Mr Paul Vivian's Outputs (16)

Acoustics and non-human agency in Neolithic and Bronze Age rituals at Stone Circle sites (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

This paper and illustrated talk will explore the phenomenon of internal and airborne acoustic resonance produced by ancient standing stones at stone circle and menhir sites across the UK. The primary objective of this study is to investigate the pote... Read More about Acoustics and non-human agency in Neolithic and Bronze Age rituals at Stone Circle sites.

2024 - Poster - Sensory Fields curated by Jamie Lee (2025)
Digital Artefact

Fringe Arts - Bath Festival 2024 - Presentation of a single video and sound work Doll Tor, filmed and recorded from standing stones at Doll Tor Stone Circle a neolithic site located in Derbyshire. Fringe Arts Bath is an annual creative arts festival... Read More about 2024 - Poster - Sensory Fields curated by Jamie Lee.

Hegel's Dialectic of Determinism in the Neolithic Sonorous (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Through the framing of drawing as a form of extraction and home as an assumed space of connection that is permanently influx. This proposal reflects on my own research regarding the sonorous animism of Neolithic stone circle sites across the UK. The... Read More about Hegel's Dialectic of Determinism in the Neolithic Sonorous.

Ventriloquism : The Lost Voice Spoken by Others (2024)
Exhibition / Performance

VENTRILOQUISM: The Lost Voice Spoken by Others…
Curated by Artist Curator, Mike Chavez-Dawson
This group show will explore the idea of ‘Ventriloquism’ both directly and indirectly, drawing upon topical thematics including data harvesting, hyperreal... Read More about Ventriloquism : The Lost Voice Spoken by Others.

Megalithic stone animism and sonorous potential (2023)
Presentation / Conference
Vivian, P. (2023, July). Megalithic stone animism and sonorous potential. Paper presented at Sound and Photography, Tate Liverpool

The paper documents recent work across megalithic sites in the UK relating to recorded sounds from the 4-5000 year old stones within these sites.

Select Dream (2020)
Exhibition / Performance

Select Dream aims to bring local artists from the south coast (and the surrounding areas) together for a temporary street level exhibition. The exhibition will wrap around the ground floor window display areas of the old Knight & Lee department store... Read More about Select Dream.

Those who look out and those who look back (2020)
Exhibition / Performance

We humans consume the sea through objects and images – souvenirs, leisurewear, watercolours – as if to tame it. But it looks back, fiercely. Swelling and rolling, it carries precarious communities of humans in an embrace that is both nurturing and di... Read More about Those who look out and those who look back.

Performing interventions : creative spatial interruptions (2020)
Book Chapter

This chapter shares the practice and objectives of the second project component of the Contemporary Exhibition Practice unit for second-year students of the BA Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts, an arts, business and design University... Read More about Performing interventions : creative spatial interruptions.

Perpetual Shift (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

The 14 artists in Perpetual Shift, a one-day group show, share the connection of fleeting or shifting appearances, with an undercurrent of psychedelic experience. This experience is akin to Aldous Huxley’s understanding of the psychedelic (The Doors... Read More about Perpetual Shift.

Allhallowtide (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

“Allhallowtide’

A group exhibition for the triduum of Halloween, All Saints Day and All Souls Day

Curated by Kate Street & Rhys Trussler

Private View: Thurs 31st October 5 – 8pm
Open: Fri 1st, Sat 2nd and Sun 3rd Nov 11am – 4pm

‘I shall... Read More about Allhallowtide.

Absinthe 3 (2019)
Exhibition / Performance

Absinthe. Curious love of the sordid and the extravagant. Muse of the weird, twisted and eerie. Throughout its short history, absinthe has passed from antiseptic to vermicide, honorary salute to morphological being. It is ghostly and mutinous. It is... Read More about Absinthe 3.

The disturbance of images (2018)
Book Chapter

This study explores the appropriation of images, their fracture and unmaking in relation to the practice of collage. It attempts to identify a means of articulating the relationship of trauma occurring within an image, a trauma that results from the... Read More about The disturbance of images.

Professional practice : 20 questions (2016)
Book Chapter

PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE: 20 QUESTIONS – Interviews with UK undergraduate Fine Art staff exploring how students are prepared for life after art school.

Interviews collected and edited by Jo Allen and Sarah Rowles
When it comes to an undergraduate f... Read More about Professional practice : 20 questions.

Dappled Light
Exhibition / Performance

Dappled light was part of a project instigated by More than Ponies an art-led project based in the New Forest. The project explored ideas around the village hall as a communal space. Set within Woodgreen Village Hall the project included Paul Vivian,... Read More about Dappled Light.

Apropos of Aesthetics
Exhibition / Performance

Apropos of Aesthetics is a VR project based around curated by Arron Hansford featuring ten international artists including Paul Vivian.

Touch Me
Exhibition / Performance

Online project with 51 UK and International Artists curated by Veronika Neukirch