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Vanessa Bartlett
Vanessa Bartlett is an artist, writer and curator, currently based in Liverpool. She is interested in live performance, video and gender and writes about the relationship between communication technologies and psychologically transgressive behavior on her blog Group Therapy.
Currently Vanessa is acting as Interim Performance Programmer at the the Bluecoat. Previously she has worked as a producer/curator for international artists including Brian Catling, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, Andre Guedes and Kira O’Reilly. She was also Research Assistant at FutureEverything, Manchester and for Hannah Hurtzig's Mobile Academy, Berlin.
Vanessa has curated a number of independent exhibitions, including Slowness at Red Wire Gallery, which was highlighted by Times critic Rachel Campbell-Johnston as one of her top five exhibitions in November 2008. She was also part of the Berlin Biennale Curatorial Development Trip organised in an independent capacity by Clarissa Corfe, Programme Manager at Castlefield Gallery.
Reviews
Parfums Pourpres du Soleil des Poles [26 February 2011]
If every human brain functioned perfectly, there would be no psychosis. Nor would there be genius, or other more gentle forms of psychological variation. Synesthesia; the automatic process of linking one sense to another is often considered to Read on…
South London Gallery, London
27 January 2011
Live Weekends: Last of the Red Wine [26 February 2011]
There is a character in Last of the Red Wine, who embodies many of the popular clichés that you might associate with ‘Performance Art.’ Whisper (played by artist Hayley Newman) is constantly involved in the execution of Read on…
ICA, London
9 - 13 February 2011
Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth Staged [25 August 2010]
The title of Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth’s new Edinburgh Festival commission might suggest a work that is rather spectacular. ‘Staged’ is a term often used to allude to all that is amplified, visually seductive and riddled with Read on…
The City Observatory, Edinburgh
30 July - 15 August 2010
Marina Abramovic Presents [31 July 2010]
Performance Art has always appealed to my sense of austerity. While gallery goers pursue white cube spaces at their own pace and are permitted to feel disinterested and walk away when work is not to their taste, performance traditionally demands Read on…
The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
3 - 9 July 2009
Flooded McDonald's [31 July 2010]
My first encounter with Superflex was during a period of research for an undergraduate essay titled Can Art Change the World? This was my first experience of socially engaged art practice and as such, it planted the seeds of an ongoing fascination Read on…
South London Gallery, London
16 January - 9 May 2009
A Ritual for Elephant and Castle [31 July 2010]
I made a special trip to London for this because projects that put visual artists on stage always fascinate me. (See also II Tempo del Postino as part of Manchester International Festival for an even more esoteric helping of artists in the Read on…
Cornet Theatre, Elephant and Castle, London
5 June 2009
One On One Festival [31 July 2010]
We live in an age of increasing social isolation. Communication technologies and globalisation are causing us to live and work in a way that is more mobile, yet more solitary. The gradual decline of organised religion has yielded an absence of Read on…
BAC, London
6 - 18 July 2010
Sarah Harbridge, 'One Minute on Each of the Four Days before Her Death' as part of Apocalypse Now [3 August 2009]
When Josh Tennant (Red Wire's informal director) sent me an excited email a couple of weeks ago to ask if he could borrow four of my flat screen monitors for Apocalypse Now, I was happy to oblige, particularly as he was insistent that the work Read on…
Red Wire, Liverpool
24 July - 8 August 2009
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