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Jason Bowman
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Enheten för konsthantverk och fri konstOm Jason Bowman
I am an artist with a curatorial practice, who teaches and conducts research. I have been active as an artist for 30 years and come from a working class background. I teach because I believe in education as a shared, societal force for critical thought and action. I make art because I want to critique and contribute to the world we make. I curate because it also brings me - through proximity to the thoughts and works of others, including artists - a further arena in which we consider how we may organize the potentia and discontents of art within the public sphere. I research because I need systematic processes to understand the possibilities of art; and respond to, critique and contribute to my areas of concern.
I am especially engaged in questions relating to: artist-organisation, collective and collaborative practices; performance, performativity and the choreological; curatorship, art institutions and non-institutional practices; site and context-oriented art; and social practices, participation and the production and coercion of publics, and of counter-publics.
I have produced performances, installations, films, video works, text works, photographs, drawings and sculptures. Solo iterations of commissioned projects have taken place with: the ICA (London); Situations (Bristol); Franklin Furnace (New York); Raven Row (London); BALTIC Contemporary Art (Gateshead/Newcastle); Tramway (Glasgow); de Beweeging (Antwerp); the Whitworth Art (Manchester) and the Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow). Curatorial work has included the first major survey in Europe of the works and practices of Yvonne Rainer and the official presentation of contemporary art from Scotland at the Venice Biennale (co-curated with Rachel Bradley). Work as a film producer led to a BAFTA nomination.
With a background in performance and expanded notions of choreography, my most recent practice-based research departs from the interface between Queer Theory and Institutional Critique and towards a consideration of 'organisation' as a means to identify and consider the implications of curatorial methods, especially when applied by artists.
I have received mutiple grants and research grants including from the Swedish Research Council. In 2015, as a Principle Investigator, I began my current research project, entitled 'Stretched: Expanded Notions of Artistic Practice via Artist-led Cultures', via a research grant from the Swedish Research Council. In 2018, I was selected and trained as a future research leader by the University of Gothenburg. I have conducted peer reviews for journals such as PARSE Journal, The Journal of Visual Culture in Britain and The Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Recent pre-publication manuscript reviews for imprints include The Manchester University Press and Palgrave Macmillan.
Previous research secondments include with the EU-funded project, NEARCH interrogating relations between contemporary art and archaeology. I was a co-researcher during - and sole-editor of the culminating publication - of the Swedish Research Council funded project, 'Esther Shalev-Gerz: Trust and the Unfolding of Dialogue'. This included commissioning and editing texts by: Georges Didi-Huberman, Andrea Phillips, Jacques Ranciere, Jacqueline Rose and James E. Young. I am currently developing:
1. 'Everything is Beautiful in its Own Way': a research proposal with Professor Andrea Phillips (Northumbria University) interrogating social aesthetics and facilitative processes and techniques within community arts in the UK;
2. 'Human Resources: Curating People*: a research project interrogating modalities of curating in the human-centred dynamics of socially engaged artistic practices.
As a visual art consultant I have written strategies and policies for organisations such as: Arts Council England (Head Office); Optima Housing Association; Arts Council (West Midlands) and Creative Scotland, the latter to which I was an advisor for over 5 years. Other consultancy clients have included: National Galleries, British Council, Tate Britain, SPACE Studios, Castlemilk Environment Trust, a-n: The Artists Information Company; the Banff Centre for the Arts and the Olympic Legacy Company. For artevents, I was responsible for writing the intellectual framework for the Exhibition Road Festival for London's Cultural Olympiad: a partnership between the Natural History Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Serpentine Galleries.
I am an elected fellow of the Royal Society of the Arts (UK); a member of the steering group of PARADOX: The European Forum for Fine Art Education and of an international research group interrogating issues relating to the collecting of performance works by museums. In 2019 I was appointed as an external examiner for the BA strand of Visual Cultures at Edinburgh College of Art, for the MA in Contemporary Art Theory and as a PhD supervisor at the same institution. In 2021 I became an external examiner for the MFA in Visual Arts Study Programme at The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Warsaw, Poland.
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"Proposal for a Beginning: Who curates socially-engaged practice; what, or who is being curated, who does what curating, and why do we not
know?"
Jason E. Bowman
Glasgow, Scotland. Annex Gallery The Glasgow School of Art, "Proposal(s) for a Beginning " 9 October – 3 November 2023 - 2023 -
The Unknown Student - An Occasional
Paper
Jason E. Bowman
Fountains Futures Failures Symposium - 2023 -
Stretched: An Overview of Artistic
Research
Jason E. Bowman
Gravity Guest Lecture Series: Sheffield Hallam University, UK - 2023 -
Jason E. Bowman
Old Work
Revisited
Jason E. Bowman
Tuesday, April 12, 2022 - Friday, April 22, 202218:00 LOKALE, København Griffenfeldsgade 27København, 2200 Denmark - 2022 -
Triptych
Jason E. Bowman, Sarah Tuck, Louise Wolthers
Drone Vision: Warfare Surveillance Protest - 2022 -
Panel Discussion; ON THE REASONS OF
SCHOOLING
Jason E. Bowman
Panel Discussion - 2019 -
Three exhibitionary iterations on artist-organisation via
curating.
Jason E. Bowman
Valand Academy Research Day 2019 - 2019 -
Queer Times
School
Jason E. Bowman
BXNU SYMPOSIUM: IN NEED OF EDUCATION - 2018 -
queer timɘs school
prints
Jason E. Bowman
Commissioned by the Gallery of Modern Art and Acquired for the Collection of Glasgow Museums. - 2018 -
Setting the
Table
Jason E. Bowman
BALTIC 39: PROJECT SPACE OF BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art. Newcastle/Gateshead. UK. - 2018 -
Queer Times School Prints Panel
Discussion
Jason E. Bowman
Gallery of Modern Art (Glasgow): Panel Discussion - 2018 -
Queer Times School: A Case Study on Socially Engaged Practice and Curatorial
Coursing.
Jason E. Bowman
In Need Of Education - 2018 -
In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of
Mistakes
Jason E. Bowman
Raven Row gallery, 2017. - 2017 -
There's a Reason: A Case for the Theatre of
Mistakes
Jason E. Bowman
Exhibition Catalogue Publication: GOING/IN CASE THERE'S A REASON - 2017 -
Accidentally on Purpose: Curating Aleatoric
Certainties
Jason E. Bowman
Goldmsmiths College Choreographic Seminar Series - 2017 -
Curating Artist-Organisation: The potential of inter- and intra-organisational practices as
exhibition-making.
Jason E. Bowman
Artistic Research Week Conference, Oslo National Academy of the Arts. 24-27 January 2017 - 2017 -
What is at Stake in Community Practice? What Have We
Learned?
Jason E. Bowman
Stages: Journal of the Liverpool Biennial - 2016 -
Coming of Age: Deveron Arts at
21
Jason E. Bowman
2016 -
Being Art
School
Jason E. Bowman
Published in New Art West Midlands Exhibition 2017 (Catalogue) - 2016 -
Untitled (Chalk
Board)
Jason E. Bowman
Meaning Making Meaning Exhibition A-Venue, Gothenburg - 2016 -
Untitled (on a day
unknown…)
Jason E. Bowman
Watched! Art, Photography and Surveillance in Europe after 9/11, Hasselblad Center, Gothenburg (SE) then touring to Kunsthall Aarhus (DK), and published in an exhibition catalogue. - 2016 -
“Towards a Purposeful Accident: Elements of Performance Art via The Ting: The Theatre of
Mistakes”
Jason E. Bowman, Anthony Howell
PARSE Journal # 4 Times (online and in print) - 2016 -
Correspondence between Jason E. Bowman and Kirsteen
Macdonald
Jason E. Bowman, Kirsteen Macdonald
Living Out Ideas, self-published by Curatorial Studio, Glasgow - 2016 -
Curating as Care
Making?
Jason E. Bowman
Deep in the Heart of Your Brain Symposium, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow (UK). November 4 2016 - 2016 -
On a
Par?
Jason E. Bowman
ON A PAR? A colloquy on enquiry, working together, and curating. - 2016 -
Stretched: Exhibition Making and
Artist-Organisation
Jason E. Bowman
Middlesex University Guest Lecture Series - 2016 -
Midwest: An Imagined Settlement for the
Artist-led
Jason E. Bowman
Artist-Run Europe Practice/Projects/Spaces - 2016 -
Selector: New Art West
Midlands
Jason E. Bowman
New Art West Midlands - 2016 -
Getting Engaged: betrothal, betrayal and equal
marriage
Jason E. Bowman
Public Programming? Pedagogical Practices in a Missing Europe 30 June 2016 :A Study Day at Middlesex University - 2016 -
Jason E. Bowman, Untitled (On a day unknown),
2009-10
Jason E. Bowman
Watched! : surveillence, art and photography. Eds: Louise Wolthers, Dragana Vujanovic, Niclas Östlind - 2016 -
The
Quarterly
Jason E. Bowman
The Quarterly - 2016 -
Responses to How Institutions
Think
Jason E. Bowman
How Institutions Think Symposium. Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France February 24 – 27 - 2016 -
Expert
Panelist
Jason E. Bowman
Visible Award Parliament - 2015 -
Exhibition/Non-exhibition: Stretched Out. A
Seminar.
Jason E. Bowman, Julie Crawshaw, Mick Wilson
Saturday 27 June 2015 Venue: Inaugural Research Pavilion: Experimentality Venice Bienniale Collateral Programme Sala del Camino - 2015 -
‘We’re here, we’re queer, and Not Going Shopping!’ Anthony Luvera in conversation with Jason E.
Bowman
Jason E. Bowman
Anthony Luvera: not going shopping. - 2015 -
Stretched: An
Overview
Jason E. Bowman
Valand Academy Research Day 2015 - 2015 -
PARSE Journal Issue #2 The Value of Contemporary
Art
Jason E. Bowman
http://www.parsejournal.com/issue/2/ - 2015 -
De-Imagining Critical
Communities
Jason E. Bowman
Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives Conference, Liverpool, 1st of nov - 2015 -
Elements of Performance
Art
Jason E. Bowman
PARSE Conference, Universitty of Gothenburg, 3-6 November - 2015 -
Scavenging
Surveillance
Jason E. Bowman
WATCHED! Symposium 7-8 oktober. Surveillance Art & Photography in Europe post 9/11' - 2015 -
Scavenging in the Archive to Out the
Obscure.
Jason E. Bowman
Archives, Art and Activism: Exploring Critical Heritage Approaches to Global Societal Challenges, symposium 3-5 September 2015, at University College London. - 2015 -
Symposium: Trust and
Dialogue
Jason E. Bowman
Valand Academy, 3rd and 4th of June, 2015 - 2015 -
With Care and Contempt Our Palms are Crossed by Each
Other
Jason E. Bowman
Martha Ossowska Persson, Ida Persson, Idun Baltzersen: Fredrik Roos Stipendium 2015 - 2015 -
Self-Organisation in
Art
Jason E. Bowman
Symposium om självorganisering inom konst, Art Lab Gnesta, June 2015 - 2015 -
Valuing the Artist-Led: Do We Still Want to Lead, Run, Centralise and
Initiate?
Jason E. Bowman
FOOTFALL SYMPOSIUM: FRIDAY 21ST NOV. 2014, Galway. Ireland - 2015 -
Trust and Dialogue in the Participatory Practice of Esther
Shalev-Gerz
Jason E. Bowman
The 13TH ELIA Biennial Conference: LOCATION AESTHETICS, Glasgow, November 2014 - 2014 -
Justice
Jason E. Bowman
People’s History Museum, Manchester, UK - 2014 -
On
Trust
Jason E. Bowman
Artistic Research Seminar Programme, Goldsmith's College, London, UK - 2014 -
Arton
24
Jason E. Bowman
Arton 24 - 2014 -
Brushed over and buried
alive
Jason E. Bowman
Tomas Lundgren - 2014 -
Kirstine Lund Works
2013-2014
Jason E. Bowman
2014 -
Trust and Dialogue: Interdependencies in the Work of Esther
Shalev-Gerz'
Jason E. Bowman
Conference: 'Participatory Art - Exchange, Grays School of Art, Aberdeen, UK, June 9 2014 - 2014 -
Speaking
Mandy
Jason E. Bowman
European Artistic Research Network Conference: Thinking on Stage, May 2 2014, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, EIRE - 2014 -
Radical Imagination? Provocations and
Dialogues
Jason E. Bowman
Radical Imagination? Provocations and Dialogues, Valand Academy, Nov 14 - 16, 2013 - 2013 -
Conference: Radical Imagination? Provocations and
Dialogues
Jason E. Bowman
Radical Imagination? Provocations and Dialogues, Valand Academy, Nov 14 - 16, 2013 - 2013 -
Notes on a
Return
Jason E. Bowman
Performing Documents Conference, Bristol Univeresity: Friday - Sunday, 12-14 April, 2013 - 2013 -
The Unknown Student: Emergent Artists and the Art
School
Jason E. Bowman
Transition Conference, Barber Institute of Fine Art, The Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, March 2013 - 2013 -
Esther Shalev-Gerz: The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding
Dialogue
Jason E. Bowman
2013 -
Notes on Johnston
Falls
Jason E. Bowman
Stride Gallery Catalogue 2011-2012 - 2012 -
Curricular
Jason E. Bowman
Rotor 1, Valand Academy - 2012 -
A Rally of
Speeches
Jason E. Bowman
Adhocracy, 6 and 7 August, 2011, London, UK - 2011 -
Notes on Johnson
Falls
Jason E. Bowman
Exhibition by the artist, Shelley Ouellette - 2011 -
England
Revisited
Jason E. Bowman
Nationally in the UK and WWW 2010-2011 - 2011 -
An Intellectual Framework for The Exhibition Road Olympics
Festival
Jason E. Bowman
2011 -
Fissure
Jason E. Bowman
Yorkshire Dales, UK, 20 – 22 May 2011 - 2011 -
Queer Prespectives on Brian Organ's Portrait of Diana, Princess of
Wales
Jason E. Bowman
Talk Presented at National Portrait Gallery, London, UK - 2011 -
Patience (After
Sebald)
Jason E. Bowman
Patience (After Sebald) by Grant Gee premiered at Aldeburgh Music, Snape, UK - 2011 -
An Assembly of
Opinions
Jason E. Bowman
http://www.adhocracy.info - 2011 -
Strength in
Numbers
Jason E. Bowman
http://www.thetriangleconference.org/conference-videos#Session%203 - 2011 -
Towards Re-Enchantment: Place and Its
Meanings
Jason E. Bowman
2011