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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Afterlives of Monuments
The Afterlives of Monuments
The British Academy has awarded TrAIN a grant for a major international conference to be held at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design from 28-30 April.
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Latest News
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Announcement
Afterlives of Monuments Conference
The Afterlives of Monuments
The British Academy has awarded TrAIN a grant for a major international conference to be held at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design on 29-30 April.The conference brings together leading scholars from South Asia, Europe and North America to debate the status and survivals of key markers in the colonial and post-colonial histories and spaces of South Asia. It also offers 2 international studentships for graduate researchers based in South Asia to attend the conference.
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Introduction
New TrAIN-KSB artist in Residence Sandra Schaefer
We would like to welcome artist Sandra Schaefer who has recently arrived in London as the fourth Kunstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral Artist-in-Residence at TrAIN. Schaefer will be in the UK for six months between January and June 2010, where she will research and develop new work, in her studio at ACAVA London and via participation in TrAIN research seminars and events.
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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
Black Pig Friends Secret Workshop
Black Pig City art collective proposal is to involve 9 students of Chelsea College of Art & Design in a BPC one-off event and to collaborate with the artists in the construction of a site-specific installation, which will be the main attraction of the event, the Phenomenal Manifestation of the Black Pig.
This workshop will not be open to the public and will be structured as a secret initiation: as Masters of the Black Pig Friends Masonic lodge, the artists will personally instruct participants.
The workshop will last 10 days and will take place in a marquee installed in the Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground. It will be planned in two different phases: firstly, work will be focused on the production of the installation (stagecraft tasks). In the second phase, the Masters will train students for the circus show one-off event performance (Action practice tasks). Everyday there will be a different stage of technical knowledge, until the Manifestation day, the circus show, when finally everything will be shown publicly. In this occasion the participants will perform the show together with the Masters and will also get the privilege of wearing the Masonic symbols.
In order to apply and to attempt to participate in the secret workshop, visit the Black Pig Friends website for more details.
The deadline for sending the application form is the 30th of September.
Only the selected participants will be contacted by email on the 1st of October.
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People
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Karolin Meunier
Resident Artist
Karolin Meunier is an artist and writer based in Berlin. She studied Fine Art and Literature in Mainz and at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg.
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