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We are always reviewing our alumni records. If you are a London Consortium graduate, we would love to hear from you! Please send your messages and contact details to loncon@ica.org.uk so that we may keep you posted of London Consortium events and opportunities in the future. Many thanks.
Jeff Adams (PhD 2005) pursued his PhD thesis on the Hollywood Western. He now works as a County Planner in Blaine County, Idaho, and is continuing to work on hiw writing.
Ruth Adams (PhD 2005) took her first degree in Sociology and Visual Culture at Lancaster University gaining a first class BA (Hons). After a year out working for the RSA, she returned to study with the London Consortium. Having completed the MRes - dissertation title ‘Remote Culture: British Television and the Visual Arts’ - she undertook research for her PhD thesis - ‘Gentlemen and Players: The Victoria & Albert Museum and the Narrative of Culture and Commerce’. Ruth is currently a lecturer on the MA in Cultural and Creative Industries at Kings College, London. She has catholic interests beyond her current emphases on museums and the relationships between culture and social class, and art and industry - predominantly Modern and contemporary art, British popular culture and Country & Western music.
Will Alderwick (MRes 2006) studied philosophy at UCL before joining the Consortium’s MRes program in 2005, specialising in the application of contemporary continental philosophy to the arts as a cultural paragon. Writing on Orlan, Gilbert&George, Beckett, Burroughs and Pasolini he explored novelty, truth and immanence in terms of Badiou’s philosophy and inaesthetics specifically. Continuing to play music in bands gigging across the UK and Europe, Will is currently Editorial Assistant at Varoom: the journal of illustration and made-images and a freelance writer.
Thomas Altheimer (MRes 2006) has an MA in comparative literature and a BA in political science from the University of Copenhagen. Since graduation he has worked as dramaturg/performer/producer for a Danish experimental theatre platform. He is currently involved in a project that aims to write world history as if it was a novel. Main research interests are questions of sovereignty and representation.
Elina Axioti (MRes 2006) is an architect who graduated from the University of Thessaly, Department of Architecture in Greece. Her academic background is in theory and design. She participated in several competitions and exhibitions. Recent works and current research interests include: Marginal Boundaries: The Project concerns a seascape and negotiates in this, two “limits”. The problematic in this project is based in the mathematical theory of topology. The Bathroom: Interrelated Disappearances: An attempt to interpret the shaping and the set up of the space of the contemporary Western bathroom through an anthropological, sociological and psychoanalytical approach.
Kathy Battista (PhD 2005) did a BA in Art History and English Literature at Fordham University, New York, and an MA in Art History at the Courtauld Institute in London. Her PhD dissertation is called Women’s Work: Feminist Artists in 1970s London. Kathy is co-author of Art New York (ellipsis, 2000) and Recent Architecture in The Netherlands (ellipsis, 1998), which was published in five languages including English, Dutch, French, German and Cantonese. She is also an editor of Contemporary magazine and a Research Fellow of The London Consortium. She is Head of Interaction at Artangel and is currently working on forthcoming projects with Richard Wentworth, Steve McQueen, Matthew Barney and Shirin Neshat. She is a visiting lecturer at a number of art schools in London and serves as external advisor for the new course ‘Spatial Arts’ at London Metropolitan.
David Beard Bates (MRes 2003) In 2001 Beard graduated summa cum laude, with Honors in English, from Hampden-Sydney College (Virginia). Outside academia he has written/performed/produced four nationally (US) released albums of original music; founded an independent record label; produced and directed music videos; written three literary novels-one to be published in Spring 2003-one book of poetry, and a short-story collection; plus, exhibited original oil paintings and structural canvases in Florida and Virginia. Beard enjoys perception, inversions of pain, and the cartography of thoughts-recent interest has been directed towards the prescient nature of hypertext fiction and its portrayal of the horizon of aesthetic creation.
Mariateresa Boffo (MRes 1997) studied Law at the Universita’ degli Studi diParma, Italy, and joined the London Consortium in 1996. She is the author of a novel (Senza Mani, La Tartaruga, Milano 1995), and of several translations as well as magazine features. She works for Penguin Classics and Modern Classics, in London.
Antonis Bogadakis (MRes 2002) wrote his MRes dissertation about Pain (aesthetics, language and visions of pain in Pasolini’s Medea) a topic he worked on in his essays too. Antonis studied history at Aristotle’s University (Thessaloniki, Greece), 19th and 20th century European Intellectual and Cultural History at Queen Mary College (London) and Urban Studies at King’s College (London). He has worked as features manager at the Greek Art Projects art journal in Athens and now lives and works in Stockholm.
Dorothée Brill (PhD 2007) studied history of art in Tübingen and Toulouse and contemporary art and art and media theory at the Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung | ZKM Karlsruhe, from where she obtained her Magister Artium in 2000 with a dissertation on the body and its image in early video art. She worked in various jobs within curating, exhibition organisation, project administration, museum education and video documentation in Germany, UK, United States and Turkey. Her PhD investigated the destruction and refusal of meaning as an artistic strategy of shock in the 20th century examined in view of Dadaism and Fluxus.
Hester Chan (MRes 2005), MA Art Theory & Cultural Studies (Leiden University, 2002), Fine Arts (Willem de Kooning, 2000). Hester was previously the youngest contemporary gallerist in Rotterdam (www.leiderhermann.com/hesterchan), and worked at Gagosian Gallery UK as Gallery Administrator before undertaking her MRes degree at the Consortium. Her dissertation focussed on the private art gallery in the UK. Hester currently she lives in London and works part-time at STORE on Hoxton Street.
Tom Cole (MRes 2004) graduated from Nottingham University in 2003, where he gained a BA in art history. Since then he has been working in a contemporary art gallery in New York. His other interests include photography, obscure electronica and travel, while the development of his trainer collection is ongoing. At The London Consortium he is looking forward to continuing his research into questions of identity and performance within contemporary art.
Alexis Cooke (MRes 2005) graduated with a BA in Studio Art and International Economics from Beloit College, Wisconsin. After a year pursuing an MRes with the Consortium on contemporary museum culture and working for the Tate Galleries in London she returned to Chicago to follow a career in arts administration. Never one to sit still for too long, she hopes to eventually continue her education in art history and always have an excuse to travel.
Paola Crespi (MRes 2006) graduated in Philosophy at the University of Padova (Italy). She has investigated the Philosophy of Leibniz and in particular the concept of relationship between Monads.
Paloma Diaz (MRes 2001) holds a degree in Political Science from the Complutentse University of Madrid. She worked for several years in various jobs at the Architectural Association in London, and currently works for the Fundacion Metropoli in Madrid, where she is the Assistant to the President and Director of Communications. www.fundacion-metropoli.org.
Ricardo Domizio (MRes 2002) has a BSc in Electronic Engineering, a BA in Film Studies and English and an MA in Gender, Culture and Society. A hybrid identity, he is of Italian descent, but born, educated, and living in London. His career profile spans journalism, photography and video production and he have been working part-time as a Film Studies Lecturer at the University of North London. His principal research interests lie in gender representation in film, and in particular, the interplay between potentially new forms of gendered subjectivity brought into being by a highly technologised body and society, and capitalist attempts to appropriate and commodify this. He’s also interested in researching the way modern architecture shapes and influences narrative and subjectivity in film.
Lina Dzuverovic-Russell (MRes 2004) runs a London based curatorial/production agency called (Electra . She is also Web Editor for The Wire Magazine. Formerly Lina was New Media Curator at the ICA and prior to this she worked for Mute Magazine, The Lux Centre, OVEN Digital and the Pandaemonium Festival. Lina also regularly works with the British Council on projects across Europe and has guest curated projects for a number of international festivals. Her writing has appeared in magazines including Artforum, Contemporary, Mute, The Wire and Res as well as a number of digital culture journals.
Matthew Flintham (MRes 2003) graduated from Central Saint Martins (London) with a BA (Hons) in painting in 1993. He was involved in establishing and maintaining a number of under-the-radar art galleries and events (notably Milch and Toolroom Salon) before embarking on a short career in performance art. After taking a nice day job at Tate Britain as a technician, Matthew had the flexibility to complete the MRes at the Consortium (looking into the impact of military architecture and land-use in the UK). He is now a senior technician in Conservation at Tate Britain but actively pursuing international photographic projects. See www.flickr.com/photos/flintham.
Francis Gooding (Mres 1999, PhD submitted 2005) completed a BA in the History of Art at the University of East Anglia in 1997, and an MA in Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1998. His doctoral research focused on the relationship between nature and history.
Dominique Gough (PhD 2004) now working for the Chiltern Group in Jersey, specialising in corporate and trust services to Eastern Europe and other emerging markets. Currently undertaking an MSc in Corporate Governance with Bournemouth University and researching a personal project on the link between truth-telling and patronage in the work of Maistre Wace.
Ahmet Gürata (PhD 2002) has a BA in Economics from Ankara University and an MA in Graphic Design from Bilkent University, Turkey. His research interests include: World Cinema and visual culture. He is teaching at Gazi University.
Susanna Haddon (MRes 2006) graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 and the London Consortium in 2006. She writes about art and works collaboratively in video.
Clare Hamman (MRes 2006) is fascinated by the interactions that occur on the public stage of the city between resident institutions and individuals. How one views cultural phenomena is affected by the ‘Value’ imposed by modern society, advertising and celebrity. Her interest in these areas is born from an academic background in architecture and working at both architectural and advertising firms. This combines with a general fascination of how the stimulation of the senses can manipulate one’s experiences.
Marieke Hendriksen (MRes, 2007) gained an MA in aesthetics from Utrecht University, the Netherlands (2005) with a thesis dealing with the question whether gastronomy is an art. After a short spell working as a campaigner for an NGO she joined the London Consortium in 2006. She left the consortium with a thesis entitled ‘The use, value and meaning of food in contemporary art - a case study’. As from September 2008 she will be undertaking PhD research at Leiden University, the Netherlands, within the project ‘Cultures of Collecting’. The project focuses on the philosophical, educational and historical contexts and implications of the Leiden anatomical collections. Apart from this, Marieke is still interested in the philosophy of food and taste and in food culture.
Christopher Hight (PhD 2003) was previously a member of the Renzo Piano Building Workshop and a Fulbright Scholar, Christopher attained his professional architectural training in the United States where he graduated with several awards including the AIA School Medal and the Fossey award for best project in the graduate school. He holds a Masters degree with Distinction from the Architectural Association (AA) History and Theories of Architecture program. His doctoral research at the London Consortium addressed the relationship between the body, post-humanist theory, mathematic-scientific orders and the post-war built environment. His tireless advisors were Mark Cousins and Paul Hirst. A version of his thesis, Measuring Vortices: Architectural Principles in the Age of Cybernetics, will be published in 2006 by Routledge Press. Interested in multidisciplinary practices of architecture, has taught at the AA in the General Studies, Diploma School and the Graduate Design Research Laboratory. He is currently an assistant professor at the Rice School of Architecture where he is pursuing design research on electronic infrastructures and urbanism and is the editor of the Architecture At Rice book series. He has published and lectured in the UK, Europe, China, Australia, the United States and the Middle East and recently organized an international symposium, Modulations, which will be published in the near future.
Louise Hojer (MRes 2004) studied philosophy and politics at the University of Kent at Canterbury. She has since continued to combine these fields with aesthetics in a Masters dissertation at the London Consortium. She is currently writing a Phd with the working title ‘Within and Out of Walls’ whereby she hopes to explore the political nature of aesthtics, specifically through the house as an artistic object. Louise is also active in curating events that will bridge the gap between academia, the arts and the general public.
Lorens Holm (MRes 1999, PhD 2003) researched areas of cross-over between architectural space and space as it is invoked in psychoanalytic theory. He is an architect whose projects have been published in the US and Europe. He currently teaches theory at the Bartlett, the AA, and the Mackintosh. Before coming to London, he was an assistant professor of architecture at Washington University in St. Louis, where he also had a small practice. He has an MArch degree from Harvard GSD and a First in philosophy from the University of Wales. He has an AHRB fellowship.
Michelle Holmes (MRes 2004) graduated as a mature student from the School of Oriental and African Studies with a BA in Social Anthropology in 1999. Passionate about critical theory and had a stab at an exploration of links, complications and contradictions between Frankfurt School aesthetic theory and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory in contemporary cultural contexts of artistic production and reception. This somewhat did her head in and she now looks back nostalgically and with a more muted passion at the same. She is now keeping her feet more firmly planted, teaching English as a second language in East London. There is life after Adorno/Lacan (tho’ much the better for having known them…)
Bridget Holroyd (MRes 2002) graduated from UCL with a B.A. in History with a European Language in 1996. After working at the Bloomsbury Theatre for a year she moved to Japan, where she taught for three years, before travelling through Australia and New Zealand on the way home.
“>Tim Horsburgh (MRes 2005) is primarily interested, although prone to lapses. This did not stop him from graduating with a First in History from University College London in 2003, with a thesis on Kidnapping in Colombia. After making a trilogy of short films on contemporary Guyanese society, Tim travelled and filmed in South America and South-East Asia before embarking upon the MRes at the London Consortium. He was grateful for the opportunity to write about Synaesthesia in Chris Cunningham’s music videos; The Argument (with Alexis Cooke); Museums and Dark Tourism; Poker as a Way of Life; When Evil can and should be funny; and finally a thesis on What (if anything) modern movies can teach us about Living in the Moment. He is currently looking to the future with a wistful eye and love in his heart, and will soon be once again pursuing gainful employment in foreign climes.
Clea House (MRes 2005) has an academic background in classical languages and philosophy. Within the field of philosophy her main areas of interest are aesthetics and Indian philosophy. Her personal background is bilingual (English-Spanish) and bi-cultural although she was educated at Spanish state schools.
Catherine James (PhD 2004) gained a BA Hons in English and German at UEA in 1986. Catherine has worked throughout BBC Network Radio, and finally as a Studio Manager at the World Service. She went on to study for a BSc Hons in Music at City University (and the Guildhall School of Music), graduating with a First Class Honours and winning the Worshipful Company of Mercer’s Prize for Outstanding Performance. Since completing the MRes at the LondonConsortium in 1999, Catherine has worked as a visiting lecturer at Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design, and finished a PGCE at the University of Sussex. She is currently a Lecturer in Fine and Decorative Arts at Christie’s and Books Editor for Contemporary Magazine.
Mary Ellyn Johnson (MRes 2003) received a BA in Art History from Gustavus Adolphus College and a MA in Art History from Richmond University. At the Consortium she focused on issues surrounding globalism in the curatorial practices of Contemporary Art. Currently she works in the Exhibitions Department at the San Francisco Art Institute. Previously she worked as a Librarian at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.
May Adadol Ingawanij (Mres 1998, PhD 2006) wrote her PhD on ‘Hyperbolic Heritage: Bourgeois Spectatorship and Contemporary Thai Cinema’. She has published works on Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film), the discourse of quality in world cinema (in Spectator: The University of Southern California Journal of Film and Television Criticism) and Thai heritage films (in Representing the Rural: Space, Place, and Identity in Films about the Land, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies and South East Asia Research). Between 2004-6 she taught world cinema at Goldsmiths and the University of East London. She is one of the organisers of the annual New Southeast Asian Cinemas conference, held on a rotating basis in the region.
Dean Kenning (PhD 2008) wrote his thesis on the political value of idiocy in contemporary art. He is an artist, recently had a solo show at Flaca gallery. He has written catalogue essays and reviews in Modern Painters.
Natalie Khan (nee Thoma) (MRes 1998) has worked in the fashion industry as a distribution manager for several brands including Calvin Klein, Donna Karan and Prada. She wrote a chapter entitled ‘Catwalk Politics’ inFashion Theory (Routledge, 2000, ed. Stella Bruzzi and Pamela Church Gibson). Since raising a family, Natalie has returned to academia and will start teaching cultural studies at Central Saint Martins in Autumn 2007.
Andrew Kim (MRes 2004) received a BA in Architecture from Yale University in 2000. His research at the Consortium centred around clubbing culture and its role as a practice of pleasure within a work-play construct. Currently he is preparing for Architecture School in the US.
Seth Kim-Cohen (PhD 2006) There is a lot of possible Mediterranean in the proposal of this man, the incredibly natural one who is magically able since ever to translate and convey the impossible equilibrium of his Chicago, a harsh and extremely sweet, sinuous and invented city; the one of maturity and power of the metronomic rhythmic heart, rich in numerous creative streamlets and in the infinite colors of thought; and the one of the volcanicity and rapture, made by that side of him which plunges its knife into the feelings in a trip of strong sensations, of which one would desire it never ended. End, though, it must: in tumultuous thesis of and in representational incompetence in music, literature, visual art. Shimmering, his person transmogrifies. 2006 finds this man the artist-in-residence of Yale University School of Art. All shadows grow in stature, as wind on the far side of mountains.
Caroline M. Kisiel (MRes 2004); MA Interdisciplinary Arts (1997); BA English and Sociology (1988). Caroline has been an undergraduate and graduate level faculty member in two humanities-based programs at Roosevelt University in Chicago since 1997 (currently summers and online). Before moving to London in 2003 she was as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Roosevelt University, and in past years she supported herself in such work as immigration advocate in the US, Spanish/English interpreter, and car and bicycle messenger. Caroline’s 2003-4 year at the London Consortium lead her into the study of nationalism and ethnicity at the LSE, and she wrote her MRes dissertation on the National Portrait Galleries of Britain and the US and images of nationalism. She continues to live in London and has worked at the LSE in their Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, where she co-chaired the Association (04-05) and served as an Assistant Editor on the journal Nations and Nationalism (04-06). Continuing an exploration of travel and ancestry from her initial Master’s work (a live performance with video and sound/layered voices), Caroline is now pursuing her PhD at the University of Essex, researching British travel writings about the US in the early 19th century, focusing on early conceptions of the American nation, reflections on British and American character, and comments on slavery. An American of Polish and Sicilian background, her side project is visiting Italy and becoming fluent in Italian.
Katie Kitamura (PhD 2005) worte her dissertation on vulgarity in modern American literature. She received a BA from Princeton University and a MRes from the London Consortium. She is currently Reviews Editor of Contemporary Magazine, and is writing her first book (forthcoming 2006, Hamish Hamilton).
Melanie Koronka (MRes 2005) wrote her dissertation on the use of the body in the work of Robert Mapplethorpe and how contemporary representations of the male nude reflect the interests and concerns of the postmodern era.
Jessica Kraft (MRes 2003) is an educator and designer based in San Francisco, CA. She has taught journalism, art history and sustainable design at various colleges in New York.
Nina Krieger (MRes 2002) has a Bachelor of Arts in Honours History from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver and a Master of Research from the London Consortium. She was Program Coordinator of the London Consortium Summer School at Tate Modern in 2002 and 2003, and has worked at Artangel and as a freelance project manager for various site-specific contemporary art projects, most recently for the 2004 Liverpool Biennial. She is currently developing educational and public programs at the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, Canada.
Brandon LaBelle (PhD 2005) is an artist and writer working with sound and the specifics of location. Through his work with Errant Bodies Press he has co-edited the anthologies Site of Sound: Of Architecture and the Ear, Writing Aloud: The Sonics of Language, and Surface Tension: Problematics of Site. He initiated and curated the Beyond Music series and festivals from 1997-2002 at Beyond Baroque Literary/Arts Center in Los Angeles, and in 2001 he organized “Social Music”, a radio series for Kunstradio ORF, Vienna. His installation work has been featured in exhibitions and festivals internationally, including “Sound as Media” (2000) ICC Tokyo, “Bitstreams” (2001) Whitney, “Pleasure of Language” (2002) Netherlands Media Institute, and “Undercover” (2003) Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, and his writings have been included in various books and journals, including Experimental Sound and Radio (MIT) and Soundspace: Architecture for Sound and Vision (Birkhäuser). He presented a solo exhibition at Singuhr galerie in Berlin (2004), and an experimental composition for pirate drummers as part of Virtual Territories, Nantes (2005). His ongoing project to build a library of radio memories, “Phantom Radio”, will be presented in 2006 as part of Radio Revolten, Halle Germany. He is the author of Background Noise: Perspectives on Sound Art, (Continuum 2006).
Nick Lambrianou (PhD 2006) is an artist and writer. He currently lectures in art history, philosophy and critical theory for Birkbeck FCE, Westminster University and at Tate Modern. Recent and forthcoming publications include ‘Neo-Kantianism and Messianism: Origin and Interruption in Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin’, in Walter Benjamin: Critical Evaluations in Cultural Theory (ed. Peter Osborne, 3 vols, Routledge 2005), ‘Mouvement: Septième: Pièce Texte Répétée’ in Revue Le Quartanier 3/4 (Quebec, 2005) and ‘Antinomies of Narrated Experience’ in Journal of the British Society of Phenomenology (London, January 2006).
Jee Eun Lee (MRes 2003) BFA BArch RISD Providence, USA. Jee eun Lee co-founded dlm architectural designers ltd in London in February 2000. The work of dlm is firmly rooted in an interdisciplinary contemporary condition, which seeks to integrate architectural thought with the dynamics and methodologies of art, fashion and other cultural agents. Recent project includes a house in Jona, Switzerland and the development of a material technology called Curvatex. Other projects include an exhibition design for the British Council’s fabric of fashion exhibition and furniture designs. Previously, Lee worked as an architect for the office of Zaha Hadid where she contributed to various projects and competitions including contemporary art centres in Rome and Cincinnati. Other projects include l.a.Eyeworks flagship store in Los Angeles and a film set. Lee is also involved as a visiting critic at the Architectural Association.
Eva MacGillivray Heath (MRes 2002) graduated from The University of California at Berkeley in 1998 with a degree in Comparative Literature. Her research focused on postcolonial literature, the Harlem Renaissance and controlling processes. Eva’s work experience includes marketing and public relations for publishing, high technology, film and the performing arts. Since graduating from the Consortium Eva has been working at the San Francisco Opera.
Delaney Martin (MRes 2001) graduated from the University of Southern California with a BA in English Literature and Creative Writing with a minor in Film. Since then she has pursued a career in photography. Since finishing her MRes she has been pursuing a career in the fine arts making large scale multi- media installations.
Colette Meacher (PhD 2007) BA (Social Anthropology), MA (Anthropology of Art). Pre-Consortium: Artist in Residence, photography teacher/ curator, Lecturer in Cultural Studies (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia). Her PhD, ‘The Fugitive and the Infinite: Tracing the Sublime in the Contemporary Landscape’, explores peripatetic modes of the sublime in the works of the Romantics, Aragon and Beckett. During her studies, Colette worked as Director of Talks at the ICA, as well as for Frieze Art Fair, Artangel and Somerset House. Colette submitted her PhD in 2005 and now works as a freelance writer, journalist and curator. Publications include interviews with Jock McFadyen (Room 5 journal), Iain Sinclair (Literary London journal) and Stella Vine (Latest Art Magazine), commissioned writing for a-n magazine and contributions to Surface Tension: Problematics of Site (Errant Bodies Press) and Occasional Sights: a guidebook of missed opportunities and things that aren’t always there (Photographer’s Gallery Press). Colette is currently Features Editor of Latest Art Magazine, co-curator of a conference/ events on the sublime for Tate Britain (2007) and part of the chorus-line for the Busby Berkeley-inspired Bicycle Ballet taking place on Brighton seafront in September. http://latest-art.co.uk.
Markus Miessen (M.Res 2005 AADipl(Hons) B.Arch), is a London- and Zurich- based architect, researcher, educator, and writer. In 2002, he set up Studio Miessen, a platform for spatial strategy and critical cultural analysis. As an architect, Miessen is a partner in the architectural office Miessen&Ploughfields. Their site-specific architecture titled The Violence of Participation was on show at the Lyon Biennial 2007. The office is currently working on a series of international projects, amongst others a high-alpine library and cultural centre, which will house the entire private archive and collection of the Swiss curator Hans Ulrich Obrist. In the past, Miessen has consulted to London-based General Public Agency, advised the European Kunsthalle on its spatial strategy, and wrote cultural policy proposals for the think tank for everyday democracy Demos. Currently, he is developing a long-term project with the Department for Education and Public Programmes at the Serpentine Gallery, developing alternative spatial typologies for contemporary archives and libraries, and is consulting to the Consul General of Slovenia in New York on a project that investigates the imaginary East Coast Europe. As a writer, Miessen has contributed, edited and advised globally, with published articles in more than 30 different international titles, from academic to scientific to popular culture. He is the editor of The Violence of Participation (Sternberg Press, 2007), co-editor of With/Without – Spatial Products, Practices and Politics in the Middle East (Bidoun, 2007) and Did Someone Say Participate? An Atlas of Spatial Practice (MIT Press, 2006), co-author of Spaces of Uncertainty (Müller+Busmann, 2002), and is most recently developing a publication with Hans Ulrich Obrist titled My Favourite Book. Miessen acts as editorial consultant to Volume (Amsterdam) and Bidoun (New York), and supports Build Magazine as Deputy Editor. His work has been exhibited internationally and has received numerous awards and prizes including from the Flemisch Government (Brussels), Stimuleringsfonds voor Architectuur (Amsterdam), Kulturstiftung des Bundes (Berlin), the Henry Saxon Snell Prize, and was nominated for the RIBA Silver Medal. He has lectured widely, including at Columbia University NY, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the Berlage Institute, the Venice and Istanbul Biennials, Centro Cultural Tijuana (Mexico), Stuttgart University, the Royal College of Art (London), Van Alen Institute NYC, Museum für Angewandte Kunst Cologne, International Design Forum Dubai, and the Camp for Oppositional Architecture at Casco, Utrecht. Teaching as a Unit Master at London’s Architectural Association since 2004, he has recently initiated and now directs the AA Winter School Middle East in collaboration with the American University in Sharjah and The Third Line gallery. Miessen studied at Glasgow School of Art (BArch), graduated from the Architectural Association with Honours (AADipl), received a Master in Research degree from the London Consortium (MRes), and is currently a Doctoral candidate at the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths, London, investigating conflict- and non-consensus-based forms of participation as a form of alternative spatial practice.
Toni Moceri (MRes 2006) graduated from the University of Michigan with a Bachelor of Arts in American Culture and Anthropology. Over the past three years, she has received several commissions from the Shrinking Cities project to research different topics related to the shrinking phenomena in the City of Detroit. For two of those years, she also worked as a Policy and Benefits Intern at the International Union, UAW in Detroit, Michigan. Most recently, she was a participant in the Bauhaus Kolleg, a one-year interdisciplinary postgraduate program in urbanism at the historic Bauhaus building in Dessau, Germany. She is interested in the affect of economic development and public policy on the culture and quality of living within communities. As a student at the London Consortium, she would like to explore the ways in which educational interventions in the built environment could create value where it would otherwise not exist. Specifically, she would like to focus on suburbia and its distinct issues related to memory, locality and civics.
Robin Monotti Graziadei is a tutor in architectural design at London Metropolitan University and Greenwich University. He opened his architectural practice in 2005, and in 2007 he published the first translation of Malaparte’s book of short stories entitled “Woman Like Me”.
David Morgan (PhD 2000) undertook a thesis exploring the aesthetic and theoretical implications of the transition from pre-photographic to photographic visual media within the British popular press – as well as an attempt to initiate a full historical treatment of pre-photographic visual media within British popular literature (still a surprisingly neglected area). Since graduating from the Consortium, he has become involved in adult education. He is currently teaching art and architectural history for students of the Continuing Education Faculties at City University, in London, and for the University of Essex – as well as the equivalent faculties at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is also currently pursuing contacts with (various) publishers with a view to eventually publishing his thesis.
James Morgan (MRes 2005) has a BA in Fine Art (Painting) from the National Art Scool, Sydney, and a Postgraduate Certificate in Art Conservation from the University of Melbourne. Among his many interests are: the role of empathy in art; the aesthetisation of food; the comforting properties of melancholy; and tensions between ethics and aesthetics. His MRes dissertation will be on contemporary art and democracy.
Mark Morris (PhD 2004) teaches architectural design, history and theory. Winner of an AIA Medal for Excellence in the Study of Architecture, he trained at the Ohio State University and took his doctorate at the London Consortium supported by a Royal Institute of British Architects grant. He previously taught at the Bartlett, Architectural Association and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. As a Consortium Research Fellow, he helped organise a summer school program at Tate Modern examining aspects of urban imagery and infrastructure with Kathy Battista and John Tercier. Mark’s essays have featured in several art and architecture periodicals including Frieze, Contemporary, Cabinet, AD and Domus. He is author of Models: Architecture and the Miniature (Wiley, 2006), Automatic Architecture: Designs from the Fourth Dimension (Globally Boundless, 2006), and hosts the iTunes podcast series, ‘Architecture on Air’. His research focuses on architectural models, scale and questions of representation. Other research interests include edible architecture, narrative, music as heuristic device and cycloramas. He is Post-Graduate Coordinator of M.Arch. II, M.A. and Ph.D. Programs at Cornell University’s College of Architecture, Art and Planning.
Richard Mosse (MRes 2003) Born 1980, the Republic of Ireland. Richard Mosse is currently pursuing his MFA in photography at Yale School of Art (2008). He received a first class BA in English Literature from Kings College London (2001), an MRes in Cultural Studies and Humanities from the London Consortium (2003), and a Postgraduate Diploma in fine art from Goldsmiths (2005) with AHRB funding. Richard has shown work in the UK, USA, and Spain. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern and Phillips de Pury. It has been featured in Art Review, Lapiz, The Observer, and C International Photography Magazine. www.richardmosse.com
Maria Nicolacopoulou (MRes 2004) graduated from the Moraitis School, in Athens, and pursued further education in New York, where following two years of Fine Art studies with Honors, she decided to commit to a Philosophy and Art History degree at the City College of New York. This B.A in collaboration with three years of managing an Art Gallery, lead her to pursue a postgraduate degree in Humanities and Cultural Studies in order to expand her options and direct herself to career opportunities of a deeper cultural nature, which include teaching and cultural policy issues. Her research interests entail the cultural and philosophical consequences of religion’s presence in art, the use of art for humanitarian purposes and she is currently working as a freelance lecturer for Tate Modern, as well as exhibition journalist for Paris-based http://www.artsgate.net/. Her latest projects include authentication research for Sothebys Impressionist & Modern Art Department and curating an exhibition for Daylight Arts Foundation, Inc., who strive to use photography and the dissemination of imagery to empower people within communities and promote long-lasting change.
Aoife O’Brien (MRes 2002) graduated in June 2000 from Sheffield Hallam University with a BA in Fine Art, having shown work in England, France and the Netherlands. After working in PR in London and for the UN in Geneva she joined the Consortium in 2001. Currently, Aoife works as a Curator with Artwise and is a freelance critic for several publications.
Nina Papazoglou (MRes 2005) studied International Politics in Thessalonica (BA) and Brussels (MA). Nina is currently working on a funded PhD on curation at Goldsmiths College, University of London. She has worked for the audiovisual archive collection and the department of Performance and New Media at the ICA, London. Nina is currently collaborating with the Greek national TV channel ET3, for a series of short documentaries on subjects related to art, architecture and the notion of metropolis culture. General research interests include violence as aesthetic medium, artists and political expression, fashion and style in contemporary art.
Richard Parry (Mres 2005) wrote his dissertation on the 1951 Festival of Britain, exploring its significance as a cultural and architectural event and its impact on the formation of the South Bank.. He now works for the international touring exhibitions department of the British Council.
Nina Pearlman (PhD 2006) gained her MA from the Slade School of Fine Art before completing her PhD at the London Consortium. Her interdisciplinary doctoral research centres on art and the public sphere with particular focus on issues surrounding the administration of art and the regulation of its visibility as well as Kantian aesthetics. As curator she was part of the first curatorial team of imagine art after, an international multi-stage project with artists that involves commissioning of new work and exhibition at Tate Britain. With professional experience in the commercial gallery sector as well as in business development in the online publishing sector, she has worked as an independent consultant to artists and other cultural practitioners as well as research centres in the UK in areas such as audience development and marketing and has delivered courses based on this expertise. Pearlman has lectured on and taught a range of subjects at leading national and international institutions including University of Westminster, City University, the London Consortium and Oslo National Academy of the Arts. Recent publications include ‘Rethinking Public Art: A Kantian Critique’ in Public, 20th anniversary issue, 2008. She currently manages UCL Art Collections at University College London.
Barbara Penner (PhD 2003) is a Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. Her work consists of interdisciplinary investigations of the intersections between public space, architecture and private lives. She completed her PhD, “Alone at Last: Honeymooning in America, 1820-80,” at the Consortium in 2003. Her essays have been published in edited collections and scholarly journals, most recently in Architecture and Tourism: Perception, Performance and Place (2004) and Negotiating Domesticity (2005). With Jane Rendell and Iain Borden, she edited Gender, Space Architecture (2000).
Clare Pollard (MRes 2005) wrote a dissertation on ‘Anne Sexton, the Cold War, and the Idea of the Housewife.’ She has three collections of poetry published by Bloodaxe, and is writing her second play for The Royal Court, ‘The Zoo Keeper’s Wife.’ She edits Reactions magazine.
Charles Rice (MRes 1998) is Lecturer in the Architecture Program at the University of New South Wales, Sydney. He has also taught in Histories and Theories and General Studies at the Architectural Association. His PhD (UNSW, 2003) investigated the historical emergence of the bourgeois domestic interior, and the theoretical issues surrounding its inhabitation. His work also looks at the contemporary mediatisation of the interior and the city, and the fate of the concept of experience in the twentieth century. He is co-editor, with Barbara Penner, of Constructing the Interior, a special issue of The Journal of Architecture (2004), and his work on the interior appears in the anthologies Negotiating Domesticity: Spatial Productions of Gender in Modern Architecture (Routledge, 2005), Walter Benjamin and History (Continuum, 2005), and Walter Benjamin: Métropole et Modernité (Editions de l’Eclat, 2005). He has also published articles in Archis, Architectural Design, Architectural Theory Review and Critical Quarterly. A book entitled Inhabiting the Doubled Interior: Architecture and Bourgeois Domesticity is forthcoming from Routledge.
Jane Rowley (MRes 2006) came to The London Consortium from Denmark, where she has worked as a film and art video director, curator and translator. Her current research interest in is the use of lost/found images – family snaps and home movies - in contemporary art from a political, aesthetic, ethical and curatorial perspective. Her broader research interests include gender theory, memory and lens-based media, and she is currently co-curating the London found footage event ‘Little Bits of History Repeating’.
Aaron Schuman (MRes 2003) is an American photographer, editor, lecturer and critic, currently based in the United Kingdom. He received a B.F.A. in Photography and History of Art from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1999, and an MRes in Humanities and Cultural Studies from the University of London’s London Consortium in 2003. Having assisted various photographers - most notably, Annie Leibovitz and Wolfgang Tillmans - Aaron began to pursue his own freelance career in 2000. Since then, he has exhibited his photographic work internationally, and has been featured in publications such as Aperture, ArtReview, Modern Painters, HotShoe, Creative Review, The Face, DayFour, the RIBA Journal, The Guardian, The Observer and The Sunday Times. In 2002, he was one of six photographers to be shortlisted for The Times Young Photographer of the Year Award; and in 2004, he received a GSE grant from Rotary International to photograph in Karnataka, India. Aaron is on the director’s board of the UK-based photography organization, PhotoDebut (photodebut.org), and is a member of the international photography collective, Young Photographers United (ypu.org). He is also a Lecturer in Photography at both the Arts Institute at Bournemouth and the University of Brighton, and is the founder, director and editor of the online photography journal, SeeSaw Magazine (www.seesawmagazine.com).
Emilia Serra (MRes 2005) “The Acropolis of Athens could just be called the perfect example of one of the most ancient films.” S. Eisenstein. Her research investigates the connessions between architecture and visual art by analysing their use of ’sequence’ and ‘montage’ and, having widened the dominant visual perception to all the other senses involved, by exploring all the different feelings evocated in the space of memory during their perception. Her other main interest is community-based art.
Arturo Serrano (PhD 2008) is currently a researcher at the Universidad Católica Andrés Bello in Caracas, Venezuela. He also teaches Film History and a Seminar on the Cinema of Quentin Tarantino and another one on the cinema of Martin Scorsese. He directed a short film in 1999 called “A Lesson in Aesthetics”. He writes on cinema in many magazines and is now working on a book on Quentin Tarantino.
Henneke Sharif’s (MRes 2005) research concerned the relationship between politics, culture and society, focusing on the problem of the public realm, using the Royal Society of Arts as her case study.
Luke Skrebowski (MRes 2005) is pursuing research into the interaction of art, media and technology, 1966-71, with a focus on the theoretical work of Jack Burnham. He graduated from King’s College, Cambridge University, in 1999 and worked professionally in New Media as an Information Architect, 2001-2005
Luke Smith (MRes 2005) Digital Technology, Cultural Engagement and Emerging Institutions During nine years of working with telecommunications and the Internet I have become increasingly concerned with corporate visions for our present and future. My research will investigate engagement in a cultural context, particularly that facilitated by digital technology within emerging institutions, including: A rigorous examination of definitions and ethics of ‘cultural engagement’ and ‘cultural actor’, aiming to provide a firm rationale for the proceeding work; Case studies and other research investigating how institutions outside the traditional realms of ‘high culture’ (such as Artrocker, Reclaim the Streets, Urban Tapestries) are creating possibilities for cultural engagement; An examination of the nature of linked physical spaces and digital environments, in relation to cultural engagement; Proposals for patterns of cultural engagement suitable to be applied elsewhere, these patterns will include applications of digital technology. This is contingent on the hope and expectation that my research interests will develop during the MRes programme.
Andrew Spooner (MRes 1998) After graduating from the Consortium Andrew Spooner has featured regularly in The Independent, The Guardian, CNN Traveller, The Observer, The Guardian, Jack and GQ as well as being the co-author to Footprint’s Thailand guide, the Rough Guide to Copenhagen and establishing himself as a broadcaster with both BBC Radio 5 and BBC London Live. The main focus of Andrew’s journalistic endeavour has been travel, with the Arctic a speciality, although he has written on everything from the Midnight Sun Film Festival (set in Lapland, Finland) through to the internet’s largest and most dangerous online game, Lineage, the bizarre world of Kobe beef, Dogme95 and Shinjuku, Tokyo - the inspiration for Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and the setting for Lost in Translation. He’s attended the Arctic Winter Games in Nuuk, Greenland for The Observer Sports Monthly Magazine, getting into the final of the harpooning contest, learnt to freedive (diving with no airtank a la Luc Besson’s Big Blue) for The Independent on Sunday and can now hold his breath for over 4mins and reach depths of 80feet unassisted. Photography is also a rapidly developing area for Andrew and he has been published in the Independent, Guardian, Observer, Jack and Health &Fitness. In his spare time Andrew teaches journalist, media and advertising undergraduates at the University of East London. To view Andrew’s photographic and journalistic work please visit his website at www.andrewspooner.net.
Ivor Stodolsky (MRes 1998) is currently Researcher of Russian culture and social theory at the Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland and curator of the GG St. Petersburg, Russia. He is engaged in what he informally calls “field research in philosophy”. In the early 90s he read Philosophy and Mathematics at Bristol University, worked in film in Germany and taught literature in Russia. His MRes thesis at the London Consortium, supervised with a light hand by Paul Hirst, dealt with what he characterised as “the Age of Poshlost’ “. In London he doubled as a Naked Poet and President of Birkbeck College’s Student Union. Back on the continent, he co-founded the “Art Fabrik” in Vienna and then moved on as an editor of “Fusion-Fission”, Linz and Vienna. Leaving the arts for his daughters, he worked out of Prague as Associate Editor of the international op-ed powerhouse www.project-syndicate.org, gaining experience in high real-politik. Field research on a model case of the aesthetico-political dissimulation of “poshlost’ “, however, led ever deeper into the former Leningrad “nonconformist underground” milieu. Investigations into its transformations under post-Soviet gangster-capitalism and restoration are ongoing. He currently lives and works between Helsinki and St. Petersburg.
Eleanor Street (MRes 2006) graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2004 with a BA in the History of Art. Since then she studied at Charles Cecil art school in Florence. Eleanor was an intern at the ICA, on her return, assisting on the education and outreach programmes while also gaining pratical experience in the gallery space setting up exhibitions alongside the curators and artists. Eleanor’s research is driven by the need to discover the inter-relation of the arts to society. Her interests lie in the question of the split personality in art, music and literature around the turn of the twentieth century, in particular in conjunction with the rise of psychoanalysis. Eleanor also wishes to investigate the notion of narrative in contemporary art in connection with the decomposition of narrative in the macrocosm of societal change.
Nick Telford (MRes 2001) is a researcher and photographer. He has a BA and MSc from the University of Stirling and studied at the University of California, Santa Barbara on exchange. Among his many interests are cats and DIY. Currently, he is completing freelance research projects in the international marketing of cultural enterprises.
John Tercier (PhD 2003) B.Sc., M.D., F.R.C.P. (C) is a specialist in emergency medicine. He was founding editor of the Consortium journal, Room 5. His thesis and now recently published book The Contemporary Deathbed: The Ultimate Rush is a cultural history of resuscitative protocols. He is working at present on the interface between medicine and media. He is the Samuel Hahnemann Professor of the History of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco
Matthew Taunton’s (PhD 2008) research has covered a variety of topics in literary and cultural studies. His PhD thesis focussed on representations of London and Paris in fiction and on the screen, placing shifting patterns of housing at the heart of an account of the development of the modern metropolis. Subsequent research has been on media history, with a specific focus on the 19th century periodical press and the internet. He regularly contributes to the New Statesman and the Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. He has held teaching posts at UCL, Birkbeck and now Goldsmiths and Central St. Martin’s, teaching English Literature, urban studies and media history.
Fabrizio Trifirò (PhD 2003) is currently holding a post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute for International Integration Studies, Trinity College Dublin, with a research project on global civil society, global governance and transnational democracy. He obtained his PhD in Political Philosophy at the London Consortium, Birkbeck College, in January 2003, with a thesis supervised by the late Paul Hirst titled ‘Anti-foundationalism and Liberalism’. He obtained his MA in Human Rights and Humanitarian Intervention in Januray 2003 at the University of Bologna with a dissertation titled ‘Anti-foundationalism, Deliberative Democracy and Human Rights’. He graduated in Philosophy (first with honours) at the University of Bologna, with a thesis on the neo-pragmatism of Richard Rorty. In 2004 he has been research assistant for War on Want, a London based NGO working to fight against the root causes of global poverty and in defence of labour rights; and in 2003 research assistant for Terre des Hommes International, an European Network of NGOs working in the field of children rights, in its EU liasion office in Brussels. He is co-ordinator of save-democracy.net, an independent organization of European citizens aimed at raising awareness on the violations of the rights to freedom of expression and information by the current Italian governement, and on the issue of pluralism of the media in Europe in general.
Wojciech Trzcinski (MRes 2005) Research interest: - contemporary theatre in Europe; - playwrighting in Eastern and Western Europe after 1990; comparison studies; - aspect of drama as a medium reflecting social and cultural changes; - representation of the young generation of new¹ European citizens in the Eastern Europe playwrighting; - dealing¹ with the Communist past in Eastern European playwrighting after 1990;
Personal interest: - contemporary art, media: film studies, European cinema, philology.
Chris Turner (PhD 2000) read Anthropology, Archaeology and Art History at Cambridge University. He went on to complete his PhD - on the cultural history of disgust - at the London Consortium, where he subsequently helped teach a module. He is an editor of Cabinet magazine and is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books, the Sunday Telegraph and the Guardian. From 2003-2004 he was a visiting scholar at Columbia University and worked as a consultant on David Hare’s play, Stuff Happens. His Adventure in the Orgasmatron: How the secual revolution came to America is forthcoming from HarperCollins in the UK and Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the US.
Inga Untiks (MRes 2001) graduated from York University with a BA Hons in English Literature and the Humanities, and gained an MRes at the London Consortium (2001). Her current research focuses on the contemporary art developments in Baltic Europe in the 1990s with particular attention paid to the changing infrastructure. She has curated a number of small photography exhibitions in Europe and North America and continues to publish articles in major music magazines. Currently, she is developing a documentary film on open-air sculpture parks in the Nordic region and works at Tate Britain.
Kostis Velonis (MRes 2000) is an artist. He studied Visual Arts at the Paris VIII University, (Maitrise, D.E.A, 1997) and Cultural Studies (MRes) at the London Consortium (Birkbeck College, ICA, AA, 2000). He is now a phd candidate (architecture) at the N.T.U.A University of Athens.
Mathilde Villeneuve (MRes 2005) I would like to focus my research on the tendency of contemporary art to create a new intimate relationship with the spectator.
Ricarda Vidal (PhD submitted 2006) studied English and German literature and Medieval Studies in Regensburg, Munich, Norwich and Edinburgh before moving to Sevilla and later Barcelona. In 2002 she joined the Consortium where she is researching 20th century car culture and the obsession with speed. She works as a lecturer and translator and has organised several events at the ICA and Tate Modern, including several international conferences, artist talks and film screenings.
Bernard Vere (PhD 2006) is Lecturer in Fine Arts at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. His PhD was titled ‘Two Steps Forward … The Faltering Progress of the Avant-Garde in England, 1909-1939′. He also graduated with distinction from the Consortium MRes in 2001. Bernard has an MA from Nottingham University in Critical Theory and a BA from UEA in Literature and Philosophy. A chapter from his thesis appeared in Visual Culture in Britain in summer 2006. He has had review articles and reviews published in Textual Practice, New Formations and Contemporary magazine and edited Eyeing London, the third in the Consortium’s Room 5 series. Prior to working for Sotheby’s, Bernard taught for Birkbeck, London Metropolitan and Tate (with Ricarda Vidal).
Gary Walker (MRes 2003) received an honours degree in English literature and modern drama from the West London Institute, (now Brunel University) in 1988. Shortly after, he helped start up an independent record label called Wiiija Records in conjunction with the Rough Trade record shop. He ran Wiiija for over ten years, working with many alternative artists, including Le Tigre and the Anglo-Asian group Cornershop. His research examined the production of popular music as self taught artistic expression, and its social context. On completing his Mres, he spent a year as live music programmer at the ICA, and has since worked for both Rough Trade and Domino record labels.
Eyal Weizman (PhD 2006) is an architect. He is a professor of architecture at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna, and the director of Goldsmiths College’s Centre of Architectural Research. Throughout his studies at the AA in London (1993-1998), he worked with Zvi Hecker in Berlin and did projects in partnership with him. He set up his private practice with Rafi Segal in 1999. Their projects included the rebuilding of the Ashdod Museum of Art (opened in June 2003), a stage-set for Itim Theatre Company (premiered at the Lincoln Centre in July 2003), a runner up proposal for the Tel Aviv Museum competition and other projects. Together with the human-rights organization B’tselem, Eyal initiated a report on violations of human-rights and international humanitarian law through the use of architecture and planning titled Land Grab. The map produced alongside this report was the first of its kind to represent the nature of planning and the formal dimension of the Israeli Occupation, and is currently widely used by NGOs and international organizations. The exhibition and the publication A Civilian Occupation, The Politics of Israeli Architecture he co-edited/curated was based on this human-rights research. These projects were banned by the Israeli Association of Architects, but later shown at the Storefront Gallery for Art and Architecture in New York (February 2003), in Territories at the Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin (May 2003), and ever-updated versions of the ongoing project at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam (November 2003), at Berkeley University in San Francisco (March 2004), at the Konsthal in Malmoe (May 2004), and at the Betzalel gallery in Tel Aviv. Eyal taught architecture at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna (1998-1999), at the Technion School of Architecture and Planning in Haifa (1999-2000) and the Bartlett School of Architecture in London (2000-2002), before becoming a professor for habitat at the architecture department at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna. He lectured in many other schools of arts and architecture world wide. His research The Politics of Verticality is a basis for a documentary film and a book to be published in 2006. Already published are the books: Yellow Rhythms (010Publishers Rotterdam, 2000), three co-edited catalogues for the exhibition Territories (May 2003, November 2003, May 2004), A Civilian Occupation (Verso, London, 2003) and articles in magazines and books. Eyal is now a contributing editor for Domus magazine (Milano) and for Cabinet Magazine (New York).
Steve Wheeler (PhD 2007) graduated from Magdalen College, Oxford in 2000 with a First in English Language and Literature, and gained his MRes from the London Consortium in 2002. His thesis focuses on theories of cultural complexity and development in Oswald Spengler’s “Decline of the West”, and seeks to provide a contemporary re-appraisal of the work. Other research interests include mythography, counter-cultures and alternative paradigms of the body.
Vivian Yong (MRes 2005) Discourse of the Body in Advertising. (Summary) When human bodies are presented in advertising, the most popular image substitutes for bodily existence are more likely to be used. On the other hand, it’s massiveness and vividness also strengthens and consolidates the existing discourses. My research interest is on the representation of the body in advertising in several aspects, such as the ideal body form, sensory reactions towards taste and smell and control and management, etc.
