Programme:
Art - PhD/MPhil
Start date:
Sep-21
Mode of study:
Full time
Research title:
ART AS COLLECTIVE ACTION: Towards an Alternative Future for Democracy
I am an artist-researcher working between socially engaged artistic practice and feminist theory across different forms – from editorial projects, installations, and creative/critical writing to workshops and performances. I am currently doing a doctorate as a College Research Award holder at the University of Edinburgh. My project, titled ART AS COLLECTIVE ACTION: Towards an Alternative Future for Democracy, explores through feminist practice-led research how socially engaged, community-embedded art practices enable dialogue, expand public imagination, create solidarity and re-imagine civic engagement.
I hold a trilingual (English, Italian, German) bachelor’s degree in Design and Art from the Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (UNIBZ) and a master's degree in Modern and Contemporary Art: History, Curating and Criticism from The University of Edinburgh. In addition, while completing my BA I studied for one academic year at the Barcelona School of Design (ELISAVA) with the Erasmus+ mobility scholarship.
Since March 2022, I am a member of the Community Wellbeing Collective (C.W.C.), a durational social art collective of 30+ people living in or connected to Wester Hailes practising and creating space for collective wellbeing towards change.
I currently work as a tutor in creative practice for the interdisciplinary research methods undergraduate course Researching Global Challenges 1 as part of the MA (Hons) Interdisciplinary Futures at the Edinburgh Futures Institute - The University of Edinburgh.
I am researching how socially-engaged, community-embedded art practices enable wellbeing, cohesion, civic engagement; in particular how these art practices mobilise and assemble people and create allyship and change.
In my doctoral project I am carrying out feminist artistic research as a member of the Community Wellbeing Collective (C.W.C.) that entails collective learning and action, field-based research, participatory performative exercises and which is developed in dialogue with contextual research and theoretical discourses analysis.