TrAIN

Current Projects

• Dress and the African Diaspora Network

  

  Led by Carol Tulloch, TrAIN Senior Research Fellow, the Dress & the African Diaspora Network is supported by the Diasporas, Migration and Identities programme to provide a series of focused research forums over two years.
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• Transnational Correspondence

  

  Transnational Correspondence is a collaboration between TrAIN and PPGAV, the centre for fine art research of the School of Fine Arts, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. It stems from ongoing research carried out by TrAIN Research Fellow Dr Michael Asbury into the comparative reception of Brazilian art at national and international levels.
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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 September 2007 and September 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, painting, print-making and sculpture – and also focusing on individual case studies, those involved in the project seek to achieve a new understanding of transnational interactions between Japan, Britain and the USA.
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• Refracted Modernity

  

  Refracted Modernity: Visual Culture and Identity in Colonial Taiwan has developed from the international conference ‘Refracted Colonial Modernity in the Art and Design of Taiwan’ (2001: National Museum of History, Taipei). Led by Dr Yuko Kikuchi, TrAIN Senior Research Fellow, the project includes a further eight national and international participants:
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• TrAIN Open Lecture Series

  

  The TrAIN Open Lecture series is a forum for invited speakers to present exhibition, publication, and research projects.
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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

  

  TrAIN collaborates with Gasworks International Residency Programme to offer a fully funded three month residency and research placement for an artist not based in the UK.
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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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