Ms Chrystal Cherniwchan
Faculty of Social Science, Humanities and the Arts for People and the Economy (VA)
New Adelphi Building
University of Salford
Manchester
M5 4BR
Current positions
Lecturer in Art and Design
Biography
I am a research-based, practice-led artist working across installation, immersive environments, photography, film, and sound recording, I investigate how spatial, environmental, and sensory conditions shape experience and mediate our relationships with place. My practice draws on sound studies, phenomenology, sensory ethnography, disability studies, and more-than-human theory to examine perception as an embodied, situated, and relational process. Through these encounters, I seek to explore how perception can become a site for reimagining relationships between bodies, environments, and the diverse forms of life and matter that shape our shared worlds.
Areas of Research
1. Affect, Embodiment and Phenomenology
2. Sound Studies and Aural Diversity
3. Sensory Ethnography
4. More-Than-Human Theory
5. Derek Jarman
Some of the Photography modules I lead on are Practice 1: Inductions, Practice 2: Industry, Towards Resolution (L6), and Resolution (L6).
I am an Academic Progress Reviewer for levels 4 and 6.
Fellowship in AdvanceHE, Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP), University of Salford, 2025.
Carbon Literate, The Carbon Literacy Trust, 2024.
Qualifications
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Sociology
2026 -
Advance HE Fellowship
2024 - 2024 -
MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking
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BFA Photography