scientific comittee

Università Iuav di Venezia

Emanuele Arielli, Marco Bertozzi, Elisa Bizzotto, Maria Malvina Borgherini, Giovanni Careri, Monica Centanni, Massimiliano Ciammaichella, Mario Farina, Maria Luisa Frisa, Paolo Garbolino, Carmelo Marabello, Stefano Mazzanti, Angela Mengoni, Gabriele Monti, Annalisa Sacchi, Stefano Tomassini, Alessandra Vaccari, Angela Vettese, Francesco Zucconi

experts

Renato Bocchi

PhD students

Marzia Avallone, Guido Balzani, Roberta Bernasconi, Dylan Colussi, Giulia Crisci, Roberta Da Soller, Edoardo Ferrari, Alberto Groja, Martina Alia Mascia, Teresa Masini, Clizia Moradei, Roberto Paolo Ormanni, Laura Pante, Alessia Prati, Valentina Rizzi, Alessandro Tollari, Alessandra Varisco, Giulia Zanon, Maria Paola Zedda

PhD students with Iuav grants in doctoral courses of national interest

Nicholas Bortolotti - Università degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli"

Giovanni Perolo - Università Statale di Milano

Rebecca Tognazzi - Università degli Studi di Bari "Aldo Moro"

The PhD track in Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Fashion aims to build the basis for a shared reflection between theoretical, creative and applied research. The training programme aims to provide knowledge of transdisciplinary methodologies and paradigms that interrogate the respective research objects in an enlarged cultural field.

The objective of the doctorate is to train researchers or professionals who will be able to work, besides the academic field, in the areas of cultural production, curatorship, artistic practices, production, communication and market systems related to the arts.

The fields involved include scientific research in visual arts, visual and media cultures, and aesthetics and politics of performance. Research is conducted with perspectives that do not limit the image to its historical, iconographic, or philological framework. Additionally, the programme focuses on fashion as an industry and cultural medium with an intrinsically multidisciplinary nature, exploring its relations with modernity, contemporaneity, and the construction of the imaginary.

Within the framework of a doctorate school that focuses on the cultural and cognitive production potential of the design process, the theoretical horizon is to be understood as an exploration of devices, articulations, and knowledge immanent to the objects of the cultures and artistic creations of reference.

As regards the specific teaching and research activities that accompany the transversal training provided by Bembo Writing Workshop, the study programme in Visual Arts, Performing Arts and Fashion is indicatively structured with a full-time commitment in the first year, while, in the following two years, PhD students are committed to following the activities proposed by the scientific committee of the field and to carrying out their research, with annual checks and reviews.

Conferences and conventions on relevant topics are held annually. Past events include a series of conferences focused on the 'Exposed Body', which resulted in the publication of the book 'The Exposed Body', edited by Angela Vettese and Camilla Salvaneschi, Gli Ori, Pistoia 2023. The theme chosen for the 2023 academic year is 'Disappearances'. The general themes are chosen by the Scientific Committee among topics of interest for the three fields of study (Visual Art, Performing Arts and Fashion studies) that, while being close to each other, have different training needs.

The annual (or biennial) theme is developed with the participation of scholars, theorists, and artists, often from abroad and in contact with non-Italian educational, museum or production institutions. They may sometimes give lectures ex-cathedra and engage in dialogues with multiple parties. Students are always encouraged to intervene so that the initiatives take on a seminar-like trend.