Rebecca Korn

Senior Lecturer // Integrated Foundation Year Lead

Rebecca Korn is the Year Lead for the Integrated Foundation Year. She studied a BA (Hons) in Fine Art at the University of Hertfordshire and the MA Artist Teachers and Contemporary Practices at Goldsmiths, University of London. She has been active within arts education since 2004, delivering, developing and managing multi-disciplinary courses across various Further and Higher Education Institutions, joining the University for the Creative Arts as a Senior Lecturer in 2018.
She is an interdisciplinary artist who has taken part in numerous exhibitions within the UK and abroad, is part of an international collaborative drawing project ‘Drawing Dialogue’, and is also a member of the cross-disciplinary, international research group PeARL: Performance Artistic Research Lab.

Her own practice led research stems from an on-going fascination with the intersections between art and science; especially in relation to biomedical science and the body. Recent interests have turned to the posthuman body. Investigating ideas around symbiosis, sympoiesis and speculative futures, where she considers re/imaginings of how bodies may adapt and evolve through learning from and with our non-human counterparts.

She is one part of an artist duo with Riga-based artist Anastasia Shneps-Shneppe, where they probe the permeable boundaries of their interdisciplinary practices across photography, sculpture and performance-making. Their research explores water as a co-collaborator, ecotones as a place of unlimited possibility and transformation, and the diatom as their non-human oddkin and facilitator of new work. They have been part of an interdisciplinary knowledge exchange with Hydrobiologists and Diatomists from the University of Latvia and the Latvian Environmental, Geological and Meteorological Centre, and have recently won a commission to make new public sculptural work for the Sculpture Quadrennial Riga festival taking place in 2024.