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> writing: sample texts (click on underline for script)

 

2000

modern - essay commissioned by Beaconsfield, London

 

2002

Unsorted - Press Release for e1 gallery show

 

2007

The Banner project - review for Eyeline magazine, Australia

 

2004

Stall - text for Financial Services Authority commissioned artwork

 

2008

Toast – speech commissioned by Collective Gallery Edinburgh, to launch Aleksandra Mir’s How Not to Cook book

   

 

> books, journal articles and texts in books

  2023 Mixed Forms of Visual Culture: From the Cabinet of Curiosities to Digital Diversity Bloomsbury (hardback published 2021): reviews in Leonardo; newformations; Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Vol 16.1    
     
  2022 On the Visuality of Writing: a Visual Essay Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Vol 15.2
     
  2018 Defending academic freedom: Arts and Humanities research as constrained writing Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, November 2018

 

2017

A lexicon of place-related terms for the graduating Fine Art student in Q-Art's Professional Practice: 20 Questions

 

2016

Indifferent Forms: The Cultural Politics of Medium Online, Or The Formal Remit of Diversity and Difference
Third Text, August 2016 - abstract

 

2013

The dark side of art's social turn: towards a discourse of the impact of art's use of social forms upon the social
Journal of Cultural Research - abstract

2011

Here and there: an artist’s writing as aesthetic form
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice Vol 3.2 - abstract

2011

'Widening participation' in the Fine Art PhD: expanding research and practice
Art, Design and Communication in Higher Education Vol 9.2 - abstract

2009

The Banner Project Review of artwork coordinated by Mary Lou Pavlovic re-printed in Harmonic Tremors ed. Sarah Rainbird (Melbourne: Gasworks)

2009

Discussion paper from the Working Group on 'Situational Fiction', Chelsea College of Art & Design
Journal of Writing in Creative Practice
Vol 2.2 - abstract

2008

A theory of critique… in practice: practice as critique
Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 7.3 - abstract

2008

The editor and his guest discuss: the problem of critique
Introduction to Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 7.3

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 - abstract

2007

Dirty work: art beyond 'autonomy'
Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 6.1 - abstract

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).

 

> editorial and journal roles

 

2017

Editor-in-Chief Journal of Visual Art Practice

2006-16

Editorial board member Journal of Visual Art Practice

2009

Appointed to advisory board of the Philosophy of Photography journal

 

2008

Guest editor for edition of Journal of Visual Art Practice Vol 7.3 on critique with articles by Mary Anne Francis, Yve Lomax, Suhail Malik, Malcolm Quinn, John Roberts, Michael Schwab, and Marina Vishmidt

 

2006

Media Mutandis: surveying art, technologies and politics
Contributing editor: responsible for commissioning and editing the 30,000 word section reviewing and exploring issues of Open Congress

> conference papers and lecture-performances since 2002

 

2019

Cut'n'paste: scrapbooking as method for researching artists' scrapbooks
Association for Art History conference 2019

 

2017

Really, what is 'Academic Freedom'?
Keynote for Sheffield Hallam University, Art and Design, Learning, Teaching and Employability Staff Conference

 

2017

Using what you have to hand
F
or Royal College of Art PhD seminar on thesis-writing

 

2015

Three thoughts on practice-based research - keynote for University of Gloucester staff-training event

 

2014

The Task of the Translator in the Age of Digital Reproduction
Keynote for the Found in Translation conference, University of Sussex

 

2013

Research: a question of the artwork
G
uest leader, Modes of Interrogation PhD seminar series, Kingston University

2012

An artist’s writing of research as a Baroque poetics
Expression and Research symposium, Royal College of Art, London

2011

Diplomacy as art: the implications of the 'social turn' - conversation and negotiation - as artistic form
The Art of Diplomacy, London, organised by the Institute of Cultural Diplomacy, Berlin

2010

From studio to seminar: art-school’s two-fold discourse
Looking Back at the Life Room, Unniversity College London

2009

Here and there: an artist's writing as aesthetic form
A play script presented as performed conference text and artwork for exhibition at The 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 at Writing Intersections, University of Technology, Sydney - proceedings

2009

Toast
Text for launch of participatory book project How Not to Cook by Aleksandra Mir, for Collective Gallery, Edinburgh.

2009

What is critique?
ArtWORK, CritiqueWORK, a symposium with Chelsea College of Art & Design, London Metropolitan University and Goldsmiths College

2009

Art and the Value of Fictional Writing - performative lecture
The Art Lectures, Sallis Benny Theatre, University of Brighton

2008

Art as research: a glossary of terms
Keynote for Artistic Research, Iceland Academy of the Arts

2008

From problem to problematic or collaborative art practice as research
Sensuous Knowledge 5: Questioning Qualities
Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway

2008

Art and the value of fictional writing (a lecture-demonstration)
Writing Encounters, York St John University

2008

Me, myself and I: not her
A refusal to turn up as myself to talk about Kelly Large's residency at New Art Gallery, Walsall - Me, Myself and I.

2007

Systems: art and collaboration
Systems Art,
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, organised by Sir John Cass department of Art, Media and Design, (Chris Smith) London Metropolitan University with Francis Halsall - link

2007

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

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

2005

What work does the work of art do?  A demonstration
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?
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

> exhibition essays

2000

Modern (Naomi Siderfin and Ben Cockett) at Beaconsfield, London

1998

Lucy Heyward at Dundee University Visual Research Centre

1996

your presence irritates me Morgan Doyle at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

1993

Summer Residencies (Clare Charnley and Monica Ross) at the Whitechapel

1992

Discretion (Katherine Clarke, Rachel Evans, Tania Kovats, Caroline Russell, Catherine Yass) at Canary Wharf, London related symposium recording

> reviews

 

2017

documenta 14, Kassel
Journal of Visual Art Practice

2007

Mary Lou Pavlovic The Banner Project Melbourne
Eyeline Vol. 63

1998

Cathy de Monchaux at the Whitechapel Gallery
Untitled (Winter)

1997

Rose Finn-Kelcey at Camden Arts Centre
Untitled (Spring)

1997

Dorothy Cross at Frith Street Gallery
Untitled (Autumn)

1997

Young British Artists VI at the Saatchi Collection
Untitled (Summer)

1996

Genevieve Cadieux at the Tate
Untitled (Winter)

1995

Make Believe at the RCA
Untitled (Summer)

1995

Beverley Semmes at Camden Arts Centre
Untitled (Spring)

1994

Leibscher and Lehanka at City Racing
Untitled (Winter)

1994

Chance, Choice and Irony at John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton
Untitled (Summer)

1993

Morgan Doyle at the Public Lavatory London E1
Circa - Winter

1992

Damien Hirst at the ICA
Art Monthly 18 / 153

1991

Goldsmiths, Saatchi, Mark Quinn, Anya Gallacio
Art Monthly 16 / 152

1991

The Bottom Drawer at The Small Mansion Arts Centre
Womens Art Magazine Nov - Dec

1991

Cornelia Parker at Chisenhale Gallery
Art Monthly 19 / 151

1991

London Summer Round-up
Art Monthly 24 / 149

1991

Louder than Words at Cornerhouse, Manchester
Art Monthly 22 / 148

1991

group show at Victoria Miro
Art Monthly 21 / 146

1991

Ed Ruscha at The Serpentine
Artline March - April

1991

Langlands and Bell at Interim Art
Art Monthly 10 / 144

1991

Caroline Russell at Laure Genillard
Art Monthly 15 / 143

1990

Andy Goldsworthy at Fabian Carlsson
Artscribe - November

1990

Future Tense: a New Art for the Nineties Robert Hewison
The Times Literary Supplement - August

1990

Andy Goldsworthy (by) Andy Goldsworthy
The Times Literary Supplement - June

 

 

 
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