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DARREN O’Brien

Visual Arts, Nottingham Trent University

Thesis title:

Deep Canine Topography: Re-connecting with the wild through the practice of walking with companion species

Research Area

  • Visual Arts

Publications

Two Bodies in Motion - Surface Encounters, part of a multimedia presentation as part of the Becoming Feral 2 pubication. November 2021:

Becoming Feral 2

From Watling Street to Elsware: Creative Centre for Fluid Territories (CCFT) - NEW FLUID TERRITORIES: NOMADIC ONLINE DIALOGUE 2 - displacement: Buffer Fringe Festival, Nicosia, 2021: 

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1304585/1304586



Conferences

Forth World Congress of Psychogeography:

04-06/09/2020

https://www.4wcop.org/

It's ok they're friendly, Workshop on collective Deep Canine Topography and Q and A.

Life With and Without Animals:

07/11/2020

University of Derby.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=focS5Kl004c&feature=youtu.be

Papaer - Further Adventures in Deep Canine Topography, and Q and A 

WARP Walking Research Conference:

29-30/09/2022

University of Amsterdam

https://asca.uva.nl/programme/workshops/warp/warp.html

Paper - Deep Canine Topography, Reconnecting with the wild through the practice of walking with companion species – a reflection on research.

Posthuman Bodies & Embodied Posthumanisms:

12-14/10/2022

University of Warwick and Nottingham Trent University

https://posthumanbodiesconference.wordpress.com/

Paper - Deep Canine Topography: Reconstructing radical cartographies and sensory entanglement through the use of the canine mounted action camera.


Other Research Interests

Fine Art Practice

Walking Art

Human Geography

Critical Animal Studdies

Animal Rights

Posthuman Philosophy 

Memberships

Member of Two Queens Gallery Leicester