About this event

The notion of artists working both with and as thinkers and researchers is one that runs to the heart of our entire cultural life. It is arguably almost just a given. Our university arts and humanities departments are populated by staff who are also creative practitioners across the spectrum of the arts from performance to literature, poetry and of course also the visual arts.

Yet, the presence of artists as researchers, activists, imagineers and knowledge mobilisers is by no means relegated only to the arts and humanities. Across the social sciences and many scientific disciplines, artists are working in a myriad of capacities and roles, sometimes as part of wider collaborations involving a range of institutions, sometimes as part of university-led initiatives to encourage and support relations with the arts and on other occasions through curiosity and a desire to experiment that often emerges from individual conversations and alignments of interests and concerns.

The results of such practices and collaborations are equally diverse, with manifestations across all areas of our social lives. It is a delight to start our festival of Cultural Knowledge Exchange with an in conversation which explores some of the ways in which artists are working within academic environments.

We will be joined by artists Ruth Jarman and Anne-Marie Culhane in conversation with NCACE Co-Director, Evelyn Wilson