Curriculum Vitae
Dr TRACEY WARR
CONTACT DETAILS
Email: warr28@gmail.com
Website: http://traceywarr.wordpress.com
QUALIFICATIONS
2008- MA Creative Writing, Trinity Saint David, University of Wales (due to complete 2011)
2007 PhD: Creative Acts: Curating and Writing with Artists, University of Plymouth
1982 M.Phil English Language and Literature, Oxford University
1980 BA (Hons) English Language and Literature, Hull University, 1st Class
CURRENT EMPLOYMENT
2008-present Oxford Brookes University, Lecturer, Contemporary Art Theory
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
2006-2009 University College Falmouth, Associate Lecturer, MA Arts and Ecology
2008 Bauhaus University Weimar, Guest Professor, MFA Public Art & New Artistic Strategies
2000-2009 Open University, Summer School Tutor, BA Art History.
2007 Piet Zwart Institute, Rotterdam, Holland, Visiting Lecturer, MA Fine Art
Bergen National Academy of the Arts, Norway, Visiting Lecturer, MA Curating
2006-2007 Glasgow School of Art, Researcher, Art in Social Contexts and Visiting
Lecturer, BA Environmental Art and MRes Creative Arts (Fine Art)
2002-2006 Dartington College of Arts, Totnes, Full-time Director, Arts & Cultural Management Department; Co-ordinator, Taught MA Contemporary Arts
1999-2002 Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Lecturer/Researcher, BA Fine Art
1997-1999 Surrey Institute of Art & Design, Farnham, Researcher, Site Specific Art
1988-1992 Edge Biennale Trust, London, Co-Director
1986-1987 Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Combined Arts Officer
1985-1986 Chatto & Windus Publishers, London, Press Officer
1984-1985 Poetry Review Magazine, London, Editor
1982-1985 Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, Exhibitions/Publications Officer
EXTERNAL EXAMINING
2006-2009 University of Wales in Cardiff
External Examiner, BA Fine Arts (Art History and Theory)
2006-2007 Birkbeck College, London
External Examiner, MA Arts Management and Cultural Policy
2003-2006 Arts Institute at Bournemouth
External Examiner, BA Arts & Event Production
PHD EXAMINING & SUPERVISION
Current Students
Michael Blow (Oxford Brookes University), Ryan Bromley (Oxford Brookes University), Christian Thompson (Oxford University), Tine Bech (University of the West of England)
2011 University of Bristol, External Examiner
2011 Oxford Brookes University, Internal Examiner
2006-2010 University of Plymouth, PhD Second Supervisor, Janey Hunt, completed
2009 Manchester Metropolitan University, External Examiner
2009 Roehampton University, External Examiner
2008-2010 University of Ulster, External Examiner (x 2)
2004-2011 Brunel University, London, 1 MPhil & 2 PhDs – External Examiner
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Authored Book
2011. Almodis: The Peaceweaver, Exeter: Impress Books.
Edited Books and Journals
2009. Editor, Wanderlust, Weimar: Bauhaus Universitat Weimar.
2009. Co-Editor, with Ratcliffe, H.; Smith, A. Allenheads Contemporary Arts: Art in a Rural Context. Sunderland: Editions North.
2000. Editor, The Artist’s Body. London: Phaidon.
1990. Co-Editor, with La Frenais, R. Ria Pacquee 2 Projects: Edge 90, London / Newcastle: Edge Biennale Trust.
1987. Editor, Live Art Now, London: Arts Council of Great Britain.
1987. Editor, Performance Magazine, May/June, 47.
1983. Co-Editor, Imlah, M. eds., Poetry Review magazine.
Research Reports
2006. Artist Links Research Project: UK-China 2002-2006. Dartington: Dartington College of Arts. For British Council China and Arts Council England.
2005. Research Report on Artists’ Bursaries. For Arts Council London.
Book Chapters/Catalogue Essays
2011. ‘Interview with Misha Myers’. In Merskimmon, M. & Row, D. eds. Diasporic Futures, Manchester: Manchester University Press. In press.
2011. ‘The Body in your Lap’, in Zerihan, R. & Chatzichristodoulou, M., eds. Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance, London: Palgrave Macmillan. In press.
2010. ‘The Hysterical Sense of Leaking’. In Found, P. ed., The Body in Women’s Art: Part 2 Flux, London: ROLLO Contemporary Arts, pp. 19-28.
2010. ‘Texts from the Body: Bruce Gilchrist’. In Broadhurst, S. & Machon, J. eds. (2009) Sensualities/Textualities and Technologies: Writings of the Body in 21st Century Performance, London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 23-37.
2010. ‘The Hole in the Wall’ in Scott, C. Powers, M., Jones, A. eds., Shadow Plays, Cardigan: Parthian, pp.
2009. Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva: Gloucester Cathedral Project, Artsway.
2009 ‘Interview with Miranda Whall’. In Miranda Whall, DVD Publication, Filmarmalade.
2009 Tine Bech, Open Studio, Toronto.
2008. ‘Endurance and Performance’. In Kermode, D. ed. Endurance, Birmingham: Vivid.
2007. ‘Contemporary Metaphysics’. In Farquhar, A., ed. Half Life, Glasgow: NVA, pp. 53-7.
2007. ‘Feral City’. In Sladen, M. & Yedgar, A. ed. Panic Attack!: Art in the Punk Years, London: Merrell, pp. 116-121.
2007. Filmed interview with Marcus Coates, The Dawn Chorus. Bristol: Picture This. DVD Publication Series.
2007. ‘Awkward Art Party’. In Moloney, C. ed. Ten Years of OMSK. London: OMSK, pp. 110-114.
2005. ‘Measuring Beauty in the Upper Ice-World’. In Gilchrist, B. & Joelson, J. eds. Little Earth. London: London Fieldworks, pp. 11-19.
2004. ‘What a Performance Is’. In Foster, S. ed. Joan Jonas. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery, pp. 17-24.
2004. ‘Weathering’. In Murdin, A. ed. Elemental Insights. Exeter: Met Office, pp. 60-71.
2003. ‘Image as Icon’. In George, A. ed. Art, Lies & Videotape. Liverpool: Tate Liverpool, pp. 30-37.
2002. ‘Tuning In’. In Gilchrist, B. & Joelson, J. eds. Syzygy/Polaria. London: Black Dog, pp. 6-11.
2002. ‘Being Something’. In Coates, M. ed. Marcus Coates. Ambleside: Grizedale, np.
2002. ‘Passing Presence’. In Ackroyd, H. & Harvey, D. eds. Afterlife. London: Beaconsfield/Arts Admin, np.
1998. ‘In the Dark about Art’. In Stankevicius. E. ed. Twilight/Sutemos. Vilnius: Centre for Contemporary Art, pp. viii-xv.
Journal Articles
2009. Journal Article. ‘Crackling Poetry Review’, Oxford Poetry: In Memoriam Mick Imlah, Dec., pp. 63-65.
2008. ‘On Collaboration: Interviews with Heather Ackroyd & Dan Harvey and Phelim McDermott’, Doubt Guardian. In press.
2007. Book Review: Broadhurst, Susan & Machon, Josephine eds. (2006) Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. In Body, Space & Technology Journal, 7 (1). http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/non_ie.html
2007. Book Review: Broadhurst, Susan & Machon, Josephine eds. (2006) Performance and Technology: Practices of Virtual Embodiment and Interactivity, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. In the International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 3:1, pp. 89-93.
2006. ‘Consensual Art: Cyril Lepetit’, Wharf, Caen: Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie. [French]
2004. ‘A Moving Meditation on a Dead Line’, Performance Research, 8 (4), pp. 130-136.
2002. ‘Circuitry’, Performance Research, 6 (3), pp. 8-12.
2001. ‘Interview with Carolee Schneemann’, MAKE online, http://www.make-magazine.org.uk.
2001. ‘Earth Art, Consciousness and the Thing Itself’, Fourth Door Review, November, pp. 75-81.
2000. ‘James Turrell’s Roden Crater’, Contemporary, 30 September, pp. 42-47.
2000. Warr, T. & Gilchrist, B. ‘Art as a First-Person Research Methodology on Consciousness Abstract’. In Sutherland, Keith. ed. (2000). Consciousness Research Abstracts: Toward a Science of Consciousness 2000. Thorveton/Tucson: Journal of Consciousness Studies/University of Arizona, p. 162.
2000. ‘The Informe Body’, Body, Space and Technology, 1 (1). http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/non_ie.html
1998. ‘The Informe Body’, Performance Research, 3 (2), pp. 118-121.
1997. ‘Sleeper’, Frakcija, 4. [Croatian]
1996. ‘Sleeper’, Performance Research, 1 (2), pp. 1-19.
1996. ‘Udders, Drills, X-Rays: Dorothy Cross’, Women’s Art Magazine, June/July, pp. 20-21.
1995. ‘To Rupture is to Find: Marina Abramovic’, Women’s Art Magazine, May/June, pp. 11-13.
1995. ‘Uninhibited Landscapes’, Artists’ Newsletter, March, pp. 10-12.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
2011 Association of Art Historians, University of Warwick, Poster: Outlandia
2011 Artists’ Films, ARLISS, Lux, London
2010 Freelancing as an Art Historian, Association of Art Historians, London
2010 Scotland’s Wild Landscapes, UHI, Perth, Poster: Outlandia
2010 Planetary Breakdown: Artists’ Autonomous Infrastructures, The Baltic, Gateshead
2010 Performance: The Construction of a New Language, University of Girona / FEM10 Festival
2010 Collaborations, West Wales School of Art, Carmarthen
2008 Performance on Screen, Picture This/Capture, Watershed, Bristol.
2007 Intimacy: Across Digital and Visceral Performance, Goldsmiths College of Art/Laban Centre, London.
2007 Cultural Rights Roundtable, Interface Research Centre, University of Ulster. 2007 Common Work, Tramway, Glasgow/University of Stirling.
2006 The New Co-efficiency in Art, Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow.
2006 Reenchantment of Art, Bergen National Academy of the Arts , Norway.
2005 Navigate, Baltic Contemporary Arts Centre, Gateshead.
2005 Desire Lines: Art and Ecology, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes.
2004 In and Out of Middle England, Exeter Phoenix, Exeter.
2004 Commonsense, Tate Liverpool/Liverpool Biennale.
2004 OtherWorlds, Baltic Contemporary Arts Centre, Gateshead.
2003 Bone 6: Performance by Women, Bern, Switzerland.
2003 Extremophiles: Surviving in Space, Arts Catalyst. Royal Institution of Great
Britain, London.
2003 Invisible Bodies, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2002 A Short History of Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London.
2002 Marked/Gina Pane Symposium, Arnolfini, Bristol.
2002 Gina Pane Symposium, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton.
2001 Strange and Charmed 2: Art and Science Lecture Series, Royal College of Art /
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, London.
2000 Liminality and Performance, Brunel University.
2000 Toward a Science of Consciousness, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA.
1998 Space Art/Earth Art, Boulogne-Billancout, Paris, France.
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2010-present Outlandia, Associate Curator
2010 Culture of Rowing & Swimming
2006-present Outlandia Treehouse Residencies, Glen Nevis, Scotland.
2008 Monday Night Lecture Series at ACC Gallery, Weimar including Wochenklausur; Kayle Brandon; Rob La Frenais and Boris Sieferts
2008 Visions in the Nunnery, The Nunnery, London.
2001-present Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland.
Curated artists included Marcus Coates and London Fieldworks.
2005-2006 Dartington College of Arts Gallery, Totnes.
Curated artists included Jem Finer, Kayle Brandon, Qiu Zhi Jie, Lu Chunsheng and Liu Ding.
2005 Body Language and Embodied Meanings Screening Programme, Piet
Zwart Institute / TENT / Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland.
2004 ART – What is it good for?, Dartington College of Arts, Totnes.
Curated artists included Alastair Maclennan and Gediminas Urbonas.
2001 OX1: Oscillations & Vibrations Sound Art Festival, Modern Art Oxford ad
other venues in Oxford.
Curated artists included Hayley Newman, Kaffe Matthews, Scanner, Bruce Gilchrist & Jonny Bradley, Brian Caitlin, Ray Lee.
1998 Twilight/Sutemos, Centre for Contemporary Art, Vilnius, Lithuania.
Curated artists included Jane & Louise Wilson and Kathleen Rogers.
1994-1996 James Turrell, Northumberland Skyspace Proposal.
1994 EarthWire, Cleveland.
1988-1992 Edge 90 & Edge 92, Site-based exhibitions in Madrid, Spain (part of the European Capital of Culture programme), London; Newcastle and Glasgow.
Curated artists included Helen Chadwick, Dorothy Cross, Isaac Julien, Jimmie Durham, Marina Abramovic, Stelarc, Carolee Schneemann, Guillermo Gomez Pena & Coco Fusco.
1986 New British Sculpture, Air Gallery, London.
Curated artists included Cornelia Parker, Stephen Pippin, Hermione Wiltshire and Sharon Kivland.
GRANTS & AWARDS
2010 Creative Campus Initiative: Curatorial Project (Culture of Rowing and Swimming).
2007 Arts Council England: Individual Travel Grant to visit Documenta and Munster
Skulptur Projekt
2007 Arts Council England: Individual Grant for writing projects
2007 Relational: Individual Curatorial Research and Development Grant
2006 British Council China Research Grant
2005 Arts Council England: Individual Travel Grant to visit Venice Biennale
ADVISORY BOARDS
2009-present Palgrave Macmillan Performance and Technology Book Series Advisory Group.
2001-present Editorial Board, Performance Research journal.
2000-present Editorial Board, Body, Art & Space journal.
2008 DRHA 2008 Programme Committee Member (Digital Resources for the
Humanities and Arts annual conference), Cambridge.
2006-2008 Trustee, Arnolfini Arts Centre, Bristol.
2004-2007 Chair, Council of Management, Spacex Gallery, Exeter.
1993-1994 Arts Council of Great Britain Visual Art Committee.
1992-1994 Arts Council of Great Britain Combined Arts Committee.
1984-1985 Greater London Arts Literature Committee.
GALLERY TALKS, GUEST LECTURES, WORKSHOPS
2011 Ideas About Space: Gordon Matta Clark and Outlandia, Arnolfini
2011 Art Writing Workshop, Modern Art Oxford
2010 In Conversation with Jayne Parker, Night & Day Performance Weekend, Modern Art Oxford
2007 Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London.
2006 Jordan Mackenzie, Spacex, Exeter.
2006 In Conversation with Zoe Benbow, Café Gallery, London.
2005 Contemporary Romanticism, Piet Zwart Institute / TENT / Witte de With,
Rotterdam, Holland.
2005 The Death of the Body, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London.
2003 Monica Bonvicini, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
2002 Tracey Emin, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
2000 Trauma, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
1993-2009 Guest lectures at Carmarthen College of Art; Shanghai University; Potsdam Fachhochschule; University of Bourgogne, Dijon; Nottingham Trent University; Central St Martin’s; Wimbledon School of Art; University of the West of England; Camberwell College of Art.
OWN EXHIBITION PROJECTS
2011 Splitnik, Moscow Biennale, with Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
2008 Something Like Spit, Exchange Gallery, Penzance.
2007 Something Like Spit, Boilerworks, Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.
2004 Dialogue, Dartington Gallery, Totnes.
2003 Generator, Dartington Gallery, Totnes.
2001 Knowhere, Milch Gallery, London; Underwood Gallery, London; Art Through Touch, London and Queen’s Hall, Hexham.
LANGUAGES
Basic French.
