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Prof Neil Mulholland is Chair of Contemporary Art Practice & Theory at Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh. His research and learning interests in paragogy and weirding coorespond with three inter-related corporations (Confraternity of Neoflagellants, Shift/Work, Atelier). Each of these corporations is primarily concerned with methodological inventiveness, co-constructing para and extradisciplinary methods that systematically re-frame artistic research as an open ended inquiry: a careful, continuous quest driven by curiosity.

Contemporary art is a parasite; a good host forever seeking an equally good host. To these ends, Neil almost always works collaboratively, forming a distributed corporatus, then adopting shared avatars that have interpretive flexiblity. For example, the avatar The Confraternity of Neoflagellants fabulates theory-fictions. One such theory-fiction is the para-discipline of neomedievalism. CoN's neomedievalism is akin to 'Weird Machine', an exploit that fabulates its own metaverse into existence by metastasising existing disciplines and practices such as Medievalisms Studies, New Weird, Weirding, Psychotronic arts, Comparative Esotericism and Conspirituality. CoN's exploit generates unique methods for palimpsesting extant knowledges, for divining what is yet to be known, and for bleeding non/counter-knowledge boundary formations.

From T h e E s t a t e   o  f  ......  Ｋｎｅｅｌ, Ｍｕｌｈｏｌｌａｎｄ：Ｄｒｉｖｅ！

🐉　Ｃｏｎｆｒａｔｅｒｎｉｔｙ　ｏｆ　Ｎｅｏｆｌａｇｅｌｌａｎｔｓ®   🍳 ρan-ρan The Confraternity of Neoflagellants New York: punctum books, July 1st 2021 ⬇ OPEN-ACCESS e-book. Neomedievalisms / Anachronic / Nonmodern; Fictioning, Fabulation and Theory-Fiction; The Weird: New Weird, Weirding, Weird Materialisms, Spooky Action, Psychotronic Art, Comparative Esotericism, Conspirituality, Weird Cities, The Weird Machine, Anti-Knowledge, Misc.; Neurodiversity; Deanthropotechnics

🔨　Ｓｈｉｆｔ／Ｗｏｒｋ  educational turns in art/curating; workshop-as-method; Scholarship of Teaching & Learning (SoTL) in art; paragogics; para-academic        

Atelier Network  Contemporary Art + Anthropology; Hybrid research methods; Weird materialisms and non-representationalism; Organisational studies pertaining to contemporary art (curating, arts programming)