Solo exhibitions

2011 Anarcadia, Castlefield Gallery, Manchester (publication) Ffotogallery, Cardiff Stills Gallery, Edinburgh 2010 Anarcadia, co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery, John Hansard Gallery We need to talk about the future, ICIA, University of Bath Capital, solo programme of single screen works, Ritzy Cinema, (July 8th) 2009 Dialogue #5 (It’s not your problem) Archway Polytechnic solo exhibition of video installation, and performance, Archway, London Solo Film screening, Club Apshu, Moscow

Selected exhibitions and projects

2011 Inanimate Beings, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, curated by Bárbara Rodríguez Muñoz, with Greta Alfaro, Matthew Buckingham, Mariana Castillo Deball, Heman Chong, Harun Farocki, Uriel Orlow & Ruth Maclennan, Michael Rakowitz y Jorge Satorre (publication) Anarcadia at Loop, Barcelona Archiving Archive, Intermediae, Madrid (2010-11) 2010 We are all Metadata, University of Westminster Gallery, Portland Place, London, catalogue Hide, performance and publication by Archway Polytechnic 2009 Interspecies, symposium and exhibition, Arts Catalyst, A Foundation, London Interspecies, Cornerhouse, Manchester 2008 Zoo Art Fair Projects and Collaborations, curated by Film and Video Umbrella Boom-Boom: 4th Bishkek International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Kyrgyzstan /seconds issue 9: vanishing point, the vicious and virtuous circle, www.slashseconds.org 2007-ongoing Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life, art project sited in Archway, London. Curatorial project includes artists Mikhail Karikis and Eva Weaver, Uriel Orlow, Ruth Maclennan, Richard Wentworth, Eva Weinmayr, Marcia Farquhar and Roman Vasseur. (publication and project website: www.archwaypolytechnic.org) 2007 The Fellows, Byam Shaw School of Art, Central Saint Martins Transmission, The Arts Gallery, University of the Arts, London Second International Artists’ Air Show, The Arts’ Catalyst, Fly Past performance We saw it—Like a flash on permanent exhibition in Medecine Now, Wellcome Collection Central Asian Project Cornerhouse, Manchester; Space, London New York Underground Film Festival (and 2006) 2006 New Artists’ Video from London, curated by Lucy Reynolds, Miss China Beauty Room, Paris solo exhibition, Central Exhibition Hall, Almaty, Kazakhstan slideshow, The City Gallery, Leicester 2005 The Body.The Ruin. curated by Bridget Crone. Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, (catalogue) Overawe, Ruth Maclennan, Sarah Dobai, Ester Partegàs, Foxy Production, New York Prog:me, International Festival of artists’ film and video, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (catalogue) State of Mind, debates and exhibition, London School of Economics; curator and artist 2004 definitively provisional, Whitechapel Project Space; APPENDIKS in Copenhagen 2003 House of Science and Film, film festival, Kino Central, Berlin, British Council Coming Out – Introducing United Net-Works, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, exhibition, mobile archive, artists’ and curators’ workshop Four Plus: Writing DNA, The Wellcome Trust, commission and exhibition, (publication) Contemporary Video Works from Britain, Pántlika Borház, Budapest Critical Home Video, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; and Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (catalogue) 2002 Potential: ongoing archive, TENT, Rotterdam (book); John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Break In Theatre 3, Nadiff, Shibuya, Japan (catalogue) 2001 The Archives Project: Part 1, British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE Televisions, [Szuper Gallery*], Kunsthalle, Vienna Dream Operator: untimely narrations, Sparrwasser HQ, Berlin A Project, Milch, London * member of artist group Szuper Gallery (1998-2000) 2000 NR, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney Event 5 – Paradise 0, Uppsala International Biennale, Sweden Without Day, [Szuper Gallery] Edinburgh City Arts’ Centre 1999 Crash! [Szuper Gallery], ICA, London (catalogue) Limit Less, [Szuper Gallery], Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Dial M for..., [Szuper Gallery], Kunstverein, Munich (catalogue)

Awards, commissions and residencies

2011 Joanna Drew Travel Award, for project in Crimea, 2012 2009-10 Production award, for Anarcadia, filmed in Kazakhstan, June 2010 co-commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella with John Hansard Gallery, Southampton. Additional support from Stills Gallery, Ffoto Gallery Cardiff and Henry Moore Foundation. 2008-09 The Arts Catalyst, commission for two new video works for exhibition at Cornerhouse, Manchester and A Foundation, London. 2008 Research and Development award for Western, Film and Video Umbrella and John Hansard Gallery AHDS selects and archives my complete videos (1998-2008) 2007-8 Arts Council England Grant for the Arts Award to develop and produce art project Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life, in association with AIR at Byam Shaw School of Art, University of the Arts, London. 2007 Artist’s Fellowship, Byam Shaw, University of the Arts, London. Cochemé Foundation. 2006-7 Delfina Trust Studio award. Central Asia Project: two British Council sponsored visits to Almaty and Astana, Kazakhstan to make video and photographic work. Almaty Conference, 3/06; exhibiton 9/06. 2004-05 Artist in residence, BIOS Research Centre, the London School of Economics and Political Science; devised and curated debates and site-specific exhibition; and made new installation works for exhibition State of Mind. Project brought together neuro-psychologists (Professors Chris Frith and Richard Gregory), social scientists (including Professors Nikolas Rose and Anne Harrington) and artists (Richard Wentworth, Uriel Orlow, Rod Dickinson and others) to present and discuss new knowledge about the brain and its implications, and contemporary representations and interpretations of the mind/brain in society. Supported by a People’s Award from the Wellcome Trust, Arts Council England, and the London School of Economics. 2004 video installation, Satellite Contact, book, and photowork, with Uriel Orlow, commissioned by The National Archives and School of Advanced Study, for the conference Unleashing the Archive. 2003 We saw it–Like a Flash, and Drosophila, videos using BBC archive of science programmes from 1954-2003, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust. Supported by the BBC and Wellcome Trust. First exhibited in Writing DNA at Wellcome Trust. Currently on permanent exhibition at Wellcome Collection in the exhibition Medecine Now. 2001-02 Leverhulme Artist in Residence in the archives of the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics. Solo exhibition and lecture series, Out of the Archives on artists using and producing archives (Richard Wentworth, Volker Eichelmann, David Mabb and Monica Ross).

Education

1998-2000 Goldsmiths’ College, London, MA Fine Art, with distinction 1991-95 Edinburgh College of Art, BA (Hons), Sculpture and Drawing, First Class 1993-94 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1987-91 Trinity College, Cambridge University, MA (Hons) Russian and French, 2:1 1989-1990 Maurice Thorèse Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, USSR

Major publications: bookworks, catalogues, articles

We are all Metadata, ed. Marquard Smith, University of Westminster, 2010 Antennae, journal devoted to Interspecies exhibition, article by Helen Macdonald on my work. (June 21st 2010) 2 I do, I undo, I redo, Finn Fordham, Oxford, 2009 (original artwork for bookcover). Whittakers Almanac 2007 and 2008, essays on the year in visual arts, published by A & C Black. Polytechnical Institute for the Study of the Expanding Field of Radical Urban Life—a Manifesto, bookwork published by AIR, 2007. Lots of Fun at Finnegan’s Wake, Finn Fordham, Oxford, 2007 (original artwork for bookcover) Ghosting, The Role of the Archive within Contemporary Artists’ Film and Video, ed. Jane Connarty and Josephine Lanyon, Picture This, 2006. Magic Moments, ed. Anna Harding, conversation with Richard Wentworth on play, Black Dog, 2006. The Body.The Ruin. Bridget Crone, Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, 2005. Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep, Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow, Double Agents: Central St Martins; SAS and TNA, London, November 2004. ‘We saw it — Like a Flash’, feature on my research in TV archives, for Mute magazine, # 27, winter 2004. Corporate Mentality, Aleksandra Mir, Lukas and Sternberg, New York and Berlin, 2003; includes introduction to The MaxMara Coat Project and extract from book (see below). Building the BBC: A Return to Form, Nicola Jackson, BBC, London, 2003. ‘Proposal for a new industrial psychology in practice’, artist’s project in The Office of Utopic Procedures, editor Bernard Sachs, Westspace Projects, Melbourne, 2002. Potential: ongoing archive, exhibition catalogue, edited by Anna Harding, includes images and poster from ‘The Archives Project — Part 1’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; TENT, Rotterdam 2002. The Archives Project — Part 1, poster edition, London School of Economics, 2001. ‘Stella in the Cellar’, short story, Black Diamond magazine, Liverpool, 2001. Style/Substance—The MaxMara Coat Project, Ruth Maclennan and Volker Eichelmann, 1999. Crash! exhibition catalogue, ICA, London, 1999. Video Biennale, Geneva, catalogue, introduction to Szuper Gallery by Emma Dexter. Dial M for..., exhibition catalogue, ed. Dirk Snauwaert, Kunstverein, Munich, 1999. Szuper Gallery, Szuper Editions, artist’s book for exhibition at 30 Underwood Street Gallery, 1998. Art Transpennine ’98, exhibition catalogue, 1998. Soundings, exhibition catalogue, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 1996. From a Record of Lives — Wiesbaden, 10 screen prints, edition of 100, 1996

Conferences, public lectures, radio

2010 We need to talk about the future, ICIA Bath, conversation with Professor Victor Seidler, November 17 Anarcadia, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, conversation with Owen Hatherley, December 9. 2009 She’s normal. She’s an artist, artist’s talk at LSE Trialogue, conversation with Janice Kerbel and Verina Gfader, Event Gallery Unpacking Archway Polytechnic in a Suitcase, performance lecture at The Eagle Document, symposium, Stephen Lawrence Gallery 2008 AIRtalk, Byam Shaw School of Art at Central Saint Martins 2007 Tate Britain, The Archival Impulse, symposium; discussion with Uriel Orlow on our works on the archive Seeing Old and New, lecture, Manchester Art Gallery and Cornerhouse, Manchester. Central Asian Project: panel discussion, webcast 2006 Central Asian Project, Conference and workshops hosted by British Council, Kazakhstan 2005 State of Mind, curated and organized series of five debates at the London School of Economics. Consuming Mind: Marketing Minds for Pleasure and Profit, debate with Professors Nikolas Rose, and Judith Williamson, State of Mind series, 12 May BBC Radio Four, ‘Start the Week’ 3 May 2005 West End, BBC Russian Service (3 programmes) 2004 Unleashing the Archive, Senate House, London University Friends of Art, ELIA conference, Lucerne, with Uriel Orlow and Double agents at Central St Martins School of Art & Design 2003 Lecture on The Office at the Photographers Gallery, London 2002 Potential: ongoing archive symposium alongside exhibition, John Hansard Gallery Out of the Archives: lecture at the Womens’ Library, London

Teaching (2003-10)

2010 School of Advanced Study, University of London, Summer School: Memory, Empire and Technology, 29 June-3rd July: lecture and peformance workshop on Archway Polytechnic 3 London Metropolitan University, Art in London course, lecturing on contemporary art. Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, visiting lecturer on MA Fine Art. Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII), Glasgow University, Lectures and seminars on the archive in contemporary art, looking at my and other artists’ work relating to archives (2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010), exploring the theoretical and historical context and implications of this work.

2007-9 Associate lecturer, Department of the Built Environment, Architecture Post-Graduate Diploma Studio 2. Devising project for studio, based on my own art project Archway Polytechnic, together with architecture lecturer Anna Hart. Delivering tutorials, seminars, lectures and critiques to post-graduate architecture students. Helping students develop their own brief, portfolio and project for exhibition and exam. Devising and leading field trip to Moscow to explore constructivist housing experiments and develop projects on the domestic. 2007 Fellow, Byam Shaw School of Art, research and teaching on MA and PGdip 1999-2010 Associate lecturer in Fine Art, teaching undergraduates and postgraduate students, lecturing on own work and contemporary art, at art colleges across Britain including: Central St Martins College of Art & Design, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Bournemouth College of Art and Design, Winchester School of Art, Camberwell College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. 2006 Associate lecturer Greenwich University, Film and Design: practical, theoretically grounded, course to teach students how to make a film, using video cameras, story boards, found footage, sound, and editing software. Associate lecturer Greenwich University, Art and Context: lectures, seminars, tutorials, written assessments, and site visit to Deerpark Forest in Cornwall for five days. 3.8.2005South London Gallery, Summer Daze children’s workshop, ‘Have you met my hat?’ 10.02-12.2003 Visiting Lecturer in film and 20th Century art history, Media Studies department, London College of Communications, University of the Arts. I devised, ran and assessed lecture and seminar series on European Avant-Garde art, literature and film (1910-1939) and a separate course on Film and Narrative.

Selected Reviews and Articles

‘Some notes on Ruth Maclennan’s Three Short Films on Hawks and Men’, Helen Macdonald, Antennae, 2010 ‘Central Asian Project’, Gabriel Coxhead, Time Out, March 2007 ‘Archives’, Stephen Bury, review of Re:, Art Monthly no. 285, April 2005 ‘Mr. Smith goes to…the Archive’, Stephen Smith, New Statesman, 25 February, 2002 ‘Winter Agglutinates at Gallery 291’, Lisa Prior, Flash Art, January 2001 ‘Designer coat to swap — style substance’, Alexandra Bradley, Dutch magazine, March 2000 ‘Crash!’ reviews: The Guardian, The Times, Blueprint, Time Out, Artists’ Newsletter, Mute, Art Monthly ‘Bibliomania and a Coat’, Cathy Courtney, Art Monthly, November 1999 ‘Dial M for...’, Kunstforum, September 1999 ‘Mad Max’, The Guardian, Alison Smith, 13/8/1999 ‘Szuper Gallery’, Matthew Higgs, Art Monthly, 7-8/1998

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