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James O’Leary delivering the Kreider + O'Leary Keynote at 10th SAR International Conference on Artistic Research, Zurich University of the Arts (ZhdK).
JAMES O’LEARY (PROGRAMME DIRECTOR)
Dr. James O'Leary is Associate Professor and Programme Director of Situated Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture. An architect and installation artist, James is one half of the collaborative partnership Kreider + O’Leary who make performance, installation and time-based media work in relation to sites of architectural and cultural interest.
Since 2003, Kreider + O’Leary have made interventions in sites across the UK, USA, Europe, Australia, South America and Japan. Their work has been shown at venues including Tate Britain, Whitechapel Gallery and the Royal Academy of Arts. Together they have published two books: Falling (Copy Press, 2015) and Field Poetics (Ma Bibliothèque, 2018).
James's current research examines the role of the architect in the transformation of ‘post-conflict’ sites, particularly the use of digital archives to frame discussions around the long-term transformation of ‘Interface Areas’ in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Jane Rendell presenting at the EDGE - Situated Practice in Art, Architecture & Urbanism Conference, UCL.
Jane Rendell
Dr. Jane Rendell is Professor of Critical Spatial Practice at The Bartlett School of Architecture, where she co-initiated and teaches on Situated Practice MA and Architectural History MA. She supervises history, theory and design PhDs in architecture, art, urbanism and experimental writing.
Jane’s research, writing and pedagogic practice crosses architecture, art, feminism, history and psychoanalysis. She has introduced concepts of ‘critical spatial practice’ and ‘site-writing’ through her authored books: The Architecture of Psychoanalysis (2017), Silver (2016), Site-Writing (2010), Art and Architecture (2006), and The Pursuit of Pleasure (2002).
Working with Bartlett Ethics Fellow, Dr David Roberts, Jane leads The Bartlett’s Ethics Commission and, with Research Associate, Dr Yael Padan, she leads work on ‘The Ethics of Urban Research Practice’, for Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW). In 2018 she was awarded the History/Theory prize at the RIBA Research Awards for her work on housing, psychoanalysis and ethics and a Provost's Education Award for her work on ethics.
David Roberts on site during production of the film ‘Estate, a Reverie’ in Haggerston, London,
DAVID ROBERTS
Dr. David Roberts is a Teaching Fellow in Architectural Design and Architectural History, research ethics fellow for The Bartlett Ethics Commission, part of collaborative art practice Fugitive Images and a member of architecture collective Involve.
David’s collaborative research, art and cultural activist practice seeks to engage community groups whose homes and livelihoods are under threat from urban policy, empower ethical action in the built environment, and extend architectural education to primary school children. David has exhibited, screened and installed work including documentary/fiction film Estate, a Reverie, site-specific performance Empty Words Build Empty Homes, and PEER Gallery exhibition Real Estates.
Henrietta Williams on site at Trafalgar Square shooting footage for ‘Lockdown London’.
Henrietta Williams
Henrietta Williams is a Teaching Fellow at The Bartlett School of Architecture where she is also working towards a PhD. Her practice-led PhD critiques drone surveillance technologies and the history of the aerial viewpoint through both video practice and writing.
Henrietta has a visual practice focused on urbanist theories; particularly considering ideas around fortress urbanism, security, and defense. Her projects have been widely exhibited and published in the UK and internationally, most notably at the V&A Museum in London and on the front page of the Guardian. Through her commercial practice Henrietta has made films for a number of high profile architecture institutions in the UK and Europe.
Claire McAndrew talks ‘All Autonomy’ at AGENCY 2030, UCL.
Claire McAndrew
Dr. Claire McAndrew is a Senior Research Fellow in Public Engagement at The Bartlett School of Architecture and Tutor on the Open Work. Her collaborative research brings together social theory with design for transformative social and cultural effect.
Since 2008 she has collaborated on a body of participatory works that invite the public to perform sites differently. In 2014 she was awarded an AHRC UnBox LABS Fellowship to explore how design, research and digital technologies can build engaged communities.
Claire has exhibited at FACT Liverpool with experimental media technologist Ben Dalton, and curated a series of telematic happenings at London’s Southbank Centre with artist Paul Sermon, connecting to Khoj International Artists’ Association and India Habitat Centre in Delhi, and screened at Gwangju Design Biennale 2015 in South Korea.
Polly Gould presenting Antartica, Art and Archive, UCL.
POLLY GOULD
Dr. Polly Gould is an artist, writer and curator. Following her doctorate at Bartlett School of Architecture she was Post-doctoral Fellow in Design-led Architectural Research at Newcastle University. She shows with Danielle Arnaud work that includes paper, glass, installation, performance, sound and time-based media. As part of Eggebert-and-Gould she curated TOPOPHOBIA: Fear of Place in Contemporary Art . Gould’s research is an ecocriticism of the histories and futures of extreme environments with post-colonial, feminist and new materialist readings of the biographies of Victorians such as John Ruskin and John Tyndall. The material culture of watercolour and polar histories of exploration through the biographies explorer Edward Wilson and the anthropologist Franz Boas are the at the heart of in her monograph Antarctica, Art and Archive, published by Bloomsbury, 2020.