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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/after-an-art-phd-diasporic-dialo
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SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: After an Art PhD: Diasporic Di
 alogues
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all\nBooking preferred\, via Eventbrite\n\n
 —\n\nJoin Clare Chun-yu Liu and Deniz Sözen for the third in a series o
 f four events\, each exploring the work of two art research practitioners 
 with related interests who have completed doctoral study in recent years\,
  to examine the possibilities and challenges of practice after an art PhD.
 \n\nClare Chun-yu Liu will talk about her practice-based fine art researc
 h on cross-cultural historiography and her trajectory as an artist and res
 earcher since completing her PhD\, including her research branching out t
 o art historical publishing\, Postdoc and research fellowships abroad\, he
 r filmmaking practice and curating.\n\nDeniz Sözen’s presentation will 
 trace her journey as an artist-researcher undertaking a practice-based PhD
 . Sharing examples from her research\, she will shed light on her career t
 rajectory before and after the completion of her PhD\, reflecting on some 
 of the unique potentials and challenges of specialising in practice-based 
 research.\n\nThe event will begin with a short grounding exercise. Refresh
 ments will be available from 20 minutes before the start time. Clare Chun-
 yu Liu will attend in person\; Deniz Sözen will attend online. The event 
 is hosted by Jonathan Hoskins\, Associate Researcher at the Exhibition Res
 earch Lab and organiser of this series.\n\nFind more here about the whol
 e series ‘After an Art PhD: Creative Uses of a Creative Work’.\n\n—\
 n\nSpeaker biographies\n\nDr Clare Chun-yu Liu is an artist\, curator and 
 academic. She is currently Guest Curator at Sine Screen\, London\, and Res
 earch Associate at Manchester School of Art\, and was Research Fellow at t
 he Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin\, Postdoctoral Artist Fellow at Brn
 o University of Technology and Visiting Researcher at ARCHIVO. Informed by
  her familial roots in Taiwan\, China and Indonesia\, Clare’s practice-b
 ased fine art research centres on the Chinese diaspora and the fluidity of
  identity\, with a focus on lived experience and oral history. Recently sh
 e has been re-interpreting the European cultural heritage of chinoiserie f
 rom a cross-cultural and postcolonial perspective. Clare’s films have be
 en screened and exhibited internationally\, including at the ICA in London
 \, EXiS (Experimental Film and Video Festival\, Seoul)\, Image Forum Festi
 val in Japan\, Kasseler Dokfest\, Goethe-Institut Lisbon and Minsheng Art 
 Museum in Beijing.\n\nDr Deniz Sözen is a visual artist\, researcher and 
 lecturer in History of Art at the University of Birmingham. Of mixed Turki
 sh Austrian heritage\, she specialises in contemporary art and decolonial 
 methodologies in the context of globalisation and diasporic art. Recent pu
 blications include contributions to The Routledge Companion to African D
 iaspora Art History (2024) and the Third Text special issue ‘Polyphon
 y: Method\, Voice\, Archive’ (2024). In 2022 she received an Arts Counci
 l England grant to curate Maker Unknown\, a multilingual digital archival
  exhibition exploring gaps in the categorisation and provenance of non-Eur
 opean artefacts in the Camberwell ILEA collection. Her practice-based PhD 
 (‘The Art of Un-belonging’) in Visual Arts and Media at the University
  of Westminster\, London was supported by the Centre for Research and Educ
 ation in Arts and Media (CREAM) Doctoral Research Scholarship (2014-17). H
 er video installation Surya Namaz was nominated for a Best Practice Awar
 d by the British Association of Film\, Television and Screen Studies in 20
 19.\n\n—\n\nImages (left to right): Deniz Sözen\; Clare Chun-yu Liu.
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