TrAIN Research Centre

30/05/2023

Tomorrow we celebrate the culmination of the Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands - Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded research network, co-led by Paul Goodwin and Carolina Rito (Coventry University).

This project explored the institutional and curatorial strategies of the movement in the 1980s, and the institutional support in promoting and showing Black curators and artists then and today. The network it created also aimed to understand how the 1980s movement’s motivations can provide models for the sector today.

Join us in launching the project’s publication and in reflecting on the project process through a roundtable with the project working group members, including: Anjalie Dalal-Clayton, Ian Sergeant and Marlene Smith.

The Role of Visual Arts Organisations in the British Black Arts Movement in the Midlands: Book Launch and Roundtable

03/05/2023

TrAIN Open Live with Daiara Tukano and Michael Asbury is starting soon...

Join us at 6pm. Free and open to all.

Ticket sales close at 5.30pm.

Artist and activist Daiara Tukano will be in conversation with Michael Asbury on Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil

02/05/2023

We are delighted to welcome artist and activist, Daiara Tukano, who will be in conversation with Michael Asbury, to discuss Contemporary Indigenous Art in Brazil.

There is still time to sign-up:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/train-open-live-contemporary-indigenous-art-in-brazil-with-daiara-tukano-tickets-619832033297

23/01/2023

Don't miss our next TrAIN event this Wednesday at 6 pm

TrAIN Community Engagement & Social Purpose in Art: Artist Marcelo Silveira

Brazilian artist Marcelo Silveira will be in conversation with TrAIN member Dr Michael Asbury. The event will be in Portuguese with simultaneous translation.

Event is online and free. Please sign up here:

Artist Marcelo Silveira in conversation with Michael Asbury (In Portuguese with simultaneous translation)

15/02/2022

Don't miss our with Irene V. Small tomorrow at 6 pm. Irene will discuss the citation to "Black Square"
in painting "Discovery of the Organic Line".

Register on Eventbrite at: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/train-open-lecture-irene-v-small-circling-black-square-tickets-230341777457

A talk by Irene V. Small - Associate Professor of Contemporary Art & Criticism in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton.

11/02/2022

Register for our next Wednesday the 16th with Irene V. Small from Princeton University The talk with reflect on 's pictorial citation of 's "Black Square" in her painting "Discovery of the Organic Line"

A talk by Irene V. Small - Associate Professor of Contemporary Art & Criticism in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton.

01/02/2022

Irene V. Small from Princeton University will the next guest of our February Her talk attempts to think through "Black Square" and pictorial citation of Black Square in the painting "Discovery of the Organic Line".
The lecture hopes to suggest how the multi-temporal and real-time tenses of the contemporary might allow us to recover, dis-cover, a paradigm of discovery against invention, thereby rearticulating the stakes of the modernist inheritance for the present.

Register for the event at:

A talk by Irene V. Small - Associate Professor of Contemporary Art & Criticism in the Department of Art & Archaeology at Princeton.

19/01/2022

Starting soon! Join us at 6pm today to discuss people and encounters in XVIc and methods with researchers from the Getty Research Institute. Registration still open at:

The Digital Florentine Codex (launching in 2023) reflects Getty’s dedication to digital scholarship and access to cultural heritage.

17/01/2022

Register for our this Wednesday http://ow.ly/b2KG50Hweus Researchers from the Getty Research Institute will discuss their use methods to make the Florentine Codex, an encyclopedia, accessible to new audiences

The Digital Florentine Codex (launching in 2023) reflects Getty’s dedication to digital scholarship and access to cultural heritage.

13/01/2022

The Florentine Codex is the 1st encyclopedia of the . It covers the culture, politics, natural science and history. Written in Spanish and Nahuatl, it presents different versions about the conquest of .

Register for our next next Wednesday with researchers from Getty Research Institute Researchers to know more about the digital initative they are developing to make it more accessible to new audiences and faciltate critical interpreations about it:

The Digital Florentine Codex (launching in 2023) reflects Getty’s dedication to digital scholarship and access to cultural heritage.

11/01/2022

and relationships in XVI century Mexico and decolonising approaches will be some of the topics discussed in our 1st of 2022 on the 19th of January. Register for this lecture about the Florentine Codex Initiative from the Getty Research Institute at:

The Florentine Codex is a sixteenth-century Mexican manuscript produced collaboratively by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of Nahua authors and artists. Its twelve books contain three distinctive narratives: a primary Nahuatl text (an Indigenous language of central Mexico), a Span...

17/12/2021

You can now register for our 1st of 2022. A team of researchers from the Getty Research Institute led by Kim Richter will discuss their work for the Florentine Codex Initiative: a project that brings the XVI c. Mexican manuscript to digital audiences. The codex is renowned as a critical source on central Mexican culture and for its competing narratives about history of the conquest of Mexico. Produced collaboratively by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of Indigenous authors and artists, it is written in Spanish and Nahuatl.

The Florentine Codex is a sixteenth-century Mexican manuscript produced collaboratively by Franciscan friar Bernardino de Sahagún and a team of Nahua authors and artists. Its twelve books contain three distinctive narratives: a primary Nahuatl text (an Indigenous language of central Mexico), a Span...