conference papers

​2018 (February): OK, this is my chosen object. Or rather it’s one of my objects. Guest speaker, Gravity:material public lecture series, Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield Hallam University.

2017 (October): the train starts – it stops – it starts again (effort, stasis, and the Glasgow Museums Resource
Centre). Conference paper, Doubtful Occasion: A creative symposium based on artist Christine Borland’s research into WW1 objects in Glasgow Museums’ collection, Glasgow Museums Resource Centre. Linked to my curated event Thoughts for a journey: a prepared text with passing discussions, a scripted train journey from Glasgow Central Station to the Centre at Nitshill.

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2017 (January): On waking up, say a spell backwards. Public seminar. Thinking Tantra (curators - Rebecca Heald with Amrita Jhaveri), Drawing Room, London.


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2016 (June): Handling the taste of emotion (Rawson’s Rasa). Conference paper (co-author Janaki Nair), Presenting the Theatrical Past: interplays of artefacts, discourses and practices, IFTR 2016, Stockholm University.



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2016 (May): Revisiting Tantra: contemporary British and Indian responses to the Tantra-oriented songs of Rabindranath Tagore. Conference paper (co-author Janaki Nair), Variations, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Jātaka Tales and Buddhism in India Today, SARI 2016 Annual and International Colloquium, University of Paris 13.

2015: Revisiting Tantra: a contemporary British and Indian response to the “seductiveness” of Tantric museum objects. Conference paper (co-author Janaki Nair), The Culture of Seduction [The Seduction of Culture], Cyprus Semiotic Association, University of Cyprus.






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2015: Studio Ruins: narrating “unfinishedness”. Conference paper, Material Culture in Action: Practices of making, collecting and re-enacting art and design, Glasgow School of Art.


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2014: Negotiating the Icebox: cold collections, dark museums and contemporary art.
Conference paper, Art Out of Time, Institute of Visual Research, University of Oxford.

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2014: Museum stores, genetic junk, experimental art – conversations on a train.
Conference paper, ASA14 Decennial: Anthropology and Enlightenment, University of Edinburgh.



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​2013: At a moment’s notice: according to the pleasure of the holder: the semiotics of paper. Conference paper, DeSForM 2013, School of Digital Media, Jiangnan University, Wuxi, China.
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​2012: Synaesthetic Presences: new sights from old sound objects. Conference paper, Making Sound Objects: Cultures of hearing, Creating and Circulation, British Forum for Ethnomusicology Conference, Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

2011: Stilling the flow of signs: creative action and the discontinuity of the museum archive. Conference paper (co-author Sachiyo Goda), Exhibitionary Geographies and the Post-Museum, Royal Geographic Society-IBG Annual International, Royal Geographic Society, Conference, London.

2011: Semiotic Uncertainty and Resonant Presence. Conference paper, Transformations in Art and Culture, Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research, Leiden, Holland.

2010: Stilling the flow of signs: creative action and the discontinuity of the museum archive. Conference paper (co-author Sachiyo Goda), The Everyday Conference, University of Cyprus.

2010: Audience-free practices and the art school panopticon. Conference paper: Art Schools: Inventions, Invective and Radical Possibilities, UCL Art Collections, University College London.

2008: Objects, knowledge and practice-led research. Conference paper for Material Worlds: a radically interdisciplinary conference in honour of Professor Susan Pearce, Department of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.