Who's who
Dr Richard Povall
Researcher
Arts, Communities and Environment Research Centre
RANE Research Group
Keywords: Place, Engaged Practice, Ecology, Digital installation and media, Production and Governance
Research interests
Composer and sound engineer by background, now a creative producer and researcher. I co-direct Aune Head Arts, the south west's leading rural-centred contemporary arts organisation. My own work continues to develop haptic interfaces and transparent digital systems for use in installation contexts.
Recent outputs
- Producer for The Deep Listening Retreat, co-produced with The Arts at Dartington and The Deep Listening Institute, with composer Pauline Oliveros, and with participants from 10 countries and 4 continents. Dartington Hall, July 2009.
- Producer and artist for Immersion, a project that runs from autumn 2009 to the end of 2010. I am designing an interactive installation for the National Marine Aquarium, using water as the interface. This project is funded by Arts Council England and others.
- Triparks although primarily Executive Producer on this project, I also designed and built the "Altitude Harmonium", an interactive sound object using an old harmonium and a new, hand-drawn map of Dartmoor as part of a work by Hugh Nankivell. Arts Council England funded.
- Women in Farming although primarily acting as Executive Producer on this project, I also designed and built two interactive sound cabinets as part of a work by Tot Foster Arts Council England funded.
- Aune Head Arts: towards an organisational ecology AIAS Conference, University College Falmouth, November 2009.
- The Art of Hill Farming at Art and Agriculture Conference Kasteel Groneveld, the Netherlands. November 2008.
- Sustaining Subsidy? Symposium Chair at Rural Futures: Dreams, Dilemmas, and Dangers University of Plymouth, April 2008.
Selected earlier outputs
The Knitting Map (www.knitting.ie ). A conceptual installation involving more than 2500 knitters from 22 countries, the knitting map gathered data from around the city of Cork, taking a daily snapshot of the weather conditions and the "busyness" of the city. Commissioned by European Capital of Culture 2005
The Lios, an installation commissioned by the Crawford Municipal Gallery of Art in Cork. This two-room installation evoked the voices of a Lios (an old coastal ringfort site said to be imbued with magical properties) from the residents of Warren Beach in East Cork. One room is a multichannel interactive audio installation using audio diaries from three months of walking on the beach, and the other a multichannel interactive audio installation in which water is the interactive medium, with the voices of old and young residents of the area. Commissioned by the Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
Current research / forthcoming outputs
Ethics and Ecologies: developing models for engaged practice. Creativity & Place Conference, University of Exeter, June 2010
Editorial Boards
Digital Creativity (Routledge)
Supervision of research degrees
Have supervised to completion two PhD candidates.
I am particularly interested in supervising research involving engaged practice in any artform, particularly in rural contexts; the creation of interactive systems for installation (or performance).
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