Federica Mirra

Federica Mirra

Federica Mirra

Dr.
Unterer Graben 21
9000 St Gallen
Forschungsgebiete
Weitere Forschungsgebiete
Ausbildung
  • PhD ‘Urban Imaginaries: Contemporary Art and Urban Transformations in China since 2001’, School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK (Sep 2018 - Oct 2021)
  • MA Contemporary Arts China, School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK (Sep 2017 - Aug 2018)
  • MA East Asian Studies (Chinese Studies), Leiden University, the Netherlands (Sep 2015 - Aug 2016)
  • BA Language, Culture and Society of Asia and Mediterranean Africa, Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy (Sep 2012 - Jul 2015)
Berufserfahrung
  • Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, The city as art: living aesthetics in twenty-first century China, School of Art, Birmingham City University, UK (Jan 2023 - Jan 2026)
  • Research Fellow, Chair of Chinese Culture and Society, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland (Sep 2021 - Oct 2022)
  • Visiting Lecturer, Birmingham City University, UK (Mar 2019 - ongoing)
  • Research Assistant, Troy House Art Foundation, London, UK (Jan 2020 - Jul 2020)
  • Research Assistant for the PGR Studio at Birmingham City University, UK (Jan 2019 - Jan 2020)
  • Curatorial Assistant for the ‘Thailand Biennale 2018-19, Krabi’, Thai Ministry of Culture, Thailand (Nov 2017 - Nov 2018)
Lehraktivitäten
Mitgliedschaften
Auszeichnungen
Vorträge
Weitere Informationen
  • (accepted for publication), Mirra, Federica, ‘Mobilità sociale ed artistica nei villaggi urbani in Cina’, part of the edited issue on ‘città e campagna’ in Sinosfere.
  • (accepted for publication) Mirra, Federica, ‘Forest Chongqing: a photographic reportage by Yan Wang Preston’, part of the edited volume Contesting Reportage: New Perspectives from the Sinophone World.
  • (accepted for publication) Mirra, Federica, ‘Urban//Rural: An art perspective’, part of the edited volume Urban Im/mobilities: Literary Narratives and Artivisms, Palgrave.
  • (accepted for publication) Mirra, Federica, ‘Architectural copycats, gated communities, and themed towns in China’s visual arts', part of an edited issue in Visual Studies
  • (under review) Mirra, Federica, ‘Erasure: the hidden potential of China’s migrant workers in visual arts’, Third Text.
  • (accepted with minor revision) Mirra, Federica, ‘Stitching space: tactile explorations of China’s urban and social fabric through visual arts’, Positions: asia critique.
  • Mirra, Federica (2020), ‘The art of billboards in urbanized China’, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 7:2-3, pp. 275-300.
  • Mirra, Federica (2019), ‘Reverie through Ma Yansong’s Shanshui City to evoke and re-appropriate China’s urban space’, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 6:2-3, pp. 393-413.
  • Mirra, Federica (2019), ‘Visual arts, representations and interventions in contemporary China: urbanized interface’, Journal of Visual Art Practice 18:3, pp. 282-284.
  • Contributing author of:
    • Catalogue of Thailand Biennale (2019), Bangkok: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture. 
    • Thailand Biennale Short Guide (2018), Bangkok: Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture.