Professor Tara Page

Tara Page is an artist-researcher teacher whose praxis explores the entanglements of making, learning and place-belonging underpinned with new materialist theories using embodied and material practice research methods. The importance of ‘where’ to who we are and how we are and how both the presence and absence of matter teaches us, where pedagogy is conceived as an open, continuously made and remade praxis that is embodied, placed, material, generative, emancipatory and enables social and educational change.

Tara brings creative philosophy together with practice and theory advancing new ways of understanding the cultural politics of making, objects and events and how materials, processes, pedagogies and theory can enable the questioning and disruption of many forms of dominance that exist in our society.

Tara is the Academic Director of International Development and Academic Partnerships(IDAP). IDAP is responsible for establishing and managing Goldsmiths' domestic and transnational education (TNE) academic partnerships including validation, franchise, dual/joint degrees and partner-supported delivery of Goldsmiths' degree programmes as well as developing international strategies at the institutional and departmental level and supporting their implementation.

http://goldsmiths.academia.edu/TaraPage

Academic qualifications

• PhD. Goldsmiths University of London. UK. 2012.
• MEd (Research). Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 2000
• PGDip (Secondary). Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 1995.
• BA Visual Arts. Queensland University of Technology. AUS. 1994.

Teaching

Tara is head of the practice research PhD Art Practice and Learning programme and is seconded to IDAP from 1^st September 2019.

Tara was a contributor to the MA Arts and Learning (MAAL), Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE: Art and Design- Secondary-Primary), and the BA Education Culture and Society (BAECS) programmes. Tara has also been a teaching fellow at ArtEZ, Netherlands since 2016. Previous to Goldsmiths Tara worked in community arts and primary, secondary and higher education in Canada and Australia.

Area of supervision

Tara supervises and examines PhDs in the areas of practice research and empirical research including:

• Performance and aesthetics
• Bodies and the sensory- embodiment
• Learning communities
• Placemaking and belonging
• Pedagogy in formal and informal contexts
• Critical and creative pedagogies
• Materiality of pedagogy

Professional projects

Tara is involved in practice research projects using embodied and material research methodologies and methods and was the Curator of Social Practices for the Goldsmiths Centre for Arts and Learning for two years and co-editor of The International Journal of Art and Design Education (iJADE) for five years. Tara served on The Publications Board for the National Society for Education through Art and Design (NSEAD) for four years and is currently a referee for Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Pedagogy, Culture and Society, MAI: Feminism & Visual Cultures and Social Sciences.

Featured publications

• Practice, Pedagogy, Resistance: A New Materialism. Hickey Moody, Anna and Page, Tara, eds. 2015. Practice, Pedagogy, Resistance: A New Materialism. London: Rowman & Littlefield International. ISBN 978-1783484867
• Johnston, J. Page, T., Sayers, E. (2015, 7-11 Sept). Spaces Between: Practice, research pedagogy. [Exhibition]. 310NXRd. London: Goldsmiths University of London
• The writing is on the walls. 2014. Film.
• A shared place of discovery and creativity: Practices of contemporary art and design pedagogy. 2012. International Journal Of Art & Design Education, 31(1), pp. 67-77.
• Finding your way: The purpose and relevance of writing for artist researcher teacher practices. Areses Huertas, Alfonso; Frimet, Ben; Johnston, John; McGeer, Naoise and Page, Tara. 2012. Journal of Writing in Creative Practice, 5(1), pp. 45-72. ISSN 17535190