Organization: Transart Institute for Creative Research
Location: Global
Application deadlines: 15 March 2024 and 15 May 2024
Start date: July and September 2024
Transart offers a unique, interdisciplinary atmosphere, uniting all creative fields under one nomadic roof. Where standard programs divide creative disciplines, our approach generates the cross-pollination of ideas, creating fresh work and expanding the definitions of art, curating and the creative process. Participate in international intensives, retreats and residencies, monthly trans-local weekend sessions, work independently with dedicated advisors and peer groups, earn a Practice PhD, or further your independent creative praxis through the Academy with other international advanced practitioners.
PhD Trajectory
Your practice will entwine making, writing and reflection to become rigorous and original creative research—in short, your practice IS the research. Your research will culminate in submitting an integrated thesis, which can include a presentation, exhibition, publication, reading, performance, screening, workshop and other forms of dissemination. Transart’s praxis-centered programs revolve around local and virtual residencies. Participate in presentations, symposia, fora, topical workshops, research seminars, exhibitions, screenings, cultural excursions, sound baths, listening sessions and other events to enrich your praxis. Past residencies have included Mexico City, Liverpool and New York, Berlin and Nairobi.
Practice PhD
Transart’s Creative Research PhD is for everyone with a specific project or question whose practice embodies or essentially drives their research. Your tenure in the program will transform your practice and your awareness of what it can do, significantly contributing to knowledge and practice in your field and augmenting your credentials for academic positions, grants and inclusion in research projects. 2024 will start with the Liverpool residency: July 22-26. Learn more here.
Academy Options
Our academy sessions support you individually and incrementally. Sessions advance in three-month trajectories. You may optionally start with a Praxis Refresher course in the spring, continue with a PhD Explorer course in the fall, apply for the PhD, receive a PhD Preflight scholarship for spring, and embark on a PhD in the summer. Each course is tailored to align with whichever stage of advanced creative practice you’ve reached. Whether you are simply looking to reinvigorate a longstanding praxis, want to find out more about practice-based research, or even actively prepare to apply to our Ph.D. in creative research program, we have precisely the option for you. Learn more here.
Admissions
Practice PhD: March 15 for July 2024 start. Apply here.
Academy Courses: May 15 for September 2024 start. Apply here.
About Transart
Since 2004, the Transart Institute for Creative Research has been the foremost developer of low-residency, interdisciplinary, international creative research programs. Designed and run entirely by artists, the Institute offers practice-based programs, generating space for creativity, experimentation and radical thinking in every form. We champion self-directed, curious, flexible and socially engaged creative researchers working independently or collectively.
Accreditation
Our PhD is offered in partnership with and validated by our renowned and esteemed UK academic partner, Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU).
Transart Academy course participants are awarded a TT Creative Research Certificate.
Contact
To discuss Transart’s PhD and Academy programs with co-programme leader Dr Michael Bowdidge, please click here or email here.
Image credit: Transart Nairobi residency, 2024. Photo by Aleks Slota.
