Selected exhibitions explored as part of this MFA research:
Hito Steyerl: Power Plants
Serpentine Sackler Gallery; London, UK; April 2019
On video art, digital technology, political activisim, site-specificity, data docu-collection
*Kader Attia: The Museum of Emotion
Hayward Gallery; London, UK; April 2019
On artefacts, traces, collection, video, documentary, photography, inhabited spaces
*Bill Viola / Michelangelo: Life Death Rebirth
Royal Academy of Arts; London, UK; March 2019
On video art, the body, mortality, subconscious, time, art history
*Morag Keil: Moarg Kiel
Institute of Contemporary Arts; London, UK; March 2019
On mass media, digital culture, technology, multimedia practice, private + public spaces
*Is This Tomorrow?
Whitechapel Gallery; London, UK; March 2019
On multimedia practices, futurism, digital culture, technology, video, installation, time
*Ulla Von Brandenberg: Sweet Feast
Whitechapel Gallery; London, UK; March 2019
On current affairs, politics, memory, archive, reconstruction, relational art, artist film
*The World Exists To Be Put On a Postcard
The British Museum; London, UK; March 2019
On artist postcards, conceptual art, fluxus, political activism, interventions, texts, prints
*Corita Kent: Power Up
House of Illustration; London, UK; March 2019
On political art, activism, screenprinting, graphic design, composition, images, texts
*Erwin Wurm: New Work
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac; London, UK; March 2019
On partipatory sculptures, photography, human form, everyday objects, ephemerality
*Approaching Abstraction
Blain|Southern; London, UK; March 2019
On multimedia practices, abstraction, painting, printmaking, drawing
*Bosco Sodi: Heavens and the Earth
Blain|Southern; London, UK; March 2019
On abstraction, textural paintings, brick installations
*Walter de Maria: Idea to Action to Object
Gagosian Grosvenor Hill; London, UK; March 2019
On participatory sculptures, conceptual notes, drawing illustrations
*All I Know Is What's On The Internet
The Photographers Gallery; London, UK; February 2019
On digital culture, documentary, appropriation, photography, video, prints, collections
*Roman Vishniac Rediscovered
The Photographers Gallery; London, UK; February 2019
On documentary, street photography, catalogues, geometric images, abstraction
*Martin Creed: Toast
Hauser & Wirth; London, UK; February 2019
On multimedia practice, process, self-imposed restrictions, video, text, mixed media
*Zoe Leonard: Aerials
Hauser & Wirth; London, UK; February 2019
On photography, print installation, poetic images, perspectives, composition
*Tracey Emin: A Fortnight of Tears
White Cube Bermondsey; London, UK; February 2019
On multimedia practice, loss, mobile images, video, text, scale
*ULAY
Richard Saltoun Gallery; London, UK; February 2019
On photography, performance, chemical processes, interventions, photo series
*Julian Trevelyan: The Artist and His World
Pallant House Gallery; Chichester, UK; February 2019
On multimedia practice, collage, printmaking, palimpsest, documentary
*I Object: Ian Hislops Search for Dissent
The British Museum; London, UK; January 2019
On political art, activism, multimedia practices, social history, artefacts, interventions
The Secret to a Good Life: Bob & Roberta Smith and family
Royal Academy; London, UK; January 2019
On texts, painting, sculpture, language, memory, narrative, social politics, art history
*Richard Pousette-Dart: Works 1940-1992
PACE Gallery; London, UK; January 2019
On painting, abstraction, patterns, process, mark-making
*PHOTO 50: Who's looking at the family, now?
London Art Fair at Business Design Centre; London, UK; January 2019
On photo series, print installations, archives, assemblage, collage, mixed media
*Afrofuturisms Past
London Art Fair at Business Design Centre; London, UK; January 2019
On video art, film, performance, identities, global cultures, parallel histories
*Gordon Matta-Clark: Works 1970-1978
David Zwirner; London; UK; December 2018
On photography, video, documentary, collage, graffiti, traces, found objects, spaces
*Amie Siegel: Backstory
Thomas Dane Gallery; London, UK; December 2018
On texts, appropriation, politics, video, installation, mass media, representation
*Doris Salcedo: Palimpsest (2013-17) + Tabula Rasa (2018)
White Cube Bermondsey; London, UK; November 2018
On time, decay, traces, material culture, sculpture, loss, migration, installation
*Knock Knock: Humour in Contemporary Art
South London Gallery; London, UK; November 2018
On multimedia practices, humour, photography, sculpture, interventions, mixed media
*Turner Prize 2018
Charlotte Podger, Forensic Architecture, Naeem Mohaiemen, Luke Willis Thompson
Tate Britain; London, UK; October 2018
On film, video, political art, digital culture, mobile technology, documentary
*Art Now: Jesse Darling
Tate Britain; London, UK; October 2018
On materials, casting, sculpture, mixed media, installation, text
*Boros Collection (Display No. 3, 2017)
The Bunker; Berlin, Germany; September 2018
On multimedia practices, video, photography, painting, ready-mades, collections
*Yves Klein
Blenheim Palace; Woodstock, UK; July 2018
On colours, abstract painting, the human form, traces, mark-making, gestures
*Joan Jonas
Tate Modern; London, UK; June 2018
On video art, performance, politics, the body, gesture, mark-making
*Tacita Dean: Landscape
Royal Academy of Arts; London, UK; June 2018
On multimedia practice, film, visual poetry, landscapes, print installations, scale
*Whitstable Biennale 2018
Whitstable, UK; June 2018
On multimedia practices, public art, alternative spaces, video, performance, installations
*Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World
Whitechapel Gallery; London, UK; May 2018
On collection, archeaology, anthropology, appropriation, installations
*Walk Through British Art: Sixty Years (Collection Display)
Tate Britain; London, UK; May 2018
On contemporary British art, multimedia practices, painting, print, video, installation
*London 1968: The Poster Workshop
Tate Britain; London, UK; May 2018
On multimedia practices, poster designs, prints, texts, politics, activism, conceptual art
*Artist Room: Bernard Cohen
Tate Britain; London, UK; May 2018
On painting, abstraction, geometric patterns, composition, colour, palimpsest, layering
*Andreas Gursky
Hayward Gallery; London, UK; April 2018
On photography, landscape, tableaux, documentary, digital manipulation, abstraction
*Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Luminous Shadows
Contemporary Art Centre; Vilnius, Lithuania; March 2018
On video art, projection, installation, archives, visual poetry, montage, special effects
*Wade Guyton: Das New Yorker Atelier, Abridged
Serpentine Gallery; London, UK; January 2018
On media paintings, photography, digital culture, computer processes
*Rose Wylie: Quack Quack
Serpentine Gallery; London, UK; January 2018
On painting, cinema, pop culture, appropriation, creative freedom
*Revolutions Per Minute
Saatchi Gallery; London, UK; January 2018
On mixed media, street art, political art
*Calder on Paper
Saatchi Gallery; London, UK; January 2018
On geometric art, patterns, shapes, colours, compositions
*Lumiere London 2018 (Public Event)
Street light festival; London, UK; January 2018
On spacial interventions, light installations, public art, projections, screens
*Louvre Abu Dhabi (Inaugural Collection)
Abu Dhabi, UAE; December 2017
On global perspectives, parallel histories, cultural artefacts
*Al Sawaber: Tarek Al Ghoussein
The Third Line; Dubai, UAE; December 2017
On photography, documentary, abstraction, graffiti, found objects
*Shahpour Pouyan: My Place is the Placeless
Lawrie Shabibi; Dubai, UAE; December 2017
On complex identities, migration, mixed media, ceramics, photography
*Basquiat: Boom For Real
Barbican Gallery; London, UK; December 2017
On street art, urban culture, mass media, palimpsest, graffiti
*Jasper Johns: Something Resembling Truth
Royal Academy of Arts; London, UK; December 2017
On painting, collage, signs, fragments, multimedia practice
*Art Riot: Post Soviet Actionism
Saatchi Gallery; London, UK; November 2017
On political art, activism, multimedia practices, signs, gestures, the body
*Ryoji Ikeda: Test Pattern [No.12]
Store Studios; London, UK; November 2017
On immersive installation, light show, projection mapping, AV effects
*Arthur Jafa: Love is the Message, The Message is Death
Store Studios; London, UK; November 2017
On video art, montage, political activism, mass media, music
*Seth Price: Circa 1981
Institute of Contemporary Arts; London, UK; October 2017
On video art, mass media, performance, technology, montage
*Zhongguo 2185
Sadie Coles; London, UK; October 2017
On multimedia art, Chinese art, history, materials, process
*Xu zhen: Supermarket
Sadie Coles; London, UK; October 2017
On immersive installation, consumerism, ready-mades
*Sherrie Levine: Pie Town
David Zwirner; London, UK; October 2017
On appropriation, authenticity, originality, postmodernism, pictures
*Amar Kanwar: Such a Morning
Marian Goodman Gallery; London, UK; October 2017
On video art, projection, installation, mise-en-scene, poetry
*Prints + Drawings (Collection Display)
The Julie + Robert Breckman Gallery, V&A Museum; London, UK; September 2017
On prints, screenprinting, photography, posters, politics, composition, colour, texts
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Selected texts explored as part of this MFA research:
*This Means This, This Means That: A user's guide to semiotics
Sean Hall; Lawrence King Publishing, London; Second Edition, 2012
On communication systems, signs, meanings, perceptions, representations, recognition
*Substance, Memory, Display: Archaeology and Art
Colin Renfrew et al; McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, Cambridge; 2004
On material culture, traces, time, histories, process, interdisciplinary practices
*The Future of Art in a Postdigital Age
Mel Alexenberg; Intellect, Bristol; Second Edition, 2011
On postdigital art, technology, mass media, art history
*Documents of Contemporary Art: The Archive
Charles Merewether; Whitechapel Gallery, London; 2006
On archives, collections, accumulations, systems, process, material culture, images
*Documents of Contemporary Art: Memory
Ian Farr (ed); Whitechapel Gallery, London; 2012
On memory, material culture, images, subconscious, social + personal histories
*Documents of Contemporary Art: Situation
Claire Doherty (ed); Whitechapel Gallery, London; 2009
On relational art, audience participation, experiences, encounters, interactivity, spaces
*Relational Aesthetics
Nicolas Bourriaud; Les Presse Du Reel, Dijon; 1998
On participatory projects, interactivity, encounters, ephemerality, experiential art
*The Archaeology of Knowledge
Michel Foucault; Tavistock Publications, London; 1972
Translated into English by Alan Sheridan Smith
On archive, symbolic archaeology, material culture, philosophy, history
*Matter and Memory
Henri Bergson; Zone Books, New York; 1991
On memory, material culture, perceptions, histories
*Archive Fever: A Freudian Impression
Jacques Derrida; University of Chicago Press; 1996
On archives, memory, history, nostalgia, desire, traces
*An Archival Impulse
Hal Foster; October Magazine; MIT Press Journals, Cambridge; Issue No.110, Fall 2004
On artists and approaches to the idea of the archive
*Perspectives: Negotiating the Archive
Sue Breakell; Tate Papers; Tate, London; Issue No.9, Spring 2008
On archives, traces, critical theory
*Deep Screen: Art in Digital Culture (Exhibition Catalogue)
Andreas Broeckmann, Sophie Tates; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; 2008
On digital culture, art + tech, multimedia practices, relationality, interactivity
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Selected artists explored as part of this MFA research:
*Andy Warhol - on pop art, mass media, consumerism, screenprints, industrial production
*Apichatpong Weerasethakul - on video art, archive, projection, installation, visual effects
*Barbara Kruger - on text art, spacial interventions, graphic design, mass media, politics
*Bob & Roberta Smith - on text art, lettering, signs, installations, politics, activism
*Bill Drummond - on text art, signs, performance, political activism, street art
*Bill Viola - on video art, the sublime, the human form, experiential images
*Bruce Nauman - on video art, conceptualism, gesture, mass media, multimedia practice
*Carmen Herrera - on geometric painting, minimalism, colours, shapes, patterns
*Catherine Yass - on time-based photography, visualising the invisible, abstraction
*Chu Yun - on electronic installation, light, cosmic aesthetics, obsolescence
*Cory Arcangel - on digital culture, technology, computer aesthetics, media paintings
*Cornelia Parker - on process, archeaology, time, traces, memory, installations
*Christian Marclay - on video art, montage, found images, text, installation
*Damien Hirst - on multimedia practice, medicine series, vanitas, memento mori
*Ed Ruscha - on painting, photography, text, landscapes, time, documentary, artist books
*Gerhard Richter - on painting, photography, repertoire, abstraction, mark-making
*Gillian Wearing - on conceptual photography, documentary, participation
*Gordon Matta-Clark - on street photography, graffiti, urban spaces, documentary
*Irving Penn - on photography, discarded objects, sculptural images, still life
*Jasper Johns - on multimedia practice, signs, repetition, collage, systems
*Jenny Holzer - on text, politics, archive, prints, installation, painting, intervention
*Jeremy Deller - on relational art, process, history, memory, intervention, events
*Joan Jonas - on video art, performance, gestural drawings + paintings
*John Baldessari - on conceptual art, collage, video, found images, fragments
*Julie Mehretu - on painting, landscape, abstraction, traces, lines, gestural drawings
*Hito Steyerl - on video, technology, politics, power, visibility, installations
*Kazimir Malevich - on painting, abstraction, suprematism, geometric art
*Kensuke Koike - on archives, found images, video, collage, appropriation, distortion
*Lawrence Weiner - on text art, installations, poetry, semiotics, language, conceptualism
*Lucas Blalock - on photography, everyday objects, digital process, collage, still life
*Mark Bradford - on painting, found materials, urban culture, process, abstraction
*Mark Rothko - on painting, spirituality, colours, abstract expressionism
*Mark Titchner - on texts, language, abstraction, semiotics, politics, design, multimedia
*Mark Wallinger - on multimedia practice, public signs, mobile images, appropriation
*Martin Creed - on process, choices, restrictions, multimedia practice
*Molly Soda - on digital culture, social media, installation, videos, prints
*Nell Painter - on transitions, age, race, politics, history, writing, printmaking
*Peter Campus - on video art, experiential media installation, visual effects, screen colour
*Piet Mondrian - on painting, abstraction, De Stijl, primary colours, patterns, lines, shapes
*Pipilotti Rist - on video installation, immersive experience, visual effects
*Rachel Whiteread - on casting, invisible spaces, scale, materials
*Richard Long - on traces, gestures, interventions, psychogeography, documentary
*Robert Montgomery - on text, poetry, light, installation, public art
*Robert Rauschenberg - on mixed media, palimpsest, mass media, fragments
*Seth Price - on video art, digitalisation, computer aesthetics, performance
*Stan Brakhage - on experimental film, abstraction, mark-making, process
*Tacita Dean - on film, visual poetry, landscapes, portraits, archives, collection, text
*Tania Bruguera - on relational art, participatory projects, communities, interactivity
*Tony Cragg - on assemblage, found objects, ready-mades, textural sculptures
*Ulay - on photography, performance, intervention, chemical processes
*Wolfgang Tillmans - on photography, documentary, photo series, print installations
*Yinka Shonibare - on history, memory, process, symbolism, material, visual style
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External talks explored as part of this MFA research:
*Everything is Media: Overlap + Boundaries in a Mediated World
London College of Communication; March 2019
Panel discussion + presentations on contemporary media, interdisciplinary practices
Featuring Toby Miller (Loughborough University); Ranjana Das (University of Surrey); Jean-Christophe Plantin (London School of Economics); Zoetanya Sujon (London College of Communication). Chaired by Steve Cross (London College of Communication).
*Imaging Time: Understanding Photography as Time-Based Media
The Photographers Gallery, London; February 2019
Panel discussion + presentations on media art practices, digital, film, documentary, time
Featuring artists Catherine Yass, Lucy Reynolds, Phoebe Bowell, Erica Scourti
*The Insta-bot Industrial Complex: Photography After Instagram
The Photographers Gallery, London; February 2019
Panel discussion + presentations on digital practices, photography, internet, technology
Featuring artist Constant Dullaart; photographer Olly Lang; and lecturer Lee Mackinnon from London College of Communication.
*The Radical Gesture: Articulating invisible histories through mark-making
London Art Fair; Business Design Centre, London; January 2019
Panel discussion on mark-making, political gestures, identities, cultures, periphery
Featuring artists Jade Montserrat + Beverley Bennett
Moderated by curator Adelaide Bannerman
Presented by Melanie Keen, Director of Institute of International Visual Arts (Iniva)
*Performing the Digital: Approaches to collecting + acquiring new art forms
London Art Fair; Business Design Centre, London; January 2019
Panel discussion on digital art, ephemeral projects, technology, conservation
Featuring Illaria Puri Purini, Programme Manager at CAS; Dr Charlotte Frost, Executive Director at Furtherafield; Sara Cooper, Head of Collections at Towner Gallery; Rachel Ara, artist-in-residence at V&A. Chaired by curator Rose Lejeune.
*The Freedoms of Self-Publishing
Institute of Contemporary Arts; London, UK; December 2018
Panel discussion + presentations on independent printed projects, content, process
Featuring artists, collectors + academics
*Besides the Screen: Vaults, Archives, Clouds + Platforms
King's College, London; July 2018
Symposium on media arts, video, digital, interactivity, archives, appropriation
Featuring several artists + academics through talks, panels, exhibits + demonstrations
*Here... There: East + Southeast Asian Diasporic Art
Central Saint Martins, Kings Cross; London, UK; June 2018
Conference on multimedia practices, identities, cultures, politics, representation
Featuring several artists from Europe, North America + Asia
Led by Alexandra Chang (NYU) and Erika Tan (CSM)
*Activating the Archive: Contemporary uses of visual archives
Arnolfini Museum; Bristol, UK; May 2018
Symposium on archives, documentary, appropriation, video, collage, collections
Featuring Thomas Sauvin (Beijing Silvermine); Francesca Seravalle (Everything Has Its First Time); Charbel Saad (The Arab Image Foundation); Vicki Bennett (People Like Us); Amak Mahmoodian; Maja Daniels. Presented by IC Visual Lab.
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Selected film screenings explored as part of this MFA research:
Artists' Film International (2019 Series)
Screened by Whitechapel Gallery, London; March 2019
Featuring: 'Eastleigh Crossing' (2009) by Mwangi Hutter, 7:48 minutes;
'The Ambassador's Wife' (2018) by Theresa Traore Dahlberg, 20 minutes.
On artists' films, documentary, politics, performance, intervention, visual poetry
Faces Places (2017)
Agnes Varda + JR
94 minutes
Streaming online via Netflix; March 2019
On relational practice, chance, documentary, intervention, public art, reality v fiction
The Image Book (2018)
Jean-Luc Goddard
85 minutes
Screened by ICA Cinema, London; January 2019
On montage, archives, mass media, appropriation, visual poetry, sociocultural history
The Clock (2010)
Christian Marclay
24 hours
Screened by Tate Modern, London; October 2018
On experiential film, time, montage, found images, appropriation, fragments
In Praise of Nothing (2017)
Boris Mitić
78 minutes
Screened by ICA Cinema, London; September 2018
With Q&A featuring Boris Mitic alongside other filmmakers, artists + curators
On banality, periphery, crowdsourcing, visual poetry, montage, documentary
Outtakes from the Life of a Happy Man (2012)
Jonas Mekas
68 minutes
Screened by Serpentine Gallery at Peckhamplex, London; April 2018
With Q&A featuring Jonas Mekas and Hans Ulrich Obrist
On experimental film, montage, documentary, poetry, time, abstraction, accumulation
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