Centre for Material Thinking

12/05/2025

The Department of Theatre, Film and Television Studies are currently advertising an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship with the National Botanic Garden of Wales. The application deadline is 30th May 2025.

This AHRC funded PhD scholarship is a unique opportunity for a theatre or performance maker to develop an innovative practice-based project focused on developing public performance interventions at National Botanic Garden of Wales (NBGW). The project will develop performance interventions that enhance visitor engagement with the ecology of the Waun Las Nature Reserve and the species-level conservation work of the living collections, seed bank, and herbarium at NBGW.

Interested? Full details 👉 https://lnkd.in/eGjyBGws

20/01/2024

A film by Owen Lloyd for When Seeds Speaks by Miranda Whall, December 2023.

17/10/2023

Looking forward to seeing you at Ros Murray's performance talk tomorrow at 17.00pm in zoom https://aber-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93769450107 and accessible via Eventbrite https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rescheduled-event-hi-water-a-performance-talk-rosalind-murray-tickets-723861347777

11/10/2023

TODAY at 5pm!

Chris will discuss the materiality of bodyminds in the transmission of important and unique historical repertoire.

04/10/2023

The Centre for Material Thinking (CMT) is very excited to host the rescheduled event: 'Hi Water' by Ros Murray, a performance talk, which I know is absolutely brilliant - intelligent, funny, quirky, surprising, sensitive, emotive and more, on Wednesday 18th October 5-6.30 (GMT+1), 12-1.30 (EST)online. The eventbrite booking for the free event is https://materialthinking.net/event/hi-water-rosalind-murray-october-18th-17-00pm-18-30pm/
Hope to see you there...

A rescheduled event: Rosalind Murray will present ‘Hi Water’, part of a fluid trilogy. “Hi Mountain” 2018, was created on-site with Mapping Meaning at the Taft Nicholson Environmental Humanities Centre, Montana (USA), and “Hi mountain, Hi Water” 2021, was created online with Kohl Gallery...

25/07/2023

We had a wonderful time on our Art & Ecology Retreat at the Centre for Alternative Technology last weekend. 📽🌸

With site tours and tea foraging with CAT staff as well as phytography workshops with Karel Doing, deep listening and microphone making with Kathy Hinde, and poetry in the woods with Aim King. 🍃🎞👂🏽

A big thank you to everyone who came along and to CAT for having us. See you next time! 👀

05/04/2023

We are pleased to announce we have added 5 new projects to the CMT Project Page. These 5 artists are alumni and current postgraduate students of the School of Art and Theatre Film & TV who work in a broad range of disciplines and media. We believe that each project contributes to our continued questioning around "what is material thinking?”, how new modes of representation might bring about a greater awareness of human and non-human entanglements, and how material can matter in a range of socio-cultural and eco-political contexts.

The Centre for Material Thinking supports individual research and practice projects by staff, alumni and current students working across a broad range of creative and scholarly disciplines. We support projects that relate to the interests at the core of CMT; how new modes of representation might bri...

22/03/2023

Following the 2-day work shop with TAAT, the Encounter Portal has now been created and we are opening it for visitors tomorrow (Thursday 23rd March) between 12noon and 2pm.

You are welcome to come at any time between 12noon and 2pm. There is no need to specify a time.

Please meet us at the entrance to the Vice Chancellor’s driveway on Penglais Hill, opposite the entrance to Aberystwyth University. You can find the location marked on a map here: https://goo.gl/maps/yEXCWmdcoDi6HV1Y6

The Encounter Portal is a short walk away from the meeting point and we will guide you there and back.

Due to the likelihood of rain, please bring wet weather gear. The ground underfoot is muddy and uneven, so study footwear is advised.

06/03/2023

You can now register for the WATER TALKS series via Eventbrite.

Join us for an exciting series of Zoom lectures exploring the ecosystem of rivers and oceans from a variety of creative perspectives.

20/02/2023

We're delighted to announce our spring lecture series on the theme of Water 🏊‍♀️ 🦑💦 Get the dates in your diary and we'll post the registration links very soon!

20/02/2023

We still have some places available on the free 2-day Encounter Portal Workshop with TAAT on 21st & 22nd March.

An Encounter Portal is an organic mixture of co-creative process, bio-based installation and do-it-together theatre experience. It stages encounters between humans and more-than-human entities.

Further details are available on our website including how to apply: https://materialthinking.net/.../encounter-portal-workshop/

TAAT's residency and the Encounter Portal Workshop are funded by HEFCW's Research Wales Innovation Fund.

Photo: Thomas James.

Facilitated by Breg Horemans and Gert-Jan Stam of TAAT Arts Collective TAAT have been creating spaces for encounter in Europe and beyond for over 10 years, with their projects serving to bring together people and organizations from different personal and cultural backgrounds. TAAT’s Encounter Port...