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Exhibition Research Lab (ERL)

Description

Exhibition Research Lab (ERL) is an academic centre and public venue dedicated to the interdisciplinary study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge.

As part of Liverpool School of Art and Design, ERL is uniquely positioned across academic research and the cultural ecology of Liverpool, underpinned by partnerships with cultural institutions in the city including Tate Liverpool, John Moores Painting Prize, and Liverpool Biennial.

ERL proposes curatorial practice as a form of critical inquiry and knowledge production. It extends the traditional remit of an art gallery as a site for display or pedagogical resource, to an expanded concept of a ‘lab’ where experimental thinking and making takes place, and where curatorial knowledge is enacted, produced and made public.

ERL disseminates its research through the public programme of exhibitions, talks, seminars, conferences, workshops and publications, including partnership with DATA Browser book series (Open Humanities Press) and Liverpool Biennial journal Stages. The residencies and fellowship programme is dedicated to connecting international artists, curators and scholars working across diverse disciplines.

ERL runs MA Exhibition Studies programme and offers opportunities for Doctoral Research.

The lab supports research in the following areas:

  • Contemporary Curatorial Practice
  • Exhibitionary Practices and Histories
  • Museums and Institutions
  • Collections and Archival Practices
  • International Biennials
  • Socially Engaged Practice
  • Digital Curating
  • Computational Cultures and Curating

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2012

Contact details

Liverpool John Moores University
2 Duckinfield Street
Liverpool
L3 5RD
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.ljmu.ac.uk/research/centres-and-institutes/institute-of-art-and-technology/expertise/exhibition-research-lab
  • @exhibition_research_lab

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Categorisation

Type

  • University-based infrastructure
  • Lab

Project Tags

  • Art tag
  • Cultural studies tag
  • Design tag
  • Museum studies tag

Parent infrastructure(s)

Institute of Art and Technology

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Liverpool John Moores University
2 Duckinfield Street
Liverpool
L3 5RD
United Kingdom

University affiliation(s)

Liverpool John Moores University
Merseyside

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2023-09-20 14:59:55

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