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Nicola Triscott

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Groups of people talk within a visually rich, neon-bedecked installation.
January 27, 2023 Essay | Text

Cultural inquiry as curatorial strategy

Some thoughts on the evolution of my curatorial practice from co-inquiry to cultural inquiry and curating the institution through a move between different scales and types of arts organisation.

Four white-grey wolves on grass seen from above. One wolf looks up at the viewer.
January 24, 2023 Art / Artists / Essay | Text

And Say the Animal Responded?

And Say the Animal Responded? was the first large-scale show I curated for FACT Liverpool after joining as Director in

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A close up of five clear plastic clamshells on a beach. Each contains a small black electronic box.
November 27, 2022 Essay | Text

Oceans 4.0

Oceans 4.0 in Autumn 2019 was the first show I curated for FACT Liverpool as its new director. It heralded

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People gather round several lit round tables in a darkened room (about 8 people on each table). They look deeply engaged in conversation. Behind them a large screen has the caption: JACK TAN. PERFORMING BOARDNESS.
November 26, 2022 Essay | Text

Performing ‘boardness’

I haven’t posted since I joined FACT Liverpool as its Director in May 2019. I guess I’ve been busy –

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black balloon, person suspended, white desert, blue sky
June 9, 2019 Announcements

Leaving Arts Catalyst after 25 years

In April I left Arts Catalyst, the organisation I founded 25 years ago, to take up my new post as

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June 1, 2018 Announcements

The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture

The Live Creature and Ethereal Things: Physics in Culture – edited by curator Nicola Triscott and artist Fiona Crisp, published by Arts Catalyst – is a collection of texts, images and conversations that present fundamental physics and the physics of the universe as human activities and cultural endeavours.

April 5, 2018 Art / Essay | Text

Dreamed Native Ancestry (DNA) : Re-thinking race and migration

In 1977, NASA launched two robotic probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, into space to study the outer solar system. Passing beyond our sun’s planetary

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A group of Inuit people gather around a portable device
January 20, 2018 Essay | Text

Curating contemporary art in the framework of the planetary commons

My paper ‘Curating contemporary art in the framework of the planetary commons’ was recently published in The Polar Journal. Volume

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Art and Intervention in the Stewardship of the Planetary Commons: Towards a Curatorial Model of Co-Inquiry. PhD by Published Work. Nicola Triscott, 2017.
November 5, 2017 Art / Essay | Text

PhD Thesis: Curating the Co-Inquiry

I was recently awarded a PhD by Published Work from the University of Westminster, and – because of several requests

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June 4, 2017 Art / Artists

Revisiting Fukushima: responses to an ongoing disaster

I visited Fukushima in 2014. Fukushima. The word – like Chernobyl or Three Mile Island – is synonymous with nuclear

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May 6, 2017 Announcements / Art / Artists

New book: ARIEL GUZIK – HOLOTURIAN

Arts Catalyst recently published this small publication to mark the planned launch of Ariel Guzik’s Holoturian in the Gulf of California in

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March 25, 2017 Art / Essay | Text

Conflict Minerals: extractive capitalism

Extractive capitalism has spread over our world with a rapacious force.  From the mineral-rich Congo to mountaintop removal coal mining

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November 16, 2016 Essay | Text

All at sea

Let us talk about oceans.  About resilience. About the sailor. During the past week, I have had the joy of spending

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Boat on marsh
September 7, 2016 Announcements / Art / Essay | Text

Graveyard of Lost Species: a monument for a changing estuary

A few weeks ago, Arts Catalyst launched the Graveyard of Lost Species, a public monument by artists YoHa (Graham Harwood

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Poster showing coastline. Text: No man is an island. No country by itself.
June 26, 2016 Essay | Text

The active role for culture in a divided nation

A surprising number of people have said to me lately that they don’t know any Leave supporters at all. So I

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Nicola Triscott is a curator, writer and researcher, specialising in the intersections of art, science and society.

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