Contemporary Art Research Group (CARG)
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The Contemporary Art Research Group builds and provides an intellectual and creative milieu for innovation in contemporary fine-art practices. Drawing on a legacy of the radical imagination and conceptual practices, the Group seeks to imagine and enacts possibilities for art with respect to the social sphere, technology, models of knowledge and modes of experience.
The Group’s researchers have been awarded exhibition, commissions and residencies from organisations such as Arts Council England, Artangel, Hayward Touring, Sotheby's and the European Investment Bank Institute. Researchers work with a wide variety of national and international partners (e.g. Tate, Chicago Institute of Art and Palais de Tokyo) and the Group also benefits from its long-running partnerships with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (since 2015) and the Stanley Picker Gallery.
The Group facilitates staff and postgraduate researchers through regular centre meetings and collaborative curatorial, publishing and programming initiatives. The Centre for Useless Splendour is the Group's post-graduate Research Hub – a non-hierarchical online space bringing together the research of supervisors and students, conceived as a framework of mutual exchange. PhD practice research crits take place in the Institute of Contemporary Arts Studio six times a year. Researchers and PhD students in the Unit also work collaboratively, such as the long-running project (since 2015) ‘We are Publication' which experiments with contemporary art publishing through jointly realised projects, including exhibitions at the Stanley Picker Gallery (2019), Focal Point Gallery (2018) and Dekalb Gallery at Pratt Institute, New York (2019).
The Group’s PhD students participate in one-day monthly research workshops at the Institute of Contemporary Arts with invited respondents, collaborate on exhibitions and publications, and organise public events, including PhD exhibitions at the Stanley Picker Gallery. Since 2014, the Gallery has worked with the Group’s researchers and the Institute of Contemporary Arts on the Stanley Picker Lecture series, fostering dialogue between researchers and the public.
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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.
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River House
53-57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ
United Kingdom
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Centre for Practice Research in the Arts, Kingston
The Centre for Practice Research in the Arts is a new research centre. Its aim is to contribute to key debates around the nature of contemporary art and design practices, with a view to becoming a pro… read more about Centre for Practice Research in the Arts, Kingston
Kingston University
River House
53-57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ
United Kingdom
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Kingston University
River House
53–57 High Street
Kingston upon Thames
KT1 1LQ
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2023-09-20 14:59:57