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Assistant Professor of Art History
Ph.D. 2008 and M.Phil. 2003, Princeton University; B.A. 1991, University of Sydney in Australia

Research Interests:

Contemporary art, curatorial practices, and criticism. Score and language-based artistic strategies, performance, and the changing functions of artist and media in the present.

Affiliations:

College Art Association, American Association of Museums, Art Table

Selected Works:

"John Cage and Investiture: Unmanning the System," in exh. cat. Julia Robinson, John Cage & Experimental Art: The Anarchy of Silence (Barcelona, MACBA, 2009). [Forthcoming October 2009].

“From Abstraction to Model: George Brecht’s Events and the Conceptual Turn in the Art of the 1960s,” October 127, Winter 2008/9.

“Maciunas as Producer: Performative Design in the Art of the 1960s,” Grey Room, No. 33, Fall 2008.

“Oldenburg: Monumental Contingency,” in Pop Art at Princeton (Princeton University Art Museum, March 2007).

“In the Event of George Brecht” in exh. cat.  Julia Robinson, George Brecht Events: A Heterospective (Cologne, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, 2005).

“Fetish or Foil: The Caprices of Claes Oldenburg,” in Claes Oldenburg (New York, Zwirner & Wirth, 2005).

“The Sculpture of Indeterminacy, Alison Knowles’ Beans & Variations,” Art Journal, CAA, Winter 2004/5. 

“The Voracious Vernacular: Assemblage’s Language of Objects,” catalogue essay for the exhibition: Assemblage, (New York, Zwirner & Wirth, 2004).

“The Brechtian Event Score: A Structure in Fluxus,” in Performance Research, Vol. 7, No. 3,  (U.K: Routledge, September, 2002).

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