CeMoRe collaborates with Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts on a Mobilities and Art research focus. Our researchers, visiting fellows and post-doctoral scholars do interdisciplinary practice-based research at the intersection of art and mobilities and engage in walking seminars, workshops, symposia and exhibitions.
We have five key approaches to this field:
Through socially engaged, participatory and digital art we aim to engage with how sensory mobilities, practical making, exploration and navigation contribute to shaping the field. The scope of our research is broad, encompassing everyday mobilities, socio-technical encounters with mobile technologies, virtual mobilities and game spaces, locative media, migration, health and wellbeing, and environmental change.
Through the Art & Mobilities network we seek to develop connections to other researchers and organisations in order to develop research into the histories of mobilities in art practice, theories of mobile art, mobile research methods, aesthetics of mobility, and the contribution that art can make to mobility and social change.
We also support art and mobilities practice through mobilities lab equipment loans for research and exhibitions. If you are interested in loaning any equipment, please contact: Jen Southern.
Previous and Ongoing Projects have included an Arts and Mobilities Network Symposium, the Mobile Utopia Exhibition, the Mobility Futures Exhibition, and Im|mobile Lives in Turbulent Times Exhibition (in collaboration with Mobility Futures Research Network), Rocky Futures Exhibition for T2M 2023.
We also support Fellowships, Post-doctoral and PhD researchers (e.g. Aleksandra Ianchenko, Kai Syng Tan, Owen Chapman, Tricia Flanagan, Sam Thulin, Nikki Pugh, Gudrun Filipska, M J Hunter Brueggemann).
Over the past 10 years the study and practice of Art & Mobilities has been gaining momentum through networks, conferences, books, special issues, exhibitions and in the practices of artists, writers and curators. In recognition of this activity we are forming an...
This exhibition of 13 international artists, curated by Jen Southern, Emma Rose and Linda O Keeffe, is part of the conference Mobile Utopia: Pasts, Presents, Futures at the Lancaster House Hotel from 2nd-5th November 2017. The exhibition includes works in a diverse...
Join us for all or part of this 3 day workshop with colleagues from the Centre for Mobilities and Urban Studies at Aalborg University. http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/cemore/event/mobile-futures-design-in-practice-2-4-august-2017/
My residency exploring the Duddon is part funded by the Centre for Mobilities Research at Lancaster University, and as part of my visiting fellowship with them I instigated a walk around an area of the Dunnerdale Fells. Below are a selection of photos from the...
LAST CHANCE! The deadline for submitting artworks and posters for the exhibition is May 5th. Submission guidelines can be found here.
Cemore Seminar: Standing in a cold river for an hour, nervous explorations underground, scrubbing a handmade kayak and listening to a waterfall from the inside: just some of the things artist Nikki Pugh found herself doing over the last few months as she investigated...