TT LIVERPOOL/LoNDON Phd RESIDENCY
This year the TT PhD residency returns to Liverpool for a week-long programme of events. As before, this will be held in the John Lennon Building at our partner and validating institution, Liverpool John Moore’s University. In the week prior to the residency, we are also offering an optional two-day stay in London, featuring group-excursions to the city’s art galleries and museums. See below for details.
Thursday 16 - FRIDAY 17 July 2026
TBC
OPTIONAL LONDON EXCURSIONS
(MORE DETAILS SOON)
SATURDAY 18 JULY 2026
TBC
Self-directed day IN LONDON
OR TRAVEL TO LONDON
Sunday 19 JULY 2026
TRAVEL DAY - ARRIVE IN LIVERPOOL
time tbc
WELCOME EVENT AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
MONDAY 20 JULY 2026
09:00-17:00 GMT
Opening sessions including School of Art and Creative Industries Studios tour (Art & Design Building) (TBC) Exhibition installations and rehearsals AND Graduating students presentations AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING*
(Afternoon: Graduation CEREMONY)
18:00 GMT
Graduation Party (TBC)
Commune https://www.communeliverpool.com/
TUESDAY 21 JULY 2026
09:00-17:00 GMT
Anthologies assembly: TT meeting + AA 1-hour coffee/presentation sessions planning + AA events AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE
This July, we gather as students, artist-researchers, and invited guests to share the ever expanding field our practice-based research. Each of us arrives with work in process: questions, methods, fragments, provocations, and together we shape a collective space of exchange.
This residency is not simply a presentation platform, but a site of encounter. An environment we actively construct: one grounded in dialogue, experimentation, generosity, and critical reflection. It is a space for testing ideas, articulating methodologies, and allowing others to witness our research in action. Across the week, we consider who we are as artists and as researchers. We examine our processes as carefully as our outcomes. We invite conversation around our “how” the structures, strategies, and embodied practices that shape our work and we articulate our “why,” the urgencies and questions that drive us forward.
Liverpool and London become a temporary commons for thinking-through-practice. A place to step outside of habitual frames, to be challenged and inspired in equal measure, and to feel the energetic charge that emerges when diverse, multidisciplinary voices meet.
This residency is an assembly: for connection, for critical dialogue, for experimentation, and for pushing praxis further... together.
WEDNESDAY 22 JULY 2026
09:00-17:00 GMT
Anthologies assembly: 1 hour meeting + AA 1-hour coffee/presentation sessions planning + AA events AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
THURSDAY 23 JULY 2026
09:00-12:00 GMT
THESIS LAB/WORKSHOP PART 1 AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
14:00-17:00 GMT
THESIS LAB/WORKSHOP PART 2 AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
FRIDAY 24 JULY 2026
09:00-17:00 GMT
Final programming / Student meetings + Collegium AT LJMU JohN LENNON BUILDING
De-install
EVENING: Group dinner
18:00 GMT
Closing Group Dinner (TBC)
Static Bar https://staticcomplex.com/
*Please note that the LJMU Library is closed and access will be limited for the duration of our residency.