Pedagogy
Fine Art (modern and contemporary) interdisciplinary practice and theory.
Experience of teaching: part-time & visiting since 1980, full-time since 1983; Course leadership since 1992; subject leadership from 1996-2004 (hull/humberside); Field directorship 2007-10 (dartington college of arts) Research supervision 2008- present (dartington/falmouth/oxford brookes); Ma fine art coordination 2011-15 (falmouth).
‘Postdisciplinary’ art practice including:
film sound installation performance improvisation systems music noise etc.
writing; contemporary aesthetics & politics, film sound and noise theory, education and pedagogy
collaborations
curating and film programming
arts administration
Writings
ART AND THE APPARATUS OF HIGHER EDUCATION
POLITICS PRACTICE PEDAGOGY ART Performance Research Vol 21 Issue 6 On Radical
Education December 2016
FALMOUTH COURSE CLOSURES IN CONTEXT New Art Examiner Vol 30 No.2
November 2015 pp 1
Teaching
2016 - Sheffield Hallam University Associate Lecturer, Fine Art
2010-15 Falmouth University Coordinator MA Fine Art: Contemporary Art Practice PhD Supervision Occaisional Lectures Seminars BA(Hons): Music, Popular Music, Choreography; pedagogy & research.
2007-10 Dartington College of Arts Director of the Field of Art: MA Visual Performance (Timebased Art Practices) MA Arts & Ecology MA Arts Management MA Curating BA(Hons) Fine Art (Contemporary Practices) BA(Hons) major/minor awards with Choreography, Theatre, Music, Writing BA(Hons) major/minor awards offereing Visual Art Practices, Digital Arts Practices and Cultural Entrepeneurship.
1996-2004 Hull School of Art (Humberside University / University of Lincoln Principle Lecturer, Head of Art MA Fine Art (p/t) BA(Hons) Fine Art (f/t & p/t) BA(Hons) Phonic Art (2000-04)
1983-1996 Hull School of Art (Humberside College of Higher Education) Lecturer/Senior Lecturer/ Course Leader BA(Hons) Fine Art
Lectures / Seminars / Programmes Undergraduate and Postgraduate
Modernity & Postmodernity aesthetic theories contemporary aesthetics landscape & location art in the public realm noise & sound experimental music pop music and art duration ) 20th century avant-garde post-Duchamp 20th Century artists’ film & video
Workshops / projects Undergraduate
listening image / sound duration art / not art / bad art / good art sound improvisation noise sound music