DⱯRK ARTS REASEARCH KOLLECTIVE

The DⱯRK is a new dynamic research community driven by meaningful research connections and a passion for creative excellence. The DⱯRK is research-led, practice-based, interdisciplinary and public-facing.  Through art and creative practices, the primary research focus for DⱯRK is to investigate occulture, the paranormal, magic, esoterism and counterculture. We are passionate about using insights from occulture to create innovative research outputs which are impactful beyond academia through pioneering new and alternative cultural and social understandings of the world. We aim to achieve this through reusing and remediating physical and metaphysical technologies to invent new and peripheral forms of storytelling, developing innovative methodologies, and to explore the practices and discourses of subcultural and countercultural movements to refigure hegemonic epistemologies and develop new ways of thinking.