Below are some examples of past and current projects and initiatives.
Our aim is to create opportunities for artists and academics to pursue experimental, open-ended projects that are fully two-way exchanges with mutually transformative effects.Ìý
Current Initiatives
- Music Futures: a perfect example of how artistic/academic encounters can lead to transformative knowledge and the development of a new interdisciplinary field.
Ìý - SAVA Creative Fellows: Benera + Estefán:ÌýTheir research-driven practice examines hidden patterns in historical, social, and geopolitical narratives through installation, video, and performance.ÌýTitled ‘Prospecting S.A.’, their research at the IAS explores the overshadowed Romanian-African joint economic ventures and their legacies.
Ìý - IAS Creative Fellowships 2023: Encounters: Creative Practice as Research MethodÌýwithÌýCarolin MeyerÌýandÌýAmit Chaudhuri
Past Projects and Events
- IAS Creative FellowshipsÌý2019/20: The City Dionysia - Narrating Wasteland in Urban LifeÌýwithÌýNicola Baldwin /ÌýNew Old English - Performance, Poetry, PracticeÌýwithÌýRowan Evans and Maisie Newman
Ìý - IAS Creative FellowshipsÌý2020/21: An Art Practice Predicated on the UnknowableÌýwithÌýMariah WhelanÌý/ÌýI am as brown as brown can beÌýwithÌýMataio Austin Dean
Ìý - IAS Creative FellowshipsÌý2021/22:ÌýEncounters: Mapping the Future of Creative Arts & Humanities withÌýRachel Briscoe,ÌýSimon Farid,ÌýTassos Stevens,ÌýDebbie Hannan andÌýRhianna Ilube
Ìý - COSS Artist-in-Residence: Dr Sarah Fortais wasÌýa member of the mission crew on the UK's first analogue space mission (21-23 May 2022) and creatively explored the simulated outer space environment, questioning how can artistic practice draw connections between living off-world and life on Earth.
Ìý - Creaction: Creative Critical Interventions for Social Justice:ÌýIn these sessions, participantsÌýresponded in various ways to the ‘keywords’ of borders / discipline(s) / social justice / trans-formations. TheyÌýalso discussed their creative critical processes.
Ìý - Freud and Antiquity: Shaping Understanding for Museums, Museum Visitors, Psychoanalysts and Creative Artists.ÌýProfessor Miriam Leonard’s research on the importance of antiquity for Sigmund Freud led her to devise and curate a major exhibition in 2019 on Freud and Egypt at the Freud Museum in London in collaboration with the Petrie Museum at 911±¬ÁÏÍø. The exhibition inspired a new play by the award-winning playwright Michael Eaton and poems and short stories in the literary magazine Pericles at Play (readership 13,986).
Ìý - SELCS Theatre Projects, coordinated and directed by Dr Marta Niccolai (Italian Studies), was inaugurated in the academic year 2018-2019. Its aimsÌýto provide a pathway for student-staff public engagement and student-staff-led activities, and to establish a more direct correlation between our academic and our creative practice within the School.
Ìý - UCL Art Museum has initiated collaborative projects with contemporary artists and other partners through commissions, residencies and curatorial collaboration,Ìýlinking current research at 911±¬ÁÏÍø across the disciplines with the collectionsÌýand a wide range of audiences, includingÌý(2016, 2017) Liz RidealÌýSplicing TimeÌý(2017), Lisa Gornick,ÌýLisa Gornick RegretsÌý(2017), Tai Shani,ÌýÌýSpirit of Slade Ladies PastÌý(2018),ÌýÌý(2019)