research: journal papers, book articles, edited books, editorial roles, and conference papers
 

 

 

For details of non-written art-research, see art.

Three ongoing concerns characterise most of my writing-based research. Starting with the most current, these are:

• the role and form of writing in an artist's practice with particular emphasis on writing as aesthetic practice - this is the focus of my work as Research Fellow in Writing + Art at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London.

• social art practices - in particular, discussion around 'post-autonomous' art, the theory and practice of collaboration, and Open Source culture. Work here was substantially developed in my role as Research Fellow in Critical Practice at Chelsea.

• relations between the structures for 'the oeuvre' and subjectivity as both engage the play of singularity and diversity - the subject of my PhD.

Very broadly, these concerns can be thematised by the notion of the gap, which may be a form of 'critique' - a pervasive concern across my practice. And necessarily, research on research, as well.

journal papers, book articles, edited books and editorial roles

2009 Discussion paper from the Working Group on 'Situational Fiction', Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts London Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Vol 2.2
   
2009 A Theory of Critique… in Practice: Practice as Critique
Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 7.3 - a reading of Walter Benjamin's notes on immanent critique via an instance of art-practice
   
2009 guest editor for edition of Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 7.3 on 'Critique' Introduction - The Editor and his Guest discuss: the problem of Critique - here (via Athens account).
   
2008 In the Café Flaubert
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Vol 1.2 - an instance of 'writing-art' as creative practice, focused on a discussion of Richard Rorty's pragmatism for thinking about visual representation. Text
   
2007 Dirty work: art beyond 'autonomy'
A paper commissioned for the Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 6.1
- evaluates the usefulness of Michael Lingner's concept of 'post-autonomy' for describing the new 'social art'. Abstract; Text
   
2006 Open Source Fine Art: infinities of meaning for an age of finite means
in Media Mutandis: surveying art, technologies and politics eds. Vishmidt, Francis, Walsh and Sykes (London: NODE.London). Text
   
2006 Contributing editor to Media Mutandis
(as above): responsible for commissioning for and editing the 30,000 word section reviewing and exploring issues of Open Congress. Publication at http://publication.nodel.org/ and my introduction at: http://publication.nodel.org/taxonomy/term/76
   
2006 appointed to the editorial board of the Journal of Visual Art Practice
   
2009 appointed to advisory board Philosophy and Photography
 

conference papers and lecture-performances

2009 Here and there: an artist's writing as aesthetic form - a play script presented as performed conference text and artwork for exhibition, Art of Research 2009, University of Art and Design, Helsinki
   
2009 Here and there: an artist's writing as aesthetic form - a play script presented as a virtual conference contribution, Writing Intersections, University of Technology, Sydney
   
2009 What is Critique? for ArtWORK, CritiqueWORK, a symposium with Chelsea College of Art & Design, London Metropolitan University and Goldsmiths College.

2008 Art as research: a glossary of terms for Artistic Research a conference at Iceland Academy of the Arts. Link
   
2008 From problem to problematic or
collaborative art practice as research: discussion of aesthetic quality in the working process
for Sensuous Knowledge 5: Questioning Qualities
Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway. Link
   
2008 Art and the value of fictional writing (a lecture-demonstration) for Writing Encounters, York St John University. Link
   
2007 Systems: Art and Collaboration
A presentation developed with members of Critical Practice looking at the role of 'system' in facilitating collaborative working processes, and in particular, the usefulness of Open Organizations' guidelines to CP's self-management.  For Systems Art at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, organised by Sir John Cass department of Art, Media and Design, (Chris Smith) London Metropolitan University with Francis Halsall. www.systemsart.org

2007 Collaborative art-practice and research in the art-school
a presentation for Future Reflections Research Group conference at Chelsea College of Art & Design - link

2005 Open Source Fine Art
A presentation on the artwork The Blooming Commons. Presentation was part of Open Congress at Tate Britain: a two-day event looking at the implications of Open Source for cultural production: Link

2005 What work does the work of art do?  A demonstration at What work does the work of art do? (2) A symposium with Art & Language organised by Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, at The Guildhall London.

2003 What work does the work of art do?
at What work does the work of art do? A symposium with Art & Language organised by Sir John Cass Department of Art, Media and Design, Unit 2, London
   
1997 Writing, Art and Research
at Redefining Art (a conference on research in Fine Art) Goldsmiths College, London Full text of paper
   
1995 Embodying the 'I': the (re)emerging body of the artist and the viewer: fiction or foundation?
at Bodily Fictions (a conference on the Body and representation) Brunel University
   
1993 Virtuous Realities: Reading Installation
at Incisions: A Symposium on the Body and Installation Sheffield Media Show, Sheffield Hallam University
   
1993 Unruly Women and the Rules of Art: self-expression and experience
at Women in Art Practice conference University of Plymouth
   
1994 The implications of art practice operating in relation to corporate culture
at Discretion: a symposium on Art Practice Operating in Relation to Corporate Culture Canary Wharf, London
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PhD thesis:
The artist as a multifarious agent: an artist's theory of the origin of meaning

glossary of terms for 'art as research' - in words and pictures

'What is an artist's writing? (In research)'

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