Dr Jane McArthur
PhD (University of Edinburgh in partnership with Imperial War Museum, London)
MSc.Res (University of Edinburgh)
s0564555@ed.ac.uk
PRACTICE
Duologues, Five recorded presentations bringing an image and a text together in dialogue. Pairing bomb damage photographs of London taken during the Second World War each with an exert from a text by Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Eduardo Cadava and Georges Didi-Huberman, Architecture&READING IN CRISIS, cityspeculations, University of Edinburgh.
Researcher and content consultant for a forthcoming feature-length documentary film on the bombing of Britain 1940 -1945, 72 Films, London.
texts and recordings delivered to enhance learning during Covid-19, for architecture students, Architecture&READING IN CRISIS, University of Edinburgh, 2019 – 2020.
Records of War, Annan and Dumfries Museums. Researching the Frederic Gerald Gibbs photograph archive, resulting in two exhibitions, marking the centenary of the First World War, (2017-18).
Viewpoints, University of Edinburgh. Photographs by Margaret Watkins, University of Edinburgh. An exhibition of photographs by Margaret Watkins demonstrating the translation of research to visual display for the launch of Architecture& Situations, vol 4, University of Edinburgh, (2014).
Edinburgh Jews. Commissioned by Dr Hannah Holtsneider, Jewish Studies, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh. Co-research and co-curation with Piotr Leśniak. Archival research and oral history collection with an emphasis on historical maps, photography and engagement with the Jewish community in Edinburgh, resulting in a two-site exhibition at the University of Edinburgh and The National Library of Scotland map Library during the Edinburgh Festival, 2013 – 2015.
KOMPAS: Research to Visualisation. Group exhibition exploring the translation of academic research into visual display, University of Edinburgh, 2012.
Arts Producer 2005 – 2015.
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