Monday 11. September:
Participatory Art practices - an introduction.

Claire Bishop is an art historian and critic based in London. She is currently Leverhulme Research Fellow in the Curating Contemporary Art department at the Royal College of Art.  In October she will take up a new job in the History of Art Department at Warwick University.  She has also taught at Essex University (where she completed her PhD) and Tate Modern. She is the author of 'Installation Art: A Critical History' (Tate, 2005), 'Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics' (October no.110, 2004) and the edited anthology 'Documents of Contemporary Art: Participation' (Whitechapel/MIT, 2006). She contributes regularly to Artforum, Flash Art, Untitled, and Tate Etc.