Dr Katarina Rankovic
Dr Katarina Rankovic
- Lecturer in Fine Art
- Professional Title
- Doctor
- Job Title
- Lecturer in Fine Art
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- k.rankovic@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- The Glasgow School of Art, Stow Building | 43 Shamrock Street, Glasgow G4 9LD.
- Country
- United Kingdom
Biography
Dr Katarina Ranković is an artist, writer and emerging composer working across performance, voice, moving image, drawing and text. Her practice explores selfhood and agency through acts of inhabiting, voicing and scripting, asking how human, fictional and non-human forms of personhood are constituted and brought to life.
Her long-running performance series The One Woman Empathy Circus explores the fluidity of selfhood through the improvised inhabitation of different characters. Current projects include Aria and the Curtain, an experimental opera and digital libretto about a sentient song brought into being through human voices, and Mourning Flowers, a series of intricate ink drawings exploring the handmade and singularity in an age of generative reproduction.
Ranković holds a PhD in Art from Goldsmiths (2023). Her work has been presented at Bloomberg New Contemporaries, South London Gallery and Transmediale, and she was awarded first prize at the Biennial of Humour and Satire, Gabrovo.
Research Interests
agency, artificial intelligence, selfhood, character, personhood, performance, voice, drawing, writing, fiction, scripting, improvisation, embodiment, empathy, code-switching, identity, authenticity, mediation, medium, transmission, emergence, memetics, popular culture, cultural memory, generative AI, the handmade, copying, song, opera, metafiction
Grants
2026 — Aria and the Curtain
Development funding for the production of a demo track for a new opera.
Role: Project Lead; librettist and composer
Funder: Sound and Music, Essentials Fund
2024 — Aria: A Theatrical Séance for Choir and Audience
Research and development funding for a new work of musical theatre for choir.
Role: Project Co-Lead and librettist, with Dr Steve Potter (Guildhall School of Music & Drama), composer
Funder: Guildhall School of Music & Drama
2022 — Diagramming the Self: Deriving Lay Theories of Self Through Drawings
Field research investigating lay theories of self through crowd-sourced drawings.
Role: Principal Investigator
Funder: Goldsmiths, University of London
2022 — Scripting for Agency
Three-year departmental bursary supporting a practice-led PhD in Art.
Role: Doctoral researcher
Funder: Goldsmiths, University of London
2019–2021 — The Writing for Practice Forum
Annual funding supporting a peer-led training and development programme for artists using writing in their practice.
Role: Project Co-Lead, with Dr Kate Pickering, Rowena Harris and Dr Julia Calver
Funder: Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE)
2017 — Art to Artillery
Commission for the production of a short film.
Role: Project Co-Lead, with Thomas Cardew
Funder/Commissioners: NOWNESS, Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy and Central Saint Martins
PGR Supervision Interests
Performance, moving image, sound, voice, drawing, creative writing, practice research, selfhood, personhood, character, persona, agency, artificial intelligence, fiction and metafiction, popular and online cultures, mimesis, embodiment, improvisation, code-switching, cultural transmission, interdisciplinary and experimental practices.
Current PGR Students
Sitian Zeng, "Painting as an Approach to Explore Immanent Subjectivity in the Digital Age"
Teaching
Katarina Ranković is a Lecturer in Fine Art and Year 3 Lead for the Painting and Printmaking programme in the School of Fine Art. Her teaching spans studio practice, critical reflection, professional development and research, with particular interests in interdisciplinary and experimental approaches to contemporary art. She also supervises practice-based doctoral research.
Latest Additions
- Reading, Christina and Rankovic, Katarina (2024) Real and Imagined Explorations of Self: A Conversation with Katarina Ranković. In: Conversations on Creative Process, Methods, Research and Practice: Feminist Approaches to Nurturing the Creative Self. Routledge, Oxon and New York, pp. 36-47. ISBN 9781032259994
- Rankovic, Katarina (2023) When Pigment Masquerades as Light.
- Rankovic, Katarina (2023) The Surface and the Scar.
- Rankovic, Katarina (2021) The Shape of a Thinking Thing. In: PhD Programme, Art Department Goldsmiths, University of London. PhD Programme, Art Department Goldsmiths, University of London, London, pp. 19-20. ISBN 9781527295087
- Rankovic, Katarina (2018) A Story About a Drawing. JAWS (Journal of Arts Writing by Students), 4 (1). pp. 85-92. ISSN ISSN 2055-2823
- Rankovic, Katarina (2017) Becoming a Line: Examining Distributed Subjectivity through Lines found in Drawing, Theatrics and Novel Writing. Curating the Contemporary.
- Rankovic, Katarina (2017) Stunt Man. Confluence, 3. ISSN 2515-1215
- Rankovic, Katarina (2016) Unborn Lovers: Scripting for Agency. Curating the Contemporary.
- Rankovic, Katarina (2015) An Empathetic Affair: The Embodied Practice of Hedwig Houben. Curating the Contemporary.
- Rankovic, Katarina (2012) The Railway Rocket Dog. HESA Inprint, 17.
