Research area: Fine Art

Contemporary art, as a research subject area, comprises work across the spectrum of artistic and academic practices through to public service activities.

The research content centers upon a wide range of contemporary art practices and discourses including: artistic, practice-based and museum research; experimental public and social practices; artist-led culture; decolonial practices and debates; queer culture; art and technology; foodways and critical art practice; curating and the curatorial; contemporary art theory, criticism and publishing practices; urban theory and the neoliberal city; critical heritage practices; and questions of the political imaginary.

Methodologies used in developing and conducting research include artistic practice, applied research, archival work, historical, critical and theoretical research, and research conducted through exhibition-making, art commissioning and in the wider space of the curatorial.