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Repair Acts

Repair Acts is a pluralistic, artist-led research programme that explores repair, care, maintenance and healing cultures.

Repair Acts Ireland, Caring for Repairing, Exhibition and Festival, Kilbeggan, Westmeath. Credit: Paul Moore

Caring for Repairing

Dates
03.11.2022 – 06.11.2022
Place
Kilbeggan, Ireland
Collaborators Prof Teresa Dillon
“Caring for Repairing” was held in Kilbeggan (2022), which is small town located in the midlands of Westmeath, Ireland. The exhibition and festival/féile programme emerged from an intensive year, long project Repair Acts, Ireland that was carried out in collaboration with with Dr. Alma Clavin, Department of Geography, University College Dublin, Westmeath County Council and a team of researchers, architects, artists, designers and community partners, including Men Shed, Mullingar.Key activities included the launch of a “Repair Declaration” for the county with an accompanying debate that brought…
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Thatcher, John Conlon. Film still, Turning the Collar, 2022. Credit: Matt Boyd

Turning the Collar

Dates
03.11.2022
Place
Documentary
Reflecting on our material relations with objects, through processes of fixing and mending. 'Turning the Collar' narrates a journey around the midland's county of Westmeath, where twenty craft, restoration, and repair professionals speak about their work. Touching on the values that underpin what we choose to care for and mend, the documentary highlights the poetic and situated nature of craft-based work and the joys and struggles that skilled trade professions face. Closing reflections speak to planned obsolescence, the global Right to Repair movement and associated changes in law and legisla…
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JUST AI, Beyond Critique To Repair, London School of Economics, 14-15th July, 2022

Beyond Critique to Repair

Dates
13.07.2022 – 14.07.2022
Place
London School of Economics
JUST AI  (Joining Up Society and Technology in AI) is an open research network that identifies issues and intervenes in data and AI ethics.Lead by Dr Alison Powell, Associate  Professor in Media and Communications at the London School of Economics (LSE) and established in partnership with the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). The programme was initially supported by the Ada Lovelace Institute, the programme developed as a response to the narrowness of dominant frameworks in data and AI ethics research.JUST AI addresses how high-level ethical principles popularly used to so…
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Handles for Care (v1). Conversational Formats for Restorative Futures.

Handle With Care (v.1)

Dates
Ongoing
Place
Online
How can we host conversations about restorative futures? What aids do we need in order to discuss possibilities and ideas?‘Handle With Care’ began as a workshop and experiment at No School, France (04.06-10.06-2022). Taking the format of a deck of cards as a starting point, participants were asked to come up with barriers, excuses, work arounds and solutions to stimulating repair-mind sets. These ideas were then collated into different thematics, which became the four suits.The first version card deck was produced in collaboration with Cliona Harney, David Miller (graphic layout, code), Dez Mi…
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Tales of Care and Repair, Closing Symposium, Chloé Mikolajczak, Right to Repair European Campaign, 2022

Online Symposium: Tales of Care and Repair

Dates
08.11.2021 – 09.11.2021
Place
Online
Over the 8th and 9th of November, we celebrated the wrap up of the TALES OF CARE & REPAIR project, which also coincided with the second week of COP 26, (26th United Nations Climate Change conference),  in Glasgow, Scotland, which ran from 31 October and 12 November 2021.Sharing our learnings, views, stories,  declarations and journey over the last 10 months (Feb-Nov 2021), we brought together collaborators, colleagues, project partners and inspiring repair practitioners, scholars, designers, makers and menders from across the global.Event is free but registration necessary via&nb…
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Repair Acts, Ireland. 2022

Repair Acts, Ireland

Dates
01.11.2021 – 19.12.2022
Place
Ireland
Repair Acts, Ireland took our work into a rural context, specifically the midlands county of Westmeath in Ireland. Drawing on our cartography, declaration and story gathering methods we collaborated with the geographer, Dr. Clavin, University College Dublin and partners Westmeath County Council (Environmental and Heritage Officers and the Public Participation Network), to established and create a year long programme of activities that enabled our approach to become more deeply embedded within a regional, rural context.Working across the county of Westmeath, the first phase of Repair Acts, Irel…
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Calling Into The Now, Dillon, 2021. Credit: Climate Care

Calling Into The Now

Dates
27.06.2021 – 08.09.2021
Place
Berlin
As humans we celebrate the our life cycles marking them through birth, death and other rites of passage. What potential is there in marking the life cycle of other species in bringing us into a more attentive awareness of our surrounds? A site-based ritual constructed for reeds that surround the Floating University, Berlin. Calling into the Now looks to the role that ritual plays in supporting the ontological shifts necessary to move from human-centered to more earth-bound positions.Situated at the Floating University, Berlin Calling into the Now looks to the role that ritual plays in supporti…
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Co-creating Repair Declarations, BA Graphics Workshop, TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR, 2021. Credit: Teresa Dillon

Repair Declarations

Dates
Ongoing
Inspired by the activism and work of the Right to Repair movement, and that of artists who have been thinking about care, repair and maintenance, a key element of our work is the co-design of Repair Declarations with local communities.What are Repair DeclarationsRepair Declarations are statements of intent; they can be aspirational, symbolic or direct statements of action that people can get behind, and which a community, town, village or neighbourhood can use to foster more repair orientated cultures and activate change.A unique aspect of our programme, Repair Declarations are created by crow…
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Table Lamp, India. TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR, Repair Acts 2019.

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR

Dates
15.02.2021 – 28.02.2022
Place
Bristol, Belo Horiztone and New Delhi
TALES OF CARE & REPAIR is a crowd-sourced collection of photographs and stories about the objects we repair today from Bristol (UK), Belo Horiztone (Brazil) and New Delhi (India).Alongside the images, we interviewed a number of professional repairers about their work and we began co-creating with various communities what we call local "Repair Declarations". Some of the images and conversations with professional repairers are currently exhibiting at Somerset House, London as part of their exhibition on care, repair and healing, 'Eternally Yours' (16th June-25th Sept 2022).Summarising the pr…
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Repair Acts, Godolphin House, Cornwall (2018).

Repair Acts International Workshop 3, Mapping Repair, Penyrn

Dates
14.10.2019 – 15.10.2019
Place
Penryn
Established in 2018, Repair Acts initially took the form of three of three network meetings and workshops with partners in Bristol, New Delhi and Bristol and New Delhi (March 2018 hosted by School of Art and Design and Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol and Toxics Link, New Delhi) and Penryn (October 2018 hosted by University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute). With a closing one-day symposium and month long exhibition at Bristol's centre for sustainability CREATE in March 2019.The programme brought together local, national and international guests working on topics r…
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In Your Aerial

Dates
12.03.2019 – 14.05.2019
Place
Bristol
How do we care for infrastructure? How do and why should we care for community infrastructures? How, why and what and for whom, is it necessary to think about the repair, care for and maintain of a wireless community network?Established in the early 2000s, Bristol Wireless is a community network with a unique history and exciting new future. Developed so as to provide free Internet services to schools and community centres across central Bristol. As commercial Internet provision became the norm, the network became a site for community events (radio shows, musical interventions, live streaming …
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Repair Acts Exhibition, Bristol

Dates
07.02.2019 – 28.02.2019
Place
Bristol
The Repair Acts Exhibition (2019) emerged from on-going dialogues among members of our first series of activities and meetings (2018-19), as well as early-stage research into the history of repair business in Bristol and prior research on mending practices in the South West of England (My Square Mile). Exhibiting artists include Ravi Agarwal, Teresa Dillon, Arthur Buxton, Carmela Pietrangelo, Ben Gaulon, Anna Mills, Steve Bond, Caitline DeSilvey, Robert (Bob) Leadbeater and Nick Hand.The Repair Acts (2019) exhibition focused on labour practices, the aesthetics of failure, planned obsolescence …
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Repair Acts International Symposium, Bristol

Dates
07.02.2019 – 08.02.2019
Place
Bristol
Repair Acts started life as a series events, workshops, meetings and activities over 2018-2019 that brought together a number of people working on topics relating to repair, care, maintenance and reuse cultures. This cumulated in a month long exhibition and one-day symposium that was held and opened on the 7th Feb, 2019 at CREATE, Bristol.Background Repair Acts started life as an international and multidisciplinary network of people working on topics relating to repair, care, maintenance and reuse cultures.Questioning the rhetoric of the 'new' as a means of progression and innovation, our work…
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My Square Mile, Screen printed histories of repair adverts, Bristol (2019) by Arthur Buxton. Credit: Teresa Dillon

My Square Mile, Cartographies of Local Repair Economies

Dates
06.02.2019 – 31.03.2019
Place
Bristol
My Square Mile explores and maps local histories of repair economies in the Bedminster area of Bristol, UK.Taking twenty-years slices, archival material from 1938, '58, '78, '98 and 2018 were drawn on as a means to map change across formally registered repair, care and maintenance business and services in the area. This work provided insights into changes in repair, fixing and mending practices. Visual cultures of repair advertisements across these periods of time, were also explored with emphasises on recreating and highlighting particular adverts, including their aesthetics, languages, trade…
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Repair Conversations, Penryn

Dates
19.10.2018
Place
Penryn
Coordinated by Professor Caitlin De Silvey, in association with the University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute.Guest speakers included:Stefano Pascucci, ESI Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy, on 'Community, Circularity and Innovative Practice'Peter Halswell, Falmouth & Penryn Repair Café Chair on 'The First Cornish Repair Café: Origins and Outlooks'.Pop-up mending sessions hosted by the Repair Café team and Francli Craftwear, and an opening of a photography exhibition in the ESI Creative Exchange Studio curated by Steve Bond. This event was hosted by the…
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Visible Mending Exhibition, Penryn

Dates
19.10.2018 – 23.11.2018
Place
Penryn
Established in 2018, Repair Acts initially took the form of three of three network meetings and workshops with partners in Bristol, New Delhi and Bristol and New Delhi (March 2018 hosted by School of Art and Design and Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol and Toxics Link, New Delhi) and Penryn (October 2018 hosted by University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute). With a closing one-day symposium and month long exhibition at Bristol's centre for sustainability CREATE in March 2019.The programme brought together local, national and international guests working on topics r…
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Repair Acts International Workshop 2, Mapping Repair, New Delhi

Dates
26.03.2018 – 28.03.2018
Place
New Delhi
Established in 2018, Repair Acts initially took the form of three of three network meetings and workshops with partners in Bristol, New Delhi and Bristol and New Delhi (March 2018 hosted by School of Art and Design and Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol and Toxics Link, New Delhi) and Penryn (October 2018 hosted by University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute). With a closing one-day symposium and month long exhibition at Bristol's centre for sustainability CREATE in March 2019.The programme brought together local, national and international guests working on topics r…
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Repair Acts, International Meeting 1, Bristol, 13th March 2018. Credit: Artur

Repair Acts International, Network Meeting 1, Mapping Repair, Bristol

Dates
13.03.2018
Place
Bristol
Established in 2018, Repair Acts initially took the form of three of three network meetings and workshops with partners in Bristol, New Delhi and Bristol and New Delhi (March 2018 hosted by School of Art and Design and Digital Cultures Research Centre, Bristol and Toxics Link, New Delhi) and Penryn (October 2018 hosted by University of Exeter's Environment and Sustainability Institute). With a closing one-day symposium and month long exhibition at Bristol's centre for sustainability CREATE in March 2019.The programme brought together local, national and international guests working on topics r…
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