Research – The Global Contemporary Research Group

Topics

Our research engages a range of topics including:

art and capitalism
the art and visual culture of biopolitics
modernity and contemporaneity
urban contexts and the creative industries
art institutions and labour
feminism and sexual politics
the environment and social reproduction
technology and networks
democracy and neo-fascism.

Publications

Angela Dimitrakaki, Feminism. Art. Capitalism. (Pluto Press, 2025).

Kirsten Lloyd, ‘Art, Life and Capitalist Social Reproduction: Curating Social Practice’, The Journal of Curatorial Studies 10, no. 2 (2021): 150–76.

Andrew Patrizio, The Ecological Eye: Assembling an Ecocritical Art History (Manchester University Press, 2018)

Ian Rothwell, Postinternet Art and its Afterlives (Routledge, 2024)

Tamara Trodd, Counter-Realism: Art and Subjectivity in Contemporary Capitalism (Manchester University Press, 2025).

Curatorial Projects

Oct 18, 2024

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