Articles and Presentations

Claire Doherty has made a number of presentations and published a series of articles external to our programme since 2005. You can download a transcript or published text or watch a video presentation here.

Socially Engaged Arts Practice and New Model Visual Arts Organisations (Liverpool, UK: 23rd May 2011)
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Claire Doherty participated in this trailblazer symposium, which invited practitioners, funders and educators to hear findings of the Socially Engaged Arts Practice and New Model Visual Arts Organisations Study, presented by ... read on →

IHME Contemporary Art Festival (Helsinki, Finland: 1st April 2011)

Claire Doherty was invited to give the opening presentation at the annual IHME Contemporary Art Festival in Helsinki, Finland, which focused on a new film produced by SUPERFLEX for the ... read on →

Demanding Conversations (Knowle West Media Centre, Bristol: 22nd September 2010)

Claire Doherty was invited to speak in conversation with artist Neville Gabie at Demanding Conversations: Socially engaged art practice in a changing political climate, a conference that took place at ... read on →

The Creative Time Summit (The Cooper Union School of Art, New York : 10th September 2010)

The Creative Time Summit was a two-day conference that brought more than 40 cultural producers together to discuss how their work engages pressing issues affecting our world. Claire Doherty presented one of the ... read on →

‘In the Public Eye’, in: Liz Hill (ed.), Arts Professional (Cambridge: Brian Whitehead, September 2010)
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An article that calls for a more diverse public arts sector moving away from the monumental scale and popularised view of public art and proposing new models for rethinking public ... read on →

‘The Event of Sculpture’, in: Fiona Bradley (ed.), Claire Barclay (Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery, 2009)
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Commissioned for Open Wide a catalogue documenting Claire Barclay’s work to date. The catalogue accompanied a major exhibition of the artist's work for The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. read on →

‘Thinking through Avoca’, in: Juliana Engberg (ed.), Lyndal Jones: Darwin with Tears (Melbourne: ACCA, 2008)
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Commissioned to accompany Lyndal Jones’ survey exhibition Darwin with Tears at the Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne. read on →

‘Public Art as Situation: Towards an Aesthetics of the Wrong Place in Contemporary Art Practice and Commissioning’, in: Jan Debbaut (ed.), Out of the Studio! Art and Public Space (Hasselt: Z33, 2008)
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First delivered as a paper at the symposium Out of the Studio! which discussed art and public space held at the contemporary art centre Z33 in Hassel, Belgium from 26-28 ... read on →

‘Curating Wrong Places…Or Where Have All the Penguins Gone?’, in: Paul O'Neill (ed.), Curating subjects (Amsterdam: De Appel, 2007)
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Commissioned as part of Curating Subjects, an anthology of new curatorial writing that documents the inter-dependent relationships between the curatorial past, present, and speculative futures, this is the first of ... read on →

‘Atmosphere - the work of Paul Rooney’, in: Paul Rooney (ed.), Got up late the other day (Colchester: Firstsite, 2006)
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A critical essay that contributes to the first comprehensive overview of Paul Rooney’s practice, Got up late the other day surveys 22 works the artist made between 1998-2005. read on →

‘New Institutionalism and the Exhibition as Situation’, in: Adam Budak (ed.), Protections Reader (Graz: Kunsthaus Graz, 2006)
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Protections Reader was published on occasion of the exhibition Protections: This is not an Exhibition, offering a consideration of the exhibition as situation within the context of the discourse of ... read on →

‘Location, Location’, in: Patricia Bickers (ed.), Art Monthly (London: 2004)
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An article that responds to biennales from Sydney to Istanbul, Venice to Liverpool and looks at their influence on the way we think about cities. read on →

‘The Institution is Dead! Long Live the Institution! Contemporary Art and New Institutionalism’, in: Caitlin Mackesy Davies (ed.), Engage Issue 15, (London : Ian McAuliffe, 2004)
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An article exploring the discourse of new institutionalism, a buzzword during the last six years, the movement has been associated with institutional transformation based on principles of participation. read on →

‘Social Work, Social Sculpture’, in: Maria Brewster (ed.), Supermanual: The Incomplete Guide to the Superchannel (Liverpool: FACT, 2000)
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Supermanual: a user’s guide was published on occasion of SUPERFLEX’s second Superchannel, which took place in a tower block in Liverpool. Superchannel is a network of local studios used by ... read on →