On Not Knowing : How Artists Teach conference

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Hannah Gawne is a traditional printmaker and designer, currently working and living in Sunderland, England.  She has a background in surface pattern and printed textiles and recently completed an MA in Design.  Hannah uses design to develop tools to enable a democratization of printmaking skills in communities to empower individuals’ voices.  Her research currently focuses on participatory design and authorship balances in workshop and community collaboration.  She works full time as the traditional printmaking technician at the University of Sunderland.

Susan Philipsz is an artist from Glasgow whose work deals with the spatial properties of sound. She was winner of the 2010 Turner Prize and exhibits internationally. Recent solo shows include, San Francisco MoMA; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Kröller Müller Museum, The Netherlands and Tate Modern. She is a Professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden, Dresden.

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

Oyindamola Fakeye is the current Executive & Artistic Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Lagos, where she previously co-founded the Video Art Network (VAN) Lagos. Oyindamola is a Company Director for Res Artis the worldwide professional body for artists residencies, she also sits on the board of Arts in Medicine Projects which runs the Global Arts in Medicine Fellowship training art and healthcare practitioners on best practices within the field. Oyindamola regularly consults to support learning and participation, digital collaboration, entrepreneurship, grant giving and cultural relations within the creative industries.

Niki Colclough is an Artist Researcher based in Manchester, UK. Niki works at the intersection of art, ecology and wellbeing, working to empower communities through innovative art processes. Niki works nationally and internationally and has been commissioned by The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, Matadero Madrid and Camden Arts Centre, London. In 2021 she trained as a Shinrin Yoku (forest bathing) leader and has since been incorporating ideas and techniques from this into her art practice. Niki also leads the module, Approaches To Engagement on the MA Socially Engaged Art Practice course at the University of Salford. "

Perla Ramos is a multidisciplinary artist based in Mexico City. Perla uses strategies of: collection, remaking and retelling - not of objects, but also literature and history. In her ""site specific"" processes, she questions the idea of heritage. Perla has participated in various exhibitions in Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Ecuador, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Canada, Germany and the United Kingdom. She is the Founder and organizer of the REAL ESTATE collective (parasitic intervention in abandoned spaces) and was part of the 2018-2020 generation of the SOMA Educational Program. Perla is currently studying the Arts and Design Doctorate Program, 2021- (UNAM).

Juli Reinartz is as a choreographer and artistic researcher from Berlin. She is a doctoral candidate at the Theater Academy at Uniarts Helsinki where she researches on temporal disorientations as a choreographic strategies. Speculative situations are part of this research, investigating the new encounters and knowledges they allow for. In the past three years, Juli has been part of the artists collective PSR who programs the performance venue Heizhaus in Berlin and joined the research project TBA, a collaboration between artists from Europe and Indonesia. Besides her own artistic practice, Juli works as mentor and dramaturge for diverse performance artists in Europe.

Roddy Buchanan, born in Glasgow, studied at Glasgow School of Art in the 1980’s, followed by an MA at the University of Ulster. Part of the Transmission Gallery scene in the 1990’s, he exhibited extensively in the international museum and kunsthalle circuit, and worked with galleries in London, New York and Paris. Enthusiastic about socially engaged art practice, he runs intensive community engagement residencies with students on the International Master’s Programme for the University of the Arts, ArtEZ in Arnhem. His work is held in collections from the National Gallery to the Tate, Imperial War Museum and City of Paris. 

Marianne is a senior lecturer at UWE and Grace is a photographer and PhD student at Sheffield Hallam. Together they have crafted a range of courses and workshops that explore visual and performance-based creative processes. This particular course brings together Marianne’s enquiry into the workshop space in contemporary public programming, and Grace’s current research on the use of analogue photography as a staggered process to explore anticipation and delay.

Ross Sinclair is an artist, writer and musician who is Professor of Contemporary Art Practice at G.S.A. based in the Department of Sculpture and Environmental Art. He is best known for his ‘Real Life’ research project initiated when he had the words REAL LIFE tattooed in black ink across his back, at Terry’s Tattoo parlour in Glasgow, 1994. Almost 25 years later in 2017 he produced a solo show at Shanghai Himalayas Museum, in liaison with Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee, titled Real Life is Dead/Long Live Real Life where the tattoo was enhanced to now state, "Real Life is Dead" He is a member of the band The Soup Dragons who will be reconvening live and in the studio later in 2023 after a 30 year hiatus.

Siôn Parkinson is an artist, composer, vocal performer and writer. Trained as a sculptor at Central Saint Martins College and The Slade School of Art, for the last decade his work has centred on experimentation with the human voice, electronic and acoustic instruments for soloists and chamber ensembles. He was an Amanda Burton Scholar at the Centre for Audio Visual Experimentation (CAVE), University of Leeds, where his PhD explored the figure of the stinkhorn fungus as a way to consider sound in relation to foul smells. Siôn's music and moving image works have been broadcast on television and radio, including BBC4, 6Music and BBC Radio 3.His book Stinkhorn will be published by Sternberg in autumn 2023. 

Ben Parry is an artist, curator and researcher working at the intersections of art, activism, critical urbanism, and waste. He uses art as a tool to create spaces in which to imagine alternative futures and intervenes in the everyday via small acts of resistance. His practice takes diverse forms from site-responsive interventions, documentary and exhibition to collaborative and community-led projects in diverse contexts. He recently co-designed Compound 13 Lab, in Mumbai; an experimental learning and maker space exploring the politics of waste and the everyday survival of the cities’ informal waste workers. He runs the MA Curatorial Practice programme at Bath Spa University.

Peter McCaughey is an Irish artist living in Glasgow. He works internationally with a practice focused on the local. He led The Happenstance, Scotland’s lauded contribution to the 2018 Venice Biennale. Peter is Director/Lead Artist of WAVEparticle, an artist-led art organisation that works to produce new processes, events and objects, re-thinking how the places we live in, and the systems that regulate our lives, move to a more cooperative, connective and creative model. He regularly intervenes in his own life; exploring the belief that it is important that artists intervene in the world they live in and don’t just pass comment at a distance. He Lectures at Glasgow School of Art where he keeps the tradition of singing alive.

Rebecca Bell holds a PhD in Czech craft under Socialism from the Victoria and Albert Museum and Royal College of Art (RCA). Bell is Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of the West of England (Bristol). For over a decade, she worked in contemporary art commissioning in the public realm, with Andy Goldsworthy, DACS, and Art on the Underground. She has taught at a range of institutions, including Middlesex University, UMPRUM Prague, The School of Life, and the RCA. Her research focuses on making practices under politically controlled conditions, craft methodologies, pastoral materialities and pedagogies of hope.

George Rush is an Associate Professor of Art at the Ohio State University. Previously, he taught at Yale School of Art, RISD, Vassar, University of Tennessee, and Columbia School of the Arts. He earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and an MFA from Columbia University School of the Arts. He has shown internationally since 2000 and is a recipient of awards from New York Foundation of the Arts, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and, in 2021, he was a Greater Columbus Arts Council Dresden Residency Fellow. He lives and works in Columbus, Ohio.

Gina Osterloh's art practice activates photographic conditions including replica, representation, flatness and volume, presence and absence, illusion and the Real, desire and repulsion. Her work urgently asks us to pause – as we participate in a world of image text militarization. Osterloh’s teaching addresses the intersections of photography and identity. Gina Osterloh is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at The Ohio State University and her artwork is represented by Silverlens Galleries (Manila & New York) and Higher Pictures Generation (New York).

Noelle Mason (b. 1977, USA) is an interdisciplinary artist whose work is about the insufficiencies of images to communicate important experiential layers that complicate the dialog around and response to disturbing and traumatic rifts in the American cultural fabric. Noelle's work has been shown at the Ringling Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts Houston among others.  She is the recipient of a Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist Grant, the Florida Prize for Contemporary Art, and the Southern Prize. In 2004 Noelle was a resident at the Skowhegan school of Painting and Sculpture, received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and currently holds the position of Associate Professor of Sculpture at the University of South Florida.

Beth Livensperger has exhibited widely, with recent solo projects at SUNY Cortland, and Hobart & William Smith colleges, and group exhibitions at the American Academy of Arts and Letters, RISD Memorial Hall Gallery and Essex Flowers, among others. Her work has been reviewed in Politico and Two Coats of Paint blog. External support has been received by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Lower East Side Printshop, the Golden Foundation, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, Vermont Studio Center, The Abrons Arts Center, and the Saltonstall Foundation. Livensperger holds a B.F.A. from The Cooper Union, and an M.F.A. from Yale University.

Jason Lazarus is an artist exploring vision and visibility.  His work includes a range of fluid methodologies: original, found and appropriated images, text-as-image, photo-derived sculptures made collaboratively with the public, pigment-inks-as-image, live archives, LED light images, and public submission repositories among others. This expanded photographic practice seeks new approaches of inquiry, embodiment, and bearing witness through both individual and collective research.

Julian Kreimer is an artist, critic, and associate professor of Painting at SUNY Purchase College. His work has been exhibited at 1969 Gallery, the 2021 Armory Show, Morgan Lehman Gallery, TSA LA, Lux Art Institute (CA), and Weeknights Gallery (Brooklyn), and has been reviewed in publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, and Artcritical.  He has attended multiple Yaddo and MacDowell residencies and won the 2018 NYFA painting award. From 2005-2020 he was a frequent contributor to Art in America, and has written for Paper Monument, Tablet, Hyperallergic, and Modern Painters, as well as numerous museum catalogs. 

John is a practicing architect and teacher in FLUX Atelier at Manchester School of Architecture, a teaching and research team unified by a belief in empowering citizens in the making of their city. John’s practice research engages with complex urban places which are subject to plural and contradictory forces, often operating on the margins of viability. His work aims to promote equitable access to high quality architectural and urban design through a deep and critical understanding of economic, experiential, social and technical factors.

Julia Lockheart’s research explores visual narrative capture, languaging and collaborative writing as a tool for the creation and articulacy of new knowledge drawn from art and design practice. Julia is Director of the WritingPAD network (2002-present) and co-editor of the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice (Intellect). She is also cofounder of DreamsID.com. She is Institute Manager of Research Degrees and Co-ordinator of Contextual Practices programme for Design at Swansea College of Art, UWTSD, where she is Associate Professor. She is affiliated with Goldsmiths, University of London as Associate Lecturer in Design.

Birkenhead born and bred. Currently residing in Cardiff (where the Tories have no chance of getting in) with a partner and 2 dogs called Bwtch & Femme. Rachael is an academic teaching in Visual Culture at UWE Bristol and works on a number of projects broadly themed around class, gender and poverty. Recent work involves writing, performance and the production of collaborative events with a focus on building multigenerational Queer audiences. Rachael also develops projects that share institutional knowledge and give communities broader access to the means of production.

Jenny Rintoul is Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at the University of the West of England, Bristol, where she leads an undergraduate Visual Culture module that is delivered across seven art and design programmes. Jenny leads the Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG), which is a group of cross-disciplinary writers and makers interested in visuality and materiality (www.vcrg.co.uk), and is a member of the Ways of Writing in Art and Design Research Network (WoW). Her research on art and design education focuses on the erroneous theory/practice binary, tacit ways of knowing, and demystifying ‘intuition’ and ‘integration’.

Cathy Wade is an artist and writer who investigates how practice can be created and distributed in collaborative partnerships and through the creation of commons. Their work seeks to understand the experience of contemporary conditions through exchange with others. They are course leader for MA in Arts Education Practices at BCU; and are currently curating new work with Hannah Sawtell at Vivid Projects alongside facilitating Vivid Projects’ artist development programme Black Hole Club.

Lisa Nyberg, is a visual artist, teacher, organizer and researcher based in Malmö, Sweden. Nyberg completed her PhD at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna with the research project “Pedagogies of the Unknown – studying for a future, without guarantees” in 2022, and is now a post-doc at Umeå Academy of Fine Arts. Nyberg is one of the founders of Malmö Free University for Women (2006-2011) and the think tank on Radical Pedagogy (2011-2014). Her work has been exhibited at the Research Pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Kunsthal Aarhus, Konsthall C, Trondheim Art Biennial, Röda Sten, Den Frie Udstillingsbygning, Liljevalchs Konsthall and Gothenburg Art Museum.

Principal Lecturer in Fine Art and Curating, at Teesside University and MIMA (Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art), Co-Course Leader of the MA Curating, MA Curating (Curator Apprentice) and BA (Hons) Fine Art. Researcher, Artist and Curator in critical practice and social engagement, focusing on democracy and knowledge exchange, and critical pedagogy as a curatorial and artistic methodology. Author of Art, Critical Pedagogy and Capitalism (Routledge 2021) co-author a new monograph on Educational Aesthetics with Bloomsbury (due 2024). Co-Founder of the Middlesbrough Art Weekender and The Alternative Art College.

Sophie Mak-Schram is an art historian, producer, educator and occasional practitioner. She holds a Research MA (cum laude) in Arts and Culture from Leiden University, a Postgraduate Certificate (merit) in Arts Fundraising and Philanthropy from the University of Leeds, and a BA (hons) in English Literature and History of Art from the University of York. She has worked for organisations including immersive theatre company Punchdrunk, global university Minerva Schools, artists development organisation, UK New Artists and art platform for the global South, the Cera Project. Her practice spans experiential education, inclusion and consent practices, performance and writing.

Dr Mary Anne Francis has taught in UK art schools and university departments of art for many years.  Over this period, she has witnessed the rise and fall of ‘theory’ alongside the drift towards teaching-as-response to student-based agendas. She is currently Principal Lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Brighton and outside an ongoing interest in art-pedagogy, exhibits and publishes widely e.g. This Is Not An Art Show at Handel Street Projects, 2022 and Mixed Forms of Visual Culture, Bloomsbury 2021.

Lisa Metherell is an artist and lecturer specialising in the relationship between practice and theory within Art and Design.  Her work has particularly been informed by the tensions between queer theory and phenomenology and how what we 'know' might be usefully troubled by what we 'feel'.  This has been explored through provisional embodiments in encounters with non-representational art. She has written about queer unspeakability using the trope of the werewolf and devised projects that explore alternative kinships. An emerging interest in vulnerability, love and care went to hell in a handcart in Covid.

From Online to Offline: translating screen-based interactions into studio practices.

Martin Newth is an artist and Assistant Dean of the School of Arts and Humanities at the RCA, London. His artwork, which includes photography, film and installation, has been exhibited widely. As an educator and academic leader Martin interested in developing event-based curricula and forging innovative modes of learning, underpinned by research and practice.

Gareth Kennedy is an artist and lecturer at the NCAD in Dublin. Since 2020, he has been charged with running the Studio+ NCAD FIELD module in a derelict brown field site beside the college which is in the process of being reappraised as a 'Novel Ecology'. Students reckon with the layered history and potential futures of this site through experimental, experiential and environmental based learning and action. They are tasked with developing new ‘Naturecultures’ through an ethos informed by taskscaping, Urban Commoning, and ‘rambunctious gardening’.

Graham Hudson is an artist working with ideas relating to fitness, wellness culture and the body as a psychological, cultural and physical subject. At the RCA, Graham is based in the Sculpture Programme and the Health and Care research hub. Project partners have included The Henry Moore Foundation, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea di Roma, and The Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven. Graham is a regular collaborator with the Japanese fashion house Comme des Garçons, creating work in New York, Tokyo, Beijing, Paris and London.

Octopussy as Camou-flâneur in the cloud of Unknowing

Not knowing as a pedagogical approach in the primary classroom

Proximity is a collective of six artists based across the North of England who explore the spatial and social aspects of practice-based research (established 2019). Proximity have undertaken a series of residencies and public facing exhibitions at venues across the UK, including Islington Mill (Salford), Rogue Artists’ Studios (Manchester), Bloc Projects (Sheffield), and Abingdon Studios (Blackpool). They have co-presented at conferences including Manchester Metropolitan University Arts and Performance Research Hub Round Table (online) (2020), International Journal of Art and Design Education’s Hybrid Spaces: Reimaging pedagogy, practice and research (online) (2021), and a-n Assembly’s The Coast is Queer (online) (2021).

The Thick Time of Transcorporeality

Collaboration Practice and Research Based Teaching in Contemporary Vocal Music: A Duoethnography

Bart Geerts (Belgium, 1978) is an artistic researcher and educator who creates spaces in which looking, making and thinking enter into dialogue with each other. He has a special interest in spatial (re)presentation models, the performative potential of visual work, and drawing as a research method. Geerts holds MAs in Germanic Philology and Fine Arts and completed the postgraduate course at the HISK in Antwerp. In 2012 he obtained his practice-based PhD on the painterly, an exploration of the contemporary potential of painting. He is Assistant Professor at LUCA School of Arts and at the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (both in Belgium).

José Á Hidalgo is Senior Lecturer at the Manchester School of Architecture, where he leads the undergraduate programme. He has been previously Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (Suzhou, China), and taught in UCH-CEU (Valencia) and the IUAV (Istituto di Architettura di Venezia). He holds a Degree in Architecture (ETSA Barcelona, 2001) and a PhD in Architectural Design (UPM Madrid, 2016). He has given lectures at universities in China, Hong Kong, Sweden, México, Colombia, Ecuador, Perú, Chile and Argentina. His research is focused on connections between humanities and architecture, with special interest in literature, philosophy and music.

Miika Hyytiäinen’s music has been performed in most contemporary music festivals in Europe, especially in the Nordic countries and Germany. Typical for his music is the versatile use of human voice and intimacy of the sound. He combines different art forms, such as performance, theatre and academic lecture. Hyytiäinen graduated from Universität der Künste Berlin, where he studied composition and experimental music theatre with Daniel Ott. In 2022 he finished his doctoral project at the Sibelius Academy on the communication between singers and the composer.

Tzang Merwyn Tong is an award-winning independent filmmaker, arts-educator and researcher whose research interests include pedagogies in storytelling, filmmaking and around Eastern Philosophy. He received an MA in Arts Pedagogy and Practice from Goldsmiths University, and is a recipient of the LASALLE Scholarship. He is currently a Lecturer at Republic Polytechnic, teaching Visual Storytelling and Film Appreciation. Tzang’s films that have travelled to festival acclaim in Rotterdam, Berlin, Montreal and Tel Aviv. He is the founder of the Zen-Mind Filmmaking Movement - a pedagogical approach to make the filmmaking practice mindful and in-the-present using Zen Philosophy.

Stefano Romano (Naples 1975) is an accomplished artist and curator, with several years of experience in teaching art practices. In 2015 he joined Polis University in Tirana (Albania) as a lecturer of Visual Arts. Previously he lectured at the Academy of Fine Arts in Bergamo (Italy), where he graduated with honors in 2003. His artistic work has been exhibited in national and international exhibitions. Romano’s approach is based on the idea of the work as a spatiotemporal process. Within this framework, he is completing a double degree PhD in architecture at the University of Ferrara and Polis University in Tirana.

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Chantal is an artist and writer whose photographic, painting, video and installation works have been exhibited globally. She has contributed book chapters to contemporary art publications, and regularly writes for academic journals, magazines, and exhibition catalogues and is currently writing a book about scanning, touch and the mechanics of vision. Chantal is Professor of Contemporary Art and Head of the MA Contemporary Art Practice programme at the Royal College of Art.

Daniel Peltz is an artist, researcher and Professor of Time and Space Arts with a specialization in Site and Situation Specific Practices at the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts. He is also the co-founder of the long-term, place-based artistic research project Rejmyre Art Lab’s Center for Peripheral Studies and its pedagogic arm, the Nordic/Baltic Studio for Continued Engagement, in Rejmyre, Sweden. Peltz’ artworks explore complex social systems, attempting to provoke ruptures in the socio/cultural fabric through which new ways of being may emerge and be considered. To accomplish these goals, he uses a range of intervention, ethnographic and performance strategies.

Kate McLeod (she/her) is an artist, researcher and lecturer in Contemporary Art Practice at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, University of Dundee. Her practice-based research explores a contemporary sculptural language around anti-monumentality, dialogic inter-relationships and classical figuration. Exhibitions include The Royal Society of Sculptors, London; Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland; JGM Gallery, London; Andipa Gallery, London. Residencies include CoLab, London; Brian Mercer Bronze Residency, Pietrasanta, Italy. Trained at Goldsmiths College and Slade School of Fine Art and spent 3 years working for Anthony Caro.

Ama Ofeibea Tetteh is founder and lead consultant at Chapter54, a boutique consultancy which exists to help bolster African Creative Economies through Research and Programming. With a background in Graphics & Communications, Research and Programme Management and academic qualifications from Central St. Martins, Goldsmiths College and SOAS; her career portfolio is driven by a passion to harness the Arts and Creative sector to create opportunities and contribute to new narratives about the Continent. Having worked within the Creative and Cultural Industries for over 18 years, her professional offering centres on deep understanding of cultural nuance and appreciation for the artistic as well as the operational.

David is an artist, academic and researcher working with light, sound, noise and interactivity. His work explores the creative potential within the movement of noise in and around systems of sound and light by making / hacking devices and tools for performance, workshop, installation and intervention. He has collaborated, performed, and exhibited with artists and scientists as well as exhibiting solo work in Canada, China, Europe, Hong Kong, Iceland, Russia, UK and USA. David currently lives and works in Suzhou, China and is Associate Professor for Digital Media Arts at XJTLU.

Dr Andrew Prior is an Associate Professor in Digital Art & Technology at University of Plymouth, UK. He is a designer, artist, musician and educator who received his PhD from Aarhus University in 2015. He has exhibited and performed internationally, including in New York, Tokyo, Aarhus, Roskilde, Brno and Žilina.

Aubyn O’Grady is the Program Director of the Yukon School of Visual Arts in Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Territory, Dawson City, Yukon. Aubyn’s research-creation practice is concerned with artist-led art schools, the ethics of site-specific artworks, and artist engagements with rural places. She is a frequent and enthusiastic collaborator and rarely takes sole credit for any project she organizes. However, Aubyn can be credited with conceptualizing the Dawson City League of Lady Wrestlers (2013-2017) (book forthcoming), the Swimming Lessons Aquatic Lecture series (2017-2018), Local Field School (2020+), and Drawlidays (2019, 2020), a Dawson City-wide portrait exchange.

Laura Leuzzi is a contemporary art historian, curator, and author. Leuzzi earned her PhD in “Tools and Methods for the History of Art” with a thesis in Contemporary Art at Sapienza Università di Roma in 2011. Her research, published works be it in books, articles and at conference is particularly focused on video art, feminism and new media.

Professor Juan Cruz is an artist, educator and Principal of ECA (Edinburgh College of Art). Juan’s work has been exhibited widely including: Matt’s Gallery, London; Camden Arts Centre, London; Witte de With, Rotterdam; and Galeria Elba Benitez, Madrid. Juan is a director of the IAAC (International Awards for Art Criticism), and a trustee of the John Moores Liverpool Exhibition Trust.

Knowing Me: Knowing You

I’d like to use a teaching anecdote(s)

Alice Bell is Deputy Head of School, Creative Arts and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art, University of Lincoln. Alice holds a BA Fine Art; First Class, The Slade, a MA Creative Technologies, Distinction, and a PhD in ‘Enabling Deep Relational Encounter Through Participatory Practice-Based Research'. As an artist Alice works multimodally, interpreting deeply idiographic and dialogic materials through text, performance, sound, video, and interactive technologies, applying in-action, concerns of the relational, psycho-social, and maternal. Alice also integrates within her arts practice, training and skills in Integrative Arts Psychotherapy (IATE) and Psychosynthesis Coaching; all filtered through and synthesised by contemporary art debate.

Stephanie Springgay is Director of the School of the Arts and Professor at McMaster University. She is a leading scholar of research-creation with a focus on walking, affect, queer theory, and contemporary art as pedagogy. She directs the SSHRC-funded research-creation project The Pedagogical Impulse which explores the intersections between contemporary art and pedagogy. She directs WalkingLab – an international network of artists and scholars committed to critical approaches to walking methods. She has published widely on contemporary art, curriculum studies, and qualitative research methodologies www.stephaniespringgay.com On Not Knowing: Creating Brave Spaces in a new iArts BFA program

Adam Gillam (b.1970) works across painting, photography, and sculpture. He creates delicate structures, images and compositions that have an impromptu, ad-hoc and restless quality, akin to a makeshift moment given form. Scraps of materials, studio detritus, images, drawings and collected ephemera are assembled in an intuitive and bricolage fashion. Adam has shown in numerous galleries and institutions including Camden Arts Centre, London, The Wilson, Cheltenham, Leeds City Art Gallery and FKA Witte de With, Rotterdam, and is currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art, London.

Helena Reckitt has worked as a curator, public programmer, and academic editor in the UK, the US, and Canada, and is currently Reader in Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since 2015 she has coordinated the Feminist Duration Reading Group, dedicated to under-represented feminisms. The group’s free monthly programme has encompassed film screenings, performances, workshops, translations, walks, meals, podcasts, writing and listening, as well as out loud reading. Currently in residence at Goldsmiths CCA, the FDRG is part of a new network on art and feminism in the context of Central and Eastern Europe.

Dr Althea Greenan works in Special Collections and Archives at Goldsmiths University of London curating the Women’s Art Library collection. She programmes artistic research through supporting artists, students and academics working with the wide range of materials and archives in the WAL The collection brings together many different examples of how artists create documentation that produces an educational resource that sustains ways of teaching feminist methodologies. This work is the subject of a film directed by Holly Antrum commissioned by the Art360 Foundation titled Yes to the Work!. https://www.art360foundation.org.uk/

Dr Lina Džuverović is a curator and academic based at Birkbeck, University of London, where she co-directs BIRMAC- Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Media and Culture and organises the Decolonial Feminist Forum. Lina’s research focuses on explorations of collectivity, cultural labour and sphere of contemporary art as a site of solidarity and community-building. She received the Bard College’s Centre for Arts and Human Rights Faculty Fellowship (2022) for the And Others: The Gendered Politics and Practices of Art Collectives research project. Previously Lina was Artistic Director of London’s Calvert 22 Foundation; founding Director of Electra, London; Media Arts Curator at ICA, London; co-curator of Momentum Biennial 2009; and has taught contemporary art at universities in the UK and Austria.

Majella Clancy is a lecturer in Fine Art Painting at Ulster University, Belfast. From 2015–2019 she was a lecturer on BA (Hons) Painting, Drawing & Printmaking at Plymouth College of Art. From 2018–2019 she was Programme Leader. In 2012 she completed a practice led PhD at Ulster University that examined ideas of gendered space and painting practice. In June 2022 Clancy presented ‘The Act, The Idea and The Thing: Painting as Research’ at the International Congress on Contemporary European painting, University of Porto, Portugal.

Felicity Allen is an artist (painting, writing, film) making solo, collaborative, and sometimes institutional work. Current work includes curating The Disoeuvre: Household exhibition series. Her sixth series of Dialogic Portraits, made as artist in residence with the research project People Like You, is the basis for her 2021 film Figure to Ground – a Site Losing its System. She exhibits and lectures on different continents, and has contributed to international publications. Founding director of Engage, she has lectured in fine art HE, informal education, and gallery education. She edited Education (Documents of Contemporary Art), MIT/Whitechapel, 2011.

Andrea Stokes is an artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art at Kingston University, London, UK. Stokes’ adopts collaborative and process-based techniques to interrogate locations and objects that have personal and political significance. Recent work ‘Lacuna’ (2022) used remote collaboration to critique the construction of an airport on the small island of Upernavik in Greenland. A missing mountain top, removed to make a runway, became a conceptual space for collective thinking and making from the multi-disciplinary and international perspectives of four women. www.andreastokes.com

Kate Squires is an artist, researcher and Lecturer on BA Fine Art Mixed Media at Westminster University, working towards a practice-based PhD: The Ambiguous Object at UCA. She was founding Director of artist project space, Centrum, Berlin. She has worked as Head of Education at Camden Arts Centre and has produced resources and learning events for Tate Learning at Tate Modern. Exhibitions include Projektraum Bethanien, Berlin, CICA Museum, South Korea, Herbert Read, Canterbury, Tintype and 6second Gallery, London.

Timothy J. Smith, Ph.D, MFA, is an artist, educator, and University Researcher at The University of Arts Helsinki. His research engages critical disability studies approaches to higher arts education. His artistic practice explores ‘crip time’ as his lived experience of disability that informs his teaching and research practices.

Hilary Robinson is Professor of Feminism, Art, & Theory, and Director, Centre for Doctoral Training: Feminism, Sexual Politics & Visual Culture, at Loughborough University. Her publications include Visibly Female: Women and Art Today (ed., 1987); Reading Art, Reading Irigaray: The Politics of Art by Women (2006); Feminism-Art-Theory 1968-2014 (ed., 2015); A Companion to Feminist Art (co-ed., 2019); The Art of Feminism (co-author, 2022). She describes herself as a recovering Dean – positions she held at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, and at Middlesex University, London. She is currently finishing two books: Feminisms, Museums, Surveys (co-ed. w/Lara Perry, 2023); Feminism/Art: A History (2024).

Lucy Reynolds’ research focuses on questions of the moving image, feminism, political space and collective practice. She edited the anthology Women Artists, Feminism and the Moving Image, co-edited Artists’ Moving Image in Britain since 1989 and co-edits the Moving Image Review and Art Journal (MIRAJ). She co-ordinates the PhD programme for the Centre for Research in Education, Art and Media (CREAM) at the University of Westminster. As an artist, her ongoing sound work A Feminist Chorus has been heard at the Glasgow International Festival, the Wysing Arts Centre and Grand Union galleries, Birmingham.

Incidental Unit (IU) is the third iteration of Artist Placement Group, which was co-founded by Barbara Steveni, John Latham and others in 1966. Before her death in 2020, Steveni also helped to establish IU (2016 - ongoing) as a subsequent iteration of APG. To honour Steveni’s legacy, IU connects placement-based practitioners working with art in extra-artistic contexts (industry, government, health care and beyond). This burgeoning network is reprising Steveni’s preoccupation with ‘not knowing’ and Latham’s use of the term ‘incidental’ to enrich debates around the role and work of the artist and art’s critical and creative agency.

Helen Knowles (b.1975) is an artist and curator of the Birth Rites Collection currently housed in the University of Kent. Exhbitions include; Hercules Road Gallery, London, Hyundai Motor Studio, Beijing, (2023) Alberta University of the Arts, (2022) Leuphana University, Hannover project, UCLAN Kunstlerhaus Graz, Oil Tank Cultural Park, Seoul, (2021), arebyte Gallery, London, Ars Electronica (2020). The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo,'Artistic intelligence' Hannover Kunstverein (2019) ZKM, Karlsruhe, Zabludowicz Collection, London (2017). Her work is held in private and public collections worldwide. She won an honorary mention at Ars Electronica in 2020.

Greig Burgoyne is subject lead in BA Fine Art at UCA Farnham. Having studied at Universität Für Angewandte Kunst Vienna and Royal college of art London, he has lectured in fine art practice and theory throughout Europe and North America. His published writing, research, and practice focus on conceptual frameworks around Performance, drawing and phenomenology. He exhibits widely across Europe. His work features in “Performance Drawing-New practices’ published by Bloomsbury Books 2021/22. Solo exhibitions in 2023 include The Lowry Manchester; Ciclop festival of performance art Mallorca: MLAC Rome; ISM The Hague.

Andy Broadey is Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art, History and Theory at University of Central Lancashire. He was a awarded PhD (Fine Art: Practice Led) by University of Leeds in 2013. Andy’s installations examine the histories of the Capitalocene and destabilise ideologies of globalisation. He has recently exhibited at Open Eye Gallery in Liverpool and The Portico Library in Manchester. He is also co-curator of the art space Hanover Project based at University of Central Lancashire. He has previously published articles in Visual Studies, Journal of Visual Arts Practice, ReThinking Marxism (all Routledge/Taylor & Francis), Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research (University of Barcelona) and Research in Education (Sage).

Dr Anthony Schrag is a practising artist and researcher, and Senior Lecturer at Queen Margaret’s University (Edinburgh). The central focus of his work examines the role of art in participatory and public contexts, with a specific focus on social conflict, agonism and ethics. He leads on both the MA Applied Arts and Social Practice and MA Arts, Festivals and Cultural Management at Queen Margaret University and is a member of the Centre for Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre, leading the Practice Research Cluster: Finding and Using Creative Knowledge

Ruth Pelzer-Montada, PhD, has been lecturing at Edinburgh College of Art for many years, both in the studio and in Visual Culture. Her main research focus is the role of print in contemporary art, both theoretically as well as practically. As an artist, she has exhibited her work locally in Scotland and internationally and curated exhibitions in Scotland and Ireland. She frequently lectures and teaches abroad and contributes to national and international conferences and symposia. Her writing on contemporary printmaking and art have appeared in both general art and specialist publications. Her critical anthology Perspectives on Contemporary Printmaking was published in 2018.

Judy Anderson is nêhiyaw from Gordon First Nation, SK. Anderson’s practice includes beadwork, installation, painting, three-dimensional pieces, and collaborative projects. Her work focuses on spirituality, nêhiyaw intellectualizations of the world, relationality, graffiti, colonialism and decolonization. She is an Associate Professor of Canadian Indigenous Studio Art at the University of Calgary.

Maggie Ayliffe, is Associate Dean and the Head of Wolverhampton School of Art. She is a painter with a broad range of research interests including feminist art practice and art school pedagogies. She studied fine art at Humberside Polytechnic and holds both Masters and MPhil qualifications from Manchester Metropolitan University. Ayliffe’s work focuses upon questions of gender and the feminine within the broad field of visual culture. She is an experienced lecturer in Fine Art practice and Visual Culture and is an active member of a wider research community – having contributed to numerous symposia and public debates. More recently, Ayliffe has been working collaboratively with Dr Christian Mieves, Newcastle University to develop a theoretical understanding of studio based teaching and the role of the studio in creating creative communities and places of mentorship and learning through a residency and symposium based project: Dirty Practice.

Matthew Hearn is a curator and Associate Lecturer in Arts at Northumbria University where he coordinates and curates the exhibition programme at Gallery North. He has a long-standing interest in archives, and his PhD developed in collaboration with Locus+ Archive, explored the regional and international significance of a 30 year programme of time and place-based programming developed in the North East of England. In 2021 he co-curated the exhibition, Sally Madge: Acts of Reclamation and co-authored a paper, Sally Madge: acts of reclamation and renewal between site, studio, archive and gallery, published in Journal of Visual Art Practice with Ysanne Holt.

Ysanne Holt is Emerita Professor in Art History at Northumbria University. She has longstanding interests in the visual and material culture of the UK north, most especially in its rural environments. Related publications include ‘Place on the Border and the LYC Museum and Art Gallery,’ The Routledge Handbook on Place, 2020 and Co-editor, with David Martin Jones and Owain Jones, Visual Culture in the Northern UK Archipelago: Imagining Islands, 2018. She is currently completing her monograph, ‘Dark skies, bogs and watery borders’ on the entangled interrelations between forms of cultural and creative practice and the material resources of the Anglo-Scottish border region.

Gavin Butt was trained as a fine artist and art historian. Gavin is a writer, curator and filmmaker. Across his diverse output, he is interested in how the social worlds and aesthetic preoccupations of visual artists can be connected, sometimes in surprising ways, to those within popular music, queer culture and performance. His latest book No Machos or Pop Stars is a detailed cultural history of the subversive influence of UK art school on popular music culture, telling the story of how fine art painters and performers became post-punk and pop music pioneers. He is currently Professor of Fine Art at Northumbria University, Newcastle.

Erin Sutherland is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator for Museum and Heritage Studies in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. Her work centres of Indigenous and Canadian contemporary art and performance art. She is of setter and Métis descent.

Brenda is a Metis scholar from Western Canada and a University Research Chair in Metis Family and Community Traditions at the University of Ottawa. She has a public profile with articles in national newspapers and online forums including Shekon Neechie, an Indigenous history Site that she co-founded. She co-created the Digital Archives Database Project, an online archive of transcribed historical records, with other historians. While not an artist herself, Brenda utilizes the artistic representations in her classrooms to engage students in critical thinking and learning practices.

Heather Leier is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Calgary. Over the course of the last decade her work has explored understandings of identity, trauma, and life-phases through printmaking, installation, and multimedia research-creation practice. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally. When she isn’t teaching or working on various print projects, she is likely tending to plant cohabitants or helping to facilitate gallery programming at Alberta Printmakers Society.

Susan Cahill (she/her) is a white settler scholar who lives and works in Moh’kinsstis | Calgary on the traditional territories of the peoples of the Treaty 7 region. She is an independent filmmaker, curator, and Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Calgary.

Andrew Bracey is an artist based in Waddington. He is a senior lecturer in Fine Art at the University of Lincoln, where he is studying for a PhD by Practice. He is a co-investigator on the long-term research project Bummock: Art and Archives with Danica Maier. Recent publications include his book Enough is Definitely Enough, Beam Editions (2021), Parasitical Paintings, Journal of Contemporary Painting (2018), Controlled Rummage as Artistic Strategy, TEXTILE Cloth and Culture (2020) and chapters in PhotographyDigitalPainting, Cambridge Scholars Publishing(2020) and upcoming in Pattern and Chaos: Meaning and Making, Intellect publishing (2023).

Joanne Lee is an artist, writer and Course Leader for Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University, where she also co-convenes the Transmission public lecture series. Her research uses image and text to attend to the everyday and the local. Recent projects have included the co-curation of ‘Everywhere: life in a littered world’ for the Art Institute, Plymouth (2021) and an article ‘A walker's guide to littered landscapes: an exploration of interdisciplinary, imaginative and collaborative modes of attention.’ (2019). A journal documenting Lee’s everyday life through ‘Sheffield in virus time’ now extends to over one million words.

Flora Parrott is an artist and post-doctoral researcher on the European Research Council funded project Think Deep based in the Geography Department at Royal Holloway University London. Parrott works in sculpture and textiles, she trained in Printmaking at the Glasgow School of Art and The Royal College of Art. The work explores subterranean spaces, deep darkness and everyday geologies.

Alice Gale-Feeny is an artist who makes performance, via dance, sculpture, video, writing and facilitation. She uses scripts, objects and sites as ‘containers’ for live and improvised processes and considers how language, material forms and bodies (re)construct realities and build fictions. Alice has presented work nationally and internationally, including Performance Exchange, curated by Rose LeJeune at Seventeen, London (2021). During her MFA in Creative Practice: Dance Professional Practice she was awarded a Gill Clarke Bursary and Leverhulme Arts scholarship. Alice is a Lecturer in BA Fine Art at Kingston University. She is part of the inter-institutional collaboration A Particular Reality.

Jenny Dunseath is an artist, researcher and educator. She is a Reader and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Bath Spa University, where she is currently working on Accelerate; a research project exploring accessible immersive learning for art & design with UAL, and partners in Dublin, Ukraine and Poland. She has led learning events at Tate Modern and Spike Island. Exhibitions include OUTPOST, Korean Cultural Centre London, Gana Gallery CICA Museum Seoul, Flat Time House, Royal Academy of Art London, Barbican, Cornerhouse Manchester.

Moyra Derby is an artist and researcher working with pictorial structures that engage with the cognitive aspects of painting’s participatory potential. Completing a practice based PhD at the University of Kent in 2022 that reimagined attentional capacities for painting, this signals a research interest in the multi modalities, fluctuations and temporality of attentional processes. Moyra is currently Senior Lecturer in Painting at the University for the Creative Arts. Recent writing includes The Productive Inadequacy of Image for Contemporary Painting, Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind and the Arts 2021 and Models of Attention, Journal of Contemporary Painting 2019

JJ Chan is an artist working across sculpture, moving image, and writing. Their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations, to explore the edges of our everyday realities and the ways in which we construct our identities. Through storytelling and world-building, their work (re)searches for an alternative space beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. Chan’s work is presented across a variety of platforms which include galleries, film festivals, nightclubs, house parties, and academic publications. They are Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston University London.

Laura Onions is an artist and senior lecturer on BA (Hons) Fine Art at the University of Wolverhampton. She makes print-based objects and projects to think about relationships between environments and people. Most recently, Gathering Press, a mobile screen printing unit designed to open temporary messy space and destabilise educational positions. Recent papers and publications include; Maker-centricity and 'edge-places of creativity': CARE-full making in a CARE-less world, in the European Journal of Cultural Studies. Printmaking Communities at the Edge of Chaos, IMPACT12 International Printmaking Conference, Bristol. Printing Press as Boundary Object, CPHC Birmingham and National Library of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Christian Mieves is a painter and Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Newcastle University, UK. Research themes in Mieves’ work to date have included themes such as erosion and illegibility of images. Recent publications include journal articles on Luc Tuymans, Dana Schutz and Peter Doig. He is editor of the special issue of the Journal of Visual Art Practice on ‘Erosion and Illegibility of Images’(2018). He is also co-editor of the book Wonder in Contemporary Artistic Practice (Routledge, 2017) and published an interview with artist David Schutter (Journal of Contemporary Painting, 2018, 4:2).

Danica Maier is an artist and Associate Professor in Fine Art. Her work focuses on the unrepeating repeat, intersemiotic translation, and tactics that enable aspect seeing. Maier’s work uses site-specific installations, drawing, and objects to explore/expose expectations. Recent exhibition & events include: Bummock: Tennyson Research Centre, Collection Museum, Lincoln (2022); Associated Thoughts on Line, as part of the Convocation: On Expanded Language - Based Practices in the Research Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019). Upcoming publications include: Pattern and Chaos: Meaning and Making, Intellect publishing (2023); and Score: Mechanical Asynchronicity, Beam Editions (2023).

Incidental Unit (IU) is the third iteration of Artist Placement Group, which was co-founded by Barbara Steveni, John Latham and others in 1966. Before her death in 2020, Steveni also helped to establish IU (2016 - ongoing) as a subsequent iteration of APG. To honour Steveni’s legacy, IU connects placement-based practitioners working with art in extra-artistic contexts (industry, government, health care and beyond). This burgeoning network is reprising Steveni’s preoccupation with ‘not knowing’ and Latham’s use of the term ‘incidental’ to enrich debates around the role and work of the artist and art’s critical and creative agency.