Research fellows 2007
Each year our fellowship programme enables artists and researchers to develop their work.
In 2007 our visiting fellows included Anna Dezeuze, Mariko Leino, Anna Lovatt, Alistair Rider, Jonathan Katz, Andrew Bick, Courtney Martin, Falke Pisano and additional research projects.
Anna Dezeuze
University of Manchester
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
The ‘Almost Nothing’: Dematerialisation and the Politics of Precariousness
Mariko Leino
Oxford University
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
Italian Renaissance Plaquettes in Context
Anna Lovatt
University of Nottingham
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2005-07
The role of drawing in New York based sculptural practices of the late 1960s and early 70s
In her examination of the relationship between drawing and sculpture in this period, Dr Anna Lovatt pays particular attention to the work of Ruth Vollmer, Mel Bochner, Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt and Dorothea Rockburne.
Her current research interests include Post-war American drawing, particularly in the context of post-Minimal and Conceptual art; the diagram in twentieth-century art and theory; transatlantic dialogue in Conceptual art; and legacies of the 1960s in contemporary artistic practice.
Alistair Rider
University of St Andrews
Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship
2007
Base Measure: Carl Andre’s Sculptures and Politics 1959-1976
As well as his research into the poetry and sculpture of Carl Andre, Dr Alistair Rider is also concerned with Post-war sculpture, artist-led political activism, art and ecology, and contemporary art and climate change.
Jonathan Katz
Visiting Associate Professor, Smith College
Senior Research Fellowship
2007
Experiential Eros: Intersubjective Sculpture in the 1960s
Jonathan Katz’s fellowship project examines how artists of the 1960s mobilised the body and its pleasures towards crafting a universal erotic subject, in clear contrast to our current modelling of identity through difference.
Andrew Bick
Research Fellowship
2007
Eccentric Construction
Independent curator and artist Andrew Bick’s research project re-examines Constructed Abstract Art in the UK in the light of contemporary practice, using the work of Anthony Hill and Achill Redo as a starting point.
Courtney Martin
Yale University
Research Fellowship
2007
Cyclones in the Metropole British Artists 1976-1989
Martin used her time at the Institute to work on her PhD dissertation Cyclones in the Metropole British Artists 1976-1989. Her work examines the innovation production of immigrant, first generation and non-English artists in Britain during the 1970s and 1980s.
Falke Pisano
Research Fellowship
2007
29 Decisions for a Time Piece Capsule Radio Piece
Artist Falke Pisano developed her project ’29 Decisions for a Time Piece Capsule Radio Piece’, creating new work looking at the confrontation between text and concrete form.
Additional research projects
This year we supported several additional research projects, outside of our fellowship program:
Sandra Kisters (Vrije University, Amsterdam)
Sarah Hoglund (State University New York)
Mari Dumett (Boston University)