Interview with Sophie Jump

Lecture by Jeroen Boomgaard.
The MA General Theory Forum - 16 January 2014.

Introduced by Dr Stephen Wilson, Forum Convener.

This lecture begins with an interview with Deborah Cherry, currently a Professor of Art History at UAL and Associate Dean of Research at LCC.

Jeroen Boomgaard is an Art Historian. He successfully completed a PhD on the 'history' of 'art history'. Since 2002, he holds a professorship in Art and Public Space at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He is also head of  department 'Master of Artistic Research' at the Universiteit van Amsterdam. In 2011 Wild Park commissioning the Unexpected was published by Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture - a text that will be the point of departure for this lecture.

For other publications see www.laps-rietveldacademie.nl.

General Theory Forum - Jeroen Boomgaard

The 'Women In Conceptual Art' Afternoon Q&A featured Kate Doyle and curators Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell.

Kate Doyle specializes in the study of experimental music and sound in visual and performance art. Her interdisciplinary work draws from a background in musicology, art history, and communication theory. Kate presents at international conferences and public forums on arts and culture, and her essay on composer Pauline Oliveros will be published in the forthcoming Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers, Volume 4 from Oxford University Press.

Karen Di Franco is a curator and PhD researcher with Tate Britain and Reading University researching forms, strategies and contexts within artists’ publishing. Current projects include the group show, ORGASMIC STREAMING  ORGANIC GARDENING  ELECTROCULTURE (co-curated with Irene Revell), at Chelsea Space, London.  She has written on Lee Lozano and Carolee Schneemann (Art Review and Art Monthly) and curated exhibitions on Carlyle Reedy, Annabel Nicholson and Marie Yates, (Flat Time House and Chelsea Space). She has recently completed an AHRC research fellowship at the Archives of American Art (Smithsonian), Washington DC. Other projects include Book Works online archive and publication Again, A Time Machine (2010-12).

Irene Revell is a curator whose work seeks out new contexts and connections for practices with challenging social and political implications. Recent projects include the exhibition ORGASMIC STREAMING  ORGANIC GARDENING  ELECTROCULTURE with Karen Di Franco (Chelsea Space, London, 2018); “These Are Scores” workshop series (ZHDK, Zurich, CNEAI, Paris et al, 2017-ongoing); and monthly Now Showing screenings with Cinenova Working Group (LUX, The Showroom et al, London, 2015 -ongoing). Much of her work since 2004 has been with the London-based curatorial agency Electra of which she is co-director. Recent writing has appeared in journals including Sound Studies, Cesura//Acceso (with Annea Lockwood), On Curating (with Lina Džuverović). Since 2014 she has been Visiting Curator and Lecturer on the MA Sound Arts at London College of Communication where she now holds an AHRC TECHNE award for doctoral research.

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The Women in Conceptual Art symposium presented new research in performance, scores, film and happenings emerging from female artists’ conceptual art practices: artists’ work addressed was drawn from but not limited to the following: Christine Kozlov, Eleanor Antin, Lee Lozano, Deborah Hay, Dorothea Rockburne, Hanne Darboven, Ann Hamilton, Pip Benveniste, Carlyle Reedy, Marie Yates, Annabel Nicolson and Anne Bean.

Convened by Dr Jo Melvin and presented by the Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon Graduate School Public Programme.

24 May 2018
Chelsea College of the Arts

Women in Conceptual Art | Afternoon Q&A with Kate Doyle, Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell

Research at Camberwell, Chelsea, Wimbledon is home to a dynamic community of researchers and doctoral students working across fine art, design and performance.

Women in Conceptual Art | Afternoon Q&A with Kate Doyle, Karen Di Franco and Irene Revell

Research : Camberwell, Chelsea Wimbledon

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