Meet the recipients of the 2023 UCL Creative Fellowships

About the Creative Fellowships

The Fellowships form part of the Encounters programme, which offers creative practitioners the opportunity to explore new directions in their own practice in partnership with UCL academics. This year, the grants also invite the practitioners to work in setting the agenda for ARIEL, a new research centre in this field. Launching in 2023, ARIEL is based at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) and the UCL School for the Creative and Cultural Industries (SCCI) at UCL East. It aims to open a space for dynamic new interactions at the intersections of creative practice and academic research.

The recipients

Carolin Meyer

A 2020 Goldsmiths University of London graduate in the experimental postgraduate degree Visual Sociology, Carolin is a multidisciplinary artist & DJ, working at the intersections of art and research and deploying sound, video, sculpture, music, performance, collage, writing and found objects to create multi-sensory and immersive artistic interventions.

Shaped by her experience of transracial adoption at birth (from Kurdish Yazidi to German), she is primarily interested in embodiment and the body, and deeply committed to making socially engaged work that is viscerally affective.

Carolin’s topic as a Creative Fellow is ‘Collective experience of music & ecstatic participation as research’. She will create site-specific soundscapes and DJ sets that are to be collectively experienced.

Find out more about Carolin Meyer: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/carolin-meyer

Professor Amit Chaudhuri

Amit Chaudhuri is an author, poet, essayist, short story writer and musician. He is Professor of Creative Writing and Director of the Centre for the Creative and Critical at Ashoka University. In 2018, he received the Sangeet Samman from the West Bengal government for his contribution to North Indian classical music.

As a Creative Fellow, Amit’s topic is ‘Music as thought, creativity as argument’. He will continue his explorations of the North Indian raga and the genre in North Indian classical music called the khayal as forms of thought. He is planning a series of talks and performances that will incorporate his compositional experiments.

Find out more about Amit Chaudhuri: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of-advanced-studies/professor-amit-chaudhuri