IPCRES is a new research centre developed by the Faculty of Art & Design at Swansea Metropolitan University.

The Centre will be project based, starting at first with groups of students from across the University bidding to take part via the articulation of possible areas of enquiry. It aims to create a sense of fun alongside serious cultural inquiry through the purposeful setting up of events and situations based around experimental art practices, both material and non-material. It will have the aspect of quasi-organisations such as the Situationist International as well as engaging with imaginary sciences such as 'pataphysics, promoting its own playful obscure mystery as it conducts its experiments into aspects of everyday life. The aims are to engage the students in the thrill of real artistic experiment and research, to promote process and enquiry, to present findings in innovative ways, and to discover new relationships between object and concept, word and image and art and life. Outcomes will be presented as 'files', which will hopefully be publishable, along with reports and artefacts to be presented as intellectual enigmas.

The research centre is run by Dr. Paul Jeff and PhD research student, Laura Jenkins who together will set the tone, atmosphere, and parameters of the work to be carried out.

To view the official IPCRES blog please click HERE

Further information on Dr. Paul Jeff can be found HERE and Laura Jenkins' website can be found HERE