After an Art PhD: Social Practice Within and Without Institutions

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Join Anna Colin and Sunshine Wong in the first 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.

Anna Colin will share her research into alternative educational spaces and models, from her own experience establishing one, to writing about it for her PhD over a ten-year timeframe in which change felt slow and linear. Reflecting on the speed and wide-ranging forms of change since the pandemic, Anna will then discuss the rapid changes into which arts and educational institutions have been precipitated, and what alternative institutional meanings and models might look like today and tomorrow.

Referencing a recent conversation with a colleague, the title of Sunshine Wong’s talk ‘What They Want Is a Unicorn’ describes the breadth and depth of knowledge expected of freelancing art workers. Using this mythical animal as a starting point, Sunshine will playfully reflect on running a micro art organisation in the current cultural and social landscape.

The event will begin with a short grounding exercise. Refreshments will be available from 20 minutes before the start time. Both speakers will attend in person. 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): Anna Colin; Sunshine Wong.

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