Dr Gavin Grindon
Position held:
Visiting Tutor
Phone:
+44 (0)20 7919 7496
Fax:
+44 (0)20 7717 2284
Email:
g.grindon (@gold.ac.uk)
Website:
http://www.gavingrindon.net
Teaching
For the year 2009-10 I am running the core Postgraduate Diploma course, Histories of Art.
Research interests
The politics of Surrealism and its legacies
Socially-engaged art collectives since 1945, the Situationist International, art-activism and contemporary institutional critique.
Cultural theory, particularly Marxism and post-structuralism.
I am currently preparing a book on the history of the idea of revolution-as-festival, from Surrealism to contemporary art-activism.
Selected publications
Edited BooksAesthetics and Radical Politics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Cambridge , 2008.
Major Waldemar Fydrych. Lives of the Orange Men, London : Minor Compositions/Autonomedia, forthcoming.
Book Chapters
“Anarchism and Culture: 1940-Present”; ”Hakim Bey”; ”Provos”; ”Roel Van Duijn” entries in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500-Present, 8 vols, Blackwell, London , 2008.
“The Notion of Irony in Cultural Activism,” in Theorising Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Potentialities, ed. Aylin Kuryel and Begüm Özden Fırat , New York / Amsterdam , Rodopi, 2009.
“The Breath of the Possible” in Constituent Imagination, ed. David Graeber and Stevphen Shukaitis , AK Press, Edinburgh , 2007. Available online at www.generation-online.org/c/Grindon.pdf
Journal Articles
“Protests Past and Protest Futures” with Rodriguo Nunes and Benj Gerdes, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. Available online at www.journalofaestheticsandprotest.org
“Second-Wave Situationism?” Fifth Estate, issue 350, Summer 2009. Available online at http://slash.autonomedia.org/node/12621