After an Art PhD: Posthuman Excess

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Join Lucy A. Sames and Jason Waite for the second in a series of four events, each exploring the work of two art research practitioners with related interests who have completed doctoral study in recent years, to examine the possibilities and challenges of practice after an art PhD.

Lucy A. Sames will discuss her PhD research which proposes a feminist, queer and posthuman concept of ‘excess’ as a mode of practice in art and curating that is modulated by the materiality and metaphor of the liquid.

Jason Waite will present ‘When Practice Leads Theory: The Catastrophic Condition in Fukushima, Japan and Don’t Follow the Wind’. He will discuss the long-running collective project that he co-founded entitled Don’t Follow the Wind, an inaccessible exhibition inside the radioactive Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan, and its influence on his recent PhD finished in 2022. The talk will explore how curatorial practice, collaboration and staying with the trouble can inform cultural and ecological theory.

The event will begin with a short grounding exercise. Refreshments will be available from 20 minutes before the start time. Lucy A. Sames will attend in person; Jason Waite will attend online. The event is hosted by Jonathan Hoskins, Associate Researcher at the Exhibition Research Lab and organiser of this series.

Find more here about the whole series ‘After an Art PhD: Creative Uses of a Creative Work’.

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Images (left to right): Jason Waite; Lucy A. Sames, ‘Froath on the Sea’, a reading with well water, Matt’s Gallery, London, 2025 (image: Kirsten Cooke).

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