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Call for participation – Will the Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up?

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Kingston University Archives and Special Collections is delighted to announce its forthcoming collaboration with artist Carol Sommer.

About the artist

Within the aesthetic context of conceptual writing Carol Sommer’s art practice includes performance readings in the UK and abroad, as well as film and installation that respond to the representation of women in fiction. In 2016 she took part in Reading as Art at Bury Art Museum, and is the author of Cartography for Girls, an A – Z of Orientations identified in the Novels of Iris Murdoch. She is due to complete practice-led doctoral research at Leeds Beckett University and her thesis is entitled ‘Contingent Form and the Feminine in the Novels of Iris Murdoch’.

Iris Murdoch novels

Here Carol explains more about the project

In May 2017 I set up an Instagram account, @cartography_for_girls, to explore this curious resonance and dislocation. ‘Will The Real Iris Murdoch Please Stand Up?’ seeks to open up this discussion and collaborate with students (no prior knowledge of Iris Murdoch necessary), and with Iris Murdoch scholars and readers in an exploration of the construction of image and identity through the twentieth century universe of Iris Murdoch and twenty-first century user-generated online content.

Copyright Mark Gerson

The Real iris Murdoch? Copyright Mark Gerson

We invite you to participate in this project which begins in September 2019 and will close with an exhibition of photographic selfie-posters in Spring 2020.

Project workshops will take place in the Archive, where participants will have the opportunity to meet Carol and engage with original material from our Iris Murdoch Collections.

If you would like to join us or require more information about the project please contact archives@kingston.ac.uk

For further information about Carol’s work please visit www.carolsommer.net

We look forward to hearing from you!


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