Giovanni Aloi
is a lecturer in History of Art at Roehampton University, Queen Mary University of London, The Open University, and Tate Galleries. In 2006 he founded Antennae, the Journal of Nature in Visual Cultures of which he is currently Editor in Chief (wwwantennae.org.uk). The Journal combines a heightened level of academic scrutiny of animals in art, with a less formal and more experimental format designed to appeal to audiences of academics, artists and general public alike.
Academic Qualifications
PGCE in Post-Compulsory Education
Institute of Education
MA in Visual Culture
Goldsmiths College
Postgraduate Diploma in History of Art
Goldsmiths College
Selected Professional Experience
Lecturer in History of Art
Roehampton University
Course Tutor
Open University
Associate Lecturer
Queen Mary, University of London
Lecturer
Tate Galleries
External Academic Activities
Practicing Artist and Freelance Commercial Photographer
Publications
Antennae, The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture
Editor in Chief
Books
Aloi, G. Animals & Art, part of the series ‘Art &…’ I B Tauris, to be published in June 2011 (pre-sales already available)
Academic Essays
Essay: ‘Different becomings’, in Art and Research, Ed. Ron Broglio, currently in print. Available in March 2011
Essay: ‘The death of the animal’ (adapted paper as delivered at The Animal Gaze in November 2008) in Journal of Visual Art Practice, Vol. 9, n.1, 2011, pp. 59-68
Selected Reviews and Articles
Review: ‘Orozco and the everyday object’, published in Whitehot Magazine, March, 2011
Review: ‘Joana Vasconcelos: I will survive’, published in Whitehot Magazine, September, 2010
Review: ‘Marc Quinn, Allanah, Buck, Catman, Chelsea, Michael, Pamela and Thomas’, published in Whitehot Magazine, May, 2010
Review: ‘Chris Ofili’, published in Whitehot Magazine, January, 2010
Book Review: ‘Animal encounters’, published by Brill, 2009, featured on Brill’s website: http://www.brill.nl/default.aspx?partid=210&pid=27853
Review: ‘Anish Kapoor’, published in Flash Art International and Flash Art Italia, Winter, 2009
Review: ‘Damien Hirst - the blue paintings’, published in Whitehot Magazine, November, 2009
Review: ‘Anish Kapoor’, published in Whitehot Magazine, November, 2009
Review: ‘Frieze 2009 – what is there to see?’ published in Whitehot Magazine, October, 2009
Review: ‘Zhang Huan-Zhu Gangqiang’, published in Flash Art International, September 2009
Review: ‘Classified’, published in Whitehot Magazine, July, 2009
Review: ‘Mythologies’, published in Whitehot Magazine, March, 2009
Talks
Sep 2010
Paper: The Animal that Therefore I Am Not
Delivered at the ‘Sentient Creatures – Transforming Biopolitics and Life Matters’ Conference held at Oslo University
Sep 2010
Paper: Anthropomorphism as Hybridity
Also discussant in opening round table/discussion
Delivered at the ‘Hybrids, Monsters and Other Aliens’ conference at Roehampton University
Aug 2010
Stand alone talk: Animals in Contemporary Art
Slade School of Fine Art
May 2010
Stand alone talk: Beyond the Pain Principle
University of Cambridge
February 2010
Chair/Discussant: Brandon Ballengée, in conversation with.
The Royal Institute of Great Britain - in conjunction with Arts Catalyst.
November 2009
Paper: The Question of the Animal in Contemporary Art
Delivered at Westminster University, Visual Cultures Department, London
October 2009
Chair/Discussant: Pidgin Language - Animals, Birds and Us Symposium
In conjunction with Animal Flux exhibition, a solo show by Helen Bullard Norfolk
October 2009
Paper: Antennae: Widening the Debate
Paper presented as part of the symposium in conjunction with the Interspecies exhibition held in London
July 2009
Paper: ‘Different Becomings’: The Work of Marcus Coates and Oleg Kulik
Conference - The Art of Evolution: Charles Darwin and Visual Cultures
One-week conference at Courtauld Institute, London
May 2009
Paper: Taxidermy and Photography in Contemporary Art
Symposium organised in conjunction with Amy Stain Exhibition “Domesticated” in Aarhus, Denmark
May 2009
Paper: The Death of the Animal
Symposium - The Animal Gaze at Plymouth University
One-day symposium organised by London Metropolitan University, London currently touring the UK
April 2009
Paper: Beyond The Pain Principle
Colloquium-Becoming Human: Ethics, Animality, Transhumanism
Part of a joint project between Liverpool John Moores University and Liverpool Hope University.
October 2008
Paper: The Death Of The Animal
Symposium - The Animal Gaze
Symposium organised by London Metropolitan University, London
Alice Andrews
Academic Qualifications:
BA Hons Fine Art, Winchester School of Art,2003
MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London,2006
Research Interests:
(Auto) immunity in relation to futurity, science fiction and the embodied relationship of illness, biotechnology and their processes of subjectivation
Funding:
3 year full time AHRC funding for doctoral study
Jolan Bogdan
Academic Qualifications:
MA Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldmiths, University of London (London)
Postgraduate Diploma in Visual Arts, Goldmiths, University of London (London)
BFA (Hons) Textiles, Moore College of Art & Design, (Philadelphia)
Research Interests:
Philosophies of identity, technology, politics. The Romanian Revolution
Publications:
"Technology and the Romanian Revolution: performative contradiction in the nation-state" parallax 14: 3, Routledge, 2008, pp. 62-73
"Nicolae Ceausescu" Encyclopedia of the Cold War, ed. Tim Anderson, Routledge, 2008
"Media, Images, and Popular Protest in Eastern Europe: the Case of Romania" The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel Ness, Blackwell, 2009
"Protest and Revolution in Romania, 18th – 20th Century" The International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest, ed. Immanuel Ness, Blackwell, 2009
"Esthetic Culture" selected translations of Gyorgy Lukacs, Marxist Literary Group, University of Illinois at Chicago, in 2010
"Balkan Vision: self-representation under the western gaze" Transatlantic Cultural Traffic: Beyond the Legacy of the Cold War, ed. Anca Holden, forthcoming
Bridget Crone
Academic Qualifications:
BA Hons 1996 The University of Melbourne
MA Curating 2001 Goldsmiths, The University of London
Professional Activities:
Director, Media Art Bath - publicly funded agency championing contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work
Associate Lecturer, MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice, Chelsea School of Art and Design, University of the Arts, London
Research Interests:
Contingency, time and the event. Badiou, Deleuze, Spinoza
Political economies and performances of contemporary art and ideas
Publications (selected):
"Gail Pickering: Brutalist Premolition", Media Art Bath 2008
"Andrew Byrne and Tom Nicholson: Lines towards another century", Media Art Bath 2008
“Postscript: some thoughts on affect”, in The Showroom Annual 2005/6, (eds.) Bridget Crone and Kirsty Ogg, (London: The Showroom, 2007)
"The ruined body?", in The body. The ruin, (ed.) Bridget Crone, (Melbourne: The Ian Potter Museum of Art, The University of Melbourne, 2005)
"Mike Nelson", Art and Australia, December 2006 [interview]
"Performancemania: Hayley Newman', Eyeline, April/May 2003 [essay]
Mafalda Damaso
Academic qualifications:
MPhil/PhD Visual Cultures, 2010 – current;
MSc Political Science, Université Catholique de Louvain (Brussels, Belgium);
BSc Sociology, ISCTE-IUL (Lisbon, Portugal) with a minor in Philosophy, Universität Wien (Vienna, Austria).
Research Interests:
Branding, iconography, graphic design, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, international relations theory.
Professional activities:
- Organiser of Emergent Practices, a monthly series of interdepartmental talks at Goldsmiths in the framework of The Thursday Club (forthcoming: January to May 2011);
- Marketing and projects support (The Showroom, London);
- Marketing assistant (Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, Utrecht).
Publications:
- Copyeditor of "Circular Facts", ElDahab, Mai Abu, Choi, Binna and Pethick, Emily (eds.), Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2011;
- Translator (FR to EN) of "salon light #8", Paris: Cneai, 2011;
- "Nonlecture Four – I & You & Is" in Parallel School, "Six nonlectures", GRAPHIC #17 – When design becomes attitude, Seoul: propaganda, 2011;
- "User's Manual: A counter-cartography of social change", Utrecht: Casco – Office for Art, Design and Theory, 2010.
Funding and awards:
- Doctoral grant, FCT (Foundation for Science and Technology, Portuguese Ministry of Education and Science), 2010-2013;
- Inov-Art grant (Portuguese Ministry of Culture), 2009;
- Erasmus grant, 2007;
- ISCTE-IUL, Merit award, 2006.
Russell Davies
Academic Qualifications:
BA (Hons) English Literature Sheffield University
MA Modern European Philosophy Middlesex University
Professional Activities:
Freelance writer
Research Interests:
Time and anteriority, art and non-phenomenality, modern European philosophy, including Heidegger, Levinas and Adorno
Gabrielle Decamous
Academic qualifications:
PhD Candidate, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Hons in Fine Art and Art History, Paris I Pantheon Sorbonne University, 2002
BA Hons in Fine Art and Art History, Paul Valery University, 2001
Research interests:
Art, Science, Modernity and International Politics
Grants & Awards:
Year bursary, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2009
International Hilla Rebay Fellowship at the curatorial departments of the Guggenheim museums of New York, Bilbao and Venice, 2005-2006
Merit scholarship, Pantheon Sorbonne, 2002
Professional activities:
Visiting Tutor, BA Introduction to Art History Year 1, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, 2008-Current
Chair for the conference "Life Itself", Goldsmiths, 28th of January 2011
Visiting Tutor, Comparaison de Presse, French Stage 4, Language Study Center, Goldsmiths, 2008-2010
Research Assistant for the exhibition catalogue "Germaine Richier, Sculptures and Drawings", Peggy Guggenheim Museum, Curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, 2006.
Lecturer, monthly gallery talks for the permanent collection of Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A, 2004-2005Project manager with Lumi Tan and Josh Altman of the exhibition Catalogue Greater New York 2005,
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, a MoMA affiliate, 2005Assisted the group of artists Symbiotica, Biennale of Electronic Art in Perth, Australia, 2004
Substitute Teacher of Fin Arts, Marceau Lapierre middle school, St J. du Gard, France, 1999-2000
Papers presented:
"Bridging the Gap: Science and the Humanities", 9th International Conference on New Direction in the Humanities, Granada, Spain, Virtual Presentation, June 2010
"Art Beyond Science: The Viability of Artistic Responses to Modern Disasters", for the panel 'Beyond Art', organized by Ivan Gaskell, Harvard University, with Joachim Pissarro, David Carrier, Janice Baker, Jacob Wamberg, 99th Annual Conference of the College of Art Association, New York, U.S., 9-11 February, 2011
"Rethinking Modernity: Art and Science after Hiroshima and Chernobyl", for ˜Rethinking Complicity and Resistance: The Relationship between Visual Arts and Politics' Aberdeen University, U.K., October 2009
"The Future of Nuclear Technology: Modernity, Art and Colonialism", for 'Literature, Art, and Culture in an Age of Global Risk', An international, interdisciplinary conference, Cardiff University, U.K., July 2009
"The document in art; Orlan, Carnal Art", European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany, April 2005
Publications:
Forthcoming: "Rethinking Modernity: Art and Science after Hiroshima and Chernobyl", 'Emeutes', Aberdeen University, U.K.
"Nuclear Activities and Modern Catastrophes: Art in the face of the Radioactive Waves",'Leonardo', Journal of Art Science and Technology, MIT press, issue 44:2, April 2010
Orsalia Dimitriou
Thesis title:
"Spatial Expression of Political Models in Public Spaces"
Research about the political attributes of the public space, the re-emergence of common space, forms as definitions of citizenship, the role of design as a tool of political intervention.
Academic Qualifications:
PhD Candidate, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London
MA Art, Architecture and Ephemeral Space, Univercidad Politecnica de Cataluña UPC, Barcelona 2003
Dipl.-Arch.Eng in Architecture Engineering, National Technical University of Athens NTUA, Athens 2000
Professional Activities:
Architect, researcher
http://studiosynthetica.wordpress.com/
http://wewastetime.wordpress.com/
http://issuu.com/synthetica/docs/portfolio_orsalia_dimitriou
Research Interests:
Public Space, Common Space, Urban Design Theory, Urban Insurgencies, Grassroots Urban Practices, Public Art, Political Art, Visual Media as a Research Method
Funding:
3-year Mphi/ PhD Scholarship, State Scholarships Foundation IKY, Greece (2006)
12-month Postgraduate Scholarship, Becas MAE, Spanish Ministry of Exterior Affairs (2002)
Conference papers:
‘Common spaces and collective arenas’ (co-authored with Penny Koutrolikou), 1st Greek Conference on Public Space, Thessaloniki, Greece, October 2011
‘Keep calm and take the square: squatted public spaces of Athens and the emergence of commons, Challenging the post-political city workshop, University of Manchester, October 2011
‘Between Public and Private: “Commons” and “Collective” Arenas’ (co-authored with Penny Koutrolikou), Creating Publics Workshop, Open University with the University of Westminster, July 2011
’Common- Squatted- Autonomous- Municipal- Public Space’, 8th Annual AHRA Research Student Symposium, Architectural Association, London, May 2011
‘Feeling the Boundaries; the Social as an Act of Subjectification and Communication’ (co-authored with Manuel Singer) ,European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism & Creativity “Social Aesthetics“, Goldsmiths, University of London, March 2010
Exhibitions :
13th Thessaloniki Documentary Festival , ‘Avaton’, video (2011)
This Is Not A Gateway Festival, Brick Lane, London , ‘Avaton’, video(2010)
RDYM III, O3ON Gallery, Belgrade, ‘City is my home’, multimedia (2008)
RDYM II, O3ON Gallery, Belgrade, ‘Camp Gaidouronissi’ ,multimedia (2008)
Debutnale Video-Movie Festival, Linz, “Dreaming with the radio On”, video (2003)
Workshops:
‘How to do things with Academia’, Copenhagen Doctoral School in Cultural Studies, June 2011 ‘Hummanities Unplugged’ , Interart Joint Symposium, Berlin, November 2010
‘Dis-Similarities’, European Architect Student Assembly (EASA), Antwerp/ Rotterdam, July 2000
‘Living on the Edge’, European Architect Student Assembly (EASA), Valletta, July 1998
Sam Doepel-Hardy
Thesis title:Compromised Objects: African objects, intercultural translations and meaning production
Academic qualifications:
Baccalaureus Technologiae Fine Art, Pretoria Technikon, South Africa
BA (Hons) History of Art, UNISA, South Africa
BMus, UNISA, South Africa
MA History of Art, UCL, London
Professional activities:
Publishing and international book sales
Research Interests:
Interrogating intercultural translations and permutations of African objects through various theoretical models, theories of communication, translation and objecthood. Issues of fluid intercultural identity creation, repetition and meaning production.
Joao Florencio
Thesis title:"Of Metal, Blood, Pigs, and Soil: Live Art and Complex Ecology"
Academic Qualifications:
'Licenciatura' in Musicology with Minor in Cinema Studies (Univeridade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; Universita degli studi di Venezia, Italy);
Master of Arts (distinction) in Media Arts: Philosophy and Practice (University of Greenwich, UK)
Professional Activities:
Guest lecturer in the MA Dance Theatre: The Body in Performance (Laban, UK)
Research Interests:
live art, processes of subjectivation, ecosophy, agency in contemporary capitalism, Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, queer subjectivities and politics. "Cybernetics", "technologies of emergence" and "actor-network theory"
Funding:
FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia
(FCT - Foundation for Science and Technology. Part of the Portuguese Ministry of Science, Technology, and Higher Education)
Oriana Fox
Academic Qualifications:MA in Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London (2003)
BFA, Washington University in St. Louis, MO (2000)
Professional Activities:
I am an artist working primarily with performance and video to reference and critique both the representation of women in contemporary media and the iconic feminist artists of the 1970s. I have performed and shown my films in galleries, festivals and art fairs worldwide including the Liverpool Biennial, Tate Britain, Kunsthalle Wien, Dashanzi Festival in Beijing, Solyanka State Gallery in Moscow and Photo Miami. In 2007 I was an Artist-in-Residence at Triangle France in Marseille. I received The Art in The Archive bursary 2009 to do research at The Women’s Art Library, Goldsmiths which culminated in an event called Once More With Feeling at Tate Modern, supported by grants from LCACE and The Arts Council of England. In 2011 the pilot episode of my web-TV show The O Show was broadcast from The Performance Studies International conference in Utrecht. I have delivered lectures on my work at Nottingham Trent University, Central Michigan University, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Sheffield Hallam University and Goldsmiths, among other colleges. Currently, I am a tutor in the Art, Media and Design department of London Metropolitan University.
Research Interests:
Investigating how talk therapy has underpinned feminist art and consciousness-raising, with a particular interest in the confessional modes of address located within feminist performance art
Websites:
www.orianafox.com
www.cteditions.posterous.com
www.performfeminism.com
Diana Georgiou
Academic QualificationsBA Graphic Communication, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
MA History of Art & Design, Kingston University, London.
Research Interests
Art practices that mobilize or unleash the containment of female pleasure and desire. Subjectivity-as-encounter; Embodiment & corporeality; Psychoanalytic feminism;
Michael Haworth
Thesis title:
Thought into being: Finitude and Creation
Academic Qualifications:
MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2007
BA Hons. Mixed Media Fine Art, University of Westminster, 2005
Professional Activities:
Visiting Tutor, Department of Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Research Interests:
Philosophies of finitude, particularly Kant, Heidegger, Derrida, Freud, and ways of thinking outside or beyond the finite, with regard to neurotechnology, languate and the creative act.
Publications:
'Frames and Incisions', The Book of the Film, ed. Jennifer Bailey (2009)
Gaeun Ji
Academic qualifications:
2009 MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, UK
2008 BA Art Studies, Hongik University, Korea
Research Interests:
Memory theory, Performativity, Queer theory, Psychoanalysis, Foster's archival impulse, Derrida's Archive fever, Deleuze's Difference and Repetition, Archival art, Archiving activities in curating practice
Jon Lindblom
Academic Qualifications:
BA Cinema/Cultural Studies, Stockholm University, 2009
MA Aural and Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2011
Research Interests:
Media, aesthetics, cybernetics, cultural theory, aural/visual,
digital/analogue, speculative realism, ontology, DeLanda, Deleuze,
Guattari
Website:
http://www.intensivethinking.blogspot.com
Ruth Lipschitz
Thesis title:"Animality and Alterity: Abjection and the Discourse of Species in Contemporary South African Art"
Academic Qualifications:
MA History of Art (By Research), University of the Witwatersrand (Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa), 2000
BA Hons in History of Art, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits, Johannesburg, South Africa), 1994
Professional Activities:
Lecturer, History of Art at the University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
University of South Africa(UNISA), Stellenbosch University
Researcher, Apartheid Museum, Johannesburg
Teaching Assistant, University of South Africa (UNISA)
Tutor, History of Art,University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
Exhibition Assistant, University Art Galleries
Research Interests:
South African contemporary art, postcoloniality, memory, trauma, history and race, postHolocaust art, continental philosophy
Publications:
"The Volksempfängers (1975–1977) by Edward Kienholz and Nancy Reddin Kienholz ” (2004) [ PDF ]
“Re-presenting America: Edward Kienholz’s Portable War Memorial (1968), Vietnam and Cold War Politics”. De Arte 65 April 2002: 22-43.
Funding:
Overseas Research Student Award Scholarship (ORSAS) 2007-2008, Goldsmiths
National Research Foundation Prestigious and Equity Doctoral Scholarship for Study Abroad, National Research Foundation South Africa. Patrick and Margaret Flannigan Scholarship, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits), Merit Scholarship, University of the Witwatersrand (Wits)
Doreen Mende
Academic qualifications:Mphil/PhD-candidate Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths College, University of London (since 2007)
Professional activities:
Independent curator, researcher and writer.
Co-founder and Chief-Editor of the publication series Displayer.
Founding-member of General Public, Berlin.
Lecturer in Curatorial Practice.
www.artnews.org/doreenmende
Research Interests:
The articulation of exhibiting as a relational texture of exposure and concealment. The violence of exhibiting. Display strategies with respect to reflexive practices in film and writing, spatial practices, relationality and audio culture. The blind spot as a research methodology for the curatorial.
Publications, Exhibitions, Projects:
Montrage, A book project with Filipa César, Portugal/Germany, 2010.
Bilder in den Westen (Images in the West), exhibition, Halle 14, Leipzig 2010.
Displays for Becoming Present, Exhibiting Networking, conference, dock-berlin, 2009.
Screening in General, series of events, General Public, Berlin, since 2009.
Candida Höfer. Projects: Done, Museum Morsbroich, MARCO Vigo, CAAC Sevilla, 2009-10.
Displayer, a magazine on the politics of exhibiting in/of space, published by Exhibition Design and Curatorial Practice, University of Arts and Design / ZKM Karlsruhe (since 2006)
Radio as Exhibition Space, in: Re-inventing Radio, published by Kunstradio, Vienna, 2008
Józef Robakowski: "PERSONAL CINEMA is made when everything goes wrong ... ", in: Mirage of Józef R., published by Museum Sztuki, Lodz, 2007.
Armin Linke: Phenotypes/Limited Forms, exhibition, ZKM Karlsruhe, 2007.
Mariana Meneses Romero
Thesis title: “When art becomes edible: Women cooking art”
Academic Qualifications:
MA. Art History, 2010 - Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México
BA. Restaurant Management, 2005 - Centro de Estudios Superiores de San Ángel, Mexico
Professional Activities:
Art history and gastronomic culture teacher, researcher, curator
Research Interests:
Eat Art
Participatory art
Relational aesthetics
New senses in art: Touch, smell, taste
Gender studies (Food & gender)
Food in art & cinema.
Publications:
2011 - “Sonja Alhäuser: La degustación del arte” in Discurso Visual. Cenidiap
Enero-Junio 2011, México. ISSN: 1870-3429
Available at:
http://discursovisual.cenart.gob.mx/dvweb16/entorno/entmariana.htm
2010 - “Arte, alimentos y experiencia sensorial: Las obras comestibles de Sonja Alhäuser” in Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación para el desarrollo de México.
Available at:
http://www.pcti.mx/index.php?searchword=A4-0004-DF2010M&ordering=&searchphrase=all&option=com_search
2009 - “Sonja Alhäuser y el chocolate como material en la obra de arte”
3er. Simposio Internacional de Tecnohistoria Akira Yoshimura. Dirección de Estudios Históricos - INAH (Pending publication)
* Review of the presentation at Boletines especiales del INAH by Carlos Gallardo, titled: “Arte con sabor a chocolate”
Available at:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3787&Itemid=441
Funding:
PhD Full Scholarship, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología (CONACYT), México
Ines Moreira
Independent researcher and freelance architect, curator and producer, mostly in Iberian Peninsula. Designs and produces exhibitions and art spaces in industrial hangars and institucional settings, since 2001 (Urbanlab, Bienal da Maia, 2001; Projecto Terminal, Hangar K7 Oeiras, 2005; Depósito, Porto 2007; Pack, Porto, 2007)
Academic Qualifications:
MA Architecture (Univ. Porto, Portugal, 2001); Mphil Theory of Architecture and Urban Culture (UPC / CCCB, Barcelona, Spain, 2003)
Mphil/Phd candidate Curatorial/Knowledge (Goldsmiths, University of London, 2006- current)
Professional Activities:
Director of petit CABANON, hosting space for architecture and visual culture, Porto
Founding member of Plano 21, a non governmental organization devoted to culture, art and architecture (2005 ~)
Coordinator of Laboratory of Experimental Art from 2003-2005 (Institute of Art / Ministry of Culture, Portugal)
Research Interests:
Spatial Practices, Curatorial practices, Architecture, Material, Processual Experimentation
Funding:
FCT scholarship (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) to participate on the PhD programme in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths College (2006-2009)
Christian Nyampeta
Research title:
How To Live Together (?)
Conviviality and Solitude: Tactics and Interventional Tools
Academic qualifications:
MPhil/PhD Visual Cultures, 2011 – current;
MA Industrial Design, Central Saint Martins University of the Arts Londn,
2009
Research Interests:
Idiorrythmics, horizontality, forgiveness, translations, intensities,
orality, Rwanda, The Neutral, anchoritism, Lao Tzu
Professional activities:
Freelance trend researcher
Market Radio – Freeform Radio
With a.o. Anthony Gormley, Clarisses D’Arcimoles, Momoko Suzuki and Maria
Theodoraki, London, November 2010 - Februari 2011
Researcher/Intern
Design Against Crime/ Innovation Centre Central Saint Martins College of
Art and Design
January – August 2008
Publications:
Stunts: Carnivalesque at Home as a Tactical Tool
, Nyampeta,
Christian, Berlin: Lambert Academic Publishing, 2012 (Forthcoming)
2010
MAID10
Editor and draughtsman of the annual catalogue, MA Industrial Design,
Central Saint Martins
Funding and awards:
2011
Oe-da! Heritage Design Award, Enschede, the Netherlands (Nomination)
2010
British Arts Council Lottery Fund, London (Market Radio)
2008
Stimuleringsfonds, Fonds BKBV, Amsterdam
(The Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture bursary/
MA Industrial Design Studies)
2007
VSBfonds, Amsterdam (MA Industrial Design Studies)
Semiha Muge Ozbay Aydogan
Academic qualifications:2003–2006 MA, Yildiz Technical University, Art and Design
1991–1996 Bogazici University, English Language and Literature
Professional activities:
1996–2009 Professional tourist guide for archeological and history of art tours in Turkey
Research Interests:
Feminist and queer theory, continental philosophy, political theory
Publications:
‘Deterritorialization, Performative Identity and Uncanny Representation of Woman’s Body in the Works of Ana Mendieta’, International Congress of Aesthetics, ‘Aesthetics Bridging Cultures’, 2008, Middle East Technical University, Ankara.
“Cindy Sherman ve Claude Cahun Uzerine”, Sanat Dunyamiz, 101:214-217,2007, Istanbul.
“Yalana Dair Bazi Seyler”, Rh Sanart, 33:76-78, 2006, Istanbul.
Selected Exhibitions:
Neues Museum, Weimar, ‘From Laboratory to Project’,video (2009)
Kunstuniversitat, Linz, ‘Inspiring Istanbul’, video (2009) Pera Museum, ‘Working Space’, video (2007)
Apartment Project (Istanbul), ‘Everything’s Gonna Be Alright’, digital print (2007)
Tel Aviv Ben Gurion Airport, Bezalel University, ‘Goods To Declare’ MFA Exhibition, digital print (2006)
Istanbul Art Fair, digital print (2004)
G-Mall Art Gallery, ‘art-a kalan’, digital print (2004)
Galata Festival, Street performances with Sabine Jamet (2004)
Bilgi University, Performance with Holi (2003)
GaleriX, ‘Extreme Exterior’, solo performance and performances with Holi (2003)
Pavlina Paraskevaidou
Thesis title:Representations of Greek Cypriot refugees and their political currency
Academic qualifications:
Law LLB(Hons) Warwick University,
Diploma in Fine and Decorative Arts, Sotheby’s Institute,
MA Victorian Art and Architecture, Royal Holloway
Professional activities:
Current: Writer, Curator
Past: Owner/Director Archimede Staffolini Gallery, Nicosia Cyprus
Owen Parry
Academic qualifications:
MA Performance (Queen Mary University of London, 2009)
BA Hispanic Studies and Drama (Queen Mary University of London, 2005)
Practicing artist and researcher on Performance Matters, a three year creative research project on the cultural value of performance between Goldsmiths University of London, Roehampton University and the Live Art Development Agency. Beside his solo performance practice, Owen is a regular performer with Oreet Ashery, and collaborator of Mitch & Parry with Andrew Mitchelson. His work has been presented at live art and contemporary performance venues, conferences and festivals internationally.
Research Interests:Owen's research interests are in queer art and performance practices withan emphasis on artists working across multiple spaces, forms and modes.His research engages with artists working responsively and in dialectical tension with an institutionalised avant-garde, drawing similarly from these historical traditions, and other more degraded and fabulous aspects of underground and popular culture. His writing responds to the event in art practice and looks at the ways the live event functions as a research engine, generating a critical space for dialogue and encounter. Owen is excited by live flesh, boy-on-boy action and encounters with strangers, and sees the space of performance often operating within these libidinal economies.
Websites:
http://www.owengparry.blogspot.com/
http://thisisperformancematters.co.uk/
Funding:
AHRC Studentship 2009-2012 (Performance Matters)
Sarah Pierce
Thesis title:
"Rebellions at the site of knowledge"
Academic Qualifications:
BA Occidental College 1990
MFA Cornell University 1994
Whitney Independent Study Program 1995
Professional Activities:
Editorial Panel Printed Project
Advisory Board Happy Hypocrite
Advisory Board Ultra-red
Research Interests:
Student Work; Conceptual Legacies; Curatorial Imagination; Legibility of Protest; Archives; Institution; Reenactment; Community; Gesture
Publications:
Re-inventing Radio, published by Kunstradio,Vienna, 2008
Curating Subjects, Open Editions, 2007
/seconds, www.slashseconds.org
Make Everything New, a project on communism, Book Works 2006
Looking Encountering Staging, Piet Zwart Institute, 2005
Put About, a critical anthology on independent writing, Book Works, 2005
Meanwhile Someplace Else, Sala Rekalde, 2005
Tracer 1 and 2, Witte de With, 2004
Printed Project Issues 1 and 6
Metropolitan Complex Papers, publisher
Maria Bella Pineiro
Thesis title:
Common world. Making the public common through collaborative practices.
Research Interests:
Institutional analysis, socially engage movements, collaborative
practices, collective pedagogy, the public.
Academic Qualifications:
MPhil/PhD Candidate, Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of
London, since 2011
MA Art Administration and Creative Curating. Goldsmiths University, 2000
BA Fines Arts. Universidad Complutense, Madrid, 1997
Professional activities and interests:
Curator and researcher
My interests lie in exploring the boundaries that trigger and shape the
public sphere and the potential of the collective in this regard. My
practice is curatorial, understood as a creative and organizational
activity. My work as a curator has always been engaged with experimental
methodologies that question the limits of the public. For the last ten
years I have worked mainly for the cultural department for Madrid City
Council.
Founder in 2005 of Intermediae. Creación contemporanea. Matadero Madrid
www.intermediae.es invited by Dirección General de Proyectos Culturales
del Área de Las Artes del Ayuntamiento de Madrid. Curator of the program
until 2012
Other projects
Curator of the project Itinerarios del sonido www.itinerariosdelsonido.es
Paolo Plotegher
Thesis title:
Art and activism every day: what can I do with the nothing I have
Professional Activities:
Teacher, writer and cultural organizer
Research Interests:
Everyday forms of creativity and their role in processes of transformation of subjectivity. Guy Debord counter-spectacular self staging. Georges Bataille and microfacism. Robert Walser and pedagogy.
Publications:
"Beauty, Anger, Joy (al padron non far sapere)", in unicommon, January 2011 it/eng
http://www.unicommon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2501:paolo-plotegher&catid=132:book-bloc&Itemid=324
"Al contadin non far sapere", in unicommon, December 2010 it/eng
http://www.unicommon.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2440:paolo-plotegher&catid=132:book-bloc&Itemid=324
"From Collective Intimacy to Self-Dispersion". in evento, the artistic and urban rendez-vous of Bordeaux, October 9 to 18, 2009
"caffe' plural 13.08.08", in summerdrafts.wordpress.com
"Some Times", in Some Time Repeating an Embarrassed Word, published for the allsoppandweir exibition, London, 2007
"Messa – in scena", text for nina, a project by Carolina Caycedo, Puerto Rico 2006
"Rina”, in Fuga de Cerebros, edited by Catalina Lozano, 2006
Contribution to Drain Magazine, Issue 4, on Syncretism
"VAL Video Art from London", in Transart05 catalogue, 2005
"The Ballade of K. R"., in White Collar, n 3, 2005
Exhibitions and Projects:
Summer Drafts, Workshops of Transversal Vivacity, Bolzano, Italy 2010
Summer Drafts, a project parallel to Manifesta 7, Bolzano, Italy, 2008
VAL Tokyo, Japan, 2007
VAL Transart 05, Italy, 2005
Stress Positions, curated by allsoppandweir, London, 2004
Manuel Ramos
Thesis title:
"Visual Murmurs: Cinema and the Political Name"
Academic Qualifications:
MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London
BA Art History - Universidad Complutense, Madrid & Universite de la Sorbonne - Paris IV, Paris
Professional Activities:
Writer, art theory teacher, curator (Factory Trouble, Athens Biennial 2011), art critic (ArtNotes, Ars), film programmer (Factory Trouble, Five Communes)
Research interests:
My research explores the re-articulation by contemporary cinema of names most often condemned to the past of our politicality: the names 'worker', 'factory' and 'people'. I understand the cinema of Wang Bing, Straub and Huillet, Harun Farocki or Peter Watkins as interventions to make us hear and see differently these names and their obsolescence. Cinema is affirmed as a field to re-think the relation between the political and the concept of name.
Theoretical interests:
Ranciere on the concept of emancipation, Derrida on proper names, Foucault on murmurs, Guattari on collective assemblages of enunciation, Ernesto Laclau on populism.
Publications:
Articles:
'Badiou's Cinema', Film/Philosophy, [forthcoming] 2011
‘Sticky Name, Sticky Title – the cinema of Straub-Huillet and the Political Name’, The Issues (in Contemporary Culture & Aesthetics), Institute for the Converging Arts and Sciences, University of Greenwich, Vol.4, 2011
'We Are All Spectators' pp.124-128 in Parallax, Vol.15, No.3, 2009
Contributions to books:
'Ranciere's Politics of the Image', Visual Reader, edited by James Elkins, Routledge, [forthcoming] 2012
'Betrayed Borders: Double Agents and the Crisscrossing of Conflicts' pp.256-263, SARAI Reader 2007 - Frontiers, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, Delhi, 2007
Other publications:
'Parliament Square', published in uniriot.org and escolar.net, January 2011
Conference Papers:
'Still Here, Here Again - Farocki, Godard and the 100 years of cinema' XVIII International Film Studies Conference - The Archive, Udine, April 2011 ' The Oxidation of the Documentary', Documentary Film Now !, Westminster University, London January 2011
'From Instituted Evidence to Singular Irreducibilities', Visable Evidence XVII, Bogazici University, Istanbul August 2010
'Derrida's War of the Name', INC Continental Philosophy Research Group, Goldsmiths London March 2010
'A Disintigrating Document, on Tie Xi Qu, West of the Tracks', Relocating Media Conference, Network of European Cinema Studies (NECS), University of Lund, Lund June 2009
'Image and Emancipation', Philosophy and Film Conference, University of the West of England, Bristol July 2009
Carolina Rito
Academic qualifications:
MPhil/PhD Candidate, Curatorial/Knowledge, Goldsmiths, University of London, since 2011
MA in Curatorial Studies, Fine Arts University of Lisbon, 2009
BA in Art History, Coimbra University, 2003
Research interests:
contemporary art, curatorial, social engaged-practice, process-based practice
Grants:
FCT scholarship (Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology) to participate on the PhD programme in Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths College (since 2011)
Inov-Art grant (Portuguese Ministry of Culture), 2009;
Professional activities:
Curator, researcher and writer in curatorial practice and contemporary art
MA and BA teacher at Escola Superior de Arte e Design, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal)
Lecturer and dissertation’s supervisor in MA in Art and Design in Public Space at Fine Arts University in Porto (Portugal)
Curator of Junho das Artes, annual event of contemporary art in Óbidos, Portugal, 2011.
Assistant curator of Art and Architecture Programme in Guimarães 2012 European Capital of Culture, Guimarães, Portugal, 2010/2011.
Visiting curator at Situations (dir. Claire Doherty), commissioning programme of the University of West of England, Bristol, UK, 2009.
Curator of “Projecto de Criação Artística Jardim Botânico” supported by the Gulbenkian Foundation, 2007/2008.
Tess Savina
Academic qualifications:BA Hons in Graphic Design, Kingston University London, 2009
MA Media Communication and Critical Practice, University of The Arts London, 2011
Research Interests:
Visual cultures theory, cinema, aesthetics, struggles of national identity, modernity and the past, theory of reminiscence, Schizoanalysis, obligation and desire, the concepts of cultural discontinuity, political influence on the cultural and social mentality.
Professional Activities:
Designer in publishing; independent film-making and creative direction
Manuel Singer
Thesis (Working) Title:The Making of Contexts (and the Promises of a Good Life)
Academic Qualifications:
Diploma Degree in Architecture (Mag.arch.); Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, 2006
Masters Degree in Research Architecture (M.A.); Goldsmiths, University of London, 2008
Funding:
Postgraduate Scholarship, Austrian Federal Ministry of Science and Research
Shalom Shpilman
Research Interests:
The research will examine the viewer's experience in art photography, centering on phenomenology as means to explore the development of meaning. It will provide a model for understanding how the photographic space opens up, which forces operate within this field, how these forces enable the viewer experience, and subsequently how meaning is created. By integrating phenomenological analysis in conjunction to existing photographic theories the research will look into the essential features of the viewer's experience, determining the mechanism, structures, and characteristics of the interplay between viewer, photograph and referent.
Professional activities:
Founder and Chairman of the Shpilman Institute for Photography (The SIP - www.thesip.org)
Jay Stewart
Thesis title:"Trans on Telly: Popular Documentary and the Production of Transgender Knowledge "
Academic Qualifications:
MA (History of Art - 20th Century)
Professional Activities:
I am a co-founder of Gendered Intelligence, a community interest company that looks to discuss gender diversity in creative ways. We work with young trans people, as well as other young people and professionals who work with young people from across the UK.
Research Interests:
Trans Studies; Film; Documentary; Performativity; Queer Theory and Gender Studies.
Christian Töpfner
Thesis title:
"Subjects of Creation. On artistic enactments of an idea."
Academic Qualifications:
MA Contemporary Art Theory, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2007
MA Communications, University of Vienna,2005
Research Interests:
Functional links between ontology and instantiation in existence, Speculative Realism, Badiou, late Foucault, Agamben, Lefebvre
Recent Publications:
Everything Under Heaven Is Total Chaos. Co-edited book, self-published. Gothenburg, Stockholm, Vienna: November 2010. "Re: Ride the wave dude." In: (color cane che scappa). Notebook F.I.S.Co 10. Bologna: April 2010. "Can an Actor Bleed?" In: Rattle. Issue 1. London: January 2010.
Recent Activities:
Speculate what? Lecture on the uses and abuses of Speculative Realism in performing arts at Performing Arts Forum, St. Erme. Winter 2010.
Ride the Wave Dude. Collective research, residency and preparation at Tanzquartier Wien, Vienna. Autumn 2010.
After Fiction: Fiction. Paper at the European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism and Creativity at Carlsberg Academy, Copenhagen. Summer 2010.
Frames of Reference, Sites of Research. Presentation and discussion on selforganised versus institutionalised knowledge production in the arts at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Spring 2010.
Squatting Teachers. Presentation and discussion on collective production of art and knowledge at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. Winter 2009.
Sebastian Truskolaski
Thesis title
Bilderverbot: The Ban on Images in Adorno and Beyond
MA - Philospohy and Contemporary Critical Theory, CRMEP, Middlesex
BA - Fine Art, Goldsmiths
Reseach Interests:
language, image and history in Adorno and Benjamin, Lukacs and Marx a.o.
Contact: sebastian.truskolaski@gmail.com
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