Irit Rogoff

Irit Rogoff (born 1963) is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory;[1] postcolonialism, geocultures and geographies,[2] cultures of education[3] and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.[4]

Teaching

Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture.[5] In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London[6] where she is a Professor of Visual Culture, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.[7]

Curating

Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the ACADEMY project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Kunst-verein in Hamburg, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.[8]

In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought.[9] In 2016 freethought was the Artistic Director of the Bergen Assembly.[10]

Writing

Rogoff has written and co-written a number of seminal texts including Looking Away—Participating Singularities, Ontological Communities (2013); Visual Cultures as Seriousness (2013) (with Gavin Butt); Unbounded: Limits’ Possibilities (2012); and Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).[11] She was a guest-editor for the special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised which was published in 2010[12] and has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[13] e-flux,[14] and Third Text.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Rogoff | transform.eipcp.net". transform.eipcp.net. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  2. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOP9l0_nbI
  3. ↑ http://www.e-flux.com/journal/%E2%80%9Ceducation-actualized%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-editorial/
  4. ↑ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  5. ↑ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  6. ↑ "Art Concerns". Art Concerns. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 2011-12-08.
  7. ↑ "Irit Rogoff | Curatorial / Knowledge". ck.kein.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  8. ↑ "Academy". vanabbemuseum.nl. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  9. ↑ "Who We Are". freethought-collective.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  10. ↑ "Freethought – Bergen Assembly". bergenassembly.no. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  11. ↑ "FORMER WEST – Irit Rogoff". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  12. ↑ ""Education Actualized" – Editorial – Journal No. 14 March 2010 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  13. ↑ Rogoff, Irit (2002). "Hit and Run—Museums and Cultural Difference". Art Journal. 61 (3): 63–73. doi:10.2307/778213. JSTOR 778213.
  14. ↑ "Turning - Journal No. 0 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
  15. ↑ "third text". www.thirdtext.org. Retrieved 2018-01-27.
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