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‘Warped Mirrors: Explorations in Sovereignty and Digital Statehood through Legal Artistic Research’ will be an exploratory talk concerning the research undertaken at the artist residency at UmArts and the usefulness of artistic research for legal questions.
Abstract:
Lucy’s research is broadly concerned with critical legal and contemporary philosophical understandings of law in relation to practice, aesthetics and materiality. Always with a desire to apply theory to practice, Lucy's work has focused in recent years on methodological and practice-based questions around the intersection of art, law, resistance and property (see 'Art' - New Trajectories in Law Series (series editors Adam Gearey and Colin Perrin) (forthcoming, Routledge). Part of Lucy's work is practice-based, including working with sound, video, sculpture and data sets, as part of British Art Network funded project 'Instrumenting(s) ' in collaboration with Professor Anders Hulkvist (University of Gothenburg) and Dann Hignell-Tully (Distant Animals). Underlying her work is a philosophical probing of the nature of property, materiality and entropic forces of change. This culminated in monograph 'Protest, Property and the Commons: Performances of Law and Resistance' (Routledge, 2016) which theorises the intersection of property within law and resistance, interrogating the spatio-temporality and aesthetics of formal and informal laws, property (squatting and housing), commons and protest.
Speaker:
Dr Finchett-Maddock is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Birkbeck College 2025-26, and the Four Nations Research Fellow for LHub 2025-26. She has just joined as Lecturer in Law at Goldsmiths College, London. Prior to that she was Reader in Law and Artistic Research at Bangor University (2022-2025), Senior Lecturer in Law and Art at Sussex Law School (2013-2022), and held positions at Birkbeck School of Law University of London (2007-2012) and Exeter Law School (2012-2013). Lucy is also a tutor at Transart Institute for Creative Research.