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Biography
Dr Maria Fusco is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design. She is a Belfast born interdisciplinary writer working across art writing, fiction, performance and theory. Previously she was Professor at Northumbria University, Reader at University of Edinburgh and Director of Art Writing at Goldsmiths, University of London: currently a visiting Professor at Hochschule fur Gestaltung (Frankfurt) and Senior Research Fellow at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam through 2018.
Research
Her practice-led research is award winning, has been translated into twelve languages and is commissioned by leading international bodies and publishers including: Artangel, Art Metropole (Toronto), BBC Radio 4, Book Works, Creative Time (NY), National Theatre Wales, Routledge and funded by bodies such as the AHRC, Arts Council England, Art Fund, The Carnegie Trust, Creative Scotland and The Wellcome Trust.
Her most recent work is Mollspeak (2021), an eleven-channel permanent sound installation commissioned by Museum of the Home, London. The work is a collaboration with French composer, Olivier Pasquet and is voiced by renowned actor, Maxine Peake.
Her latest books are Legend of the Necessary Dreamer (2017) described by Chris Kraus as “a new classic of female philosophical fiction”, Give Up Art: Collected Critical Writings (2018) of which James Elkins had written "after a book like this, most nonfiction seemscuriously unaware of what writing can be.”
She is Editorial Director of The Happy Hypocrite, an annual journal for experimental writing, has been invited Writer-in-Residence at Kadist Art Foundation (Paris), Lisbon Architecture Trienale and Whitechapel Gallery (London) and is an Hawthornden Fellow and a recipient of the Scottish Book Trust’s Robert Louis Stevenson Fellowship.
She is currently working on new opera about the Belfast peacelines with the Royal Opera House, London.
Research interests
Current research is in three interrelated strands: dialect and ‘non-standard English’ in international critical art writing; fiction as a critical tool in contemporary art, performative writing methodologies.
Teaching
Maria is interested in hearing from potential PhD candidates working in related research areas, such as: art writing; artists' novels; creative & critical hybrids; experimental & interdisciplinary writing; publishing as practice; writing for performance.
External positions
External PhD supervisor, University of Glasgow
1 Oct 2021 → …
Visiting Professor
1 Jan 2018 → …
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Archetypes have no place here
Fusco, M., 3 May 2021, The Art of Being Dangerous: Exploring Women and Danger through Creative Expression. Shaw, J. & Fletcher-Watson, B. (eds.). 1 ed. Leuven University PressResearch output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review
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La repetición de la repetición da lugar a lo específico: después de With A Bao A Qu Reading
Fusco, M., Apr 2021, En Una Orilla Brumosa: Cinco rutas para repensar los futuros de las artes visuales y la literatura. Bicecci, V. G. (ed.). Queretaro, Mexico: Gris Tormenta, p. 153-163 11 p. (Disertaciones).Translated title of the contribution :The Repetition of Repetition Brings about the Specific Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Mollspeak: Permanent installation work, Museum of the Home, London
Fusco, M., Jun 2021Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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A Belly of Irreversibles
Fusco, M., 2020, un un un un un un. Edwards, S. (ed.). Liverpool, UK: The Bluecoat, p. 3-14Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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ECZEMA! A Critical and Clinical Perspective
Fusco, M., 2020, Critique: The Stakes of Form. Khatib, S., Kuhn, H., Lochner, O., Mehl, I. & Söntgen, B. (eds.). Zurich, Switzerland: Diaphanes, p. 225-238 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
Prizes
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AHRC Medical Humanities Award
Fusco, Maria (Recipient), 10 Jan 2020
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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The International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
Fusco, Maria (Recipient), 2017
Prize: Election to learned society
Activities
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Discovery Days 2021
Sue Dawson (Presenter), Karen Petrie (Presenter), Anthony Head (Presenter), Ian Robson (Presenter), Iris Grunwald (Presenter), Emily Jefferson (Presenter), Fiona Kumari Campbell (Presenter), Jonathan Knappett (Presenter), Maria Fusco (Presenter), Tania Kovats (Presenter), Graham Pullin (Presenter), Sandra Wilson (Presenter), Mohammad Islam (Presenter), Lauren Christie (Presenter), Michael Gratzke (Presenter), Ulrich Zachariae (Presenter), Mark Cutler (Presenter), Leanne Wallace (Organiser), John Rowan (Chair), Blair Grubb (Chair), Wendy Alexander (Chair), Julian Blow (Chair), Iain Gillespie (Chair) & Jonathan Urch (Organiser)
13 Jan 2021 → 15 Jan 2021Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - public lecture/debate/seminar
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Mollspeak: Resonance FM Broadcast
Maria Fusco (Organiser)
12 Sep 2021 → 25 Dec 2021Activity: Other activity types › Public engagement and outreach - media article or participation
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Research Writing Studio
Maria Fusco (Speaker)
16 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Keynote
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Practice Research Assembly - Scottish Graduate School of Arts & Humanities
Maria Fusco (Participant)
4 Nov 2020 → 4 Nov 2021Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Other event
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To See and Know More
Maria Fusco (Speaker)
31 Jan 2020Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk
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The second exhibition of the La Caixa Collection opens at the Whitechapel Gallery/ Inaugurada la segunda exposición de la Colección La Caixa en la Whitechapel Gallery
15/05/19
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La escritora Maria Fusco da voz a obras de la colección "La Caixa" en Londres/ The writer Maria Fusco gives voice to works from the "La Caixa" collection in London
14/05/19
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La escritora Maria Fusco da voz a obras de la colección "La Caixa" en Londres/ The writer Maria Fusco gives voice to works from the "La Caixa" collection in London
14/05/19
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Whitechapel Gallery opens "la Caixa" Collection of Contemporary Art selected by Maria Fusco
9/03/19
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