Threads of Thought: WSA PhD Exhibition 2025

Join us this month for a new exhibition of PhD work! The Winchester School of Art PhD research group are very pleased to present ‘Threads of Thought’. These works use practice or creative methods as a model of exploration, whether in fine art, design, or related fields. The selected works highlight the production process as a form of thinking, questioning, and unfolding.

Private View:

6 June (Friday 16:30 – 18:00)

Public Opening:

6 – 26 June
Mon-Sat 10am – 5:30pm
Sun – Closed

Location:  

Gallery 37 / Community Hub | Unit 37 The Brooks, Winchester, SO23 8QY

Thought is not a fixed point but a thread—unfolding, tangling, looping through forms, materials, and methods. When research takes shape through practice, knowledge is not simply demonstrated but made, tested, and reconfigured.

‘Threads of Thought’ invites a critical engagement with how knowledge is produced, questioned, and transformed through creative practice. Through iterative methodologies, material enquiry, and interdisciplinary engagement, the exhibition explores the embodied thinking and experimental processes that shape doctoral research beyond traditional academic forms.

Through language, visual impact, spatial extension, and human interaction, the works presented here demonstrate how practice emerges as a mode of enquiry—threading together ideas, materials, and methods across disciplines.

Curators:

Yimeng Li
Elissa Wang
Jingnan Bian

Masks: The Face Between Bodies and Networks

By way of a welcome back from the Winter Break, a link to some interesting reading: YiÄźit Soncul (recent PhD alumnus; now Associate Lecturer at UAL) and Jussi Parikka (Professor in Technological Culture & Aesthetics at WSA) on the significance of the mask. The essay is published in issue 66, “State of Emergency”, of Neural, of which WSA’s Alessandro Ludovico is the chief editor. It can also be read here.

Boundary2 Special Issue: Frictionless Sovereignty

Boundary2’s online journal recently published a special issue, edited by WSA’s Ryan Bishop, on “Frictionless Sovereignty”. The special issue can be accessed from the journal’s website. Here, Ryan talks about the collaborations and research interests from which the special issue grew.

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New Book: Technocrats of the Imagination

John Beck & Ryan Bishop Technocrats of the Imagination, recently published by Duke University Press, is about a particularly striking form of interdisciplinarity: the Cold War cooperation between the military-industrial complex and avant-garde art. Below, Ryan shares some of the background related to how he came to co-author the book, the experience of writing the book and the continued necessity of understanding the Cold War.

Technocrats of the Imagination cover

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