What TT Offers
partnerships
Nairobi Residency, 2024. Photo courtesy Aleks Slota.
Transart Institute for Creative Research has been on the forefront of low-residency, interdisciplinary, international creative research programs since 2004. Developed and run entirely by artists, the Institute offers practice-based curricula: PhD and MFA courses, generating space for experimentation and thinking in any form with abundant resources for sharing and connecting. We champion self-directed, curious, flexible and socially engaged creative research working independently and/or collectively.
Our border-free platform attracts an eclectic international body of students and advisors from equally diverse artistic and academic contexts and geographic locations as part of a global, trans-disciplinary research community; creating opportunities to expand, enhance and sustain individual and collective practices in the world, beyond the walls of the academy.
We support research within all creative genres including: art and social technologies; curatorial practices; cultural engagement through food; docu-fiction and creative writing; ecology and environmental activism; expanded studio practices; experimental pedagogies; fashion and textiles; foreignness, otherness; home, nostalgia and the uncanny; international diaspora and exiled states; language and image; liminal states, interstices, and spacetime; media and design; memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive; movement, dance, choreography; new materialism, object-oriented ontology; olfactory arts; peace, mediation and performative activism; post-nationalism, post-colonialism; publishing as an art practice; robotics; sound, music, field recordings, composing; space and temporary architecture; walking as an art practice.
Transart is open to exploring opportunities for university accreditation, residencies, showcases, publications, and multidisciplinary approaches to collaboration that can further enrich the creative journey of its students while also contributing to the mission and vision of each of its partners and their communities