Conference organizer, ‘Alchemies of Research: Possibilities and Transformations in Arts, Design and Media’, The PGR Studio Annual Conference. Birmingham, 5 July 2019.
Workshop coordinator, ‘Spice-Up Your Write!’, The PGR Studio Team. Birmingham, 29 May 2019.
I am a postgraduate research student at Birmingham City University (BCU) where I hold a Midlands3Cities AHRC Doctoral Studentship Award. My research investigates contemporary Chinese artistic responses to the unprecedented urbanisation in China in order to raise awareness of this phenomenon’s social implications. Through the notion of fiction, my thesis reassesses the impact of urbanisation in the contemporary artistic scene, revealing the creative potential of urban transformation. My supervisors are Jiang Jiehong, expert researcher and curator in contemporary art and visual culture; and Theo Revees-Evison, Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at Birmingham School of Art.
Mirra, F. (2019), ‘Reverie through Ma Yansong’s shanshui city to evoke and re-appropriate China’s urban space’, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 6:2+3, pp. 393–413, doi: 10.1386/jcca_00013_1
Mirra, Federica. Review of Visual Arts, Representations and Interventions in Contemporary China: Urbanized Interface, by Minna Valjakka and Meiqin Wang. Journal of Visual Art Practice 18, no. 3 (2019): 282-284. https://doi.org/10.1080/14702029.2019.1643981.
Contributing author of:
- Thailand Biennale Short Guide. Bangkok: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, 2018.
- Catalogue of Thailand Biennale. Bangkok: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture, 2019.
Conference papers:
- Mirra, Federica. ‘Imagining futures through real estate billboards in the context of urbanised Beijing’. Paper to be presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts, Birmingham City University, Tate Liverpool, 11-12 November 2019. https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-liverpool/conference/12th-annual-conference-centre-chinese-visual-arts.
- Mirra, Federica. ‘Reimagining the Natural and Urban Through the Traditional Notion of Shanshui in Architecture and Art in the 20th century’. Paper presented at the International Conference in Trinity College Dublin, 7-9 June 2019. https://artintheanthropocene.com/.
