Lecturer

Email: glenn.loughran@TUDublin.ie

Tel: +35312205895

I am an artist, lecturer, and researcher at the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts. Since 2015 I have been the course leader on the B.A in Visual Art on Sherkin Island and in 2020 I set up the archipelagic MA in Art and Environment in West Cork. Recently I have also acted as Head of Artistic Research in GradCAM and I am currently joint Research Co-ordinator in the TU Dublin School of Creative Arts with Dr. Mary Ann Bolger.

Current research activities in these roles include:

Lead TU Dublin Researcher / Guayaquil Archipelago. MSCA RISE Real Smart Cities / 2018-19
Co-Investigator / MSCA RISE Real Smart Cities / 2018 – 21
Co-investigator / MSCA RISE: NEST / 2021 – 25
Co-Investigator / Erasmus+ RASL: Art & Science / 2019 – 22
Co-Investigator / Erasmus+ FAST45: Futures Art School Trends / 2021 – 23
TU Dublin Research Fellow / ELIA: Working Group on Artistic Research / 2020 –
TU Dublin Co-ordinator: Towards a Virtual University of Arts / TU Dublin/ELIA virtual reality education programme / 2021 – 22

Research Interests

Research interests include transdisciplinary education, artistic research, socially engaged art, critical pedagogy, Island studies, and environmental arts. I welcome proposals for supervision in the areas of Artistic Research, Socially Engaged Arts, and Critical Pedagogy.

Supervision

Current PhD Supervision:

Analysing Organisation and Management of Participatory Art Projects in Contemporary Art Institutions. Grainne Coughlan
Commonist Aesthetics: A Praxic critique of the economization of space through arts-based research. Fiona Woods
Time, agency, permanence, and the future of artistic labour. Alan Magee

Publications

Recent:

Book Chapter: Evental Research: After the future…of Work. Aftermath: The fall and Rise after the Event (Jagiellonian University Press, 2020).
Book Chapter: The Swerve. Leap into Action: Critical Performative Pedagogies in Art & Design Education (Peter Lang, 2020).
Book Chapter: Archipelagic Imaginaries: A world-centered art education at the end of the world. (Ethics & Politics, 2020).
Book Chapter: Contributory Research and social (self) sculpture. Bifurquer (Les Liens Qui Liberent, 2020)

Forthcoming:

Book Publication: What is an Island? Art and Archipelagic Thinking in the 21st Century (2021)
Book Chapter: Mode D: On Evental Modes of Exchange in Contemporary Art. Performing Institutions. (Intellect, 2021).
Book Chapter: Navigating the Relationship Between Socially Engaged Art and Archipelagic Thinking in the 21st Century. Contested Narratives in Socially Engaged Art (Cork University Press, 2021)
Research Pamphlet: Unislanding Artistic Research (ELIA, 2021)

Recent Conference Papers / Presentation

Recent:

Archipelagic Imaginaries: A world-centered art education at the end of the world. CREATE Lectures Series. Art and Society Learning programme / April 24th. 2020
What is an Island? The Digital Archipelago: A reflection on Socially Engaged Art Education and Technology. CREATE Networking Day / December 9th. 2020
Reflections on Blended Learning in Art and Design. National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education / April 15, 2021
Virtual Reality Education. ELIA Campfire Chat: / Thursday 11 March

Forthcoming:

Keynote Presentation: Art and Archipelagic Education in Virtual Environments. ELIA / TU Dublin Symposia: Towards a Virtual University of Arts. (Virtual Reality Platform: Spatial .io. / 29th June, 2021.
Panel Co-organiser. Sustainable Development and Courage. Culture, Art and Human Rights. International Sustainable Development Research Society (ISDRS) / Stockholm on June 15-17, 2022.

Practice

Exhibiting Nationally and Internationally my art practice develops expanded, socially engaged art projects that engage multiple actors and stakeholders. Merging artistic research, pedagogical process, and evental philosophy these durational practices are captured in the links below:

Digital Therapeutics. Other Peoples Practices / 2019 -21
What is an island? Art and Archipelagic Thinking in the 21st Century / 2018 – 21
After the Future…of Work / 2016 – 18
Mode D / 2012 – 14
The Hedgeschoolproject / 2006 – 12

Websites:

www.art-environment.com
www.bavasherkin.com
www.internation.world