Dr Adam Walker
- Associate Lecturer, AcrossRCA
Adam is an artist and writer. Their practice is research-led, critically and reflexively considering structures of inequality, not least their own complicit position amidst these.structures of inequality and the speculative envisioning of other ways of being.
Text sits at the centre of their practice, including its extensions into digital terrains as code and data. Interruption and impropriety are sought: subtexts and counter-texts which might interrupt dominant textual flows.
Their work has been exhibited, performed, published and commissioned by institutions including the ICA, Tate, Tyneside Cinema, Coventry Biennial, Serpentine Gallery, Ma Bibliotheque and NEoN Digital Arts Festival within the UK; Skelf and Hoax online; Yermilov Centre, Izolyatsia and the House of Cinema in Ukraine; and Adana Archaeological Museum in Turkey.
Their book Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care was published in 2023 by Routledge.
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Research interests
Adam’s current research is focussed around the infrastructural and speculative amid the technocultures of ‘late’ capitalism.
Entitled ‘Textual Actants: Infrastructures of Contemporary Art Practice’, the project simultaneously is art-writing practice
while also being about art practice. A back and forth, iterative, reflexive interplay between ‘being the thing’ and ‘being about the thing’ opens up new understandings of practice-research, as well as contributing new understanding to contemporary art practices’ entangled relation to their past, present and future socio-economic-technological conditions.
Research funding
i-Portunus (Goethe Institute / Creative Europe), 2019.
Culture Bridges (British Council / Creative Europe), 2019.
Publications, exhibitions and other outcomes
Walker, A. (2023) Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care. New York: Routledge.
Walker, A. and Sagar, I. (2022) Foreword, In G. Blackshaw and others, ed., I Care by…. London: RCA.
Walker, A. (2021) Caring Carelessly. In G. Blackshaw and S. Kivland, eds., CARE(LESS). London: Ma Bibliothèque.
Walker, A. and McGarry, E. (2018) Special Rights. London: Serpentine Gallery.