Image: Aleks Slota, Liverpool 2024
programme
PLEASE NOTE THAT THE FOLLOWING PROGRAMme IS provisional and SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
Monday 14 July
SESSION EVALUATION
8:00 - 10:00
aa Exhibition Installation period
10:00 - 11:00
Residency orientation with lsbu partners + facilities tour
11:00 - 12:00
beuys sticks with michael bowdidge
12:00 - 13:30
lunch
13:30 - 14:00
giving and receiving feedback: liz lerman’s critical response process with jisun myung
14:00 - 17:00
anthologies assembly presentations (schedule tba)
17:00 - 20:00
aa Exhibition Installation period & opening reception
tuesday 15 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:50 - 10:00
day intro
10:00 - 11:00
anthologies assembly presentations (schedule tba)
11:00 - 12:00
artist talk with alan warburton
12:00 - 13:30
lunch
13:30 - 16:30
xr studio workshop with kristina pulejkova
17:00 - 18:30
the long conversation panel session with tt faculty
wednesday 16 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:00 - 9:10
day intro
9:15 - 11:45
anthologies assembly presentations (schedule tba)
11:45 - 13:30
lunch + travel to whitechapel gallery
14:00 - 17:00
whitechapel gallery tour
17:00 - 20:00
Student-led evening social event
thursday 17 July
SESSION EVALUATION
10:20 - 10:30
day intro
10:30 - 12:30
drawing workshop with simon terrill
12:30 - 14:00
lunch
14:00 - 18:00
visit to lada (live art development agency) and their archive
18:00 - 20:00
aa exhibitions de-installation session
friday 18 July
SESSION EVALUATION
9:50 - 10:00
day intro
10:00 - 12:30
workshop with diasporas now
12:30 - 13:00
Drop-in Residency feedback session
13:00 - 14:30
lunch
14:30 - 17:30
London-based Walkshop
17:30 - 20:00
Student-led evening social event
saturday 19 July
self-led london excursions
travel to Liverpool
sunday 20 July
11:00 - 13:00
Liverpool Biennial tour with gabriela saenger silva
14:00 - 18:00
Self-led tours of liverpool biennial and liverpool arab arts fest
Monday 21 July
11:00 - 12:30
Liverpool Biennial tour with Marie-Anne McQuay, Curator
14:00 - 16:00
talk tbc
14:00 - 16:00
optional meetings with ljmu supervisors
EXHIBITIONS
TT students have been invited to curate and install exhibitions in the LSBU gallery space. details on selected exhibitions forthcoming.
Curatorial guidelines
Workshops and Tours
workshop - Beuys sticks
with Michael Bowdidge
Image: Michael Bowdidge, 2019
Derived from an exercise developed by the German artist and social sculptor Joseph Beuys, this quiet, turn-based creative activity occupies a space somewhere between improvised collaborative sculptural drawing, reflective creative pedagogy and the gentle gathering of somatic awareness over time.
Participants should expect to spend some time standing, if they feel able to and also anticipate some gentle movement from time to time, however the exercise can and will be made accessible for any participants who may find these aspects of the exercise challenging.
No equipment will be required, and the session should be viewed as phone-free space, except for the purposes of documenting the process, which will only take place at specific points in the exercise.
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talk - image empire
with alan warburton
Image: RGBFAQ (2020) by Alan Warburton
This talk will reflect on the subject of Alan's practice-focussed PhD project, 'Rendering Work at the Bleeding Edge' which began in 2020 with the production of a multimedia exhibition that investigated the past, present and future of computer graphics. Revisiting this work, Alan will offer a concise summary of some of the most important discoveries made during the research, focussing particularly on the interplay of sampling and simulation within contemporary deep learning applications and XR technologies.
A globally-recognised creative technologist working with CGI, AI, XR, VR and ML between art, industry and academia, Best known for his critical video essays which are fixtures in university curriculums worldwide, he’s undertaken lectures and residencies at Central St Martins, Somerset House, the ICA, the Science Gallery, the V&A, Carnegie Mellon, the AA School and presented at many creative tech events. He has had solo exhibitions at Arebyte and The Photographers’ Gallery and been involved in landmark group shows at Carnegie Museum of Art, Baltic Gateshead, RMIT amongst others.
Notable recent partnerships include 2023’s The Wizard of AI (commissioned by the Open Data Institute and featured in the Guardian), and 2021’s Better Images of AI, where he helped launch an inuential stock image collection alongside the BBC R&D to counter obfuscatory myths of AI. Over the same period, he completed his PhD at Birkbeck’s Vasari Centre, a practice-led project that extrapolated on themes from the 2020 solo exhibition RGBFAQ and considered how multi-modal synthetic datasets inform the operation of machine vision systems.
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workshop - Worldbuilding: making virtual worlds with vr and ai
with kristina Pulejkova
Image: Kristina Pulejkova, AI-generated image using Runway ML
This interdisciplinary workshop invites students to explore the art and science of worldbuilding through the lens of Virtual Reality (VR) and Articial Intelligence (AI). Bridging creative design with cutting-edge technology, the session provides a structured introduction to the principles, tools, and methodologies used to craft immersive digital environments. Participants will engage with foundational concepts in narrative design, spatial storytelling, procedural generation, and human- computer interaction.Through hands-on activities and collaborative exercises, students will learn how AI can support the generation of dynamic content and design - such as terrain, architecture and characters. This session will be followed by work in VR, using drawing tools to prototype interaction design for embodied experiences. By the end of the workshop, students will gain practical skills in designing immersive, virtual worlds and a deeper understanding of how emerging technologies are reshaping digital storytelling, simulation, and experiential learning.
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Interview session - The Long Conversation
with TT Faculty and Guests
Image: Aleks Slota. Liverpool Residency 2024.
The Long Conversation is a series of short, timed interviews between Transart faculty Carolina Rito, Valerie Walkerdine, Alessandra Cianetti, Geoff Cox, Elena Marchevska and guests Huma Mulji, Liz Day about their creative research praxes. A Q&A will follow.
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tour - Whitechapel Gallery
Participation and Exhibition Programmes
Image: Moving Grounds 15 Years of Duchamp & Sons, Whitechapel Gallery, 2025 © Anne Tetzlaff
This workshop will offer an introduction to the Participation programme at Whitechapel Gallery in East London - considering the histories, geographies and values that underpin the programme. The session will also include a tour of the Gallery's main summer 2025 exhibition 'Hamad Butt: Apprehensions'.
The session aims to explore what 'participation' means in a contemporary art gallery and how a public art institution in East London might respond to our current moment. There will be seminar-style discussion as well as an opportunity explore Whitechapel Gallery's summer exhibitions programme.
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Workshop - Drawing Assemblages: toward a grammar of the crowd
with simon terrill
Image: Simon Terrill, Swarm, type C print, 1.8m x 2.4m
This drawing workshop invites participants to engage with ideas drawn from the 'Networked Crowds' project though posthumanism, fine art, and participatory practices. Together, we will test out a series of speculative propositions using drawing as both medium and method to explore the crowd as process and verb within a set of fluid, recursive feedback loops.
Working with Elias Canetti’s four attributes of the crowd - growth, equality, density, and need for direction - alongside ideas of hospitality, conviviality, and chance, we will investigate how a collective drawing can become a method of mapping emergent forms of sociality.
This is not a drawing class. No technical skill required. Rather, the workshop is closer to a live social sculpture and occasion for experimenting with how collectivity moves, gathers, and leaves a trace.
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TOur - Live art development agency (LADA) study room + Artist talk
Image: Alex Eisenberg, courtesy LADA.
Located in East London’s Bethnal Green, LADA is a centre for experimental and live art. Their Study Room is a collection of over 8,000 items or research materials on live art, including out-of-print books and rare performance documentation.
Following a staff introduction and tour, an artist associated with the centre will lead a discussion on live art (details TBC). There will additionally be research time in the Study Room, and LADA staff will be on hand to help you find books and materials related to your research interests.
About LADA
About the Study Room
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Workshop - Swarm Symposium
with Diasporas Now
Image: Minor Attractions for Frieze London with Lulu Wang and Rieko Whitfield - Photography by Isabelle Tilli
This participatory symposium, facilitated by live art platform for the Global Majority Diasporas Now, explores the emergent art of sustaining long-term collaborations and cultural movements through the lens of swarm intelligence: pollination networks toward cross-disciplinary collaboration, murmurations and magnetoreception for intuitive leadership, and mycelial strategies in creative entrepreneurship.
Diasporas Now is a practice-based collective grounded in lived experience, and artistic experimentation – led by the belief that “community building is to the collective as spiritual practice is to the individual” (as referenced in Adrienne Maree Brown’s 2017 book, Emergent Strategy).
Each artist-researcher and co-founder from the collective – Rieko Whitfield, Paola Estrella, and Lulu Wang – leads one area of inquiry, offering a conceptual provocation and a reflective, practice-led exercise.
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tour - liverpool Biennial: ‘bedrock’
with Marie-Anne McQuay
Image: Liverpool Biennial 2025 poster. Courtesy Liverpool Biennial.
‘BEDROCK’ draws on Liverpool’s distinctive geography and the beliefs which underpin the city’s social foundations. It is inspired by the sandstone which spans the city region and is found in its distinctive architecture. ‘BEDROCK’ also acts as a metaphor for the social foundations of Liverpool and the people, places and values that ground all of us.
The participating artists for Liverpool Biennial 2025 are:
Alice Rekab (Ireland/Sierra Leone); Amber Akaunu (UK/Nigeria); Amy Claire Mills (Australia); Ana Navas (Venezuela/Ecuador/Netherlands); Anna Gonzalez Noguchi (Spain/Japan/UK); Antonio Jose Guzman & Iva Jankovic (Netherlands/Panama/Serbia); Cevdet Erek (Turkey); ChihChung Chang 張致中 (Taiwan/Netherlands); Christine Sun Kim (USA); DARCH (India/Somaliland/Wales); Dawit L. Petros (Eritrea/Canada/USA); Elizabeth Price (UK); Fred Wilson (USA); Hadassa Ngamba (Democratic Republic of the Congo/Belgium); Imayna Caceres (Peru/Austria); Isabel Nolan (Ireland); Jennifer Tee (Netherlands); Kara Chin (UK/Singapore); Katarzyna Perlak (Poland/UK); Karen Tam 譚嘉文 (Canada); Leasho Johnson (USA/Jamaica); Linda Lamignan (Nigeria/Norway); Maria Loizidou (Cyprus); Mounira Al Solh (Lebanon); Nandan Ghiya (India); Nour Bishouty (Lebanon/Jordan/Palestine/Canada); Odur Ronald (Uganda); Petros Moris (Greece); Sheila Hicks (France/USA); Widline Cadet (Haiti/USA).
Marie-Anne McQuay, Curator, Liverpool Biennial 2025, said:
“The city’s geological foundations and its psyche have provided the starting point for the conversations of Liverpool Biennial 2025, with the invited artists bringing us their own definition of ‘BEDROCK’. Definitions which include family and chosen family, cultural heritage carried across the generations, and the environments that nurture and restore them. Central to this understanding of BEDROCK is the sense of loss that comes from the ongoing legacies of colonialism and empire so formative to Liverpool’s foundations.
In responding to the city, artists have taken inspiration from Liverpool’s archives and histories, from its communities and civic spirit, and from taking time to dwell in its green spaces which support plant, insect, and bird life in unexpected ways through planned and unplanned urban developments.”
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ANTHOLOGIES ASSEMBLY
Statement of Purpose
To this collective space we each bring our contributions to share with all in attendance. A boundless environment, one that we create, for the purpose of connection, investigation, exploration, and growth. It is a timely opportunity to be nourished. The consideration of who we are as artists and as researchers, the exploration of our processes and methods, and the breathing in of our artwork and the thoughts embedded in them. We create this space to be inspired.
Anthologies Assembly 2025 is for stepping outside, joining together, challenging thought, and pushing praxis further. We aim to explore our “how,” share our “why,” and as a result be filled with an energetic pulse.
aa sessions
student presentations + performances
what is inclusive and accessible art activism?
with britta fluevog
Generative AI and the Art Museum: digital Circulation, Museum Practice and Cultural Value
with Sami Itävuori
Can I get a witness? Transdimensional archiving as ceremonial practice
with Riordan Regan
Listening for a Lexicon
with ali williams
Reworlding Infrastructures: Game Engines, Technoscience, and Posthumanist Possibility
with Teodora Sinziana Alata
Cybernetics and Cultural Noise: On Exhibiting Computational Art
with Beatrice Taylor Searle
Rehearsal as Ritual: Embodying Resilience, Transformation, and Invisibility
with He Jin Jang
Altruism and Open Source
with Sandra Becker
The Only Thing I Can Do Is to Lend My Body (working title)
with He Jin Jang
Bilateral Mark Making and the Nervous System
with Stefanie Denz
Inner Sense: Unveiling the Hidden Obstacles and Potentials to Human Creativity
with Chandana Dixit
Play and Speak: How Playful and Creative Practices Can Unlock the Voice of Children with Selective Mutism
with Phei Phei Oon
Astro-Animation: Engaging Public Audiences in Astronomy Through Animation
with Laurence Arcadias
Research-Based Artistic Practice
with 2023 PhD Cohort
AA planning committees
This year’s Anthologies Assembly is being shaped by the following student-led planning committees:
Communications: Brittanie Jackson, PhD 2024
Presentations: Jake Tkaczyk, PhD 2020, and Jisun Myung, PhD 2024
Exhibitions: Ali Williams, PhD 2023, and Rachel Dagnall, PhD 2024
AA rules of engagement
Identify and connect to your “why.”
We learn more deeply when we leverage things that are personally meaningful to us. Ground yourself in your reason for attending. Ask yourself: “What do I hope to learn?,” “What do I want to share?” Let your “why” focus your intentions and interactions. Lock in.
Connect to our collective purpose.
As practice-based researchers fully immersed in our individual processes, designated time together (to take a step back, to refocus, to be in fellowship, to receive feedback, to be inspired) is important. This time together is intended to foster connection, introduce new perspectives, and lead to fresh insights. All in service of your praxis. Lean in.
Create space for the experiences and realities of those around you.
Where there are broad similarities in our interests and purpose, there may be differences in our process, methods, and outcomes. If we allow it, these areas are where we learn, where we are challenged, and where we are stretched. As well, these are areas that we can and should celebrate.
Commit to being present.
Free yourself from distraction, giving your attention to the current moment. Critically engage with the presented information.
Give your thought permission to be challenged.
There is always something new to learn. Allow yourself to question “how” and “why.” Seek deeper understanding from our interactions and the presented content. Dig deeper.
Model behaviors that you want to see.
Whether you are attending a session or presenting, be the example that you want to see from those around you. This may look like you actively listening and engaging, or it may be modeling the types of feedback you want to receive.
Communicate openly, mindfully, and intentionally.
The way we communicate matters. This includes (but is not limited to) what we say, how we say it, and when we say it. Use discernment in service of maintaining the functionality and safety of this shared-space.
Respect others.
Their process, their perspective, their personhood, their identity, their feelings, their time. Remember, we all have different experiences (inclusive of culture, language, viewpoints, etc). Give consideration limitlessly.
Remember, you contribute to the space that we share.
AA Expenses
Essential expenses related to students’ Anthologies Assembly presentations and exhibitions (excluding artwork shipping and transportation) may be eligible for reimbursement. Apply for pre-approval of expenses here.