Programme:
History of Art - MPhil/PhD/MSc by Research
Start date:
September 2024
Mode of study:
Full time
Emily Clarkson is a PhD candidate in History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, supervised across Edinburgh Collage of Art and the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Emily’s project analyses the impact and legacy of Japanese born women artists working internationally in the 1960s and 70s, with specific reference to performance and the emergence of intermedia. Through her research she examines how the positioning of these experimental artists on the periphery of both Japanese and Euro-American avant-gardes facilitated an overlooked intercultural exchange that fundamentally altered the geography of postmodernism.
Prior to commencing her doctoral research Emily received her undergraduate MA from the University of Edinburgh in 2018, where she focused her research on theatre in post-1945 photography from Japan. She received her postgraduate MA from SOAS in 2023 where her thesis explored themes of transnationalism, collaborative performance, and new technologies in Red, White, Yellow, Black’s ‘Multimedia Concerts’ (1972-73). Between her undergraduate and postgraduate studies Emily worked in Shanghai as an arts educator.
Education
• MA History of Art (Hons), University of Edinburgh (2018)
• MA History of Art and Archaeology of East Asia and Japanese, SOAS - University of London (2023)
Research interests