Simon Pope
Simon Pope’s art practice is preoccupied with participatory art’s engagement with new materialism and concepts of the more-than-human. He was recently awarded a doctorate from the Ruskin School of Art at the University of Oxford (2012-15) for the practice-led project, Who Else Takes Part? Admitting the more-than-human into participatory art.
Formerly a member of the Net.Art group I/O/D – Webby award winners in 2000 – he also represented Wales at their first exhibition at the Venice Biennale in 2003. Pope was a NESTA Fellowship awardee (2002-05), a Reader (tenured-Professor) in Fine Art (2005-10) and is currently an Associate Research Fellow of both Birkbeck and Queen Mary, University of London (2014-). He is available to supervise MFA and PhD students, and especially welcomes those with an interest in participation, dialogue, the more-than-human, the anthropocene, and ecological thinking, as they relate to contemporary art and creative practice more generally.
He is available to supervise MFA and PhD students, and especially welcomes those with an interest in participation, dialogue, the more-than-human, the anthropocene, new materialist and ecological thinking, as they relate to contemporary art and creative practice more generally.
Practice includes:
Currently focused on producing participatory and collaborative work encompassing sculptural practice, film-making, song-writing and singing, and letter writing. Previously, artistic and curatorial work in new media/ software-as-art, and exploring socialities of walking.
Related research & practice areas:art and social technologies;
curatorial practices;
cultural engagement through food;
ecology and environmental activism;
expanded studio practices;
experimental pedagogies;
new materialism, object-oriented ontology;
walking as an art practice;
decolonial methodologies
http://www.tinyurl.com/simonpope