ABOUT

MUCK began in 2018 as an online archive dedicated to platforming critical art writing and visual art. Activated through the mechanism of open calls disseminated online, the archive houses text and/or visual art practices that are responsive and experimental.

As creative researchers and stewards for MUCK, we continually take a reflexive position to re-examine our approaches to research. We acknowledge ourselves as conduits for MUCK, and we emerge in tandem with its shape and form as it proliferates across multiple in-person and digital realms.

Each node relates to the intra-connecting modalities of critical thinking, art writing, and visual art practice. We carve this space beyond, between, and out with the traditional framework of institutional academia.

we embody the archive as forever enfolding, fertile and holding ground for critical responses to thematic discourse

we engage creative research practice as radically open

How can we as co-conspirators respond to the multitudinous and transgressive ways meaning is made?

How can we create and disseminate beyond institutional notions of legibility?

we conduct and disseminate this research through interrogative discourse and creative collaborative projects

This work is undertaken by co-conspirators:

India Boxall (current)
Annemarijn Vermeij (current)
Niamh Moloney (past)
Shona Robin Macpherson (past)