Who's who
Gillian Wylde
Senior Lecturer
2005-10 Award Leader, MA Visual Performance: Time Based Practices
Current research explores critical interconnections of ‘agency' between multivalent performance activities, the body (human or animal), the video camera and the ‘contingent' object. Which respond to particularities/peculiarities of context(s), interstices space(s), place(s) or site(s), encounter and dialogue(s) with a tendency to work in immediate, temporary, makeshift, or stopgap ‘strangeways'.
Research interests
Failure, critical aesthetics, mistakeology, queer arrangements, amateurism, video & film, girl bands, assemblage, humour, doubt, dirt, performance, object, language, shoddiness.
Forthcoming outputs
Liverpool Biennial 2010 DaDaFest Residency Commission in partnership with Metal ‘Bordering on Identity' End November 2010.
'Queer, the Space' which takes the form of a response to a building in Acton Street, King's Cross, by activists, artists, and academics interested in the ideas of queer and space and their connections. 2011 Organised by Dr Emily Jeremiah, School of Modern Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Royal Holloway, University of London); Dr Sarah Barnsley, Department of English and Comparative Literature (Goldsmiths, University of London)
Recent outputs
The Lost Swimming Pool (for Esther Williams and the Lost Olympics; and for Jane Holloway and Elizabeth Jesser Reid) Site-Specific Installation and Performance Royal Holloway University of London, collaboration with Dr Ruth Livesey, Dr Libby Worth, Dr Redell Olsen and Dr Drew Milne.
Transmodern Live Art Action Festival Baltimore, USA, Lounge Gallery London, Midlands Art Centre Birmingham, Sali Gia, Alytus Biennial Lithuania, CCA Gallery Glasgow. Recent awards and residencies include, One To One - Individual Artists' Bursaries in Live Art, Arts Council England Grants for Arts Research and Development Bursary, Artsadmin Artists Bursary Award, Tao Scene Norway, South Hill Park, Bracknell.
Undergraduate/Post-graduate projects & international exchanges
Co-operation August/September 2010 International Collaboration between MA Visual Performance: Time Based Practices, Dartington (UK) and MA Live Art and Performance Studies, Theatre Academy Helsinki (FIN): performances and exhibition, interventions and presentations.
& Including: Performative Presentation Event with artists from Dartington at Ptarmigan Art and Performance Space, Helsinki, Finland.
The Pigs of Today are the Hams of Tomorrow 2010 documentation of symposium, performances and exhibition in conjunction with Marina Abramović, organisation and participation, Royal William Yard, Pannier Market, Plymouth Art Centre Plymouth, January/March Post Graduate & Undergraduate students
1.442.666 Steps, Dartington/Frankfurt, 2008 exchange project collaborating with Atelier Rafi Frankfurt, Germany and MA Visual Performance: Time Based Practices, Dartington (UK)
Los Artistas Unidos Jamas Seran Venchidos! 2007 Alytus Biennial 2 International Festival of Experimental Art, involving students from MA Visual Performance: Time Based Practices. Organizers: Artists Gathering Erdves & Alytus Art School Curator: Mantas Kazakevičius. Partner project between: Dartington College of Arts, Umelec/The Artist, The magazine for contemporary art and culture, Prague, Czech Republic & Int'l Artists' Network ZCCA-Libusin.
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