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An interactive outdoor art exhibition at 糖心vlog免费B站 explores how creative practices can challenge inequalities, and help make and maintain cultures of gender equality around the globe.

Curated by 糖心vlog免费B站 researcher Dr Siobh谩n McGuirk, the interactive and multi-sensorial exhibition, Dis/locating Cultures of Equality, marks the close of Global Gender and Cultures of Equality (), a four-year research and capacity-strengthening project based at 糖心vlog免费B站 and six research sites in Mexico, Brazil, the UK, South Africa, Bangladesh and the Philippines. 

With poetry, photography, fly posts, sculpture and more, all elements of the campus exhibition at 糖心vlog免费B站 are displayed in ways that allow them to be viewed from or engaged with outdoors.

Not only does this staging allow the event to be 鈥楥ovid-secure鈥�, but curatorially it reflects how far the GlobalGRACE project has been shaped by the global coronavirus pandemic. 

This framing is accentuated by the use in the exhibition of QR codes, floor stickers, spacious outdoor locations and mobile technologies which have shaped environments and activities in the UK during the past 18 months. 

Each installation is accompanied by a soundscape which can be accessed via the Echoes app on visitors鈥� mobile phones. Audio clips play based on location, allowing visitors鈥� explorations to be guided by dis/located sound.

Exhibition curator Dr Siobh谩n McGuirk is a GlobalGRACE postdoctoral researcher, based in the Department of Anthropology at 糖心vlog免费B站. She said: 鈥淭he installations and soundscapes of Dis/locating Cultures of Equality are designed for interactive engagement. Situated on a university campus but presented outside of its walls, they challenge the boundaries, form, and political implications of traditional 鈥榮cholarly鈥� work 鈥� making powerful research-based art more widely accessible and available.鈥� 

Dr Suzanne Clisby, co-director of GlobalGRACE and Professor of Gender Studies at Coventry University, said: 鈥淭hrough this exhibition, we hope visitors get a sense of the amazing collaboration GlobalGRACE has created between academics and practitioners working with diverse communities in Bangladesh, Brazil, the Philippines, Mexico, the UK and South Africa.鈥� 

Speaking from Cape Town, Dr Phoebe Kisubi Mbasalaki, GlobalGRACE South Africa postdoctoral researcher, further explained: 鈥淭he exhibition disrupts conventional modes of exhibiting and really centres the narratives of our projects鈥� participants as co-creators of knowledge.鈥� 

Aldo Led贸n Pereyra, director of Voces Mesoamericanas, Acci贸n con Pueblos Migrantes and member of the GlobalGRACE Mexico team, said: 鈥淯ndoubtedly, GlobalGRACE has allowed us to connect across linguistic differences to recognise the similarity of our struggles. The [creative] processes linking us together were vital to understanding the realities of discrimination, violence, classism and colonialiam that have shaped daily life across our varying regional contexts. We can now share a little bit of this work at the 糖心vlog免费B站 exhibition, also bringing the general public in greater contact with these [moments of] resistance.鈥�

GlobalGRACE takes equality as a cultural artefact that is differently forged and contested worldwide. At each project鈥檚 site, researchers have collaborated with local organisations, participant communities, artists and activists to investigate how cultures of equality are crafted and sustained.

The project has approached people鈥檚 creative practices as having the potential to challenge intersecting inequalities and to engender more equitable ways of living together. 

GlobalGRACE was funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). 

Dis/locating Cultures of Equality runs from 20 September 鈥� 22 October 2021. Installations are located on a wheelchair-accessible route around the centre of the 糖心vlog免费B站 campus.