Art and Performance Research Hub

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The Art and Performance Research Hub focuses on practice-based and theoretical research in Contemporary Art and Performance.

The Hub explores diverse models for creative practices, ranging from critical and historical writing to performance, sound archives, painting, sculpture (analogue and digital), time-based arts, curating, screen art (including screen dance/performance), performer training, dramaturgy, drawing, printing, and photography.

The Hub’s work takes place in the public realm, locally and internationally, through exhibitions, seminars, conferences, screenings, events, performances, critical writing and publishing.

The Hub contributes to the overall research culture and expertise at Manchester School of Art through the local and international profiles of the staff. Its activities include:

• Leadership of and contributions to the postgraduate research student environment through seminars, lectures, roundtables, research training and research supervision.
• Professional practice research – working collectively and/or across disciplines within the wider Hub ecology.
• Leadership in two internationally significant outward-facing groups across research and education with an international focus in Painting and Curating Contemporary Art.
• Development and dissemination of internationally acclaimed digital media/performance.
• Research and consultation in Socially Engaged art practices (historical and contemporary).
• Professional relationships with local venues, such as curating festivals, and contributions to programmes and research projects, consultation to Contemporary Art Manchester Advisory Board (strategic partnership between City of Manchester and Arts Council England), and consultation on arts development and artist-led/informed policy.
• Professional relationships with national and international venues/organisations (e.g. Reckless Sleepers, Odin Teatret / Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium, Cross Pollination etc.) including the curation of festivals (e.g. Flare, Asia Triennial Manchester etc.) contributing to programmes and collaborating on research projects.

The Hub recognises and embraces the importance of individual practice as well as collaborative and inter/trans-disciplinary work. Members actively promote the fact that art and performance is generated and developed in digital and analogue idioms across real and virtual sites, platforms and realities, working at and challenging the boundaries of the live and/or liveness, the proximal and online. In addition, they embrace new technologies and methodologies as well as cross-disciplinary collaborations with academic and non-academic partners in the UK and abroad whilst also providing specific expertise and knowledge in materials and processes outlined above, as well as 'out-dated' analogue media such as micro-fiches, slides, vinyl and film. In response to the pandemic, members have embraced new ways of making and disseminating work online.

The Hub team embraces, interrogates and responds to contemporary issues from within a research environment that is clustered around rigorous intellectual research themes, including:

• Archives, Museums, Cultural Heritage and Domestic Histories • Language, Power, Politics, Protest, Site and Communities • Somatics, Arts and Health, Social Practice, Policy, and Law • Simulation, Materiality, Identity, Fiction of the Image • Composition, Dramaturgy, Laboratory Training

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

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Manchester Metropolitan University
All Saints
All Saints Building
Manchester
M15 6BH