Sarah Tuck’s principal research interests lie in the relationship between photography, history, politics and cultural memory. Recently her work has explored the uses of drone technologies in surveillance, war and protest, supported by a collaborative initiative of the Hasselblad Center and Valand Academy, in partnership with Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre, Nicosia, Cyprus and the Zahoor Ul Akhlaq Gallery in Lahore, Pakistan.

In 2015 she published After the Agreement - Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland a curated research project funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council UK, which considers the affective meanings of photographs in the socio-political context of 'post-conflict' in Northern Ireland.

Her work has traversed a wide range of situated practice, including community development, post conflict processes and institutional networks where questions of agency, knowledge production and representation have always been central.

Research Interests Agonism as an Artistic Research Method Performativity and its Critique Ethics and the Politics of Representation

Publications

Watched by Drones. Photographic Surveillance in Art, War and
Protest.

Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers, Svea Bråunert
(W)archives. Archival Imaginaries and Contemporary Wars. Agostinho, D, Gade, S, Thylstrup N, Veel, K., (red.) - 2021-01-01
Drone
Alliances

Sarah Tuck
Fragmentation of the photographic image in the digital age edited by Daniel Rubinstein. - 2020-01-01
Watching Murder
Online

Sarah Tuck
Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self - 2018-01-01
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest - co presented with Louise Wolthers, Hasselblad Foundation at 5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF PHOTOGRAPHY & THEORY Photographies and Conflict: Archiving and Consuming Images of Strife November 22-24, 2018 Nicosia,
Cyprus

Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers
Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance and Protest - 2018-01-01
Gray’s School of Art Research Conference – SPACE & SPATIALITY IN CREATIVE PRACTICE, Friday Oct 5, 2018, Aberdeen,
Scotland

Sarah Tuck
The Curatorial as Research Method and Practice - 2018-01-01
Public and Private Selves - panel discussion at Tate Modern, July
2018

Sarah Tuck
Panel Discussion - 2018-01-01
Drone Vision and
Protest

Sarah Tuck
Photographies - 2018-01-01
Watching Murder Online Presented at Photography in Print and Circulation Symposium Valand Academy/Hasselblad Foundation 17 November,
2016

Sarah Tuck
Chapter - Watching Murder Online - in Public, Private, Secret: On Photography and the Configuration of Self by Charlotte Cotton (Author),‎ Marina Chao (Editor). Copublished by Aperture and the International Center of Photography - 2018-01-01
Drone Vision- Warfare, Surveillance and Protest – paper presented with Louise Wolthers, (W)Archives Conference, University of Copenhagen, Denmark – August 21-22,
2017.

Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers
see: http://artsandculturalstudies.ku.dk/research/focus/uncertainarchives/activities/warchives/ - 2017-01-01
Drone Vision: Surveillance and Protest – paper presented at Art & Activism: Resilience Techniques in Times of Crisis, University Leiden and Center for Research in Material Cultures, Leiden, Netherlands, Dec 13-15,
2017

Sarah Tuck
see: https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/2017/05/art--activism - 2017-01-01
Disrupting the Asymmetry of Drone Vision – paper presented at The Left Conference – Photography and Film Criticism, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, NOVA, University of Lisbon, Portugal, Nov 16-18,
2017

Sarah Tuck
see: https://photographyandtheleft.wordpress.com/ - 2017-01-01
Drone Vision – paper presented at Bending the Frame symposium, Preus Museum, Oslo, Norway, Oct 17,
2017

Sarah Tuck
see website: http://www.preusmuseum.no/eng/layout/set/print/Explore-the-Museum/Events/Calendar/Seminar-Bending-the-Frame - 2017-01-01
Performing the Drone - Responding to critical questions raised by the politics and aesthetics of drone technologies, through creative practice at Ulster University, Coleraine Campus (supported by the British Academy) - April 12-13, 2017. (see:
http://performingthedrone.com)

Sarah Tuck
published as website - Performing the Drone - 2017-01-01
Drone Vision – paper presented at Critical Issues In Photography Today – photographies Conference, Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, University of Westminster, London, May 18-19,
2017

Sarah Tuck
see website - https://www.westminster.ac.uk/photographies-conference-critical-issues-in-photography-today - 2017-01-01
Drone Vision – paper presented at Changing Views - Documentary Perspectives on Human Rights, 19-20 September, Västerbottens Museum, Umeå,
Sweden

Sarah Tuck
see website: http://80.244.87.144/en/se-and-gora/kalendarium/2017/changing-views.html - 2017-01-01
After the Agreement - Contemporary Photography in Northern
Ireland

Sarah Tuck
- 2015-01-01