Bunker Talk #167: Harry Wilson

Talk #167: Harry Wilson

Placing Spaces: exploring place-based entanglements through creative technologies

Since 2023, Harry has been collaborating with his daughter Poppy, young people and migrant mothers in Bristol, UK to explore significant places in their local environments through creative technologies. In this Bunker Talk, Harry will reflect on his Placing Spaces project, which uses 3D scanning, recorded audio and location-based AR (Augmented Reality) to document participants' place attachments and create locative AR experiences for audiences.

Harry is an artist-researcher and Lecturer in Digital Theatre and Performance-Making at the University of Bristol. Harry’s research focuses on interdisciplinary explorations of live art and performance, photography, documentation, digital art and new media through critical theory and artistic research. Recently Harry has been exploring intersections between immersive technologies and intimate performance, including in site-specific AR and VR performance. He was Digital Thinker in Residence at the National Theatre of Scotland (2018-19) and Research Associate on the Walking Publics / Walking Arts project (2021-22) at the University of Glasgow. He is currently writing a book on The Expanded Dramaturgies of Virtual Reality Performance for Methuen’s ‘Performance and Digital Cultures’ series.

Bunker Talks

This event is part of Bunker Talks. Bunker Talks invite artists and researchers to talk about who they are and what they do. Curated by the Performance Research Group at Manchester School of Art and the School of English, Bunker Talks explore geopolitical, ecological or economic concerns. The talks create space for critical encounters, presentations, provocation and dialogue as part of a civic conversation.

Originally conceived in the pandemic to explore how artists, writers, curators and researchers continued to make and share their work, live Bunker Talks now take place at The Salutation every month. Since 2020, over 160 talks have been hosted by Performance Researchers and colleagues from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. All talks are recorded, edited, captioned and then archived to create an online catalogue, capturing how artists, makers and curators think about the world today. Find previous talks here: https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/bunkertalks/

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