The Global Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. Angela's work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
About Angela
Dr Angela Piccini is Programme Lead for the BA Fine Art and is UoA32 REF Coordinator in the School of Art, Design and Architecture.
Angela's work is inspired by writer Donna Haraway to 'stay with the trouble' of the traces of the past in the present. Combining archaeological imaginaries and speculative futures, her practice works with archives, found materials, and memory to explore place, land, belonging, exclusion and the potential of process and practice to produce new, imagined, and real places.
Angela has specific interests in contested urban spaces and spatial practice, co-creation, and practice-as-research. Her research spans histories of urban video art and their relationships with port planning and infrastructure; participatory, social practice and co-produced moving image projects that engage with critical questions of heritage and society; digital technologies and moving image archives; mega event screen infrastructures and their entanglement with cultural heritage.
Angela's story begins in Vancouver, Canada – the unceded, shared territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tseil-Waututh) nations. Her parents came to Vancouver from Chile and Italy. She is a first-generation academic with a long-standing commitment to interdisciplinary, intermedial and cross-sector research through peer-reviewed scholarship and through social practice, performance and the moving image.
What connects Angela's research and teaching activities is her turning a critical lens across all materials and media involved in the making, circulating, consuming and subverting of narrative in order to investigate how narrative itself becomes a medium for material transformation.
Never having been taught about the importance of 'discipline' until it was too late, Angela remains unapologetically interdisciplinary. Her return to Fine Art after journeys across (with a nod to ) Archaeology, Geography, Heritage, Film, Screen Media, and Performance illustrates a centring of attentions to place, material sensitivity, aesthetics, politics, and a bit of tricksterism.Â
Before working in academia, Angela worked as a janitor, a college radio DJ, an archivist, a librarian, a cook, and a publications officer for Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments where she commissioned photography, design, and print for guidebooks and postcards.
Supervised Research Degrees
Director of Studies
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