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Category: Essay | Text

April 5, 2018 Art / Arts Catalyst events / 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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March 25, 2017 Art / Arts Catalyst events / 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 / Arts Catalyst events / 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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February 17, 2016 Essay | Text / Reports

Arts Catalyst’s new Centre for Art, Science and Technology opens in London

I’ve been back in the UK for the opening of Arts Catalyst’s new Centre for Art, Science and Technology in King’s

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Naked man on a chain leans towards laughing woman as if to bit her
December 15, 2015 Art / Essay | Text

Trust and the taste of flesh: the ethics of Martin O’Brien’s zombie performance

The first three articles from the Trust Me, I’m an Artist project (funded by Creative Europe) have just been published

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B&W photo. Man dressed as giant butterfly
July 5, 2015 Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text

The performance (and performativity) of science

The text of short talk that I gave at DASER in Washington DC a couple of weeks ago, as part

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December 31, 2014 Art / Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text / Reports

2014 at The Arts Catalyst

We began our year in the wake of China landing a probe on the Moon triggering fears of mining operations on

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September 21, 2014 Essay | Text / Reports

Nuclear culture in Japan. Pt 2: Road trip through Fukushima exclusion zone

After my lecture at the Actinium nuclear forum in Sapporo, a group of us (Arts Catalyst team and artists with

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July 19, 2014 Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text

Railways, ruins and modernity: artists’ explore Mexico’s abandoned rail network

  Our latest exhibition, Ivan Puig and Andrés Padilla Domene’s ‘SEFT-1 Abandoned Railways Exploration Probe – Modern Ruins 1:220‘ has

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April 19, 2014 Arts Catalyst events / Essay | Text

Science at the edge of the world

Antarctica science has been major news recently, with the apparent discovery of gravitational waves by the BICEP2 (Background Imaging of Cosmic

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March 10, 2014 Essay | Text

20 years of The Arts Catalyst

Speaking at the inaugural London LASER event at the University of Westminster about some of Arts Catalyst’s seminal projects over

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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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