The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Kayla's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Kayla
I'm an artist film-maker who uses a process-based dialogic methodology informed by écriture féminine to explore the interrelationship between bodies and forgotten, liminal spaces framed around subjectivity, place and memory, embodiment and technological mediation, from posthuman feminist perspectives. My current research centres on watery places such as rivers, estuaries and coastal zones.
I collaborate with the film-maker and sound artist, Dr Stuart Moore, to explore the interplay in landscape film-making between place and memory. In addition to our project focus on the impacts of post-colonialism, our ethical practice embraces environmental and ecological themes at the intersection of post-industrial landscape and climate emergency.
At University of Plymouth, in addition to supervising artists' PhD projects, I co-ordinate the Early Career Researcher Network for the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Business, which I initiated, and am deputy chair of the Faculty Ethics and Integrity Committee for the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Supervised Research Degrees
Awarded
Anna Walker (2016) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'In and Out of Memory: Exploring the Tension between Remembering and Forgetting When Recalling 9/11, a Traumatic Event'
Claudia Pilsl (2020) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Photography and Its Contribution to the Understanding of Digital Porosity' Margaret Hart (2020) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Collage in the Posthuman Era: Gender and Becoming'
Charlotte Reardon (2020) for a ResM thesis entitled, 'Experiments in Materiality and Representation: The London Film-Makers' Cooperative 1968–1979'
Lucietta Williams (2021) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Lens-less capture and emerging moving imaging technologies: An investigation into the ways in which digital pinhole capture and advances in lens-less imaging in computational photography may affect the form and content of moving images'
Karen Abadie (2023) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Humanity Undone: A Practice led Enquiry into Self-Injury'
Shaikha Almehana (2023) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'An Awakening Within: Islamic Tradition and Innovation in a Contemporary Kuwaiti Woman's Painting Practice'
Raul Barcelona (2023) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Film Here Now: Daily Filmmaking and the Path to Well-Being'
Rachael Allain (2024) for a PhD thesis entitled, 'Above and Below the Horizon: A Practice-Led Investigation into Liminal Thresholds of Bodies of Water’
Teaching
Postgraduate research supervision: currently 9 PhD artist-researchers, including 5 as Director of Studies. LGBTQ+ Ally.
Contact Kayla
M08, Scott, Drake Circus, Plymouth, PL4 8AA
kayla.parker@plymouth.ac.uk
