. We look to evoke the effervescent experience of participating, remembering and communicating experiences of social, relational and durational artwork, to hold fast to what is lost and what might be reimagined.
typeresearch exposition
keywordssocially engaged art, documentation, archives, Participatory Art
date22/05/2023
published11/12/2025
last modified11/12/2025
statuspublished
affiliationUniversity of Brighton and University of the West of England
copyrightKaty Beinart and Lizzie Lloyd
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageEnglish
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2376114/3539226
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/ruu.2376114
published inRUUKKU - Studies in Artistic Research
portal issue23. Re-Imagining


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