Millenium Film Journal

Millenium Film Journal added my video to their #MicroCinemaMonday feature! Look and see. More on instagram at @kmbosy #thewaysitis #kmbosy

This short video exemplifies the way my practice draws on structural film strategies, in this case by including a quasi-mechanical process of walking, and the image draws attention to itself as unstable. In this one in Hampstead Heath, London, the walking movement is what defines the form of the work. In this work and my practice more generally, the frame, conceptualised as links between transition and movement, is at the centre of my enquiry and interruption to consumption is part of the process of making the work.

Summer work: I recently successfully completed a PhD at Royal College of Art in London and I was thrilled to receive a response to my emailed letter, from Margaret Atwood’s office this summer. My letter will be included in the archive of Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, this way linking my thesis to the archive on her work. More on my research and thesis can be found below and on the ‘About’ page of this blog.

itinerant space academic journal supports PhD practice-based research (link below). This experimental platform carries my video ‘home is where the heart is’ (2024) one of an ongoing series of video works documenting a North Ontario wetland forest.

home is where the heart is

itinerant space : an online journal of art, design and communication research practices, of which I am a founding editor, was launched in 2021. Now in its third iteration, the journal continues to move toward a collective understanding of the multiple ways in which doctoral level ‘research-in-progress’ might be critically explored, tested, and disseminated in a way that is new.

Summer work: documenting a wetland forest in North Ontario; editing an artist book for GLUE book fair with The Wild Parlour; developing my creative writing practice; applying for funding for a practice-based video investigation (re)considering the online space as an ethics.

Moving through the Nevada desert

The way the body is positioned in the landscape is affective and of the moment and much of my work moves through the landscape. My practice can be thought of as a process of radical documentary. Rather than documenting the monument as an object, or a structure as a ‘marker’, my practice considers ‘site-as-marker’ describing the monument in terms of the social.

In these videos the thinking is on the concept of the ‘confrontational landscape’, the monument and the colonialist move, and works by Joyce Wieland, Robert Smithson, Sophie Calle.

London Art Collective, ‘Nostalgia and Selfhood Becoming’

Fitzrovia Gallery, London. October 6 – 11, 2025

This exhibition at Fitzrovia Gallery in London was sponsored and supported by London Art Collective and curated by Ruoru Wang.

fadmagazine.com review

Many thanks to Mark Westall for his review in fadmagazine.com. Excerpt below:

‘Across different media the exhibition traced how nostalgia, perception and transformation informed artistic exploration, and the questions it raised about how we remembered, imagined and inhabited the self remained compellingly relevant.’ https://fadmagazine.com/2025/10/15/nostalgia-and-selfhood-becoming/

‘Lingering’ Tiderip Gallery, London

4 October 2025

Many thanks to Tiderip gallery for ‘Lingering’ a special closing event for ‘She Paints Still’. Thank you also to Yu Xiao and to the team, Huang Xin and others, for their generous assistance. It was a pleasure to share in this event.

My practice draws on structural film strategies, including using only one ‘take’ or shot, and the image draws attention to itself as unstable.

This video installation encompasses an investigation of the frame as a transitional edge, a way of understanding the landscape Margaret Atwood discussed in her book Survival: a thematic guide to Canadian Literature, 2012. Here movement in terms of colonialism and communication, the open-endedness of space, and nature more generally is placed in the contexts of the affordances of moving image practice. While the video is investigative of how the landscape can be shown in moving image practice, the image is of a one-shot camera movement, a form of ‘panning’ which documents the movement of air and water. The half hitch knot in the metal fabric alludes to sailing boats and the direction of view in accord with the ‘establishing shot’ used in narrative film. Communication has a relationship to exposure, and the open drawer of the table is akin to a ‘reveal’ exposing the material of the table.

‘Noctilucent’ Espacio Gallery, London

30 October – 04 November 2025

Many thanks to all those who organised and sponsored the exhibition and to Espacio Gallery. Very much appreciated! It was a pleasure to be invited to join this exhibition which included two works from my ‘the sky is taught by falling series’ of photographs, a reimagining, or reinterpretation of the formal rose beds at Alexandra Palace.

The press release for ‘Noctilucent’ explains: ”Noctilucent’ invites artists and viewers to explore how memory, identity, and consciousness resonate in moments of suspension through fleeting, hard-to-grasp, and intangible forms. Works may explore traces, echoes, floating pathways, or passing atmospheres, highlighting the delicate boundary between what can be seen and what is absent, between the physical and the unseen.’

While working near to the monument I used a box camera made circa 1930. The depth of focus is limited when compared to modern cameras but for me this can be its strength. These are large scale photographs which I first printed in a small edition at 110cm x 200cm. The material of the film is documented along with the formal gardens and the communications tower, marking the palace in the context of the qualities inherent to the photographic image.

GLUE book fair, ICA, London.

13 – 14 September 2025

The Wild Parlour, editing and contributing.

Many thanks to the team at GLUE book fair for organising a great event. Thanks also to Bleet! zine for including my writing, and The Wild Parlour for their generous response. It was great to see you all at ICA, London.

Summer work: documenting a wetland forest; editing an artist book for GLUE book fair with The Wild Parlour; developing my creative writing practice; applying for funding for a practice-based video investigation (re)considering the online space as an ethics.

Bleet! zine at Glue, ICA in September

Many thanks to the team at Bleet! zine and their including my writing and ‘Double Image’. It was great to meet them in person at Glue, ICA in September.

More readings and events are planned with Picky Bits information @bleet_zine, and readings at the Writers Room at Florence Trust, in November 2025

Making Space event, Cooke Latham Gallery

7 May 2025

Happy to have been part of Osman Yousefzada’s ‘making space’ event curated by @osmanstudio at @cookelathamgallery on 7th May.  My serial work ‘home is where the heart is’ video, ‘green as grass’ was included. The thinking in this work is on identity, and nature and its frame(s) in landscape genres of experimental and documentarist moving image works. Many thanks to ele.is.on for the poster design.

PhD Research | 2025 | K M Bosy

2025 UKCGE Conference at RCA

itinerant space: https://itinerant-space.co.uk/ Issue 3 available now.

itinerant space: Issue 2 launched at Royal College of Art in July 2024. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/ Issue 3 available now.

Below from the SoC newsletter at RCA:

The editorial team of “itinerant space” facilitated a workshop as part of UKCGE 9th International Conference on Professional & Practice Based Doctorates, held at the RCA on 7/8 April 2025. The workshop explored ways in which conventional approaches to academic research publishing might be modified and made more inclusive through communication practices. Keywords became catalysts for establishing connections and conversations between researchers from a wide range of disciplinary practices. Together, participants constructed a three-dimensional research network model.

Workshop: Reimagining practice-led publishing in a protected space

The interactive workshop built upon the learning experiences of doctoral students and staff in the School of Communication, RCA, who in 2021 launched itinerant space : an online journal of art, design and communication research practices. Now in its third iteration, the journal continues to move toward a collective understanding of the multiple ways in which doctoral level ‘research-in-progress’ might be critically explored, tested, and disseminated in a way that is new.

Editorial Team: Nick Bell, KM Bosy, Kam Rehal, Teal Triggs.

Founding editors: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kirsty Smith.

Editor: Professor Teal Triggs
Editors, Issue 1: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy. Editors, Issue 2: Nick Bell, Karen Bosy, Kam Rehal.

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library: I recently emailed a letter to Margaret Atwood’s office and I was thrilled to receive their response. My letter will be included in the archive of Margaret Atwood Papers at the University of Toronto’s Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, this way linking my thesis to the archive on her work.

PhD, School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art.

I recently successfully completed my final PhD exam in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art.

I would like to express my appreciation to my supervisory team: Nicky Hamlyn and Jonathan Miles, and I’m extremely grateful to Dr.Teal Triggs for her support with this research and with the development of itinerant space journal. I am also indebted to Dr. Johnny Golding, Dr. Rachel Garfield, and Dr. Hala Mansour for their time and attention during the final stages of this research and to examiners: Dr. Esther Leslie and Dr. Simon Payne for their knowledge and expertise. And finally, special thanks to all those at RCA and elsewhere, who generously supported my research journey with their patience and feedback.

RCA PhD Research Biennale 2025

I recently successfully completed my final PhD exam in the School of Arts and Humanities at the Royal College of Art. RCA PhD Research Biennale 2025 screened my installation the sky is taught by falling.

Research Biennale 2025, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London

This work includes a series of videos, medium format and 35 mm photographs and graphite frottage drawing. The iteration shown in the biennale included a digital video in the Hangar space and a large scale medium format photograph in the Mezzanine Gallery (image below)

Research Biennale 2025, Royal College of Art, Battersea, London
the sky is taught by falling series medium format photograph, inkjet print, on Hahnemuhle paper, 200 x 110cm

Papers launched at Royal College of Art in July 2024. https://itinerant-space.co.uk/

Find out more ➡️ itinerant-space.co.uk

A series of performative readings by contributors to itinerant space: Issue 2.

Private View, February 20, 18:00 to 21:30. Readings by contributers to Issue 2 brought a material experience of our journal into the exhibition space. A symposium peer review workshop on February 27 launched a new open call to PhD students in all the schools at RCA.

Our biennale exhibition and symposium is over now, until next time. It was so nice to catch up with friends and experience where their research has taken them.

News | K M Bosy | 2024

Guest Curator for Society for Animation Studies on Animationstudies2.0

Many thanks to Animationstudies2.0 co-editors Carmen Hannibal and Anastasiia Gushchina for inviting me to guest curate and edit a call, the invitation to contribute some writing, and for their skilful support and copy editing.

During February and March 2024 I guest curated and co-editing a call for the Society for Animation Studies. My writing on my video practice, drawing on my video home is where the heart is, is included in the collection

Below from the School of Communication at Royal College of Art:

Nicky Hamlyn, PGR Tutor in the School, features in a new collection of writings for animationstudies 2.0, the blog of the Society of Animation Studies. Guest curated by RCA PhD candidate Karen Bosy, contributors also include RCA alumna Sharon Young and current RCA students Despina Papadopoulos and Karen Bosy. The Society for Animation Studies promotes academic writing in the field. The theme for this call, Implying the Surface in Animation, presents the spatial environment as grounded, without representing it as ‘the ground’ in films, animations, or other works using animation strategies or technologies. The contributions were published weekly throughout February and March: Table of Contents HERE

Exhibition in the Forest

Iterative collaboration with @sharonyoung_studio and Boston University students in The Forest Exhibition, Epping Forest, London, September 2024. Video and performance.

Peckham 24

Book launch in May 2024 Launch for murmurings, murmurings, She Speaks Up book publication. Image contribution.

News | K M Bosy

News | K M Bosy | 2023

Ars Electronica Festival

Ars Electronica Festival in Linz, Austria, screened the sky is taught by falling series video installation September 2023.

EVA London 2023 conference

EVA London 2023 conference screened the sky is taught by falling, digital video (2023) in a pop-up exhibition of works by artist researchers.  It was great to be back at this conference. I joined the Peer Review team of the Program Committee (2020 -2024) after my presentation on Seminar Project in 2019. An introduction can be found at Seminar Project. This is a video project that started with a worldwide call to practitioners for short videos exploring concepts about water and privacy. Co-authored papers on Seminar Project were presented at EVA London 2019 and EVA London 2020 conference and at CIDI conference on Communication Design in Brazil. Discussion towards an exhibition in Rio De Janeiro had begun in 2020. More information on the Seminar Project page of this site.

Hopscotch, RCA PhD Research Biennale 2023 screened my installation the sky is taught by falling video, 35mm photographs and frottage drawing.

Highlights | 2020 -2022

Without Boundaries screened my video series private (2022) and exhibited my graphite works on mylar of studio tools, White City, RCA, 2022. 

PROVA, Sick Love, Journal 5, RCA Arts and Humanities research journal online, vault, written and image contribution, p. 188-189, RCA, online in 2020, book form in 2022.

As a founding editor of itinerant-space.co.uk an academic research journal for PhD research at the Royal College of Art. I worked with other research students to design and test a new website and to develop peer review and open-call guidelines, initiating drafts and testing procedures. Issue 1, the pilot for this online experimental platform, was soft launched in February 2021. As an issue editor for Issue 1 & Issue 2, I led and co-led workshops online and in person for in school meetings and doctoral training weeks open to all the PhD students in all the schools of RCA. My video vault is published on the pilot, first as a test image in 2020, and then as a contribution to Issue 1. Issue 2 was published July 2024 and carries my iterative video home is where the heart is (2024). Papers, a book version for PhD students in the School of Communication at RCA, was also launched in 2024.

Itinerant space screens my video vault online. Issue 1, the pilot for this online experimental platform, was soft launched in 2021. Link to this video here

Workshops on peer review, copyright, editing, forms of writing, writing style, and to develop and disseminate a call for contributions were held online and in person during the development of the pilot issue and again for issue 2, RCA.

Trajectories II, Waterman’s Art Centre, London

What is Public Space? Trajectories II exhibition & events, video workshop using a zine format, Waterman’s Art Centre, London, 2019.

Research student teaching and workshops

Leading workshops and presenting to incoming RCA MA Students: Cybernetics and over-trust, webinar and panel discussion, 2020; The ad hoc and the organized in public space, workshop, RCA, 2019; The Commemorative Document and the Image Bank, workshop, RCA, 2019; Curatorial, Inspirations and Influences, workshop, RCA, 2019; Movements and Trends, workshop, RCA, 2019; Public Space & Exchange, workshop, RCA, 2018; Public Space & The Manifesto, workshop, RCA, 2018.