How might we image and imagine the posthuman on an island that sits on the 42^nd southern parallel? Posthumanism at the edge of the world is a visual arts research area that seeks to expand knowledge of the posthuman through critical engagements with interdisciplinary creative speculations, experimental practice-led enquiries, and new discursivities of the more-than-human/human-to-come. This project explores practice-led and practice-based capacities to map and imagine new geographies, developing new possibilities that build on existing relations (e.g. with Antarctica and its Treaty System parties) and contributing to new constellations. Placing posthumanism within these new geographies, ecologies, and politics will demand the asking of essential questions relating to possibilities of place, of peoples, and practices.

We recognise lutruwita / Tasmania as a site of deep ecology and future possibilities and encourage any visual arts application that contributes to the advancement of new knowledge relevant to this region.

Topics may touch on one or more of the following potential avenues of research:

• New archipelagos of the 42^nd southern parallel
• Redefining the ‘South’
• The more-than-human: interspeciesism and place
• Inter and intradisciplinary conditions of place in the imagined future
• The jurisprudence of the human-to-come: interdisciplinary art, law, and the posthuman
• Speculative aesthetics in extinction studies
• Hydrofeminism and solidarities of water
• Decolonising the machine: AI, data, and social justice
• Transfeminist approaches to bioethics
• Queering ecologies as sites of critical activism
• Interdisciplinary approaches to death studies

More information on the University of Tasmania website: https://www.utas.edu.au/our-research/research-degrees/available-projects/arts-law-education/area/creative-arts-and-media/posthumanism-at-the-edge-of-the-world