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Centre for Useless Splendour

Contemporary Art Research Centre at Kingston University, London.

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Mandy Ure

Dean, Kingston School of Art   In Mandy Ure’s paintings there is an absurd investment, a committed doubt, in producing … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Mandy Ure, PhD, Practice

Diagram of an Hour

 Vinyl record by We Are Publication Launch at Cubitt’s studio 5, 6pm -8pm, 4th July 2017. 8 Angel Mews, Islington, … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, We Are Publication

John Hughes

Surface and Sub – Surface Subversion UNDERGROUND: experimental inter-disciplinary fiction in contemporary art I am experimenting with combinations of text … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, John Hughes artist, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Jo Addison

Head of Department, Fine Art  The relationship between objects and the body, and of objects to one another is intrinsic … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Jo Addison, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Dr Henry Bond

Senior Lecturer Research interests: Virilio’s prism of military strategy, military tactics, and defense organisation is my current focus with a … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Dr Henry Bond, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Melissa Gordon

The Value of Gestures My PhD aims to address the question of how the value of a gesture is determined … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Melissa Gordon, PhD, Practice, research

Christian Newby

Among the Living: Articulating Craft Methodologies Beyond Ornament and Skill in Contemporary Art Practice My research examines how the use … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Christian Newby, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Daniel Shanken

Unconscious and pre-programmed systems of influence and their implications within art practice Daniel Shanken is an artist from Los Angeles, … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Daniel Shanken, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad

Anxieties of Difference As a young Iranian artist living in the UK, the examination of my position in the cultural … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, Seyyed Sadegh Aleahmad

Adam Gillam

Course Leader BA Fine Art Revelling in material and visual flippancy, Adam Gillam fidgets, probes and tweaks the abundant dark … More

Adam Gillam, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Mark Harris

Associate Professor in Fine Art Mark Harris’ key area of research and specialism is the history of the printed image … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Mark Harris, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Gareth Jones

How to fabricate the ideal city I’m looking at how to fabricate the ideal city, using a methodology that I’ve … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Gareth Jones artist, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Bill Leslie, PhD

What happens to a sculpture when it is filmed and photographed? What happens to a sculpture when it is filmed … More

AHRC, artist, Bill Leslie, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, TECHNE

Maryam Tafakory, PhD

Devotion and absence:  towards a cinematic écriture féminine This research proposes to investigate the intersection of documentary, experimental video and ethnography within … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Maryam Tafakory, PhD, Practice, research

Jenna Collins, PhD

We Are the Road Contemporary archival art practices utilise their artefacts in a variety of ways. My approach foregrounds certain … More

AHRC, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Jenna collins artist, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, TECHNE

Dr Dean Kenning

Research Fellow in Fine Art There are two main aspects to my art practice. Firstly art as a form of … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Dean Kenning, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Lucy Coggle

Digital Scurvy: shimmering the screen Surface tension and perpetual vacillation in the digital; a practice based investigation into the effect of digital onto … More

AHRC, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Lucy Coggle, PhD, Practice, research, TECHNE

Diagram of an Hour Radio Broadcast

Diagram of an Hour- Scoring, Composition, Publication In this programme, We Are Publication, the Fine Art Research Group at Kingston … More

AHRC, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, We Are Publication

Katy MacLeod

Associate Member Art research, particularly within the framing of a PhD: artists’ research processes specific to the practice of Art; … More

AHRC, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Katy MacLeod, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Professor Mike Nelson

Mike Nelson’s work has centred on the transformation of narrative structure to spatial structure, and on the objects placed within … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Mike Nelson

Professor Elizabeth Price

London-based artist Elizabeth Price (British, b. 1966) creates richly multi-layered narrative moving image works made specifically for gallery environments. Often … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Elizabeth Price, Kingston School of Art

Charlie Tweed, PhD

Re-writing the overcode Charlie Tweed’s practice based PhD research project ‘Re-writing the overcode’ has developed from in depth research around … More

AHRC, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Charlie Tweed, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research

Rachel Cattle, PhD

I am a Stylus: Play, Erase, Replay, Overdub, Broadcast Climbing the stairs and stepping out, its pitch black. I’m disorientated, … More

AHRC, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, Rachel Cattle, research, TECHNE

Lucy Renton

Associate Professor Lucy Renton studied Fine Art at St. Martin’s School of Art and the Royal College of Art, and … More

artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Lucy Renton, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Andrea Stokes

Associate Professor, Fine Art My research is through a Fine Art practice that uses video, drawing and publication to interrogate … More

Andrea Stokes, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, Practice, research, supervisor

Martin Westwood, PhD

Through [sic]_[[sic]], I ask a question: how can the material fixity of embodiment and the mobility of information be performed together by … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, Martin Westwood, PhD, research

Alexis Teplin

Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Alexis Teplin’s practice is routed in painting and performance that extends to include sculpture and … More

Alexis Teplin, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, research, supervisor

We Are Publication video

Experiments elaborated intensive collaborative studio workshop props words object text image performance imagine the edit. We are sequence we are … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, research

Dr Roman Vasseur

Course Leader MFA Fine Art My artworks, curatorial projects and writing redeploys fragments of cinema, architecture and cultural narratives to … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, research, Roman Vasseur, supervisor

We Are Publication

Kingston’s Contemporary Art Research Centre presents an evening a series of events with publishing as it’s focus on and around … More

CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Kingston School of Art, PhD, research

Completed PhD projects

Bill Leslie, (AHRC techne) – ‘Good Enough Sculptures: What Happens When Sculptures Are Made to Be Filmed?’, 2020 Maureen de … More

Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Anastasia Souliotou, Anat Ben-David, Arnaud Desjardin, artist, CARC, Centre for Useless Splendour, Contemporary Art Research Centre, Dan Hays, Emma Hart, John Russell, Kingston School of Art, Mark Greenwood, Matthew Thompson, PhD, research, Stine Ljungdalh, Susan Barnet
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