We are participants of the CCC PhD-Forum* with various educational backgrounds -curatorial studies, visual arts, literature, psychology, music, philosophy, gender studies, cultural studies, design theory. We bring to the PhD-Forum a set of cultural formations, practices, intellectual geographies and research interests departing from different languages. We are artists, researchers, curators, educators as well as doctoral students, PhDapplicants, assistants and professors in the humanities,

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... l sciences, philosophy, design, architecture and contemporary art. Each of us is working individually on a research project before, during and after the PhD. These temporalities encounter one another when we meet. We are here to situate our experiences in the context of the current debates on doctoral research within the art academy. The PhD-Forum is for us, the CCC Research Affiliates, a place where we embody our research processes and create the conditions for a dialogue between our multiple backgrounds to take place. This condition emerges from the various voices, problems and projects of its participants.