We are happy to announce that Document and Location have been awarded research funding from the Faculty of Arts, Creative Industries and Education at the University of the West of England, Bristol.

Aimed at developing innovative methods of research and generating cross-disciplinary academic and practice-led collaboration, the faculty’s Research Group funding of £6,500 has funded the establishment of the new group, a dedicated website and Document and Location’s 2019 programme of events.

Document and Location is a new research group developed by academics from Fine Art, Photography and Architecture at The University of The West of England, Bristol, in partnership with Foreground. Conceived of and convened by Simon Morrissey, Senior Lecturer in Fine Art and Director of Foreground, the group’s research will inform a public programme of discursive events, publishing and exhibitions delivered in partnership with Foreground from Spring 2019.

Document and Location provides a structure through which its members as both academics and practitioners can intervene critically in recent discourses around place and space that have been prevalent across Architecture, Fine Art, Geography, and Photography. Document and Location members include Sophie Hayes, Simon Morrissey, Sophie Warren and Jonathan Mosley, Mike Ricketts and Aaron Schuman.