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Projects

The Art History and Visual Culture is involved with a number of research projects funded by organisations such as the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Wellcome Trust.

Featured project

Hidden Cities

PUblic REnaissance: Urban Cultures of Public Space between Early Modern Europe and the Present is a three-year project funded by the Humanities in European Research Area (HERA), involving researchers from universities in Italy, Germany the Netherlands, Spain and the UK. Led by Professor Fabrizio Nevola the team aims to examine how public spaces, from street-corners to major city squares, were shaped by the everyday activities of ordinary city-dwellers between 1450 and 1700.

‌ Hidden Cities website

Hidden Cities	Professor Fabrizio Nevola
Florence 4D	Professor Fabrizio Nevola
Visualising COVID-19	Professor David Houston-Jones
Popular Performance for New Urban Audiences: Reconnecting M50 Creative Cluster with Shanghai All-Female Yue Opera	Professor Nick Kaye
SiteWorks: San Francisco Performance 1969–85	Professor Nick Kaye
Race, Empire and the Pre-Raphaelities: Decolonising Victorian Art and Design through Museum Collections and Practice	Dr Sabrina Rahman

Masculinity and the Ethics of Porosity in "Post-Aids" Gay Porn	Dr João Florêncio
Performing documents: modelling creative and curatorial engagements with live art and performance archives	Professor Nick Kaye
1914FACES2014	Professor David Houston Jones
Rock/Body: Performative Interfaces between the Geologic and the Body	Dr João Florêncio
Hidden Florence	Professor Fabrizio Nevola
Performing Presence: From the Live to the Simulated	Professor Nick Kaye
The Atlantic Project: After the Future	Professor Tom Trevor
4th Dojima River Biennale: Take Me to the River	Professor Tom Trevor
Music for Museums	Professor Tom Trevor
Black Sun: Alchemy, Diaspora and Heterotopia	Professor Tom Trevor
Research and Enterprise in Arts and Creative Technologies: REACT KE Hub	Professor Nick Kaye
Bridging the Gaps: Mixed Reality Performance of Chinese Opera in Shanghai’s Rural and Urban Heritage Sites	Professor Nick Kaye
Digital Reconstruction in Archaeology and Contemporary Performance	Professor Nick Kaye