RESEARCH  EXCELLENCE  IN  THE  ARTS:  

RESEARCH,  DEVELOPMENT,  INNOVATION  

Professor  Johnny  Golding  Professor  of  Philosophy  &  Fine  Art

Director,  Centre  for  Fine  Art  Research

Birmingham  School  of  Art  Research  Model

Research  in  the  Arts:  

Generated  by  Curiosity•

Research=  

practice-­‐led

6/7

Precise.  Sumptuous.  

Degree  of  light.  Carpet.Glass.  

Discontinuous.  Logics  ofSense.

Time.  Dimension.  Tiles.

No  distraction.  Playful.Painful.  

Demanding.  Politically  sussed.  

David Cheeseman (Artist), Once Ever After: Twice Removed, Overview of artwork installed during Twice Upon A Time conference, 2014

Three  Underlying  Principles:  • Immersive  Praxis:  Theory  and  Practice  cannot  be  

established  in  separate  domains  to    be  ‘unified’  at  a  later  stage.    Theory  will  not  ‘contextualise’  artworks;  Artworks  will  not  become  an  ‘example’  of  Theory.

• Rigorous  and  thorough:  All  researchers  must  become  wholly  conversant  with  their  respective  disciplines  and,  in  so  doing,  must  make,  at  the  PHD  level,  a  significant  and  original  contribution  to  the  field.

• Impact/Partnership/Network:  All  research  must  embrace  a  360° outreach  re:  knowledge  production,  accessibility  and  exchange  within  the  University  or  Institute  to  which  the  research  is  linked,  and    across  both  academic  and  non-­‐academic  environs  locally,  regionally,  internationally  at  world-­‐class  levels.

development=

mutual  encounters  

&  exchange  within  and  between:

MA,  PHD  &  Post  Docs,  CFAR  Research  Fellows  

as  well  as  local,  regional  national  and  

international  outreach+

PHD  /  post-­‐docresearch

PHD  Research  Methods  Seminar  –Weekly  3hr

Podcast

Networks

PHD  –PRACTICE-­‐LED  or  TRADITIONAL

• Over  40  PHD  researchers  – each  connected  to  a  Theatre  of  Excellence  within  CFAR-­‐BCU

• Four    Research  Theatres  of  Excellence– Making  Art  in  the  Public  Sphere  –

• Includes:  Turning  Point  West  Midlands  +  Art  Market;  EastSideProjects;  Centre  for  Chinese  Visual  Arts  (CCVA);  International  Project  Space  (IPS)

– Radical  Matter  in  Art  &  Philosophy  – Erotic  Praxis  and  the  Queering  of  Sense– Speculative  Topologies  in  ARTdesign,  History  &  Education

• Publishing  House:  ARTicle Press  – International  Advisory  Board;  Gold  standard  journal

INNOVATION  linked  to  IMPACT  

• The  critical  importance  of  partnerships  and  networks– EQ  Arts– Erasmus  +

• Employability• Dissemination  • Links  to  local/regional/national/international  exhibition  galleries  museum  spaces,  including  ‘pop-­‐ups’

Dissemination    360°

Vol. 2No. 1

The International Journal for Fine Art, Philosophy and the Wild Sciences

Twice U

pon A T

ime: M

agic, Alchem

y and the Transubstantiation of the Senses

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Zetesis 3 Vol 2 / N

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3521067818739 The Centre for

Fine Art Research ARTicle Press

Twice Upon A Time: Magic, Alchemy and the Transubstantiation of the Senses

Research Generated by Curiosity

Johnny Golding (Series Editor) / Prelude David Cheesman / Once Ever After: Twice Removed

Martin Reinhart / Spirited AwayGregory Leadbetter / CloneJakub Ceglarz / Fatima, 2014

Joscelyn Gardner / Creole Portraits III Susan J May / Mobilising Mob Mentality: The Miracle

of the Relic of Saint Andrew Grace Williams / Escamotage ~ Sleight of hand, Trickery,

Conjuring, VanishingJivan Astfalck / Rosa Rubea Homuncula

Ron Athey / Self Obliterations I&IIJohn Mowitt / Hegel and Hambone

Rachael Colley / Spurious LuxusMicah Silver / Sound, Audio, Music // Physics, Imaginaries, Intentions

Russell Nachman / PalimpsestMattia Paganelli and Dane Worrallo / Eleven Theses for an

Initial Degree of Roughness: Transubstantiation, Materiality and Art

Irene brown / Phantasmagoria Electric

ISBN: 978-1-873352-10-6

ISSN: 2059-2582