BxNU Institute

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The BxNU Institute is a centre for international artistic and curatorial research and practice instigated by Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

The Institute advances practice-based research in the arts and collaborations between artists, curators and students and professionals from different disciplines. Its aim is to make Northumbria University and the BALTIC’s research and practice public. The partnership exemplifies the ways in which universities and public arts institutions can work together to produce exciting and ground-breaking projects.

The Institute takes the term ‘experimentation’ as the locus of transdisciplinary public work. Experiments take many forms – conversational debates and inquiries, artistic tests and trials, scientific proposals, architectural and design blueprints, performative rehearsals and social gatherings. The aim is to develop pragmatic and conceptual thinking and action in the public sphere and amongst different constituencies. Anyone can propose an experiment and BxNU will try and make it possible.

The Institute develops exhibitions, public projects, discussions and events that are ambitious and interdisciplinary in nature, focusing on critical themes of priority at both institutions. Projects, experiments, performances, discussions, collaborations are developed at BxNU by Northumbria cross-Faculty staff, students, BALTIC staff and invited artists, members of the local cultural community and international guests.

BxNU is principally affiliated with Northumbria University’s BxNU MFA Fine Art, as well as Northumbria’s MA Creative and Cultural Industries Management, and the practice-based postgraduate research community of Northumbria University.

The BxNU Institute has an Academic Working Group comprising experts from BALTIC and cross-disciplinary academics from Northumbria University which informs its programme.

From 2012 to 2021 the BxNU studios and the Experimental Studio were located at BALTIC 39, a publicly accessible hub for contemporary art and postgraduate teaching housed in the former Ward’s printing house on High Bridge in the city centre of Newcastle. BALTIC 39 also housed galleries programmed by BALTIC in collaboration with BxNU.

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Northumbria University
110-114 Middlesex St
London
E1 7HT