Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG), Manchester Metropolitan

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The Visual Culture Research Group (VCRG) focuses on critical, historical and theoretical responses to a wide range of visual practices. These include art, performance and photography, as well as aspects of material culture. Group members are particularly concerned with the social and political significance of different forms of visual culture.

The Group position within Manchester School of Art also allows members to shape and formulate research in the wider context of art, design and curatorial practice.

The VCRG plays a significant role in the development of the art and performance postgraduate research community. Recent PhD subjects include:

• images of refugees
• participatory book art
• activist art collectives in Israel
• St Ives modernism
• Jewish identities in nineteenth painting and online visual mis- and disinformation

Research areas include:

• Art, class, labour and capitalism
• Race, diaspora and colonialism
• Tourism, place and the sensory
• Memory and visual and material culture
• Visual culture, protest and conflict
• Social media images and online visual culture
• Socially engaged art
• Irish art
• East Asian art
• Media philosophy, critical theory and media technologies

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Manchester Metropolitan University
Manchester