Goldsmiths - University of London

Andrea Phillips

My research interests focus on: contemporary art, architecture and current socio-political thought; movement, mobility and fluidity in contemporary art and political philosophy; connections between curating and socio-political activities of constructing, organising, and caring for transnational space; concepts of distribution in art, architecture and politics; Ranciere, Badiou and the political in art; Sassen, Beck, Harvey and economy vis-à-vis art. My current research project is a series of seminars and workshops on Curating Architecture (AHRC funded, 2006-2008) which explore the connections between practices of curating - gathering, displaying, distributing, caring for cultural product in its broadest definition - and the practices of architecture (thinking about, constructing, distributing the built environment).

Curating Architecture starts from the premise that the routines of artists and architects may share many conceptual and theoretical concerns, particularly in debates around the politics of space, but there are contradictions and hiatuses in the political claims of each that are reinforced through their often paradoxical display in the public sphere. Forthcoming research leading from this project will focus on ‘transnational aesthetics’, that is, the way in which objects and images are reformulated through their appearance in and through globalised conceptions of the public sphere.

Academic qualifications

1990 BA Theatre Studies (first class) Dartington College of Arts
1995 MA History of Art (distinction) Goldsmiths, University of London
2003 PhD Slade School of Fine Art, UCL

Additional Professional Positions
2008- External Examiner, MA Contemporary Art & the World, NCAD, Dublin
2006- Research Supervisor, London Consortium
2007- Fellowship Supervisor, Bergen Academy of Art
2004-8 External Examiner, BA Photographic Arts, University of Westminster

Presentations and exhibitions

Professional activities

Sept 2004-August 2008 Acting Assistant Director, Curating Programme, Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London
Sept 2003-August 2004 Acting Assistant Director, Curating Programme, Department of Art, Goldsmiths, London
Sept 2003-July 2004 Associate Lecturer, Bartlett School of Architecture, History and Theory of Architecture
Sept 2001-July 2005 Associate Lecturer, MA Scenography, Central St Martins, University of the Arts, London
Jan 2001-July 2003 Associate lecturer, MA Cities and Cultures, Queen Mary, University of London
Sept 2001-July 2002 Associate lecturer, MA Performance, Queen Mary, University of London 
Sept 1999-July 2003 Associate Lecturer, MA Curating, Goldsmiths College, London
Sept 1995-Jan 1997 Lecturer and Research Associate, BA Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts

Sept 1999-July 2004 Other research and associate lectureships held at University of Edinburgh (Department of Architecture), School of Visual Arts, Middlesex University (Research programme), Boston University in London (Performing Arts programme), Faculty of Theatre Studies, Roehampton University (Research programme), Slade School of Fine Art, UCL (Post-Graduate Fine Art), Camberwell School of Art, University of the Arts, London (MA Book Arts).

Selected publications

Chapters in Books:
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Goldwoods Estate: Diann Bauer’ in (ed.) Luis Serpa, O Fascinio de Ulisses (Lisbon: Luis Serpa Projects, forthcoming)
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Doing Democracy’ in Support Structure (Birmingham: Eastside Projects, forthcoming)
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Objects, Props, Assemblages’ in Showroom Annual: Props, events, encounters: the performance of new sculpture (London: The Showroom, 2008) ISBN 0-9542362-6-2
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Curating Architecture’ in (ed.) Moritz Kung, Belgian Pavilion catalogue, Venice Architecture Biennale 2008 (Antwerp: de Singel, 2008)
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Ephemeral Spaces’ in (ed.) Anthony Kiendl, Informal Architectures (London: Black Dog, 2008) ISBN13: 978 1 906155 33 9
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Slipping away from Citizenship’ in Disassembly (London: Serpentine Gallery, 2006) ISBN: 1-905190-11-5
PHILLIPS, A, 'Spirits, Ghosts, Atmospheres of Democracy' in The Showroom Annual (London: The Showroom, 2006) ISBN 0-9542362-5-4
PHILLIPS, A, 'Rhythmanalysis' catalogue essay, Kevin Hamilton (Chicago: DuPage Gallery, 2006) ISBN 06-866(5/06)1M
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Trad.TM’ in The Ark (London: Museum of Garden History/Parabola Trust, 2006) ISBN 0-9547617-5-8
PHILLIPS, A, 'Marjetica Potrc' in (ed.) Lizzie Fisher, Ways of Living (Cambridge: Kettle’s Yard Gallery, 2005) ISBN 1-904561-14-4
PHILLIPS, A, ‘The Trouble with Walking’ in (ed.) Wouter Davidts, Museum in Motion (Maastrict: Van Eyck Academy, 2005) ISBN 907207632X
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Painting, photography, places’ catalogue essay in Alastair Skinner: Retrospective (London: Shopfront, 2004) ISBN 0-9537860-1-3
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Tim Brennan: Crusade’ catalogue essay in Crusade Codex (Sunderland: Art Editions North, 2004) ISBN 1873757050

Articles in journals and catalogues:
PHILLIPS, A, ‘interview with George Henry Longly’ in Mass Damper (Birmingham: IPS, 2008)
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Doing Democracy#2’ in Paletten (Stockholm, 2008), forthcoming
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Distribution’ in Performance Research Vol. 11. No.3: ‘Lexicon’ (December 2006) ISSN: 1352-8165
PHILLIPS, A, 'Walking and Looking', Cultural Geographies Journal Vol. 12, no. 4 (London: Hodder Arnold, 2005) ISSN: 1474-4740
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Civic Centre’ conference review in Journal of Visual Culture, Vol. 2 no. 3 December 2003 (London: Sage Pubs, 2003) ISSN: 1470-4129

On websites:
PHILLIPS, A, 'Kate Meynell' archive essay, Luxonline (London: Lux, 2006)
PHILLIPS, A, ‘Doing Democracy’ essay, www.supportstructure.org (London: Support Structure, 2007)

Selected conference papers and public talks:
Sept 2008 Ambivalent Ruins, Gradcam, Dublin: panel discussion
Sept 2008 Out There: Venice Architecture Biennale 2008, Venice: ‘Curating Architecture’
July 2008 You Talkin’ to me?: Art and the Educational Turn, ICA London: pubic panel discussion
June 2008 Textiles, Dress & the Production of Space, Central St Martins, UoA, London: ‘A politics of engagement: art, architecture, fashion’ keynote paper
May 2008 Spatial Politics: The Physical Dimensions of Curating, ICA, London: ‘Architecture as pseudo-democracy’
May 2008 Revisioning Black Urbanism, ICA, London: ‘Saadiyat Island’
Jan 2008 Contemporary Landscape Photography, University of Bergen, Norway: ‘Transnational Images’ keynote paper
Dec 2007 The happening of the social: devices, sites and methods, Department of Sciology, Goldsmiths: ‘List Paradox’
Nov 2007 Art and Globalisation, Bargehouse, Kingston University: ‘Transnational Aesthetics’
Nov 2007 Pavilion Politics, organised as part of Curating Architecture in collaboration with Serpentine Gallery Park Nights 2007 with Nikolaus Hirsch, Celine Condorelli and Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier BowWow): ‘Pavilion Politics’
Oct 2007 Defining Space, University College Dublin, as part of panel on Curating Architecture with Nathalie Weadick, Lisa le Feuvre and Edgar Schmitz: ‘Architectural Display and Democratic Affect’
Oct 2007 National (Re)Presentation, a four session research project co-organised with Suhail Malik and Sophie Van Olfers plus guests at Witte de With, Rotterdam
July 2007 Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, London: 'Resistance or Invention? Art and Global Capital Assemblage' (with Amanda Beech and Suhail Malik)
July 2007 Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, London: ‘Local Politics’ for MOT International
July 2007 Local Operations, Serpentine Gallery, London: ‘Doing Democracy’ for Support Structure (Gavin Wade & Celine Condorelli)
June 2007 Pilot:3 – Venice Biennale 2007, Atelier Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice: ‘Contemporary Curating and Formats of New Capital’
May 2007 Chair and introduction: David Adjaye, Tate Modern, London
May 2007 Props, events, encounters: the performance of new sculpture, Showroom, London: ‘Objects, Props, Assemblages’
April 2007 Critical Topology of Landscape, Bath Spa University: ‘Democratic Affect’ keynote paper
March 2007 Introduction and Panel Chair: Informal Architectures symposium, Tate Modern
March 2007 Chair and introduction: Diller, Scofidio & Renfro, Architecture Foundation, London
March 2007 Chair: Vito Acconci: Curating Architecture, Goldsmiths, London
Oct 2006 Symposium Interview: Jacques Ranciere, Political Currency of Art launch symposium, Goldsmiths, London
May 2006 Concrete Thoughts, University of Manchester: ‘Curating Architecture’ keynote paper
March 2006 Architecture Network symposium, Barbican, London: ‘Foreign Office Architect's Future Cities’ keynote paper
June 2006 Philosophy of the Overlooked, ICA, London. Talk: ‘On walking’
April 2006 Art & Art History: Contents, Discontents, Malcontents, AAH conference: ‘Art vs Architecture’
March 2006 Contemporary Art Series, Kunsthogskolen, Oslo: ‘Changes to the Political’
March 2006 This is Architecture, Architecture Foundation, London: ‘Curating Architecture’ keynote paper
May 2006 Patterns of Displacement, Kunstverein, Frankfurt: ‘Politics of Mobility’
May 2006 Bas Jan Ader symposium, Camden Arts Centre and Afterall, London. Chair
Feb 2006 Art-Architecture debate, University of Edinburgh: ‘On pedestrianism’
March 2006 Artists-Culture and the Spirit of Capitalism, The Showroom, London. Chair
Feb 2006 Curate: Inspire symposium, The Courtauld Institute, London: ‘Curating Architecture’
Jan 2006 AKAD symposium, University of Lund, Sweden: ‘Architecture and display’
Jan 2006 Spatial Imagination, Domo Baal Gallery, London: ‘The Event of Architecture’
Oct 2005 Artangel commission, 21 Portman Square, London: ‘Alys and walking’
July 2005 Curating/Architecture symposium, The Photographers' Gallery, London: ‘Moving Through Buildings’
May 2005 Walking as Knowing conference, University of Chicago. Keynote paper: ‘Walking and Looking’ keynote paper
March 2005 Thinking Space research symposium Bartlett School of Architecture, London: ‘Curating architecture’
March 2005 Capital Designs: Women and Planning in Contemporary London symposium Queen Mary University of London: ‘Walking and Planning’
Nov 2004 Museum in Motion? conference Jan Van Eyck Academy, Maastrict: ‘The Trouble with Walking’
Dec 2004 Informal Architecture conference Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada: ‘Ephemeral Architecture’
July 2004 Architecture/Philosophy conference CATH, Leeds: ‘Walking. Ethics, Aesthetics’
July 2004 Curating/Architecture inaugural seminar The Photographers Gallery, London: ‘Curating/Architecture’
June 2004 Cy Twombly sweatshop Serpentine Gallery, London: Twombly and Barthes
May 2004 To Change an Opinion conference The Showroom Gallery, London. Response to Michael Hirsch
June 2003 Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference RGS, London: ‘On Foot’
June 2003 Niemeyer pavilion talks Serpentine Gallery, London: ‘New Town Poetics’
May 2003 Walkabout Compton Verney, Leamington Spa: ‘Walkabout’
Oct 2002 Re-Public Art: Symbolic Vs Real Goldsmiths, University of London. Co-Chair
Feb 2002 Transforming London: Rethinking Regeneration through Commerce, Planning and Art Bishopsgate Institute/Whitechapel Gallery: ‘Walking Art in London’
Thru 2001 Dublin Arcades Project Symposium Project, Dublin. x3 papers on Walter Benjamin