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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/after-an-art-phd-social-practice
 -within-and-without-institutions/
SUMMARY:John Lennon Art and Design Building: After an Art PhD: Social Pract
 ice Within and Without Institutions
DESCRIPTION:Free and open to all\nBooking preferred\, via Eventbrite\n\nJo
 in Anna Colin and Sunshine Wong in the first in a series of four events\, 
 each exploring the work of two art research practitioners with related int
 erests who have completed doctoral study in recent years\, to examine the 
 possibilities and challenges of practice after an art PhD.\n\nAnna Colin w
 ill share her research into alternative educational spaces and models\, f
 rom her own experience establishing one\, to writing about it for her PhD 
 over a ten-year timeframe in which change felt slow and linear. Reflecti
 ng on the speed and wide-ranging forms of change since the pandemic\, Anna
  will then discuss the rapid changes into which arts and educational insti
 tutions have been precipitated\, and what alternative institutional meanin
 gs and models might look like today and tomorrow.\n\nReferencing a recent 
 conversation with a colleague\, the title of Sunshine Wong’s talk ‘Wha
 t They Want Is a Unicorn’ describes the breadth and depth of knowledge e
 xpected of freelancing art workers. Using this mythical animal as a starti
 ng point\, Sunshine will playfully reflect on running a micro art organisa
 tion in the current cultural and social landscape.\n\nThe event will begin
  with a short grounding exercise. Refreshments will be available from 20 m
 inutes before the start time. Both speakers will attend in person. The eve
 nt is hosted by Jonathan Hoskins\, Associate Researcher at the Exhibition 
 Research Lab and organiser of this series.\n\nFind more here about the w
 hole series ‘After an Art PhD: Creative Uses of a Creative Work’.\n\n
 —\n\nSpeaker biographies\n\nDr Anna Colin is an independent curator\, ed
 ucator\, researcher and gardener. She is engaged with critical pedagogy\, 
 eco-centric social practice\, ecologically inspired organisational models\
 , institutional time and habitability\, and social botany. Anna directs t
 he MFA Curating and co-directs the Centre for Art Ecology at Goldsmiths\, 
 University of London. She was a co-founder and director (2013-21) of Open 
 School East\, an independent art school and community space in London and 
 then Margate. She co-curated Chaleur humaine\, the 2nd edition of the Dun
 kirk Art and Industry Triennale (2023-24)\, on the relationship between en
 ergy and the arts over the past five decades. Anna holds a PhD in cultural
  geography and is the author of Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utop
 ia to Institutionalization (Villa Arson and Sternberg Press\, 2025).\n\nD
 r Sunshine Wong is an art worker\, researcher and facilitator. She was bor
 n and raised in Hong Kong where she worked as an art teacher and later mov
 ed to Berlin where she completed her MA at Berlin Universität der Künste
  while curating live art events around the city. Via affect and queer stud
 ies\, her 2019 doctoral thesis proposed a socially negotiated art that too
 k place through an embodied relational material. Her current work is based
  primarily at Bloc Projects in Sheffield\, where for the last five years s
 he has been shaping and reshaping a programme that is rooted in equity and
  critical care. She lives in Sheffield and loves to knit.\n\n—\n\nImages
  (left to right): Anna Colin\; Sunshine Wong.
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LOCATION:John Lennon Art and Design Building\, Duckinfield Street\, Liverpo
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