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Below are some examples of past and current projects and initiatives.
Our aim is to create opportunities for artists and academics to pursue experimental, open-ended projects that are fully two-way exchanges with mutually transformative effects.听
Current Initiatives
- Music Futures: a perfect example of how artistic/academic encounters can lead to transformative knowledge and the development of a new interdisciplinary field.
听 - SAVA Creative Fellows: Benera + Estef谩n:听Their research-driven practice examines hidden patterns in historical, social, and geopolitical narratives through installation, video, and performance.听Titled 鈥楶rospecting S.A.鈥�, their research at the IAS explores the overshadowed Romanian-African joint economic ventures and their legacies.
听 - IAS Creative Fellowships 2023: Encounters: Creative Practice as Research Method听with听Carolin Meyer听and听Amit Chaudhuri
Past Projects and Events
- IAS Creative Fellowships听2019/20: The City Dionysia - Narrating Wasteland in Urban Life听with听Nicola Baldwin /听New Old English - Performance, Poetry, Practice听with听Rowan Evans and Maisie Newman
听 - IAS Creative Fellowships听2020/21: An Art Practice Predicated on the Unknowable听with听Mariah Whelan听/听I am as brown as brown can be听with听Mataio Austin Dean
听 - IAS Creative Fellowships听2021/22:听Encounters: Mapping the Future of Creative Arts & Humanities with听Rachel Briscoe,听Simon Farid,听Tassos Stevens,听Debbie Hannan and听Rhianna Ilube
听 - COSS Artist-in-Residence: Dr Sarah Fortais was听a member of the mission crew on the UK's first analogue space mission (21-23 May 2022) and creatively explored the simulated outer space environment, questioning how can artistic practice draw connections between living off-world and life on Earth.
听 - Creaction: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice:听In these sessions, participants听responded in various ways to the 鈥榢eywords鈥� of borders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations. They听also discussed their creative critical processes.
听 - Freud and Antiquity: Shaping Understanding for Museums, Museum Visitors, Psychoanalysts and Creative Artists.听Professor Miriam Leonard鈥檚 research on the importance of antiquity for Sigmund Freud led her to devise and curate a major exhibition in 2019 on Freud and Egypt at the Freud Museum in London in collaboration with the Petrie Museum at 皇家华人. The exhibition inspired a new play by the award-winning playwright Michael Eaton and poems and short stories in the literary magazine Pericles at Play (readership 13,986).
听 - SELCS Theatre Projects, coordinated and directed by Dr Marta Niccolai (Italian Studies), was inaugurated in the academic year 2018-2019. Its aims听to provide a pathway for student-staff public engagement and student-staff-led activities, and to establish a more direct correlation between our academic and our creative practice within the School.
听 - UCL Art Museum has initiated collaborative projects with contemporary artists and other partners through commissions, residencies and curatorial collaboration,听linking current research at 皇家华人 across the disciplines with the collections听and a wide range of audiences, including听(2016, 2017) Liz Rideal听Splicing Time听(2017), Lisa Gornick,听Lisa Gornick Regrets听(2017), Tai Shani,听听Spirit of Slade Ladies Past听(2018),听听(2019)