Claire Bishop
I'm currently embarking on a new research project around ancestralism in contemporary art and performance. If you are considering inviting me to a conference, please bear this in mind - I am always more interested in testing out new material than in rehashing research that has already been published.
Koenig Books has just published "Merce Cunningham's Events: Key Concepts", a short book about Cunningham's 'Events' from 1964 to his death in 2009. It's available in Germany but there will be a lag with distribution to the US, probably not arriving there til mid-2025.
I am interested in (and teach courses on) a wide range of things that fall under the rubric of art and politics, theory and methods. I've also taught exhibition history; museums of contemporary art; dance and performance; histories of art education; attention and technology.
I studied at University of Cambridge (BA 1994) and University of Essex (MA 1996, PhD 2002). In the UK I worked at the Royal College of Art (2001–2006) and Warwick University (2006–2008) before moving to CUNY Graduate Center in 2008.
Koenig Books has just published "Merce Cunningham's Events: Key Concepts", a short book about Cunningham's 'Events' from 1964 to his death in 2009. It's available in Germany but there will be a lag with distribution to the US, probably not arriving there til mid-2025.
I am interested in (and teach courses on) a wide range of things that fall under the rubric of art and politics, theory and methods. I've also taught exhibition history; museums of contemporary art; dance and performance; histories of art education; attention and technology.
I studied at University of Cambridge (BA 1994) and University of Essex (MA 1996, PhD 2002). In the UK I worked at the Royal College of Art (2001–2006) and Warwick University (2006–2008) before moving to CUNY Graduate Center in 2008.
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Books by Claire Bishop
The book comprises essays on four ways of working since the early 1990s: research-based art, performance exhibitions, interventions, and invocations of modernist architecture and design. The introduction offers a critique of the attention/distraction binary and proposes that today, all attention is "disordered". Fully focused attention is a modernist fantasy.
Papers by Claire Bishop
https://nplusonemag.com/online-only/paper-monument/free-your-mind/