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Decolonising the Archives

Research Residency Programme 2020

 

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

 

University of the Arts London

UAL Decolonising Arts Institute in partnership with

UAL Archives, Museum and Special Collections

 

About the Residencies

 

Decolonising the Archives is a new collaborative initiative at University of the Arts London (UAL), developed by UAL Decolonising Arts Institute in partnership with UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre (ASCC). We are pleased to announce a joint call for proposals for a series of nine-month research residency opportunities in 2020.

 

Decolonising the Archives builds on ASCC’s ongoing residency programme (2017-2022), supported by the Museums, Galleries and Collections Fund, Research England), and UAL Library’s wider initiatives to decolonise the curriculum. The collaborative partnership with UAL Decolonising Arts Institute seeks to place questions of decolonisation and decolonial praxes at the core of collections practice and research:

 

 

The Decolonising the Archives Research Residency Programme will award bursaries of £6,000 to three postdoctoral researchers (including curatorial and creative practice-based). Researchers will be in residence for a period of up to six months from January 2020, at one of three locations: UAL Archives and Special Collections Centre and London College of Communication Library (LCC); Central Saint Martins Museum & Study Collection (CSM); special collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library, including the African-Caribbean, Asian and African Art in Britain Archive. Researchers will spend a further three months writing up and/or producing research outputs for publication and dissemination in autumn 2020. The residencies are opportunities to interrogate UAL’s archives and special collections through critical and creative research strategies that engage decolonial thinking/doing and questions of decolonisation. We invite proposals that focus on a specific collection or aspect of a collection, and/or artwork(s) or archival object(s) held at ASCC, LCC Library, CSM or Chelsea Library. We welcome approaches that challenge, for example, dominant narratives of identity, nation, culture, language, heritage, Britishness, whiteness, blackness, race, class, gender, sexuality, dis/ability, age, belief, feminism, modernism, radicalism, activism…; as well as the politics of institutional memory and archival silences. 

 

Who is eligible to apply?

 

The call is open to post-doctoral researchers with a relevant arts background from any UK- based University. Applications from current PhD students will be considered if the opportunity clearly aligns with their research. Secondments from other Higher Education Institutions will be considered. The applicant must be able to work in the UK and remain resident until 31st March 2021.

 

The deadline for submissions is 14 November 2019.

 

Full details including how to apply available in the attachment.

 

Kind Regards,

 

Clare Pattenden

Institute Manager

Decolonising the Arts Institute

 

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