Dr Rachelle Viader Knowles
Faculty Head of International
Dr Rachelle Viader Knowles is an artist, researcher, and educator. She is a Reader in Creative Practice, and Head of International for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, where her role supports the development of international initiatives and partnerships for education, research, and knowledge exchange. Prior to joining Manchester Met, she has undertaken a number of leaderships roles in art and design including Associate Head International and Programme Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art in the School of Art and Design at Coventry University, and Head of Visual Arts at the University of Regina in Canada, where she taught intermedia arts practice for twelve years.
Her practice-led research investigates translocality, dialogue as art, and artistic practices/methods developed through participation, collaboration, and networks. Her works have been performed, published, screened, found, or encountered in numerous international venues and publications. Exhibitions include MilaKunst Gallery in Berlin; Conflux, and the Experimental Text Festivals in New York; Three Walls Gallery in Chicago; the MacKenzie, Mendel, NeutralGround and YYZ galleries in Canada; Residencia Corazon Gallery in La Plata, Argentina; Chapter Gallery in Cardiff, Wales; the Gwangju Biennale in South Korea; the Gyumri Biennale in Armenia; and the Can Gelabert Cultural Centre in Mallorca. She is an active member of the international advisory board for the Armenian Art Centre of Social Studies based in Yerevan, Armenia.
Rachelle holds a PhD in Art+Media from Plymouth University, an MFA in Multi Media Arts from the University of Windsor in Canada and a BA (Hons) Interactive Arts from the University of Wales.
Research
Rachelle Viader Knowles is a member of the Art and Performance Research Hub.
Exhibitions
Loveless, N., Caulfield, S., Koski, K., Fisher, C., Mahon, P., Alvaer, J., Hou, A., Hoffman, S., Holst, J., Humphrey, A., Tonoyan, M., Kwon, V.S.Y., 2021. Immune Nations, 14/9/2021 - 10/12/2021.
Morgan, K., Nagler, S., Radice, M., 2013. Urban Encounters, The Khyber Centre for the Arts, Canada, 10/10/2013 - 12/10/2013.
Knowles, R.V., 2007. Sobey Art Awards, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada, 25/9/2007 - 21/12/2007.
Knowles, R.V., 2001. Berlin Project, CAFKA - Contemporary Art Forum Kitchener and Area, 14/9/2001 - 26/10/2001.
Knowles, R.V., 2000. We Are Not Who We Were, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, 29/3/2000 - 7/6/2000.
Artefacts
Gérin, A., Petty, S., Sherbert, G., 2006. 'You Pull Me Apart (an artwork in Canadian Cultural Poesis)'.
Book Chapters
Pope, S., Lowry, G., Knowles, R.V., 2019. '"Dear Simon..."'. In Loveless, N. (eds.) Knowings and Knots Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation, University of Alberta Press.
Knowles, R.V., 2019. 'Collaboration, Dialogues, and Wild Knowledge'. In Knowings and Knots: Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation, pp. 191-208.
Knowles, R.V., 2019. 'Collaboration, Dialogues, and Wild Knowledge: A response to Glen Lowry's "Provoking Failure: Unsettling a Research-Creation Framework.'. In Knowings and Knots Methodologies and Ecologies in Research-Creation, University of Alberta Press.
Knowles, R.V., Irwin, K., Levin, L., 2009. 'Global Exposures: Blur Street and Interurban Self-Portraiture (a Photo-Essay)'. In Performance and the City, Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal Articles
Knowles, R., 2020. 'VacZineNations! as Practice-led Research', Imaginations, Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11 (2), pp. 217-232.
Knowles, R., 2020. 'VacZineNations!, a Critical Dialogue (with Mkrtich Tonoyan, Patrick Mahon, Lisa Webb and John Hammersley)', Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, 11 (2), pp. 37-55.
Wimpenny, K., Knowles, R.V., Ramsay, C., Speculand, J., 2019. '#3CityLink: Disrupting Learning through a Translocal Art Pedagogy Exchange Project', International Journal of Art and Design Education, 38 (2), pp. 328-343.
Caines, R., Viader Knowles, R., Anderson, J., 2013. 'QR Codes and Traditional Beadwork: Augmented Communities Improvising Together', M/C Journal, 16 (6).
Conference Papers
Knowles, R.V., Hammersley, J., 2016. 'The Dialogic : art work as method', National Association of Fine Art Education: Research Practice Practice Research Symposium, University of Cumbria, 15/7/2016 - 15/7/2016.
Theses and Dissertations
Knowles, R.V., 2017. 'A translocal approach to dialogue-based art'.