RT Journal Article
T1 Connecting with industrial heritage collections using video production methods
A1 Paul Craddock
YR 2022
VO Congruence Engine
IS Autumn 2022
K1 Bradford
K1 craft
K1 embodiment
K1 film
K1 gestural knowledge
K1 industrial heritage
K1 industry
K1 re-enactment
K1 tacit knowledge
K1 working lives
AB This article consists of one short video and accompanying reflective documentation. The video focuses on museum volunteer Greg Kotovs and his operation of a can-gill machine at the Bradford Industrial Museum. It attempts to acknowledge the historical worker’s embodied expertise, and a certain epistemology associated with the knowledge of the industrial maker. In this way, it connects two kinds of discipline – discipline in terms of the skilled worker’s body, and discipline in terms of the organisation of knowledge.
As appropriate to an Action Research project, the text component of the article focuses on the evolution of my practice as a ‘research filmmaker’ over the course of the investigation. I pay particular focus to how film production has become an opportunity to engage with objects of industrial heritage being used, and I reflect on the significance of creating such footage.

    
        
    

PB The Science Museum Group
SN 2054-5770
LA eng
DO 10.15180/221808
UL https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/article/connecting-with-industrial-heritage-collections-using-video-production-methods/
WT Science Museum Group Journal
OL 30