Disassembling the cloud factory: superconductr intervenes in platform-mediated work 

Matthias Kispert’s peer-reviewed article Disassembling the cloud factory: superconductr intervenes in platform-mediated work has been published in Unlikely: Journal for Creative Arts, Issue 09: Resistance. The article discusses aspects of Kispert’s project superconductr, which investigates conditions and contradictions in digital platform labour through employing artistic research methods that intervene in the infrastructures of digital labour […]

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A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm 

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Matthias Kispert’s article A Migrant Worker and a Migrant Artist Walk into a Kelp Farm has been published on the website documenting the social practice art project Song of the Wind, which involved a series of artist residencies on the South Korean island Joyakdo during which participating artists engaged with local communities and migrant workers involved […]

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Candeger Furtun and Christie Brown

Emerita Professor Christie Brown is currently exhibiting ceramics and drawing in Galeri Nev, a major Turkish gallery in Ankara, alongside the legendary Turkish artist Candeger Furtun. This two-person exhibition illustrates the strong connection between the practices of these two clay artists both thematically and technically. They first met during the two-day seminar in 2019 co-organised […]

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Photography: A Queer History

The work of Sarah Pucill is featured in the new book publication, Photography: A Queer History, edited by Flora Dunster and Theo Gordon, published by Ilex. ‘Across ten diverse themes from documentary to performance, landscape to abstraction, visibility to militancy and more “photography: A Queer History examines the fundamental role of photography in the creation of […]

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‘Magic Mirror’ film screening at Cambridge University

Film Screening of Sarah Pucill’s Magic Mirror at Cambridge University, on 13 June 2024. The screening will be followed by a discussion between the filmmaker, and  Dr Diamuid Hester, who recently wrote about Claude Cahun in his book ‘Nothing Ever Just Disappears’. The discussion will be chaired by Cambridge doctoral researcher, Ciara Hervas. Magic Mirror […]

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‘Double Exposure’ screening at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art

Sarah Pucill‘s film, ‘Double Exposure’ (2023) is screening at Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art in London, on 31 May 2024. The screening is followed by a discussion between the filmmaker and the curator and writer Helena Reckitt. Sarah Pucill’s recent film ‘Double Exposure’ (16mm+Digital, 26min, 2023) premiered at Frankfurt Experimental Film Festival September 2023 and won Best Experimental Film […]

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PhotoResearcher No.41–The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial

photograph of the cover for 'PhotoResearcher 41 - The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial

PhotoResearcher no. 41 – The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial is out now, guest edited by Dr Sara Dominici, scholar of photographic history and visual culture. “The Darkroom: Chemical, Cultural, Industrial is the first edited volume to explore the darkroom as a topic of analysis. Its aim is to examine the darkroom as a generative space, […]

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The Performing Object: Ceramics as Performance

photograph with clare twomey in a studio with ceramics on a table

The interdisciplinary symposium, convened by the Department of Drama, Theatre and Dance, Royal Holloway, University of London, proposes that ceramics objects lend themselves to a particularly rich form of relational performance analysis due to their material and formal variety, and their cultural ubiquity across history. Speakers from the CRC-UK/CREAM, include Prof. Clare Twomey in conversation […]

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