Marilyn Allen

Director of Studies / Supervisor for Research Degrees
Marilyn Allen headshot with Megaphone

Background

Dr Marilyn Allen has worked in higher education for over twenty years and is employed as a Director of Studies and Supervisor for research degree candidates across a range of contemporary art and media practices at Swansea College of Art. Dr Allen currently supervises practice-based research on affect and digitality, performance and textuality, duration and temporality, technologies of détournement and critical perspectives on feminism and gender studies. 

PhDs supervised to completion include:  

‘Continuums and Conjunctions: Architectural and Philosophical Perspectives’, 2023 

‘Frictive Philosophies’, 2023 

‘Considering ‘The Encounter’ in Gallery Community Programmes’, 2021. (KESS II) 

‘Bio-rhythms / Digi-rhythms: Synthesising the Digitally Mediated Body Through Performative Methodologies’, 2020. (KESS II) 

‘Unreported Failure in Participatory Arts Evaluation and its Impact on Artists’ Wellbeing’, 2020. (KESS II) 

‘Landscape Aesthetics in Practice’, 2018. 

Specialist Subjects

  • Practice-based Arts Research.
  • Applied Philosophy.
  • Postructuralist Philosophy.
  • Performative Writing.

Professional and/or Research Experience

Dr Marilyn Allen is an artist and writer (understood as coexistent and coextensive practices). Allen’s research typically explores the potential for new narrative flows (both actual and potential) to be produced through deconstructive processes which unsettle the perceived fixity of writing. Allen describes these processes as word events, (mo[ve]ments) which generate a speculative space for the intensification and temporalization of writing. Allen’s word events are often ludic(rous) and employ humour as method to (re)consider the oscillatory dynamic between sense and nonsense, noesis and poesis, majoritarian and minoritarian, human and nonhuman, the sublime and the ridiculous.

Qualifications

  • 2016 PhD University of Wales
  • 2004 PGCE Coleg Sir Gar
  • 2001 MA Fine Art, University of Wales Institute Cardiff
  • 1999 BA (Hons) Fine Art, Southampton Institute of Higher Education

Languages Spoken

English

Professional Membership or Roles

Higher Education Academy Fellow

Professional Publications

  • Publications:
  • Allen, M. 2027. 'Glitch Machines' in, Beyond Networks of Domination: Rethinking Machinic Media, Digitality & Cinema of our Times, Shashibhusan Nayak [Ed.], Springer Nature.
  • Allen, M. Gørrill, H. & Williams, S. 2027. Wife, Witch, Whore: Essential Conversations about Gender, Art and Culture, Bloomsbury Publishing.
  • Allen, M. 2021. Sonnet 100, Textshop Experiments.
  • Allen, M. 'Tempestas Digital', in, Social/Affects, Martin Patrick [Ed.], (ISSN 2469-3022), Drain Journal, Vol.17.1, 2021.
  • Allen, M. 'de[re]territorialisation', in, Distribution, (ISSN 2856008-5), On_Culture Journal, Vol. 8, December 2019. https://www.on-culture.org/journal/perspectives/dereterritorialisation/
  • Conferences and Symposia:
  • Allen, M. 'Digital Live[li]ness', Small Scale Solutions: Re-Inventing the Live Event Symposium, Bangor University, 21 February 2022
  • Allen, M. 'A Poetic Interrelation with the Digital Other', Projectivisms Symposium, Cardiff University, 18 May 2018
  • Allen, M. 'A Dialogic Interrelation with the Electronic Other,' Language Game[s]: Poetry, Logic and Artificial Language Symposium, Chelsea College of Arts, 5 May 2017.

Available to Supervise Doctoral Students

Yes