The Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) investigates historical, theoretical and practice-based research in art, architecture, craft and design.
This research is driven by the desire to critique dominant ideas of 'globalisation' and to open up new perspectives that address questions of how art and design can respond to social (in)justice, decolonisation of institutions and the creation of more diverse global art histories. TrAIN’s members include internationally recognised scholars and practitioners across UAL as well as a community of post-graduate students. Issues and debates arising from research activities are disseminated by TrAIN conferences, lectures, reading groups, exhibitions and publications.
Director: Professor Paul Goodwin
Research Centre administrator: Ewelina Warner, e.warner@arts.ac.uk
Opportunities
Postsocialism and Art
With support from British Society of Aesthetics and Association for Arts History, TrAIN is inviting UAL staff and research students with geopolitical and cultural connections to Eastern European postsocialist heritage within their research interests and/or art practice to contribute to the Postsocialism and Art project by 14 February 2021.
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