Here you can can find news about the Material Encounters research cluster, cluster members and opportunities.
Keith Piper and Gary Stewart in conversation
Ort Gallery | 19th February 2022 | 4pm Keith Piper and Gary Stewart are alumni of the Moseley School of Art from 1972-79. An informal…
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mac: new exhibitions
Image credit: Maryam Wahid Midland Arts Centre warmly invite you to attend the opening of three new exhibitions on Fri 4 February, 6 – 8pm 7pm: Speech…
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Thinking of Place iii
A number of cluster members have been involved with the touring exhibition Thinking of Place: Catherine Baker, Jonnie Turpie, Jenny Wright, Lucy Parris and Taiba…
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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…
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Uncertain Knowledge(s): Keynote talk
TOWARDS AN ATTITUDE OF OPENNESS: PREPARING FOR THE UNEXPECTED | EMMA COCKER | Keynote Speaker By attending closely to the unfolding of artistic process, how might…
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Uncertain Knowledge(s): Speaker bios
AMÉLIE DOCHE Amélie Doche is an AHRC-funded Doctoral Researcher at Birmingham City University. Her areas of research interests include Stylistics, (Systemic Functional) Discourse Analysis, and…
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EXPERIENCE | PRECARITY | PERCEPTION
rhEVENTS: SNAP/HUM/CRACKLE/POP | SIMON FLEURY | Presentation Not long ago, rhEvents, a project of material analysis was drawing to a close. Over the course of a…
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KNOWERS | KNOWINGS | ASSEMBLING
VIRTULLAGE AS A PRAXIS – ASSEMBLING UNPREDICTED ENTANGLEMENTS OF THE POSTHUMAN MATERNAL | ANNA MAKRZANOWSKA | Presentation Virtullage in the simplest possible way can be defined as…
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SPACE | NARRATIVE | LEGACY
LIQUID LANDSCAPES | SUSANNA OLCZAK | Lightning Talk An elemental journey beginning with light, moving to water, air and fire and ending with earth. The works…
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DISCOVERY | UNCERTAIN | SPACE
EMBEDDING THE UNKNOWN | KENDALL COWLE | Presentation This paper will discuss explorations into embedding the unknown within a research methodology to facilitate the investigation of…
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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…
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New exhibitions at MAC Birmingham
Now that galleries have opened, and the sun is shining here are four new exhibitions at MAC Birmingham for you to visit: CAROLINE WALKER: WOMEN’S…
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Uncertain knowledge(s) colloquium announced!
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…
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Photography Research Hub
The newly established Photography Research Hub, led by Dr John Hillman joined the Material Encounters team of researchers at the end of 2020 and we…
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Drawing, Research, Theory, Practice
The first week of 2021 sees the publication of the Journal DRTP Volume 5, Number 2 edited by Dr Catherine Baker. It is published by Intellect…
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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…
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Works in progress
We are currently looking for contributions from cluster members to feature your works in progress on the Material Encounters website. It would be really helpful…
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Whisperings
From 10 – 17 December 2020, Jennifer Ng presented ‘Peranakan Whispers’ at The Substation Gallery in Singapore. The “Blackboard Schemes” Exhibition featured artists of the…
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Big Draw award
Remember Jim, Matt and Deb? Canadian Artists Jim Holyoak and Matt Shane shared their drawing experiences with the Cluster in 2019 as they took a…
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EXPRESSION 30
From the Expression Editors: It is a pleasure to offer you a complimentary copy of EXPRESSION 30. This issue, the fourth one to appear during the…
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Impact Printmaking Journal
The IMPACT Printmaking Journal has been published online. In is the second edition of the journal borne of the IMAPACT Print Biennale that is in…
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Association for Art History annual conference
Bringing together current research and critical debate about art, art history and visual cultures Online EventWednesday 14 – Saturday 17 April 2021 Who should attend…
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Thinking Through Drawing
‘Teaching drawing online: a showcase of examples and resources for artists and educators’ Material Encounters member Chloe Regan delivered a workshop with the University of…
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Material Encounters Cluster Filming
Thursday Oct 15th saw the first recordings for the new cluster film to capture the foundations of the cluster going forward in 2020. Socially distanced…
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Drawing as a Research Tool
As we have a number of researchers who are interested in Drawing Research, we thought that you might be interested in this Volume of Studies…
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Devious Tools
Blame the Tools: Crafty Robots, Well-behaved Implements and Disobedient Devices 2-6pm, 8 October 2020 (NEW DATE) ONLINE There has been a long-standing recognition in the…
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Post-webinar thoughts: How can art be a practice of research?
CAN ART BE A PRACTICE OF RESEARCH was presented by guest speaker Professor Timothy Ingold, world renowned Anthropologist and author of books including: Lines (2016),…
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