What is Research Now? May festival

What is Research Now? presents a full year of programming around interconnected strands that ask us to think more curiously, critically and open-endedly about the role and practice of the arts.

The theme is led by the question: Can research in the arts enable us to live and better inhabit the world together?

The festival brings together artists, curators, writers, scholars and thinkers from a range of different backgrounds to think together through lectures, performances, conversations, and hands-on workshops at the Paul Mellon Centre in London.

In May, events explored interconnected strands:

'Ongoing Colonial Worlds' asking what research is under conditions of occupation and unrest

'On Looking' showing us that how we look changes how we understand the world around us

The full programme can be found here.