Ms Chrystal Cherniwchan
School of Arts, Media and Creative Technologies
New Adelphi Building
University of Salford
Manchester
M5 4BR
Current positions
Teaching Fellow in Photography
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 Creative Communities (L4), Street & Studio (L4), Photography and the Book (L4), Creative Challenge (L5), 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.
Qualifications
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Advance HE Fellowship
2024 - 2024 -
MA Multi-Disciplinary Printmaking
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BFA Photography