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Ms Kitty Brandon-James
School of Slavonic and East European Studies
London
Appointment
- Postgraduate Teaching Assistant
- Dept of History of Art
- Faculty of S&HS
Biography
Between 2013 – 2018 I lived and worked in Moscow, where I lectured art history at a university. I participated in public life via curating and contributing to exhibitions, writing and editing texts, running reading groups, and exhibition trips. Returning to the UK in 2018, I continued to focus on Russia, researching for commercial organisations, galleries, and charities, using a variety of qualitative and quantitative methods. At the same time, I completed carpentry training, and went to Cambridge University to learn more about designing multi-sensory teaching and learning experiences. I am interested in multi-sensory and experimental pedagogies, and founded The Bad Art Society at Goodenough College, where we make lo-fi interventions, and artistic thought experiments. I welcome collaboration on projects foregrounding contemporary geopolitical complexity, feminisms, informality, and affect theory. I started my PhD at UCL School of Slavonic Studies in 2021 and hope to finish by 2024.
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School of Slavonic and East European Studies, PhD, expected 2024.
PhD research investigates the development of Moscow-based contemporary art between 2012 – 2021. At the intersection of post-modern political theatre and artistic critique, it focuses on the self-organised artistic initiatives and art institutions that mushroomed in Moscow in the 2010s.
- Supervised by Dr Michal Murawski (SSEES, UCL), and Professor Sarah Wilson (The Courtauld Institute of Art).
- Fully funded by the SSEES Foundation Scholarship.
Conference Presentations:
Open System, Closed Outcome? Kitchen Debates and the Limits of the Fake in Moscow Artistic Circles, 2012 - 2020. British Association for Slavic and East European Studies (BASEES), Glasgow 2023.
Sense – Perception: Sculpture, Drawing and the Influence of Classicism, Henry Moore Institute, 2019.
Teaching Summary
University College London, PGTA, 2023.
Lead seminars, assist in lectures.
- BA 'Core Course' HART0001: History of Art & Its Objects.
- BA 'Survey Course' HART0005: c. 1600 to the Contemporary.
- Designed short summer course, Manifesto to Manifesta, delivered to 16 - 18 year olds. Funded by UCL’s Access and Widening Participation scheme.
University of Cambridge, Post Graduate Certificate of Education, 2020.
- 120 days teaching Design and Technology in two Cambridgeshire Village Schools.
- Principle Investigator of an action research project evidencing the value of playful pedagogies, and multisensory learning in a school classroom.
- Curated an exhibition and mini symposium at Darwin College. Funded by Darwin College, Cambridge.
Universal University, Moscow, Lecturer, 2014 – 2018.
- Oversaw the design and delivery of a two-term art history survey course attended by 100 students, and two specific art theory courses, delivered to 20 students.
- Organised the guest lecture series, connecting students to Moscow based practitioners.
- Ran large scale trips to museums, a reading group, and group exhibitions.
- Contextual Studies Foundation Core Course: From Cave Painting to the Present Day
- BA Second Year, Fine Art: Art in Theory and Practice
- BA Second Year, Photography: Photography in Theory and Practice
