Claire Bishop

Claire Bishop
Born 1971 (age 46–47)
Nationality British
Education Cambridge University, Essex University
Occupation Art historian, professor, art critic

Claire Bishop is an art historian, critic, author, and professor in the art history department at CUNY Graduate Center, New York since September 2008.[1] 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.

Bishop's essay “Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics,” which appeared in October in 2004, remains an influential critique of relational aesthetics.[2] Her books have been translated into over eighteen languages.

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.[3] 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.[4] Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship was reviewed in a wide range of publications including Art in America,[5] Art Journal,[6] CAA Reviews (College Art Association),[7] Art Review,[8] Art Monthly,[9] and TDR: The Drama Review.[10] In 2013, Artificial Hells won the Frank Jewett Mather Prize for art criticism and the ASAP book prize.

Selected publications

Books

  • Radical Museology, or, What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art? London: Koenig Books, 2013 ( ISBN 9783863353643)
  • Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. London: Verso, 2012. ( ISBN 9781844676903)
  • Installation Art: A Critical History. London: Tate, 2005. ( ISBN 9780415974127)

Edited Volumes

  • 1968-1989: Political Upheaval and Artistic Change. Co-edited with Marta Dziewanska. Warsaw: Museum of Modern Art, 2010. ( ISBN 9788392404408)
  • Double Agent. London: ICA, 2009.( ISBN 9781900300582)
  • Participation. London: Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006. ( ISBN 9780415974127)

Papers

  • History Depletes Itself, Claire Bishop on Danh Vo at The Danish Pavilion and Punta Della Dogana at the Venice Biennale 2015, Artforum, September 2015
  • The Perils and Possibilities of Dance in the Museum: Tate, MoMA, and Whitney, Dance Research Journal, Vol. 46, No. 3, December 2014
  • Reconstruction Era: The Anachronic Time(s) of Installation Art, When Attitudes Become Form: Bern 1969/Venice 2013, Progetto Prada Arte, Milan 2013.
  • The Digital Divide: Contemporary Art and New Media. Artforum, September 2012.
  • Delegated Performance: Outsourcing Authenticity." October, no. 140, Spring 2012.
  • The Social Turn: Collaboration and Its Discontents." Artforum, February 2006.
  • Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics. October, No.110, Fall 2004.

References

  1. ↑ "'Ruin lust' dominates contemporary art, says US author and academic Claire Bishop". The Sydney Morning Herald. Retrieved 25 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Former West Conference Bio".
  3. ↑ "CUNY Faculty Bio".
  4. ↑ Bishop, Claire (2012). Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship. Verso. pp. back cover. ISBN 978-1-84467-690-3.
  5. ↑ Heartney, Eleanor (June 2012). "Can Art Change Lives?". Art in America. 100 (6): 67.
  6. ↑ Charnley, Kim (Summer 2014). "Criticism and Cooperation". Art Journal. 73 (2): 116–118. doi:10.1080/00043249.2014.949523.
  7. ↑ Widrich, Mechtild (August 12, 2013). "Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship". CAA Reviews (College Art Association): 1–3.
  8. ↑ Charlesworth, J.J. (October 2012). "Artificial Hells Participatory Art and the Politics Spectatorship". Art Review (62): 142.
  9. ↑ Quaintance, Morgan (September 2012). "Artificial Hells". Art Monthly (359): 37.
  10. ↑ Watt, Kenn (2014). "Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship by Claire Bishop (review)". TDR: The Drama Review. 58 (1): 181–183. doi:10.1162/dram_r_00340.
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