Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf

Adam Nasser Benmakhlouf is a writer and artist who lives and works across Scotland. They are a Lecturer in Fine Art in Edinburgh College of Art and Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Writing at University of Dundee. They are finalising their 5-year Collaborative Doctoral Award (2021-26), titled ‘Attempts To Locate the Body Are Continuing’ with Dundee Contemporary Arts and University of Dundee, fully funded by the Scottish Graduate School of Arts and Humanities. New works from this project have been presented in Dundee Contemporary Arts (2022), The Yale Centre for British Art (2023), Listen Gallery (2023), CCA Glasgow (2023), Manchester Whitworth Gallery (2024), and Hospitalfield, Arbroath (2022-24).

Forum Contribution

Embodied Methods in Artistic Research

Attempts to locate the body are continuing: A practice-led enquiry into artists' workshops, care and non-normative writing within contemporary art institutions

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.