Speaking of Art: Jennifer Thatcher

Speaking of Art: Jennifer Thatcher

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Add to Calendar 2021-02-25 12:30:00 2021-02-25 14:00:00 Speaking of Art: Jennifer Thatcher Jennifer Thatcher (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) and Lucia Farinati (Independent Researcher) presenting The Artist Interview: Challenging the Biographical Paradigm. Access the pre-circulated paper here with the password "Mapping". Jennifer Thatcher is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching the history of the artist interview. Since her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art (1997-8), she has gained over 20 years’ experience in the art world, as a critic, lecturer and public programmes curator. Jennifer has contributed regularly to Art Monthly, ARTnews and ArtReview magazines. She curated the public programmes for the Folkestone Triennial (2014, 2017) and the Whitstable Biennale (2016); and was Director of Talks at the ICA, London (2003-10). A selection of her artist interviews was published in Art Monthly’s anthology Talking Art 2. Jennifer teaches at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, and Chelsea College of Art & Design. She co-convened (with Lucia Farinati) the session ‘The Artist Interview’ at the 2019 Association for Art History conference, and co-edited a special section of the Journal of Art Historiography (December 2020) expanding on these papers. Lucia Farinati is an independent researcher, curator and a published author on the subject of listening, sound and activism. She was awarded a funded PhD from Kingston University on the subject of Audio Arts magazine (2020), exploring the activation of its recordings and documents in collaboration with Tate Archive. She was an interviewer for Audio Arts between 2005 and 2007. Lucia has curated several sonic art projects under the collective name Sound Threshold (2008-2015) as well as contributed to academic conferences and workshops on the politics of listening for international festivals and museums including MaerzMusik, Berlin (2019), Tune City – Messene, Greece 2018; Glasgow International, 2018, Cut & Splice Festival, London, 2010, Manifesta 7, Italy 2008, Tate Britain, London 2012/2018. She has recently been awarded a Research Support Grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art towards a monograph on Audio Arts. She is the co-author of The Force of Listening, Errant Bodies Press, 2017. Lucia co-convened (with Jennifer Thatcher) the session ‘The Artist Interview’ at the 2019 Association for Art History conference, and co-edited a special section of the Journal of Art Historiography (December 2020) expanding on these papers. Please click here to register for the event. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to join the meeting.  Zoom Department of Art History drupal@seastar.uchicago.edu America/Chicago public

Jennifer Thatcher (PhD Candidate, University of Edinburgh) and Lucia Farinati (Independent Researcher) presenting The Artist Interview: Challenging the Biographical Paradigm. Access the pre-circulated paper here with the password "Mapping".

Jennifer Thatcher is an AHRC-funded PhD candidate at the University of Edinburgh, researching the history of the artist interview. Since her MA at the Courtauld Institute of Art (1997-8), she has gained over 20 years’ experience in the art world, as a critic, lecturer and public programmes curator. Jennifer has contributed regularly to Art Monthly, ARTnews and ArtReview magazines. She curated the public programmes for the Folkestone Triennial (2014, 2017) and the Whitstable Biennale (2016); and was Director of Talks at the ICA, London (2003-10). A selection of her artist interviews was published in Art Monthly’s anthology Talking Art 2. Jennifer teaches at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London, and Chelsea College of Art & Design. She co-convened (with Lucia Farinati) the session ‘The Artist Interview’ at the 2019 Association for Art History conference, and co-edited a special section of the Journal of Art Historiography (December 2020) expanding on these papers.

Lucia Farinati is an independent researcher, curator and a published author on the subject of listening, sound and activism. She was awarded a funded PhD from Kingston University on the subject of Audio Arts magazine (2020), exploring the activation of its recordings and documents in collaboration with Tate Archive. She was an interviewer for Audio Arts between 2005 and 2007. Lucia has curated several sonic art projects under the collective name Sound Threshold (2008-2015) as well as contributed to academic conferences and workshops on the politics of listening for international festivals and museums including MaerzMusik, Berlin (2019), Tune City – Messene, Greece 2018; Glasgow International, 2018, Cut & Splice Festival, London, 2010, Manifesta 7, Italy 2008, Tate Britain, London 2012/2018. She has recently been awarded a Research Support Grant by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art towards a monograph on Audio Arts. She is the co-author of The Force of Listening, Errant Bodies Press, 2017.

Lucia co-convened (with Jennifer Thatcher) the session ‘The Artist Interview’ at the 2019 Association for Art History conference, and co-edited a special section of the Journal of Art Historiography (December 2020) expanding on these papers.

Please click here to register for the event. Upon registration, you will receive a confirmation email and a link to join the meeting.