talkstudio explores the interdisciplinary landscape that shapes, and is shaped by, creative practices
​

Our forum talks regularly in order to probe the limits of practice-based research. The debate is open to anyone interested in the shifting intellectual worlds that drive research undertaken through creative practice. 

Check our blog to see what we are currently talking about: talkstudio.weebly.com/blog
​

talkstudio smalltalks

In 2018 talkstudio is transforming itself into a vehicle for distributing practice-based conversations to studios across the UK and, farther afield, in different parts of the world. Last time I linked via Google Hangouts with members of the forum I was in the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. More or less everything that prompted me to turn the interface between contemporary art practice and our broader ‘exhibiting’ culture into a model for submitting a practice PhD can be discussed in this environment. But you don't have to visit me in Oxford to start talking. Simply join a talkstudio session in a studio near you in order to encounter the distributed network of real-time locations from which our conversations are streamed live.

To get an idea of the kinds of topics we have discussed in the past take a look at the doctoral projects I have supervised and examined.

As supervisor:

2018: Paul Goodfellow, 'Art as a Distributed Ecosystem: mapping the limits of systems-based art.'
2018: Daksha Patel (co-supervisor), 'The Concept of Noise in Medical Visualisations Perceived Through a Contemporary Drawing Practice.'
2017: Nicola Singh, ‘On the ‘Thesis by Performance’: a feminist research method for a practice-based PhD’ (AHRC BGP studentship).
2016: Jacqueline Donachie, ‘Illuminating Loss: a study of the capacity for artistic practice to shape research and care in the field of inherited genetic illness’ (AHRC BGP studentship. AHRC Anniversary Research in Film Awards winner 2015).
2016: Kate Liston (co-supervisor), ‘Link Zone: an exploration of the sensation of knowledge through a practice of art and writing’. (AHRC BGP studentship).
2015: Brian Fay (co-supervisor), ‘Models of Temporality in Drawing and the Museum’.
2015: Jacob Krukar (co-supervisor), 'The Influence of Museums' Spatial Layout on Human Attention and Memory for an Art Exhibition'.
2014: Agnieszka Kozlowska (co-supervisor), ‘Taking Photographs Beyond the Visual: paper as a material signifier in photographic indexicality’.
2012: Alexandra Rowe, ‘Communicating Pain: can physical pain and the associated psychological effects, be communicated and understood through art?’ (AHRC doctoral scholarship)
2012: Paul Harvey, ‘Stuckism, Punk Attitude and Fine Art Practice: parallels and similarities’ (AHRC doctoral scholarship).
2011: Poyan Yee, ‘Healing Through Curatorial Dialogue: an investigation into the role of contemporary curatorial practice in a healthcare setting.’ (Northumbria University studentship in conjunction with Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust).
2011: Sachiyo Goda, ‘An Investigation into Japanese Notions of Space and Time: practising “ma” through the process of making sculpture.’
2011: John Lavell. ‘Is there an analogous relationship between the creative process and forensic methodology?’ (AHRC doctoral scholarship).
2011: Andrew McNiven (co-supervisor), ‘"Monkey Business": an artist's action research into the parameters of temporary installation through reflexive formal and informal documentary practice.’ (AHRC doctoral scholarship).
2010: Sulien Hsieh, Buddhist Meditation as Art Practice: Art Practice as Buddhist Meditation,
2009: Nickos Kabitsis. ‘Sculpture and Health: new views on schizophrenia’.
2010: Hiroko Oshima (co-supervisor), ‘Artists’ Groups in Japan and the UK and their impact on the creative individual.’
2009: Ikuko Tsuchiya, (MPhil) ‘Therapeutic Touch: the use of photo-based methodology as a healing practice within the context of healthcare.’
2009: Jolande Bosch, ‘The Strategic Studio: how to access and assess decision-making in visual art practice.’ (AHRC doctoral scholarship).
2009: Christina Kolaiti (co-supervisor), ‘The Influence of the Photographic Narrative in Healthcare Dialogue.’ (AHRC New Collaborations Award, Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and Northumbria University).
2007: Thitinam Boonpap (co-supervisor), ‘Popular Television and the Construction of Contemporary Thai Cultural Identity.’
2006: Apichart Pholprasert. ‘The Rural-Based Artist: an investigation into the creative processes by which artists have rejected the metropolitan context of contemporary art.’ 
2004: Henna Asikainen. ‘Art, Nature and Environmental Aesthetics’
2003: Silvana Macedo, ‘From Fine Art to Natural Science through Allegory’
2003: Caroline Mercier (co-supervisor), ‘Designing Theatrical Costumes in Collaboration: a contribution to theatre’.
 
As examiner:

2018: Judit Bodor. 'Exhibiting The Ivor Davies Archive of Destruction (in) Art: an exploration of curatorial processes in presenting historical performance art in the Museum, through observation, case studies and practice'. Aberystwyth University.
2017: Jenny Duffy. ‘Making Theatre as an Emerging Company: exposing trends, tactics, strategies and constraints’, Department of Arts, Northumbria University.
2016: Andrew Sneddon. ‘Confusions of Meanings in the Concept of Place: an investigation into the role place occupies in influencing the production and reception of the artwork’. Edinburgh College of Art.
2015: Aya Kasai. ‘Ma in relation to Gen’, Oxford Brookes University.
2015: Camilla Nock. ‘Reanimating the wound: dermatilliomanic practice and the First World War’, University of Plymouth.
2014: Joanne Clements, ‘Adapted orphans and protected histories: time-based media and the moving image archive’, University of Salford.
2014: Edwina fitzPatrick, ‘Artists’ geographies of the landscape-archive: trace, loss and the impulse to preserve in the anthropocene age’, Glasgow School of Art.
2014: Michael Roberts, ‘Imaging the face: an investigation into hyperrealist interpretation of the human facial surface’, Aberystwyth University.
2013: Jo Thomas, ‘Presencing place.’ Oxford Brookes University.
2010: Kate Craddock, ‘Collaboration in performance practice: trust, longevity and challenging proximity’, Department of Arts, Northumbria University.
2009: Roy Smith (MPhil), ‘Contact zones; relational encounter in contemporary fine art practice’, University for the Creative Arts.
2009: Kristin Mojsiewicz, ‘Investigating disorientation through the adaption of role play’, Edinburgh College of Art.
2007: Hyejung Yum, ‘Traditional Korean papermaking: its history, process, materials and tools used and the paper trade between Korea and China’, Fine Art Conservation, Northumbria University.
2006: Julie Bacon, ‘Recollecting the poetry and politics of archival space: an exploration of performance and installation art in the museum’, University of Ulster.
 
Two related links: 

www.allmapswelcome.com/
​
www.instagram.com/_talk_studio_/

​