Projects by Institute associates

The UAL Institute Associates Scheme was launched in 2021, enabling academic staff from across the university to establish a temporary, project-specific relationship with the Decolonising Arts Institute.

Erika Tan

Barang-Barang: Spectral Entanglements (2022)

Erika Tan is an artist and curator whose work is primarily research-led and manifests itself in multiple formats such as moving image, publications, curatorial and participatory projects. Appointed to the Stanley Picker Fellowships at Kingston University in 2018, she is Course Leader of the MA in Fine Art, Reader in Contemporary Art Practice in Central Saint Martins.

Stanley Picker Gallery (Kingston University) collaborated with the Institute to produce an online premiere of Erika Tan’s Stanley Picker Fellowship commission 'Barang-Barang: Spectral Entanglements (2022)' and the launch of Erika’s limited-edition publication 'Barang-Barang'.

The online film screening was followed by an unfolding speculative conversation between Erika Tan, National Gallery Singapore curator Kathleen Ditzig and art historian and writer Wenny Teo. Their conversation focused on ideas of speculation in use as a form of methodology to unhinge and unsettle fixed notions of history and nation state boundaries, as well as to open up the possibilities of altering the status, resonance, value and interpretation of a work, or its reception.

Maureen Salmon

emi ijo heart of dance 2022: A Celebration - The Art of Storytelling Workshop and Conversations

Maureen Salmon is a Senior Lecturer and Cultural Leader at UAL. She's an experienced educator and consultant in leadership, entrepreneurship, professional and cultural diversity practices.

Maureen is a member of London College of Communication Knowledge Exchange Committee and Research Ethics Committee. Within the context of her KE practice-based project ‘Creative Disruptive Leadership for Sustainable Futures 2018/2022', Maureen was awarded a secondment to The Africa Centre.

'emi ijo 2022', led by Maureen Salmon, was an interdisciplinary, social innovation storytelling collaboration with the British Nigerian Storyteller Peter Badejo OBE, Artistic Director of Badejo Arts, the creator of emi-ijo 2000 –heart of dance and Dr Olu Taiwo the Scriptwriter. It's a choreography of new learning and knowledge creation about lost histories, cultures, practices which intends to shape different futures in the context of UAL’s new social purpose agenda as an art and design institute.

• Watch the Storytelling Live Music Panel

Yu Lun (Eve) Lin

林鈺倫

How do Mandarin speaking fashion design students represent themselves and their learning experiences? An autoethnographic study tool kit.

Yu Lun Lin is completing her PhD in Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. She is a graduate of Central Saint Martins BA and MA Fashion Womenswear and was selected as Taiwan NewGen Designer. Eve is a Senior Fashion Lecturer in the BA Fashion Design and Development course at London College of Fashion.

The autoethnographic study tool kit was developed through presenting Mandarin-speaking students from the BA Fashion Design and Development course at London College of Fashion, with the option to grow their reflective writing using tested autoethnographic methodologies. The toolkit has 2 main aims: to support (western) tutors in better understanding Mandarin speaking students’ learning experiences at London College of Fashion, and to support Mandarin speaking students in developing and enhancing their reflective writing using an autoethnographic method.

• Read the Autoethnographic study toolkit (PDF 1.5MB)
• Read the Research project report (PDF 760KB)