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Phd septEMBER session

Saturday 27 Sept 2025

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Sunday 29 sept 2024

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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.

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phd workshop
water cut: a praxiological investigation into gestures of catastrophe
With anthi kosma

This hybrid lecture-workshop explores negation and catastrophic gestures in artistic process through Anthi Kosma's drawing practice and the artwork series "Water Cut." Beginning with automatic, spontaneous writing-drawing that investigates the surrealist "language of doubt," the practice employs purposive breaks—watering and cutting—to disrupt gestural control and resist predetermined meanings. The presentation forms a constellation of theoretical and artistic references, from Agamben's profanations and Chinese "shanzhai" practices to works by Francis Bacon, Gerhard Richter, and Nicole Wendel, examining how gestures of disruption function as generative catastrophes that open new possibilities for sense-making. Delivered as a praxiological diary that documents drawing practice as negation, the lecture demonstrates how to integrate artistic practice with research methodology. Participants engage through a practical session of self-destructive automatic writing-drawing, reflecting on how breaks and ruptures in creative process function as active agents. The diary format enables phenomenological investigation that accompanies theoretical inquiry into drawing and artistic practice in general, positioning the work as both artistic research subject and methodological example.

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phd workshop research skills: referencing & literature review with Lucy Finchett-Maddock

In this research skills workshop, Lucy Finchett-Maddock will refresh skills on literature review and referencing, and share supporting apps, habits, and practical exercises to support your PhD.

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