Dr Adam Walker
Lecturer
Fine Art
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. 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.
Adam holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art and previously studied at the University of the Arts London and University of Cambridge. Previous teaching appointments include The Royal College of Art, Glasgow School of Art and King's College London.
PhD supervision enquiries welcome.
Research
Exhibitions
Walker, A., 2022. Un/building, King's College London, 30/5/2022 - 30/5/2022.
Walker, A., 2021. Void Screams, I've Never Been to Tulsa, 25/1/2021 - 8/2/2021.
Performances
Walker, A., 2024. 'Textual Actants: Infrastructures of Contemporary Art Practice. Part 1 - The Things in Play', rtm.fm, 31/7/2024.
Walker, A., 2024. 'Textual Actants: Infrastructures of Contemporary Art Practice. Part 2 - A Tour of the Monuments of Charleroi, Belgium', RTM.FM, 5/9/2024.
Books
Walker, A., 2023. 'Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care', Routledge.
Walker, A., McGarry, E., 2019. 'Special Rights', Serpentine Gallery.
Book Chapters
Walker, A., 2023. 'Ana-Conclusion'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 133-142, Routledge.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Being'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 73-85, Routledge.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Bodies'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 45-72, Routledge.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Care'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 114-132, Routledge.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Introduction'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 1-18, Routledge.
Walker, A., McGarry, E., 2023. 'Rights to...'. In Egan, J., Gatens, L., Graham, E., Khalaf, A., Thorp, A. (eds.) How We Hold: Rehearsals for Art and Social Change, Serpentine Galleries.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Text'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 89-113, Routledge.
Walker, A., 2023. 'Work'. In Art, Labour, Text and Radical Care, pp. 21-44, Routledge.
Walker, A., Sagar, I., 2022. 'Foreword'. In Blackshaw, G., Baluch, S., Fraser, M., Heidorn, N., Hermon, R. (eds.) I care by..., pp. 9-8, Royal College of Art, London.
Walker, A., 2021. 'Caring, Carelessly'. In Blackshaw, G., Kivland, S. (eds.) CARE(LESS). A SUPPLEMENT TO ON CARE, Ma Bibliothéque.
Internet Publications
Walker, A., 2021. 'Workers Leaving the Factory', https://hoaxpublication.org/works/adam-walker-workers-leaving-the-factory.
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Walker, A., 2023. 'A Rolling Series of Encounters', Soanyway Magazine, 2 (14).
Walker, A., 2023. 'Life, art and (child)care', textur, 5, 9.
Walker, A., Hartshorn, J., 2023. 'Tissue', The Posthumanist, 2, pp. 40-41.
Walker, A., 2021. 'Acting Beyond the Present: Thinking Care as Radical Reflexivity', Autonomy.
Conference Papers
Walker, A., 2023. '6 Weeks in Kyiv: Holding Scores Fluid', Performing Scores/Scoring Performance, HOME, Manchester (organised by Performance Research Group, Manchester Metropolitan University), 11/7/2023 - 12/7/2023.
Walker, A., 2021. 'Practicing, Theorising, Being', My PhD has No Words, University of Reading, 19/7/2021 - 19/7/2021.
Other Outputs
Walker, A., Sagar, I., McGarry, E., Hartshorn, J., 2023. 'Care writing collection'.