We are delighted to announce that Yin Aiwen is the 2024 recipient of the Asymmetry PhD Scholarship for the ‘Advanced Practices’ programme, in collaboration with the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London. Joining an existing cohort of three other PhD Scholars supported by us, Aiwen was selected from an international Open Call earlier this year, and will begin her four-year academic undertaking in the autumn term of 2024.
About the Asymmetry PhD Scholarship
The Asymmetry PhD Scholarship at Goldsmiths is an academic opportunity within the field of artistic practice and cross-cultural research. Awarded to one successful candidate per academic year, the Scholarship covers the full four years of the ‘Advanced Practices’ PhD programme, including tuition fees, monthly rent, and living and research costs.
Aimed at practitioners who identify to any extent with Greater Chinese and Sinophone cultures and heritage, based in the regions or internationally, the Asymmetry PhD Scholarship at Goldsmiths is one of our core initiatives taking place across London in partnership with leading UK institutions, including Chisenhale Gallery, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, and Tate Modern.
Asymmetry’s Scholarship Programmes understand the fundamental importance of higher education and seek to develop a new generation of cultural thinkers to expand how Greater Chinese and Sinophone culture is represented globally. We work towards shaping the future of curatorial, art historical and museum studies for a more inclusive and diverse landscape.
About the ‘Advanced Practices’ Programme
At Goldsmiths, University of London
The MPhil/PhD ‘Advanced Practices’ at Goldsmiths offers practitioners the opportunity to maintain their existing work while engaging with the widening horizons of new practices. The degree is practice-driven, research-based, and can incorporate projects in progress, collaborations with organisations and platforms, or be the opportunity to rethink the circulation and meaning of how and to whom work can communicate itself. ‘Advanced Practices’ is geared towards advancing the grounds for different forms of practice, from artistic to infrastructural. Animated by concepts including 'anthropology as cultural critique', 'curatorial knowledges’, and ‘the exhibitionary matrix', the programme encourages practitioners to invent methodologies, reframe urgencies, and reimagine the contexts in which our work is circulating.
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Goldsmiths, University of London