Irit Rogoff, Professor of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London introduces and discusses the brand-new PhD programme ‘Advanced Practices’, within which Asymmetry is supporting a fully funded PhD Scholarship. Rogoff is one of the key initiators of the transdisciplinary field of Visual Cultures and founder of the department at Goldsmiths. An innovative thinker and avant-gardist, Rogoff has explored how critical perspectives and emergent subjectivities have informed the basis for understandings of the relations between subjects, places and spaces.

‘Advanced Practices’ is a new Post Graduate research programme in the Department of Visual Cultures (Goldsmiths, University of London) that brings together transdisciplinary research and practice. It explores the intersections between core ideas in contemporary culture and the ways they shape and entangle with practices. The programme views practices beyond the ability to make and produce and towards capacities to give form to experiences of knowledge. While mainly idea driven rather than studio based, the programme aids in conceptualising new formats of PhD research and new ways of submitting this work.

The ‘Advanced Practices’ programme has emerged in response to the research turn in the arts - artistic activity propelled by exploring, inventing and restaging knowledge formats. ‘Advanced Practices’ is the term the programme is using for understanding what constitutes the grounds for practice and asking how practices move forward or ‘advance’ to offer forms of contemporary entanglement. The programme is taught and supervised by Prof. Irit Rogoff, Dr. Adnan Madani, and Dr. Adrian Heathfield.

Seminars are taught six times a year, encouraging those working in the field to be able to maintain their work. This is a practice-driven and research-based programme that can incorporate projects in progress, collaborations with organisations, and platforms. It can also be an opportunity to rethink the circulation and meaning of how/to whom work is communicated, and to put forms of transdisciplinarity and trans-operationality into practice. The Department of Visual Cultures is a small but vibrant research-active department in the School of Culture and Society at Goldsmiths, comprised of globally acclaimed researchers, artists, and curators from across many fields.

For more information on Goldsmiths’ PhD programme, visit the departmental website 

 or the ‘Advanced Practices’ website 

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ADVANCED PRACTICES PhD programme, Department of Visual Cultures Goldsmiths, University of London