Info session - Spring 2024 Artistic Research Opportunity

The October 23 event has passed. Join us in April 2024!

The events below explore creative practice and critical inquiry at Tyson Research Center, WashU’s environmental field station in Eureka, Missouri.  

All are welcome. RSVPs required.

Please join ACLS Emerging Voices Fellow Anya Yermakova, in residence at the Center for the Humanities, for more information on a spring opportunity for humanities graduate students at WashU’s Tyson Research Center, funded by the Redefining Doctoral Education initiative.  

In April, Dr. Yermakova will lead a gathering of invited practitioners in artistic research methods, graduate students, and local artists at Tyson, WashU’s environmental field station in Eureka, Missouri. Participants will be invited to explore their own methods while learning about how we do “artistic research” work in the university – how creative practice and critical inquiry interplay with one another. Inspired by the site-specificity of Tyson, the April gathering will work at the cross-section of sound studies, embodied methods of research, environmental studies, and histories of war. 

If you are interested in any of the following —

  • Public humanities
  • Site-specific research and creative practice
  • Research that challenges the dominance of textual domains for analysis and study
  • Sound as a research tool for investigation and study
  • Ways of documenting artistic research, especially ephemeral and complex work
  • Embodied practice (and the political dimensions of materiality)
  • Methods for durational and body-centered research
  • Imaginative, speculative ways to engage with archival gaps to render significance to unseen, unfamous, (seemingly) unimportant materials
  • Engaging with more-than-human perspectives and scales, in theory and in practice

— please join us at this informational session! Lunch will be provided; see RSVP below for dietary preferences.

Participation in the April workshop will include an opportunity for humanities graduate students to receive funding for site-specific, commissioned work. The info session will discuss how to participate in the workshop in April and hear from interested graduate students about the kind of work this event could make possible. There will be a call for proposal funding made available at the meeting, and applications will be due November 20.

Questions may be directed to Anya Yermakova.  

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