Having worked with Olivia Plender on a book about a whole body of work, titled Rise Early, Be Industrious (2016), I…
Humans of the Institution available now
The publication following the conference ‘Humans of the Institution’, organised by Anne Szefer-Karlssen and Vivian Ziherl is now available for…
Curating after the Global
A belated post, but Curating after the Global. Roadmaps for the Present, the third in the series of anthologies published by…
Relative Silence…
Things may seem to be quiet on the editorial project front. There is, however, a good reason for that: having…
More PARSE
The Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg hosted its third PARSE conference over the…
Goodbye to a legend
Last night I had the honour, and in many ways the privilege, to open the series of speeches at Books…
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2019
While New Contemporaries is celebrating its seventieth anniversary this year – having been initiated by the Arts Council in 1949…
Three times lucky…
It’s been a slightly longer process than with the two previous books in the series, but Curating after the Global: Roadmaps…
PARSE 9 on Work
The ninth issue of PARSE Journal is now live, on the recently revamped website. Some further texts still to be…
Tinkering with text
I have known Isabel Nolan for about a decade now, and fell in love with her artworks when I first…
Talks
Recently I had the pleasure of doing two talks outside my normal teaching context (Birkbeck, University of London): one for…
Book Works
After having worked as an associate editor on the series Fabrications for independent art(ists’) book publisher Book Works in 2006-2009,…
Meta PARSE
In the course of 2018 the Faculty of Fine, Applied, and Performing Arts at the University of Gothenburg has shifted its publishing…
The Lie of The Land
Throughout 2018 I’ve been involved as with a catalogue for MK Gallery in Milton Keynes. Following an expansion project by…
Gems
In the course of the last decade I have on and off worked on publications with writing by artist/jeweller Leonor…