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).
In the latest of our Cemore Seminar series, Simon Guy traces the impact and legacy of the sculptor Wolfgang Weileder’s situated and semantically fluid artworks. A video of Guy Simon's presentation from the seminar Catalyst: Art, Sustainability and Place...
Julia Gillen and her colleagues at the Edwardian Postcard Project are researching the early British postcards. She presents us her magnificent work on the proto-Instagrams. I’m currently researching picture postcards of the format in use at the very beginning...
Using a GoPro camera with dog-harness to film Ted, his handler, and a fake casualty during a training session with Langdale/Ambleside Mountain Rescue team. The GPS tracks of handler and dog show how the dog searches for scent across the landscape. Viewing the GoPro...
On June 5th researchers and artists who focus on mobilities met at Lancaster University to present their work. The day began with presentations given by specialists that use wearable technology in their work. The workshop was for people of varying abilities and...
Enthusiastic, curious people were invited to participate in a group workshop led by Nikki Pugh as part of a research project that investigates the use of sculptural, location-aware objects as a tool for thinking and talking about distant places. Read Nikki's MA...
A small team from the mobilities.lab experiment (Jen Southern) and Edinburgh University (Chris Speed, Anais Moisy & Chris Barker) tracked, filmed and photographed the Uppies and Downies mass football game in Workington on Tuesday 7th April. Our main goal was to...