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Tina Kinsella

Artistic Research, Artistic Practice, Performance, Matrixial Theory, Maternal Studies

Dr Tina Kinsella is Head of Research at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire (IADT), a Research Fellow at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin (TCD), and a Fellow of the Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM), Technological University Dublin (TUD). She is Irish PI on ‘Feminist Art Making Histories’ (@FamhResearch) which is one of 12 research projects funded by the UKRI Arts and Humanities Research Council and the Irish Research Council’s flagship Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Funding Scheme. Her research portfolio encompasses scholarly publications, cultural criticism, curatorial projects and other creative works including collaborations with internationally renowned artists such as Aideen Barry, Sarah Browne, Bracha L. Ettinger, Jesse Jones and Alice Maher. She works closely with artists as a writer, researcher and curator, Kinsella’s research focuses on contemporary artistic practice, Surrealism and its legacies and has published widely in the fields of modern and contemporary art practice, visual culture, aesthetics, performance studies, philosophy, psychoanalysis, anthropology, maternal studies and legal studies. She is an expert on the Matrixial Theory and artistic practice of Bracha L. Ettinger, which was the focus of her doctoral studies.