School of Arts & Humanities
Introduction
Dean, School of Arts & Humanities – Ken Neil
The School as a collection of diverse Programmes is concerned to examine the means by which the arts are made, critiqued, displayed and engaged with; means that comprise the rich array of positions, methods, contexts and materials that artists, designers, curators and writers use and have used, as well as the subjects, ideas and issues that are attended to by our disciplines.
Whatever the Programme discipline, the students’ work on RCA2020 pays attention to the arts within the everyday, and to the everyday as a site of individual practice, but not to the exclusion of urgent topics of common contemporary relevance – relevance for the arts & humanities, and for our society as a whole.
In significant and enduring ways, the everyday comes into being through the arts, and, moreover, including in tumultuous times, our world is diagnosed and treated, urgently and gradually, by the arts. The arts help us make the world for us and help us make our way in that world, navigating the particularities of place, identity, and history, while seeking common foundations that might underpin art and humanity.
All students and staff across the School and College are to be commended for the vitality of their work in this exceptional year, and we all hope that all visitors enjoy the range of work on show and the diverse everydays that our students have brought alive for us.
Programmes
Collections
The Forms of Resistance
Exploring the haptic
Curated by Joyce Wang
Curated by Hart Club
Curated by Emma Shipley
U/Dys:topia
Curated by Roger Guyett
Curated by Ian Griffiths
Decolonial discourse and diasporic identity
Curated by Denise Ream
Curated by Ifeanyi Awachie
Curated by Joe Hill
Curated by Jony Ive
The land beneath and beyond the metropolis
Pets, pests and beasts
Curated by Roland Lamb
Dinner’s Ready
Curated by Caroline Grainge
Curated by Dr Nick de Leon
Curated by Es Devlin
Curated by Magdalene Odundo
Curated by Samuel Ross
Curated by Peter Schreyer
Curated by Victor Wang
Curated by Kai-Lu Hsiung
Curated by Colum Lowe
Surveillance and cyber-security
Curated by John Thackara
Curated by Esther Leslie
Curated by Francesca Amfitheatrof
Traditional techniques and forgotten methods
Works by scholarship holders in the Schools of Arts and Humanities and Communication.
Unreal Engine
Curated by Prof. Rebecca Fortnum
Curated by Paul Priestman
Curated by Ian Griffiths
Curated by John Bloomfield
Curated by Tim Dixon
Our home
The Forms of Resistance
Society and intergenerational relationships
Draw with us
Curated by Irini Papadimitriou
Curated by Professor Andreas Gursky
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Curated by Fabien Baron
Curated by Viktoria Modesta
Sexuality and gender
Curated by Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, OBE
Curated by Lisa Panting
The Forms of Resistance
Art practice and the environment
Curated by Sandhini Poddar
Curated by Basil Alkazzi
Curated by Edward Enninful
Curated by Dr Omar Kholeif, FRSA
The Forms of Resistance
Recycling, reuse and repetition
What goes wrong, and sometimes can be set right
Curated by Christopher Bailey CBE
