Institute Summary

partnerships

Nairobi Residency, 2024. Photo courtesy Aleks Slota.

Transart Institute for Creative Research has been providing innovative, interdisciplinary, international low-residency programs for creative practitioners since 2004. We design and deliver practice-based PhD and MFA programs, which were developed and are run entirely by artist-academics, and provide a pedagogical framework which supports advanced experimental research and new thinking in any creative discipline. 

We champion self-directed, curious and socially-engaged practitioners, providing them with abundant opportunities for sharing and connecting with the wider practice-as-research community, through our extensive and well-established networks and create opportunities to expand, enhance and sustain advanced creative practice anywhere in the world, and beyond the walls of the historic academy.   

We attract a diverse, international student body and work with an equally diverse range of faculty from a broad range of creative contexts, disciplines and geographic locations. Together these groups constitute our ever-growing, global, trans-disciplinary research community.

We support research within a plethora of creative disciplines and areas, including: art and social technologies; auto-theory; curatorial practices; cultural engagement through food; docu-fiction and creative writing; ecology and environmental activism; expanded studio practices; experimental pedagogies; fashion and textiles; foreignness, otherness; home, nostalgia and the uncanny; international diaspora and exiled states; language and image; liminal states, interstices, and spacetime; media and design; memory, forgetting, trauma and the archive; movement, dance, choreography; olfactory arts; painting; peace, mediation and performance-driven activism; post-nationalism, post-colonialism; publishing as an art practice; robotics; sculpture; sound, music, field recordings, composing; space and temporary architecture; walking as an art practice.

We are open to exploring opportunities for university partnerships and collaborations which include (but are not limited to): accreditation, residencies, showcases, publications, Academy and other multidisciplinary approaches to collaboration. We are open to exploring any potential partnership structure which can further enrich the creative journey of graduate students and doctoral candidates while also contributing to the mission and vision of both partners and their communities. See selected partners 2004-2024 here.

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