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34 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
Oxford Brookes University
The body in your lap
Commissioned text for Palgrave Macmillian book series on performance. Text developed from a paper and workshop delivered at the Intimacy conference held at Goldsmiths College, London in 2007. It draws on research on visual
artists’ use of their own bodies in art that I have been undertaking since the 1980s, including curating the Edge exhibitions (1988, 1990, 1992) which included artists Marina Abramovic, Jimmie Durham, Carolee Schneemann,
Isaac Julien, Guillermo Gomez Pena, Helen Chadwick, Stelarc, and researching and editing The Artist’s Body survey book (Phaidon, 2000) and many book and journal publications and conference papers I have researched and presented on the topic. The Goldsmiths’ conference concentrated on one-on-one
performance and my workshop focussed on risk in performance.
Other texts I have published relating to this area of my research during this REF period include the commissioned catalogue essay for a three part exhibition presented in London and Cambridge:
(2010) ‘The Hysterical Sense of Leaking’, in Found, P. ed. (2010) The Body in Women’s Art: Part 2 Flux, London: ROLLO Contemporary Arts, pp. 19-28.
My earlier research presented in The Artist’s Body (2000) was cited by the curator as one of the primary inspirations for the exhibition series.
