Cuch, Laura. 2018. 'Negotiating the everyday sacred: Community and public engagement through visual and material practices'. In: 'Working with: participatory approaches in researching religions, spiritualities, and faith’, RGS-IBG Annual Conference 2018. Cardiff, United Kingdom 28-31 August 2018. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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In this presentation I examine the different visual approaches to community and public engagement of my practice-based doctoral research, where I use photography and film to explore the relationship between food, faith and everyday material practices of different faith communities in the suburbs West London (a Synagogue, a Sri Lankan Hindu Temple, a mosque, a Sikh Gurdwara, an Anglican church, a multicultural Roman Catholic church and an ethnically diverse Pentecostal church). The main practice element of my research, Spiritual Flavours, is a collaborative arts project resulting in a 'multi-faith' short film and a photo cookbook. Additionally, I collaborated with the Hindu temple in the production of a site-specific photographic exhibition, and with the mosque for the production of a community photo book, both showcasing my visual research within these communities. Here, I discuss the processes of exchange and legitimisation of my visual practice within these communities, as well as the tensions between the artistic, academic and community interests/expectations at play in the production of visual arts artefacts for public engagement.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	community, multi-faith, participatory, public engagement, material practices, visual practice, food
Related URLs:	Organisation
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 31 August 2018 Completed
Event Location:	Cardiff, United Kingdom
Date range:	28-31 August 2018
Item ID:	34418
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2023 10:47
Last Modified:	01 Dec 2023 10:47
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/34418

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