Claire Bishop

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Claire Bishop (1971, London) is an art historian, critic and author. She is professor of art history at the Graduate Center of the City University New York. In addition to numerous articles in art journals, her publications include Installation Art: A Critical History (Tate/Routledge, 2005), Participation (Whitechapel/MIT Press, 2006), Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship (Verso, 2012), and Tania Bruguera in Conversation (Cisneros, 2020).

She is interested in (and teaches courses on) a wide range of things that fall under the rubric of art and politics. She has also taught exhibition history; museums of contemporary art; performance and dance; histories of art education; methods of art history; attention and technology.

Claire Bishop studied at University of Cambridge (BA 1994) and University of Essex (MA 1996, PhD 2002). In the UK she worked at the Royal College of Art (2001–2006) and Warwick University (2006–2008) before moving to CUNY Graduate Center in 2008. (2022)

Publications[edit]

Books[edit]

  • Installation Art: A Critical History, London: Tate, and Routledge, 2005, 144 pp. Excerpt. [1]
    • Zhuang zhi yi shu: Yi bu pi ping shi [装置艺术: 一部批评史], Hangzhou: Zhong guo mei shu xue yuan chu ban she, 2021, 152 pp. (Chinese)
  • editor, Participation, London: Whitechapel, and MIT Press, 2006, 207 pp.
  • editor, with Silvia Tramontana, Double Agent, London: Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2008, 138 pp. Catalogue. [2]
  • Artificial Hells: Participatory Art and the Politics of Spectatorship, London: Verso, 2012, 390 pp.
    • Umetni pekli: participatorna umetnost in politika gledalstva, trans. Aleksandra Rekar, afterw. Bojana Piškur, Ljubljana: Maska, 2012, 359 pp. [3] (Slovenian)
    • "Partycypacja i spektakl", trans. Piotr Juskowiak, Kultura Współczesna 2, 2013, pp 26-36. Trans. of Conclusion. (Polish)
    • "Teatralizując życie", trans. Jacek Staniszewski, Dialog 59:11, 2014, pp 18-36. Trans. of excerpt. (Polish)
    • Sztuczne piekła: sztuka partycypacyjna i polityka widowni, trans. Jacek Staniszewski, Warsaw: Fundacja Bęc Zmiana, 2015, 497 pp. [4] (Polish)
    • Inferni artificiali: la politica della spettatorialità nell'arte partecipativa, trans. Cecilia Guida, Rome: Sossella, 2015, 308 pp. Review: Paolucci (Agalma). (Italian)
    • Ren zao di yu: Can yu shi yi shu yu guan kan zhe zheng zhi xue [人造地狱: 参与式艺术与观看者政治学], trans. Hongtao Lin, Taipei: Dian zang yi shu jia ting gu fen you xian gong si, 2015, PDF. (Chinese)
    • Infiernos artificiales: arte participativo y políticas de la espectaduría, trans. Israel Galina Vaca, Ciudad de México: Taller de Ediciones Económicas, 2016, 461 pp. Excerpt. [5] (Spanish)
    • Jinkō jigoku: gendai āto to kankyaku no seijigaku [人工地獄: 現代アートと観客の政治学], trans. Toshikatsu Ōmori, Tokyo: Firumuātosha, 2016, 535 pp. (Japanese)
    • Iskusstvennyy ad. Partitsipatornoye iskusstvo i politika zritelstva [Искусственный ад. Партиципаторное искусство и политика зрительства], Moscow: V-A-C press, 2018, 528 pp. [6] (Russian)
    • Yapay cehennemler: katılımcı sanat ve izleyici politikası, trans. Mine Haydaroğlu, Istanbul: Koç Üniversitesi, 2018, 394 pp. [7] (Turkish)
  • Radical Museology, or, What's Contemporary in Museums of Contemporary Art?, London: Koenig Books, 2013, 79 pp; 2nd ed., rev., 2014, 79 pp. [8]
    • Radikalnaya muzeologiya, ili Tak li uzh “sovremenny“ muzei sovremennogo iskusstva? [Радикальная музеология, или Так ли уж “современны“ музеи современного искусства?], trans. Olga Dubitskaya (льга Дубицкая), Moscow: Ad Marginem, 2014, 96 pp. Review: Pluzhnik (Sotsiologiya vlasti). (Russian)
    • Muzeologia radicală sau: ce anume e "contemporan" în muzeele de artă contemporană, trans. Raluca Voinea, Cluj: Idea Design & Print, 2015, 87 pp. (Romanian)
    • 래디컬 뮤지엄 : 동시대 미술관에서 무엇이 '동시대적'인가, trans. 구정연 외, Seoul: 현실문화, 2016. (Korean)
    • Museologia radicale, ovvero, Cos'è "contemporaneo" nei musei di arte contemporanea?, trans. Nicoletta Poo, Milan: Johan & Levi, 2017, 86 pp. (Italian)
    • Museología radical: o, ¿qué es "contemporáneo" en los museos de arte contemporáneo?, trans. Araceli Alemán, Buenos Aires: Libretto, 2018, 126 pp. (Spanish)
    • Radikális muzeológia, avagy mi a "kortárs" a kortárs művészeti múzeumokban?, trans. Sárai Vanda, Budapest: Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, 2018, 80 pp. Publisher. (Hungarian)
    • 激進美術館學: 當代美術館的當代性, trans. Wang Shengzhi (王聖智), 一行出版, 2019, 76 pp. (Chinese)
    • Radikaru myuzeorojī: tsumari, gendai bijutsukan no "gendai" tte nani? [ラディカル・ミュゼオロジー: つまり、現代美術館の「現代」ってなに?], trans. Daisuke Murata, Chōfu: Getsuyōsha, 2020, 129 pp. (Japanese)
    • Vers un musée radical: réflexions pour une nouvelle muséologie, pref. Daniel Jacobi, trans. Michaël Bourgatte, Paris: MKF, 2021, 91 pp. Review: Gryspeerdt (Q de communication). (French)
  • Tania Bruguera in Conversation with / en Conversacion con Claire Bishop, eds. Donna Wingate and Ileen Kohn, New York/Caracas: Cisneros, 2020, 296 pp. Chapter 2. [9] [10] (English)/(Spanish)
  • Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today, London: Verso, Jun 2024, 272 pp. Four essays about changing patterns of attention in contemporary art and performance since the early 1990s, incl. "Research-Based Art: Information Overload," "Performance Exhibitions: Black Box, White Cube, Gray Zone," "Interventions: Seizing The Moment," and "Appropriation as Invocation: Contemporary Art Quotes Modernist Architecture." Publisher.
  • Merce Cunningham's Events: Key Concepts, Koenig Books, forthcoming.

Essays[edit]

  • "Installation Art and Its Legacy" / "El arte de la instalación i su legado", in Instalaciones y nuevos medios en la colección del IVAM, Valencia: IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, 2006, pp 268-271 & 81-89. (English)/(Spanish)
    • "Installation Art and Its Legacy" / "Umetniška instalacija in njena zapuščina", trans. Tanja Passoni, Maska 23(111-112): "Nomenklatura prostora", Ljubljana, Winter 2008, pp 46-53. (English)/(Slovenian)
  • "Zones of Indistinguishability: the Collective Actions Group and Participatory Art", in Empty Zones: Andrei Monastyrski and Collective Actions / Пустые зоны. Андрей Монастырский и Коллективные действия, ed. Boris Groys, London: Black Dog Publishing, 2011. (English)/(Russian)
  • "History Depletes Itself", Artforum, Sep 2015, pp 324-330, n408. A critical review of Danh Vo's exhibitions mothertongue and Slip of the Tongue at the 2015 Venice Biennale. [17]

Interviews, conversations[edit]

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