
Clare Qualmann
Associate Professor
Senior Lecturer CPAD, Performing Arts
Department of Music, Writing & Performance , School Of Arts And Creative Industries
Clare Qualmann co-leads the BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance degree and teaches across levels on the programme. Her teaching draws on her research and practice interests in site-specific performance, walking, participatory practice, live art and performance art.
Additionally, she works across the Performing Arts area as impact champion, supporting colleagues’ practice-as-research in relation to dissemination, public engagement, evaluation and impact.
Areas Of Interest
- Site-Specific Practice
- Participatory Performance
- Live Art
- Walking
OVERVIEW
Clare Qualmann is an artist/researcher with an interdisciplinary performance based practice. From a background in the visual arts her work engages a range of participatory methods, and a range of media to explore and reveal the overlooked - the politics and potentials of everyday life.
Clare co-leads the BA (Hons) Drama, Applied Theatre and Performance teaching projects that introduce site-specific practice, participatory performance, live art and performance art.
CURRENT RESEARCH
From 2012 - 2015 Clare led an AHRC funded project to develop the Walking Artists Network, an international forum for the use of walking in creative practice, alongside a series of walking research group meetings.
She continues to facilitate the network, alongside her own projects that use walking as process, method and outcome for instigating and investigating exchanges between people and places.
Commissions include:
- "Walkwalkwalk: stories from the Bethnal Green archive" (2010)
- A permanent installation of architectural text-works in Bethnal Green Old Town Hall, Perambulator (2014)
- A participatory performance/walking project (with prams) for Deveron Arts in Huntly (Aberdeenshire) and
- Daylighting (2018) a programme of events exploring ways to challenge existing archives and systems of knowledge, change narratives and amplify new voices through art and activism commissioned by Wellcome Collection.
Ongoing projects
Ongoing projects include East End Jam (2015 -) a collaborative walking, foraging and jam making project originally commissioned by the London Legacy Development Corporation.
The project instigates an active, activist and creative way to interact with a place - exploring even the most unpromising seeming locations in relation to their edibility.
Based in the East End of London we use walking, foraging, picking, gleaning, preserving, cooking and eating as processes to map the edible city - provoking embodied explorations of urban food, access, nature in the city, and the free use of common resources.
FUNDING
- AHRC Research Networks 2012-2015 Footwork: The Walking Artists Network as Mobile Community (CoI then PI)
- AHRC Covid Response 2021-2022 Walking Publics Walking Arts (CoI)
MODULES
- Final Practical Project
- Performing the City
- Theatre and Imagination
Scholarly activities
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Publications
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Full publications list
Visit the research repository to view a full list of publications
- Creative walking; repetition, rhythm and respite in pandemic times in: Snellgrove, M. (ed.) Leisured Walking: Mobilities, Encounters and Critical Engagement. Routledge, pp.In Press
- WalkCreate: Walking Together as Site Specific Performance in: Hunter, V. and Turner, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Site-Specific Performance. Oxon/New York/London: Routledge
- Carrying the motherload: A walking artist looks back on a decade of pram-pushing The Sociological Review Magazine. https://doi.org/10.51428/tsr.pvrh3063
- Perambulator Encyclopaedia of Mobilities. Edward Elgar Publishing
- An agenda for creative practice in the new mobilities paradigm Mobilities. 18 (3), pp. 349-373. https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2022.2136996
- East End Jam: A Multi-Sensory Urban Foraging Artwork in: Edwards, F., Popartan, L. A. and Pettersen, I. N. (ed.) Urban Natures: Living the More-than-Human City. Berghahn Books, pp.88-104
- Artists’ Mapping under COVID-19: Work from the Walk Create Gallery Living Maps Review. (13)
- The Walkbook: Recipes for Walking & Wellbeing University of Glasgow
- She Walked to Sculpt, Interlope, Wrap, Lick & Squeeze Into Space Green Letters: Studies in Ecocriticism. 26 (3), pp. 272-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/14688417.2022.2114521