SUMMER COLLOQUIUM: Uncertain Knowledge(s)

7th July 2021 | 09:30 – 16:00 GMT | Online | An artist’s working process is a hidden yet significant journey: it is where ambiguous and uncertain knowledge(s) are given the opportunity to be discovered through materiality and encounter. The artist’s process itself is also a highly valuable practice of research, actively enabling new yetContinue

ART AS A PRACTICE OF RESEARCH SEMINAR: Prof Robin Nelson

29th June 2021 | 15:30-16:30 GMT | Online | We are delighted to welcome Professor Robin Nelson for his talk ‘PRACTICE AS RESEARCH IN THE FUTURE ACADEMY: Attending Differently’ as the last speaker in our Art as a Practice of Research series for 2020-21. In an increasingly corporatized academy, what role might the arts play?Continue

ART AS A PRACTICE OF RESEARCH SEMINAR: Prof Erin Manning

1st December 2021 | 16:00-17:00 GMT | Online | We are delighted to welcome Professor Erin Manning to present the second talk as part of this series: Erin Manning is a professor in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University (Montreal, Canada). She is also the founder of SenseLab (www.senselab.ca), a laboratory that exploresContinue

PRACTICE-SHARING EVENT: Unknowing, Process and Material Thinking

1st December 2020 | 14:00-15:00 GMT | Online | The next Material Encounters cluster event will focus on practice-sharing where cluster members will talk about their research practice for up to 5 minutes, using a ‘piece’ of their practice as a starting point. This could be, for example, an image, object or piece of sound;Continue

DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP: Peer-review, publishing and editorial roles

17th November 2020 | 15:00-16:00 GMT | Online | Cluster members, PGR and ADM BCU staff are invited to join us for the first in a series of Cluster Writing Workshops that will take place over the coming academic year. This informal session will include feedback from two current doctoral students, Harriet Carter and EdwardContinue

Art as a practice of research seminar: Prof Tim Ingold

20th May 2021 | 15:00-16:30 GMT | Online We are delighted to invite guest speaker Professor Timothy Ingold, world renowned Anthropologist and author of books including: Lines (2016), Making (2013), Being Alive (2011) and The Perception of the Environment (2000). It is a commonplace that scientists do research. We might reasonably ask the scientist toContinue

ARTIST-RESEARCHER WORKSHOP: Sorhed

10th April 2019 | 16:00-18:00 GMT | Birmingham School of Art | It was great to see many colleagues and students turn up to yesterday evening’s cluster event at the School of Art. It was particularly good to welcome staff and students from the Education School at BCU for the first time so we hopeContinue

DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP: Impact, collaboration and working internationally

16th January 2019 | 16:00-18:00 GMT | Birmingham School of Art | Using the School of Art’s recent representation at IMPACT10 in Santander, Spain as a starting point, the second session from the Material Encounters Research Cluster will focus on the development of shared international outputs between research staff and doctoral researchers as a keyContinue

ARTIST-RESEARCHER WORKSHOP: Flora Parrott

10th October 2019 | 16:00-18:00 GMT | Birmingham School of Art | The first Material Encounters research seminar took place back in October and was led by artist and researcher Flora Parrott. The event consisted of a talk by Flora about her interdisciplinary practice-based research and was followed by an interactive workshop exploring interdisciplinary, collaborationContinue