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Phd november session

Saturday 29 november 2025

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Sunday 30 NOVEMBER 2025

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phd WORKSHOP
Articulation studio
With michael schwab

This session aims to determine if there is interest to engage practically with the issue of articulation in artistic practice and research. The proposal to collaborate has grown from the feedback that I received after my lecture at LSBU and our discussions during the lunchtime meeting. The plan is that those interested in the project would problematize articulation in their research and jointly develop it into a shared event structure able to further activate individual works. The project could lead to an event, publication, or presentation.

Art naturally develops its own ways of articulation, but we don’t have good tools to recognize these approaches. Instead, we rely on traditional academic frameworks (philosophy, art criticism, science) that are becoming less effective as language becomes less trustworthy. Rather than seeing this breakdown negatively, we could use it as an opportunity to focus more carefully on how materials and artworks can matter.

Key Questions:

• How can your work develop using this material-focused approach to articulation?

• What cultural issues might this reveal individually and across the project?

• How do different materials connect with each other, and how can these be highlighted to make artistic research more relevant?

Outline:

• Stage 1: Find examples where art successfully communicates on its own terms and identify common patterns

• Stage 2: Look for such patterns in your past and current work and compare their effects

• Stage 3: Identify key themes or approaches from stages 1 and 2. Develop an event structure built on these elements seeking strategies to enrich the presentation of your own work.

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phd community management session

Monthly online gatherings will emphasize the shared (yet often isolating) experience of pursuing research practice while pursuing in a low residency PhD, through productive complaining, accountability checks and transparency.  Space will be provided within this framework for low-lift student-led initiatives including localized ‘pop up’ residencies and writing retreats/ social gatherings; visiting scholar invitations; student presentations of research ‘prototypes’; and other student-suggested spinoffs of these community gatherings. Absent any similar models of the forms of research being engaged in at Transart, this programming intends to provide useful support to students through comparative standards setting, allowing each students to see and be seen so that ‘success’ in research and writing can be reasonably framed within the context of a low residency doctoral program.

In this workshop we will spend some time exploring how you write, what keep you going and how you can improve your writing structure.

In the first part of the workshops, we will look at the time we spent writing. Writing time is precious, and our busy life can interrupt or we can procrastinate to avoid it.

This workshop is an opportunity to review your writing habits; to explore and practise writing more efficiently and to set up realistic and practical daily routines. 

In the second half, we will explore key pragmatic aspects of the writing process such as structure and readability and I will help you advance your ability to evaluate and organise your own writing according to UK PhD expectations.

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