RESEARCH & WRITING
Fan Riot Project (2015-ongoing)
An expansive project exploring the intersection of fandom and contemporary art/performance practices since the internet, which includes a fan club series with contributing artists and fans, workshops, publications, artworks and performances.
Post-Doctoral Fellow (Digital Scholarship) at IASH University of Edinburgh (2018-19)
My project titled Luv 2 H8 U builds on my prebious work on fandom to look at the productions, modes and aesthetics of anti-fandom and haters.
PhD, Visual Cultuires at Goldsmiths (AHRC funded 2009-13)
My practice-based thesis titled Trashy Tendencies: Indeterminate Acts of Refusal in Contemporary Art and Performance Practice asks what are the potentials of trashy performances in a time after trash?: That is after an aesthetics of refusal exemplified in the 20th Century avant-gardes and counter-culture; but also after trash in the sense of following its seductive appeal. Trash aesthetics are pervasive across contemporary visual culture, but how do they operate differently to their now often-commoditised counterparts? What new ethical and political possibilities do trashy tendencies offer?
AHRC Researcher (2009-12)
I held the position as AHRC funded researcher on Performance Matters, a three-year collaborative project exploring the cultural value of performance with Live Art Development Agency, Goldsmiths and University of Roehampton.
Lecturing
I lead the 'Fans & Amateur-Experts' seminar in BA Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, and teach on BA Fine Art Critical Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London.
‘On Larry Love: An Interview with Fan Artist Karukara’, (2015) Salt, Montez Press, issue 7. Oct 2015.
Fictional Realness", Performance Philosophy School of Athens Symposium, (Ε.Δ.Ω. Athens, March 2014); The Impossible Constellation (University of Lincoln, July 2014)
"Stupid Holes: Stupid Becomings in the Work of South African Rap-rave Group Die Antwoord", Stupidious! (South London Gallery, Feb 2014)
"Lineages of Trash: Owen Parry interviews 'legend, icon, wild-hearted demoness bad-girl bitch' - Penny Arcade", Live Art Almanac, Vol 3 (London: Oberon Books, 2013); originally published in Dance Theatre Journal, 24. 3 (2011)
Peachy Who-Chi? 20 Unidentified Flying Portraits", In Conversation: Equality Versus Freedom (National Portrait Gallery, June 2013)
"The Morning After: a Roundtable on Cruising for Art", Lobel, Performing Ethos, 3:2. 2011.
"Performing Refuse / Refusing Performance", Performance Studies International 18 (University of Leeds, June 2012) and Trash Conference (University of Sussex, September 2012)
Co-editor, [Trashing] Dance Theatre Journal, 24. 3 (2011)
"Art Crush: Promiscuous Methodologies", Chisenhale Art Club (London: March, 2011)
"Talking Like You Don't Care, And Other Angry Speeches", Performing Idea Forum, Whitechapel Gallery (London: October, 2010)
"It’s Beside You”: The Ghost in Contemporary Performance Practice and Research", Performing Idea Lab, Club Row Gallery, (London: April, 2010) and Goldsmiths University of London, Spring review, (London: May, 2010)
Adam Ant's Ridiculous Mantra: "Performance Art is Nothing to be Scared of'", Klein Kunst II, Roundhouse (November, 2009)
Publications, Papers
"Fans of Live Art" (Forthcoming 2019), Theatre and Fandom, University of IOWA Press.
"'Ship Everything': Art Practice as Fanfiction" (Forthcoming 2019), Fandom as Methodology, Goldsmiths Press.
"Sex, Work, and Negative Affects in Participatory Performance" (2016), Contemporary Theatre Review, Interventions.
‘Larry is Real: Interview’, (2016) Fansplaining Podcast, Episode 16, 24 Feb, 2016.
"Fictional Realness: Towards a Colloquial Performance Practice", Performance Research 20:5. 2015
'Fan Riot', Visual Cultures 10, The Showroom, Dec 2015.
‘Size Queen’, (2016) General Fine Arts, ed. Clarke. T, issue 1: vol. 2.
‘Live!Art Fanzine’, (2015) Fan Riot Press, (LADA Commission) Oct 2015.
"Mpreg Versus Homonormcore", The New Inquiry, Vol 43, August 2015.
Photo: Christa Holka