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Art Philosophy Research cluster

Interdisciplinary Arts research is conducted through The Centre for Ideas’ program of international artists, philosophers and theorists, providing researchers and students with a unique intellectual environment in which to pursue research in the visual and performing arts and their interconnections with other knowledge domains.

Through highly experimental individual or collaborative projects, the Art Philosophy Research cluster generates new possibilities and opportunities for interdisciplinary research between the creative arts and the sciences, humanities and other fields of knowledge. We work discursively and experientially within a framework of philosophy and critical theory.

A program of visiting artists, scholars and researchers, with innovative pedagogical and research practices, helps facilitate links between traditionally distinct disciplinary groups and communities.

Themes that interest us include:

  • the poetics of the body
  • criticism and its discourses and practices
  • bio-social models of on-line collaboration
  • the translation/transformation of textual, visual and performative languages; art and ethics; art as political and social activism
  • art, mysticism and mythology
  • feminism
  • film history; and art and place making
  • emerging connections between the arts, sciences and technologies.

Research outcomes comprise large-scale collaborative on-line projects, experimental and theoretical writing, performances, films, exhibitions, public conferences, lectures and seminars.