The University of the Arts Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation is a forum for historical, theoretical and practice-based research in architecture, art, communication, craft and design. Find out more about TrAIN.
Current Projects
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Forgotten Japonisme
Led by TrAIN Director Professor Toshio Watanabe, Forgotten Japonisme is a major three year research project funded by the AHRC. Between October 2007 and October 2010, this project will explore a previously neglected period in the study of Western attitudes towards Japanese art: from the 1920s to the 1950s. By examining a broad range of visual culture – including architecture, craft, design, garden design, pai...
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TrAIN Open Series
The TrAIN Open series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects in the form of lectures, discussions and screenings.
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TrAIN Conversations
What makes a transnational practice or perspective in art or curating? TrAIN Conversations are informal conversations with invited artists and curators, followed by round-table discussions with the participants.
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TrAIN/Gasworks Artists' Residency
International residencies raise specific questions for individual artists, and wider issues regarding how both local and international contexts are negotiated in practice.
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TrAIN-KSB Residency Exchange
TrAIN and the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral collaborate on a Artist-in-Residence exchange programme.
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Meeting Margins
Meeting Margins – Transnational Art in Europe & Latin America 1950-1978. A new approach to the study of art from Latin America that questions the role traditionally ascribed to New York as the dominant force in modern art in the post-war years.
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TrAIN Associate Projects
Tap is a new initiative, its aim is to identify relevant research across the University of the Arts London and support its development. TrAIN allocates seed funding and in-kind support to up to five projects each year.
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Latest News
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Announcement
Subject: Alexandra Handal selected for New Contemporaries 2009
We are delighted to announce that our TrAIN member, artist Alexandra Handal has been selected for New Contemporaries 2009, an exhibit which showcases emerging artists in the UK. The judges for this year were Wolfgang Tillmans, Ellen Gallagher, John Stezaker and Saskia Olde Wolbers. The exhibition launches at Cornerhouse, Manchester 11 September – 25 October 2009 and will then be shown at Club Row, Rochelle School, London later this year.
Alexandra Handal is a Practice-based PhD candidate at Chelsea College of Art and Design and completing her final year. She is the recipient of the University of Arts London Research Studentship Award (2004) and Chelsea College of Art and Design Graduate Fund (2007, 2009). Her Director of Studies is Professor Toshio Watanabe and her Supervisors are Sutapa Biswas and Dr. Michael Asbury.
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Introduction
TrAIN website
There has been a problem with the distribution of TrAIN Newsletters over the past couple of months and we are trying to solve this at the moment. This may mean you will receive old letters and updates, for which our apologies.
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Update
Meeting Margins
Meeting Margins – Transnational Art in Europe & Latin America 1950-1978
Michael Asbury and Isobel Whitelegg of TrAIN have received AHRC funding of approximately £500k to develop a major project of research in collaboration with the Department of Art History and Theory at the University of Essex.
Meeting Margins proposes a new approach to the study of art from Latin America that questions the role traditionally ascribed to New York as the dominant force in modern art in the post-war years. Focusing on artistic encounters between Europe and Latin America, as well as on intra-Latin American exchanges. It will explore contacts between individual artists and critics, the movements, groups and institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that supported and provoked them, and the forms of artistic practice that these transnational exchanges generated. The project includes an international graduate research forum at the University of Texas at Austin (2009) and a public conference in the UK (2010). Research from the project will be published as a volume of essays, with contributions from Europe, Latin America and the USA, edited by Michael Asbury (TrAIN) Valerie Fraser (Essex) and Isobel Whitelegg (TrAIN).
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Report
New TrAIN Reader
In this year’s University of the Arts London promotion round, the TrAIN Research Centre had another success. TrAIN Senior Research Fellow, Carol Tulloch, was promoted to Reader. Last year two core members, Michael Asbury and Yuko Kikuchi, were promoted to Reader, and TrAIN has now four Readers, all promoted while they were at TrAIN. Congratulations to Carol!
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Opportunity
Call for papers - Transnational Latin American Art
Transnational Latin American Art
International Research Forum for Graduate Students and Emerging Scholars
University of Texas at Austin, 6-7 November 2009 (ACES Building 2.302, Avaya Auditorium)
In collaboration with the University of the Arts London (TrAIN) & the University of EssexCall for Paper Proposals: Deadline May 5 2009
Viewing the history of Latin American art in terms of reception, contact and collaboration is
an emergent paradigm exemplified by recent exhibitions, publications, and research projects.
An International Research Forum on Transnational Latin America aims to create opportunities for emerging researchers to join experienced scholars in interrogating this area
of research and its implications.Addressing art from 1950 to the present day, the forum concerns intra Latin American exchanges, as well as encounters between Latin America and Europe and the USA; it will
explore contacts between individual artists and critics, the movements, groups and institutions and wider geopolitical and cultural contexts that have supported and provoked them, and the particular forms of art and its reception that transnational exchanges have generated.For more information please contact Ian Dudley (idudle@essex.ac.uk), AHRC Project Support Officer, Meeting Margins at the University of Essex
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People
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Voon Pow Bartlett
Current PhD
My research addresses the work of contemporary Chinese artists based in Beijing, whose work is both formed in negotiation with a global audience and influenced by a historically and culturally specific form of urban development. The tide of economic progress in China has a direct impact on daily life and continues to fuel the art world, raising issues of authenticity, authority and ownership.
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