Dr Andrea Philips
Art
Reader in Fine Art | BA MA PHD
Research Interests
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.
Recent Publications
Phillips, Andrea. 2010. Jacques Ranciere: the how of emancipation. In: Big ideas: Jacques Ranciere: the how of emancipation. Whitechapel Gallery, London, United Kingdom.
Phillips, Andrea. 2010. Education Aesthetics. In: Mick Wilson and Paul O'Neill, eds. Curating and the Educational Turn. Amsterdam: De Appel/Open Editions.
Phillips, Andrea. 2009. Doing Democracy#2. In: Celine Condorelli, ed. Support Structures. Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Phillips, Andrea. 2009. Beyond Attendance. In Sarah Morris: Beijing. Cologne: Walther Konig.
Phillips, Andrea. 2009. Curating as Architecture. In: Nikolaus Hirsch, Philippe Misselwitz, Markus Miessen and Matthias Gorlich, eds. Institution Building: Artists, Curators, Architects in the Struggle for Institutional Space. Berlin/New York: Sternberg Press.
Phillips, Andrea. 2009. Improvisation Rights. In: Kate McFarlane, ed. Cornelius Cardew: Play for Today. London: The Drawing Room.
Phillips, Andrea. 2008. Curating architecture: Office Kersten Geers, David Van Severen. In: Moritz Kung, ed. 1907... After the Party: Office Kersten Geers David Van Severen Belgian Pavilion Venice 2008. Antwep: De Singel.
Phillips, Andrea. 2008. Ephemeral Spaces. In: Informal Architecture: Spaces and Contemporary Culture. London: Black Dog Publishing.