Olivia Plender is a British artist based in Berlin. At the heart of her practice is historical research. Plender has dealt with topics ranging from the early history of the BBC to modern Spiritualism. One of her more well known projects concerns The Kindred of the Kibbo Kift, a Boy Scout-like British youth movement of [...]
08.30.2010
Categories: Writer-in-Residence
Curator and writer, Kitty Scott is since 2007 the Director of Visual Arts and the Banff International Curatorial Institute, at The Banff Centre in Canada. Previously she was chief curator at the Serpentine Gallery, London; and Curator, Contemporary Art at the National Gallery of Canada. She has written extensively on contemporary art for catalogues and [...]
07.19.2010
Categories: Writer-in-Residence
Born in Kenya of Indian heritage, Brendan Fernandes immigrated to Canada in the 1990s. After studying Fine Art York University in Toronto, and University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, he went on to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. Fernandes’ practice examines the concept of authenticity as an ideological construct that [...]
05.18.2010
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Charlotte Bydler is a prolific art historian, writer and lecturer at the Department of Art History, School of Culture and Communication, Södertörn University in Stockholm, Sweden. Her PhD thesis, The Global Art World Inc. On the globalization of contemporary art (2004), has become a sourcebook for the study of biennials. Bydler has since been involved [...]
04.05.2010
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Runo Lagomarsino was born in Argentina, raised in Sweden and is currently based in Malmö. After studying art at the Academy of Fine Art Valand, Gothenburg and the Malmö Art Academy, he went on to attend the Whitney Independent Study Program in New York. His work focuses on how today’s political and social environment has [...]
03.22.2010
Categories: Writer-in-Residence
Philosopher Ernst Jünger famously said that modernity had taught us to travel with light luggage. In order to move further down the path of the present, modernity shed all that appears to be too heavy, too loaded with meaning. Today, however, the weight of our cultural and intellectual luggage seems to be more burdensome. Art [...]
