Radar - Past Projects

Deep Recovery

An evocative sound work and risograph publication by Libita Sibungu that interrogates colonial archival practices, drawing on the artist's experiences in Cornwall and the British Geological Survey archives, and exploring themes of memory, identity, and the impermanence of landscapes.

Charnwood Geopark Visiting Artist Programme

We collaborated with Charnwood Forest Geopark to offer three artists the chance to engage with the Geopark.

Digitised drawing by Abbas Zahedi, all in one and none all in, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.

Making Time

Making Time was an initiative that responded to the climate emergency, bringing the ideas of artists and art production into conversation with new material possibilities.

Branching Out

Radar collaborated with MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, on workshop-led programmes exploring the social and cultural value of trees.

Gendered Re-Presentations of Disability

Equality, empowerment and marginalisation in Paralympic media.

Archiving as Creative Practice

Exploring archives and creative practices.

Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence

An online screening and 'public montage' event structured around Milica Tomić's video work Four Faces of Omarska: Open Video Sequence.

On Time

Two new commissions in partnership with the Institute for Advanced Studies' 20/21 'Time' theme.

Stine Marie Jacobsen, Body Weather (2021) _ 2

Risk Related

A series of commissions exploring risk and its social, ecological and economic relations.

Bodies of Knowledge

Three commissions using performance workshops and experimental documentary to explore the body as a site for the production and retention of knowledge.

This is Just What I Saw

Katarina Hruskova and Sarah Mills develop new work exploring the legacy of the educator Marian Richardson.

Materials Residencies

Artists Phoebe Collings-James, Richard Paul and Rachel Pimm undertake research in the University's Department of Materials.

(re)composition

Traversing geographies real and imagined, (re)composition explored the affective, material, physical and cultural dimensions of the interplay between music and place.

For & Against: Art, Politics and the Pamphlet

An exploration into the legacies and potentials of the pamphlet form.

Englishes: Apologies and Compliments

Nicoline van Harskamp explored the proliferation of Englishes with the Discourse Analysis Research Group.

Talk/Action

Exploring the "technologies" of conversation.

The Gold Ones 001_Reactor_Photo by Julian Hughes

A Weekend of Weird

Where does the real end and the unreal begin? Can we even distinguish one from the other?

The Object is Alive

Considering museum collections via Tadeusz Kantor.

Market Town

A programme of commissions and critical debate focusing on the regeneration of Loughborough town centre.

Nowcasting

How might artistic approaches connect everyday experiences of weather to scientific knowledge?

Product Pleasure

What makes an object desirable? Why do we like things?

Bar Europa 4 - Marianne Heier c Julian Hughes

Questions of Value

Value, labour and economic affect interrogated through two artists' commissions.

Public Domestic

A project exploring the domestic environments of university life as spaces of exchange and knowledge production.

Home/Land

An interrogation of photography's role in articulations of gender, identity, place and citizenship.

AfterGold

Curated by Momus, AfterGold explored value(s) in the context of the Japanese and British Olympic teams using Loughborough University as a training base ahead of the London Games in 2012.