BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.4.5//EN TZID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:11735@artinliverpool.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260319T190000 DTSTAMP:20260227T134600Z URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/after-an-art-phd-posthuman-exces s/ SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: After an Art PhD: Posthuman Ex cess DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all\nBooking preferred\, via Eventbrite\n\n —\n\nJoin Lucy A. Sames and Jason Waite for the second in a series of fo ur 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\n Lucy A. Sames will discuss her PhD research which proposes a feminist\, qu eer and posthuman concept of ‘excess’ as a mode of practice in art an d curating that is modulated by the materiality and metaphor of the liquid .\n\nJason Waite will present ‘When Practice Leads Theory: The Catastrop hic Condition in Fukushima\, Japan and Don’t Follow the Wind’. He will discuss the long-running collective project that he co-founded entitled  Don’t Follow the Wind\, an inaccessible exhibition inside the radioactiv e Fukushima exclusion zone in Japan\, and its influence on his recent PhD finished in 2022. The talk will explore how curatorial practice\, collabor ation and staying with the trouble can inform cultural and ecological theo ry.\n\nThe event will begin with a short grounding exercise. Refreshments will be available from 20 minutes before the start time. Lucy A. Sames wil l attend in person\; Jason Waite will attend online. The event is hosted b y Jonathan Hoskins\, Associate Researcher at the Exhibition Research Lab a nd organiser of this series.\n\nFind more here about the whole series ‘After an Art PhD: Creative Uses of a Creative Work’.\n\n—\n\nSpeake r biographies\n\nDr Lucy A. Sames is a curator\, activist\, writer and res earcher based in rural South Wales. Lucy was awarded her PhD ‘Wet Rest: excess as liquid praxis in art and curating’ from the Art Department at Northumbria University\, Newcastle (2022) and she is now a Lecturer on MA Fine Art at Falmouth University. Lucy writes regularly for artists\, journ als\, conferences and organisations\, most recently contributing an introd uction to Bridget Crone’s Liquid Bodies Liquid Worlds in The Edinburg h Companion to Curatorial Futures (Edinburgh University Press\, 2026) and ‘Froath on the Sea’ in Aqueous Humours Fluid Ground (Goldsmiths\, 2 025). Lucy has been involved in many collaborative and interdisciplinary r esearch projects\, and was previously Co-Director and Co-Curator at both R es. (2015-19) and Enclave (2012-14)\, and Programme Director at The Old Po lice Station (2010-14)\, all exhibition spaces in Deptford\, south Londo n.\n\nDr Jason Waite is a curator\, writer and cultural worker. His work focuses on collective practice\, ecological critique and radical imaginari es emerging from sites of crisis. He is part of the collective Don’t Fo llow the Wind\, which curates an ongoing exhibition in the Fukushima exclu sion zone\, and co-edited the book Don’t Follow the Wind (Sternberg Pr ess\, 2021). Waite was curator at Casco Art Institute in Utrecht and has o rganised over 50 exhibitions globally. He holds a PhD in Contemporary Art History and Theory from the University of Oxford\, an MA from Goldsmiths\, and was a Helena Rubinstein Curatorial Fellow at the Whitney Museum ISP. He was the 2024-25 Postdoctoral Fellow of the Arts at the Helsinki Collegi um for Advanced Studies. Currently he teaches at St Anne’s College\, Uni versity of Oxford\, is the editor of Art Review Oxford and is an affilia ted fellow at the Panel on Planetary Thinking.\n\n—\n\nImages (left to r ight): Jason Waite\; Lucy A. Sames\, ‘Froath on the Sea’\, a reading w ith well water\, Matt’s Gallery\, London\, 2025 (image: Kirsten Cooke). ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.artinliverpool.com/wp-content/upload s/2026/02/After-an-Art-PhD-event-2-image-low-res.jpg CATEGORIES:Events,Talks LOCATION:John Lennon Art and Design Building\, Duckinfield Street\, Liverpo ol\, L3 5RD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom GEO:53.405426;-2.96999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Duckinfield Street\, Liverp ool\, L3 5RD\, Liverpool\, United Kingdom;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=John Lennon Art and Design Building:geo:53.405426,-2.96999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/London BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251026T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR