Nationality British Name Claire Bishop | Role Author | |
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Occupation Art historian, professor, art critic Education University of Cambridge, University of Essex Books Artificial Hells: Participat, Installation Art: A Critical Hi, Double Agent Similar People Nicolas Bourriaud, Tania Bruguera, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Liam Gillick | ||
Terence gower in conversation with claire bishop
Claire Bishop is an art historian, critic, author, and professor in the art history department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York since September 2008. Bishop is editor of Participation (2006) and Installation Art: A Critical History (2005) and is a contributor to many art journals including Artforum and October.
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- Terence gower in conversation with claire bishop
- The artist as activist tania bruguera in conversation with claire bishop
- Early life and education
- Career
- Books
- Edited Volumes
- References
Bishop's essay “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” which appeared in October in 2004, remains an influential critique of relational aesthetics. Her books have been translated into over eighteen languages.
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Early life and education
She studied art history at St John's College, Cambridge (1990-1994) and completed her MA and Ph.D at Essex University in 1996 and 2002 respectively. Bishop was an associate professor in the department of art history at the University of Warwick, Coventry from 2006 to 2008 and a tutor in critical theory in the curating contemporary art department at the Royal College of Art, London from 2001 to 2006.
Career
Bishop's current research addresses the impact of digital technologies on contemporary art, as well as questions of amateurism and 'de-skilling' in contemporary dance and performance art. Her recent book, Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (2012) is the first historical and theoretical overview of socially engaged participatory art, best known in the U.S. as "social practice." In it, Bishop follows the trajectory of twentieth-century art and examines key moments in the development of a participatory aesthetic. This Itinerary takes in Futurism and Dada; the Situationist International; Happenings in Eastern Europe, Argentina, and Paris; the 1970 Community Arts Movement; and the Artists Placement Group. It concludes with a discussion of long-term educational projects by contemporary artists such as Thomas Hirschhorn, Tania Bruguera, Pawel Althamer, and Paul Chan. Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship was reviewed in a wide range of publications including Art in America, Art Journal, CAA Reviews (College Art Association), Art Review, Art Monthly, and TDR: The Drama Review. In 2013, Artificial Hells won the Frank Jewett Mather Prize for art criticism and the ASAP book prize.
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