Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Zara Worth
Impact Coordinator/Research Fellow
Part-time Lecturer
Zara Worth is an artist and researcher interested in value, meaning-making and belief systems. Currently she is undertaking a practice-led PhD exploring entanglements/differences between the smartphone and the Eastern Orthodox icon.
Worth often works with ersatz materials such as imitation gold leaf and faux neon LED lighting to create installations open to intra-actions with audiences. Interested in the potential of opening up the work through collaboration, Worth has recently worked with dance artists, inviting them to create live and recorded responses to her work. Recent works investigate the significance of the frame as a site of entanglement between the icon and the smartphone, considering the frame in relation to themes of space, gesture and presence.
Research Interests
- Agential realism
- Diffractive methodologies in practice-based research
- Social media technologies and cultures
- Religious artworks and artefacts
- The image
- New Religious Movements
Ask Me About
- Art
- Culture
- Feminism
- Religion
- Social Media
- Spirituality