Dr Sarah Charalambides
Staff details
Sarah's research engages conceptual reconfigurations of the precarious in art and visual culture.
Dr Sarah Charalambides is a visually trained art theorist interested in the exchange between creative practice and critical knowledge production. With a PhD in Visual Cultures and an interdisciplinary background in subjects such as Graphic Design (BDes), Art History (BA) and Contemporary Art Theory (MRes), she teaches across a wide range of modules relating to modern and contemporary art theory, history and practice.
The academic research underlying Sarah’s pedagogical practice centres on the relationship between radical politics and aesthetic practices, as seen through the workings of representation and visual culture. Engaging conceptual reconfigurations of precarious work and life from a global perspective, her research considers 21st century artistic and activist practices that resist and transform the ways in which subjectivities are rendered insecure and pitted against one other through the neoliberal imperative of competition and self-optimisation.
Academic qualifications
- PhD Visual Cultures 2020
- Postgraduate Certificate in the Management of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education 2018
- MRes Contemporary Art Theory 2014
- BA Art History 2013
- BDes Graphic Design 2008
Teaching and supervision
Currently Sarah teaches BA first year core module Modernities, second year option module Popular Modernism and placement module Visual Cultures as Public Practice.
Previously she taught on BA modules Seeing and Showing, Beyond Boundaries, Frontiers of Performance Art, Inhabitations, Cohabitations, The Aesthetics and Politics of Cultural Studies, Envisioning Music Criticism
Featured publications
2020:
When the common ground seems shattered: From self-precarisation to partial relationality in kleines postfordistisches Drama and Precarias a la Deriva
PhD thesis
2020:
Challenging dichotomous distinctions between the individual “I” and the collective “we”
Peer reviewed article for Peripeti Journal for Dramaturgical Studies
2019:
Personal tagging in Zotero Groups: A “messy” and collaborative resource list for BA Design students
Blog post for TaLIC Goldsmiths Teaching & Learning
2017:
Situating self-precarisation: Cultural production, subjectification and resistance in kleines postfordistisches Drama’s Kamera Läuft!
Peer reviewed article for Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation
2015:
Precarity as activism
Book review of Isabell Lorey’s State of Insecurity: Government of the Precarious (2015) for Mute
Grants and awards
2014:
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Scholarship
Scholarship for MPhil/PhD in Visual Cultures
2014:
VSBfonds Scholarship
Scholarship for MPhil/PhD in Visual Cultures
2015:
Erasmus+ Student Mobility Grant
Student Mobility Grant for period of study at the Institute for Art and Visual History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, DE
Publications and research outputs
Article
- When the Common Ground Seems Shattered: Self-enclosed individualism and partial relationality in creative practice Charalambides, Sarah. 2020. When the Common Ground Seems Shattered: Self-enclosed individualism and partial relationality in creative practice. Peripeti, 17(31), pp. 69-82. ISSN 1604-0325
- Situating self-precarisation: Cultural production, subjectification and resistance in kleines postfordistisches Drama’s Kamera Läuft! Charalambides, Sarah. 2017. Situating self-precarisation: Cultural production, subjectification and resistance in kleines postfordistisches Drama’s Kamera Läuft! Work Organisation, Labour & Globalisation, 11(1), pp. 71-86. ISSN 1745-641X
- Precarity as Activism Charalambides, Sarah. 2015. Precarity as Activism. Mute,
Conference or Workshop Item
- Provocation: Self-precarisation Charalambides, Sarah. 2017. 'Provocation: Self-precarisation'. In: Re-Tool: Precarity. Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom 18 January 2017.
- Can we be strong in our weakness? Conversation between female trouble and Samlingen Charalambides, Sarah. 2016. 'Can we be strong in our weakness? Conversation between female trouble and Samlingen'. In: Group Works? On Feminism, Friendship and Borderlessness. Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark 31 October 2016.
- When the common ground is shattered: Drifting through feminised precarious space Charalambides, Sarah. 2016. 'When the common ground is shattered: Drifting through feminised precarious space'. In: Gender Work and Organization 2016: 9th Biennial International Interdisciplinary Conference. Keele University, United Kingdom 29 June - 1 July 2016.
Digital
- Personal tagging in Zotero Groups: A “messy” and collaborative resource list for BA Design students Charalambides, Sarah. 2019. Personal tagging in Zotero Groups: A “messy” and collaborative resource list for BA Design students.
Professional Activity
- External Examiner Charalambides, Sarah. 2023. External Examiner.
Professional projects
Passionate about disseminating art-critical thinking and visual literacy to people from all walks of life, Sarah also 'thinks' and 'does' visual cultures with young adults in non-academic contexts such as Buitenkunst, Kunstbende, The Brilliant Club as well as Art Academy London and City and Guilds of London School of Art