Birkbeck School of Arts Postgraduate Research Showcase at the ICA, 2022

<p>On Tuesday 28th June 2022, The School of Arts at Birkbeck, University of London, held its inaugural Postgraduate Research (PGR) Showcase at the Institute of Contemporary Arts on The Mall in London. Heralded as an opportunity to discover where creative curiosity meets critical thinking, Birkbeck doctoral researchers and alumni shared and presented their creative practice research. Talks and exhibits on view to the public included poetry, photography, film curation, audio-visual essays, and radio.</p> <p>The presenters at the event, all featured in the audio, are listed below alongside a link to some of their work. The lead organiser of the evening was <strong>Janet McCabe</strong>, <a href="https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8006997/janet-mccabe">https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8006997/janet-mccabe</a></p> <p><strong>Russell Banfield</strong> presented his film, <em>The Woman in the Yellow Dress. </em><a href="https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/fc/article/id/2709/">https://journals.publishing.umich.edu/fc/article/id/2709/</a></p> <p><strong>Caroline Molloy </strong>presented <em>Backgrounds as Foregrounds,</em> representing one aspect of her research process that used creative practice as a way of gathering knowledge and understanding the relationship between the photographic studio and the portrait of the sitter. <a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/caroline-molloy/">https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/caroline-molloy/</a></p> <p><strong>Fran Lock</strong> read a selection of new poems. <a href="https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/itemlist/user/679-franlock">https://www.culturematters.org.uk/index.php/itemlist/user/679-franlock</a></p> <p><strong>Sarah Scarsbrook</strong> screened a film, <em>The Coding Cave and the Performative Fishbowl, </em>alongside<em> </em>drawings, <em>ReCollected: Self-Reflective Analytic Drawings</em>, with <em>Data Reams on Stand: Data-Date: Conversations in Reams</em>. <a href="https://www.uca.ac.uk/about-us/our-staff/sarah-scarsbrook/">http