Art Research Groups

BxNU Institute

The BxNU Institute supports experimental artistic and curatorial research and practice. It is a collaboration between Northumbria University and BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art.

Visual & Material Culture

Members of this research group are engaged with histories of art, design and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present in Europe, Japan and North America. Key concerns include cultural heritage and participation, nationalisms and cultural identity, the art market...

Curatorial and Collaborative Practices

Curatorial and Collaborative Practices explores, predominantly, fine art researchers’ interests in definitions and forms of curation, and collaborative and collective practices in contemporary art.

Cultural Negotiation of Science

The Cultural Negotiation of Science is a research group based at Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK that brings together artists, academics and research students whose practices engage with expert cultures across a broad spectrum of science and technology.

Moving Image, Popular Media and Culture

This new group focuses on the analysis, production, circulation, history and reception of ‘popular’ forms of print and audio-visual production in British cinema and TV genres; on national and international horror genres; genre film festivals, cult and independent cinema; music cultures; concepts of moral philosophy and identities in violence and pornography; sexual identities and representations and the use of online pornography.

Spaces of Appearance in Theatre and Performance

Spaces of Appearance research cluster is concerned with the ‘spaces’ in which under-represented identities ‘appear’ and exist in the world. The group brings together drama, theatre and performance academics, researchers and artists from within and beyond Northumbria University to investigate practices, methods and scholarship.

International Research Centre for the History and Culture of Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms

The aim of the International Research Centre is to promote academic research into the history and culture of the Nanzhao and Dali Kingdoms (dating from 653-937CE and 937-1253CE respectively), located largely in today’s Yunnan province in southwest China.

(Multi) Cultural Heritage

(Multi) Cultural Heritage is an AHRC-supported research project lead by Dr Susan Ashley, Department of Arts.

Northumbria Research Practice Group