Fiona Woods

Dr Fiona Woods is an artist, researcher and lecturer at Limerick School of Art & Design. Her PhD from TU Dublin (2021) examined art and the commons through a socially engaged practice. Woods' research explores the epistemology of creative artefacts, materiality and publicness; her work has been published in various outlets, and has been presented at many international conferences. Woods was a core researcher on the EU-funded projects ‘City (Re)Searches’ (2012-14) and ‘Rurban’ (2009 – 11). Her practice-based research bridges art, critical theory and pedagogy, investigating how creative work functions as knowledge production and epistemological intervention. She lectures in several institutions, and is a postgraduate research supervisor.

Forum Contribution

Epistemologies in a Minor Key: Theorizing Creative Artefacts as Knowledge Entities

Endangered Conceptual Worlds

The 2026 International Forum on Artistic Research takes place from 23 to 26 June 2026. Hosted by the University of Galway on the Atlantic coast of Ireland, the Forum addresses the challenges of Endangered Conceptual Worlds. As the 17th annual conference of the Society for Artistic Research it is the largest conference on practice-based research within and through the arts, bringing together more than 300 international participants: leading practitioners, scholars and policymakers from the entire range of arts-based disciplines.

Slightly extended deadline for submissions

The 2026 Forum on Artistic Research website has been inaccessible for several hours on Friday night and Saturday morning. Unfortunately, an update to the web server was scheduled to take place, which automatically activated maintenance mode and prevented any work on the submissions during the night and the next morning. We have therefore decided to slightly extend the deadline for submissions to Monday 2 March 2026 at 23:59 GMT. Feel free to work on your proposals until then.