Aaron Williamson C.V.

Aaron Williamson
aaronelsordo@gmail.com www.aaronwilliamson.org

Born 1960 in Derby, England. EDUCATION:

Brighton Polytechnic: BA (Hons) First Class, Combined Studies (1990) University of Sussex: MA 20th Century Literature (1992) University of Sussex: D.Phil. (1997)

AWARDS/ RESIDENCIES:
2012: Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool - Artist in Residence. (DaDaFest/Liverpool Biennale) 2010: Adam Reynolds Bursary at Spike Island, Bristol. 2009: Guest Artist, Interchange of Artistic Processes, National University, Buenos Aires, Argentina; funded by the British Council. 2008 09: Cocheme Fellowship at Byam Shaw School of Art, University of London. 2008: New Media Artist of the Year, award by FACT, Liverpool and DaDa Festival. 2004 07: Three-Year AHRC Fellow in the Creative and Performing Arts at Birmingham City University. 2003: Artist Links Residency, British Council China, (Beijing and Shanghai) 2003: Civitella Ranieri, Artists Fellowship in Residence, Umbertide, Italy. 2002 03: Wheatley Fellowship in Sculpture at the University of Central England, Birmingham. 2002 03: Innovate Bursary, Arts Council London. 2001 02: The Helen Chadwick Fellowship at the British School at Rome (Arts Council England/ Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art).
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1999 2000: One to One Individual Artists Bursaries from the Live Art Development Agency and London Arts Board. 1998 99: Arts Council of England Fellow in Contemporary Art and Writing at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University. 1994 96: Research Fellow in Performance Writing, Dartington College of Arts.

EXHIBITIONS (Solo):
2012: Eavesdropper: The Cyclodusa Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool. Three-day living sculpture in the Victorian Room. 2012: Barrierman video, Niet Normaal, Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool. 2010: The Bell Clapper and Bestiary Six weeks Exhibition/Retrospective of video works, Spike Islands Gallery, Bristol. 2010: The Forgotten History of the Affligare sculptural installation, Spike Island 2009: King Midas video installation Royal Festival Hall, Southbank Centre. 2008: Performance Slapsticks video sequence, Shape Gallery, London. 2007: Fly video installation, Bewaerschole Gallery, Burgh Haamstede, Holland, 2007: Friedrich From the Front, Foaming curated by International Exhibitionist and screened for Grim at Montevideo, Marseilles, France, 2005: Wild Boy The Showroom Gallery, London. Six weeks durational performance, installation and video projection. 2004: China Postcards British Council at China, Beijing 2003 05: Lives of the Saints - Video Projection - Tate Modern, London, April 2003; Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, June 2004; Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Australia, 2005. Edition purchased by the Arts Council England Collection, 2004. 2003 06: Translation/Translatio - Video Projection - Caf Gallery, London, May 2003; Responding to Rome, Estorick Collection, London, 2006. Edition purchased by the Arts Council England Collection, 2004.
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2003: Acute video loop produced at Civitella Raniera Centre, Umbria, Italy. Edition purchased by the Arts Council England Collection, 2004. 2001: Five Smokin Televisions Video Installation, Ferens Gallery, Hull. 2000: Obscure Display video Installation, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. 2000: Sonictraps Sculptures/ Installation/ texts, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham

PERFORMANCES (Solo)
2013: Three Invasions public performance commissioned by Venice Agendas for the Venice Biennale. 2013: Flannel Central St Martins, University of London 2013: Splat! - LUPA Colony, London Art Fair. 2012: Scratching, Royal Academy Drawing Room, London. 2012: Zombie Furniture, Experimentica, Chapter Arts, Cardiff 2012: Garnering Oyster House, Whitstable Biennale 2012: Dancing Botanist: Parlour Collective, Oxford Botanical Gardens 2012: Titan Icebergs Catalyst Arts, Belfast 2012: Roof Skiing LUPA, London 2011: Eruptio, Salty Neck, Radio Museum three performances for Eruptio Action Art Festival, Sfantu Gheorghe, Transylvania 2011: The Marooned Wildman - ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland. 2011: Specimen A the Hunterian Museum, London 2011: Sixth Post FIX, Belfast 2011: Lock Up Houdini LUPA, London 2010: Buried Amp, Tribal Scarecrow Sixth Sense Festival, Taipei, Taiwan

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2010: White Light White Wall Night and Day weekend, Modern Art Oxford. 2010: Bend A Bull Wolf in the Winter, Amsterdam 2010: Stag and Swan Posthumous Progress British Art Show 7, Wollaton Hall Notts 2010: Give/Take PW10, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol 2009: British Invasion, Crying Chimp, Dancing Renegade, Screeming Beetle four performances for Intercambio, Buenos Aires, Argentina 2009: Artistic Failure - (Tokyo, Yokohama, Kohnosu, Japan) NIPAF - Nippon Performance Art Festival. 2009: Crying Demon ZOOM! Festival, Hildesheim, Germany 2009: Caruso over Camberwell, Camberwell Arts festival. 2008 11: Collapsing Lecture Late at the Tate Tate Britain, Feb 2011. Goldsmiths College, London, 4.12.08, Whitechapel Gallery, 2010, London. 2009 2012: Crrritic, Chameleon Gallery, Nottingham; Solent University, Southampton 2009: This Shy Man Parlour Collective, St Pancras Church Crypt, London 2008: Artist Flings Himself at the Gallery Wall Club Row, London 2008: Stumbling Into the Future Kingston University, London 2007: Slow Atom Bewaerschole Gallery, Burgh Haamstede, Holland 2007: Shouting Island ANTI Contemporary Art Festival, Kuopio, Finland, 2007: Ornamental Hermit British School at Rome, Italy. 2006: Slow Slapstick Hayward Gallery sculpture court, London. 2006: Mimi Ga Totemo Tooi (My Ears Are Very Far Away) (Tokyo, Nagano, Nagoya, Maebashi) - Nippon Performance Art Festival, NIPAF 06 2006: Tilting at a Blood Moon Wolf in the Winter, South London Gallery. 2005: The Bogeyman Beaconsfield Gallery, London. 2005: Earth Head, Wolf in the Winter, La Bisbal, Spain (

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2005: Copa DAmore Electric Renaissance Festival, Halle, Germany 2004: Belong 2nd DaDao Festival, Beijing, China 2003: Rollin Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia University, Chicago 2003: The Cross Patch Den Bosch, NL. (August 2003). 2003: Icemitten Wolf in the Winter Nuuk and Sisimiut, Greenland 2001 -02: Charisma - HGKZ, Zurich; NRLA, Glasgow; RialtoSA, Rome 2001: Home Turf Queens Street Gallery, Derby. 2000: Whittling Wolf in the Winter Den Bosch, Netherlands 2000: Obscure Display Performance/ installation, Victoria and Albert Museum 2000: Anti-Speak: Tokyo, Japan; Buffalo, New York; San Diego; Phoenix; Toronto; The Henry Moore Foundation, England and the Geneva Festival. 2001 13: Annual performance at Cabaret Melancolique, London

EXHIBITIONS (Collaboration)
The Disabled Avant-Garde (DAG): 2006: The Disabled Avant-Garde Today! Gasworks Gallery, London 2011: Camp DAG Oriel Davies Gallery/ DaSH, Newtown, Wales 15mm Films: 2009: Sex for the Disabled! FACT, Abandon Normal Devices art festival, Liverpool, 2009: The Way Out Beaconsfield Contemporary Art Space (March - June 2009). Reviewed in Art Monthly, July 2009; Artists Newsletter, May 09; The Big Issue May 09. 2005: The Staircase Miracles The Ikon Gallery (Eastside) Birmingham; The Serpentine Gallery, London. 2003: The Electricians 15mm Films short, premiered at NFT, London June 8th 2003. Award winner at Picture This Film Festival, Calgary, Canada, 2003.
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With Jordan McKenzie: 2011: Born to Rule Portraits of the Big Society, Standpoint Gallery

PERFORMANCE (Collaboration)
The Disabled Avant-Garde (with Katharine Ataniello): 2012: Big Screen Pong, Tate Britain 2011: Backstage Drama at Trashing Performance, Toynbee Studios, London 2010: Top Ten Institutional Classics Bluecoat Gallery, DaDaFest, Liverpool 2008: No Room at the Igloo Royal Festival Hall, London 2008: The Disabled Avant-Garde Charity Stall Art Car Boot Fair, London 2007: Assisted Passage Birkbeck College/ SOAS, London. 2007: Damaged Dance Wolverhampton Disability Art Festival. With Jordan McKenzie: 2010: Veneration X, Tate Britain, London 2009: Two Shamans Trapped in a Lift, Standpoint Gallery, London With Jordan McKenzie and Edwina Ashton: 2009: Gallery termites Studio 1:1 Gallery, London With Simon Raven: 2009: Up Summanus! Chester Performs, Chester 2007: Deli Monks National review of Live Art, Glasgow Single Activities Group

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(Jack Catling, Holly Slingsby, Kate Mahony, Jordan McKenzie, Simon Raven, lili Spain, Daniella Valz Gen, Aaron Williamson), 2013: Vitrine Gallery, London The Feral Four: 2009: The Stag Inn, Hoxton, London 2010: Spike Island, Bristol 2010: The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool Clippetyclop: 2004 06: musical performance (lead vocalist), many gigs and recordings - including the Electric Renaissance Festival, Halle, Germany

CURATION:
2014: Curator of the next DaDaFest at the Bluecoat Gallery for Liverpool Biennale, 2014 2011: Curator of Labyrinth of Living Exhibits for Shape and the Arts Catalyst, an evening of performances at the Hunterian Museum London, April 2011. 2011-12: LUPA Lock Up Performance Art a year-long series of monthly no-fi/ DIY performance nights around a Lock Up Garage in Bethnal Green, London (curated with Jordan McKenzie/ Kate Mahony). Some 32 artists made work at LUPA over the year. 2010 Curator of online journal for the Serpentine Gallery, London Parallel Lines: http:// www.parallellinesjournal.com/ 2003 Live Culture, Tate Modern, Performance/Film/Body I curated a series of largescreen projection films by Leigh Bowery, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jayne Parker, Stuart Brisley, Brian Catling and myself.

OTHER:
Since 2011: Trustee of Shape London the UKs leading disability-led arts organization. Writer and presenter of Radio 4 Programme: The Way Out: the Disabled Avant-Garde (30 minutes). Broadcast 15.3.11 at 11.30 am. The programme attracted over 100,000 listeners.

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2001 - 13: Artist with The Wolf in the Winter performance collective, including Brian Catling, Anet Van De Elzen, Kirsten Norrie, Denys Blacker and Ralf Wendt. The group gathers internationally for performances. 2005 09: British School at Rome Fine Art Faculty Policy sub-committee advisor and panel selector for various awards 2004: Member of Arts Council England Visual Arts Task Group. 2000 - 02: Advisory Panelist to Visual Arts, National Touring Programme, Arts Council England and to Visual Arts Dept. London Art. 1994 2001: Advisor to various panels at the Arts Council of England including the Combined Arts Departments committee panel

PUBLICATIONS:
Aaron Williamson: Performance, Video, Collaboration (Live Art Development Agency/ Kingston University; 2008; full colour monograph, 112 pages. http://thisisunbound.co.uk/ index.php?main_page=product_book_info&cPath=7&products_id=207 Quick Clips and Short Cuts compilation DVD of solo video works, 2000 2011 (Live Art Development Agency, 73 mins). http://thisisunbound.co.uk/index.php? main_page=product_book_info&cPath=1&products_id=308 Blog for residency at Spike Island, Bristol: http://www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/aaronwilliamson Blog for residency The Eavesdropper at Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool: http:// www.disabilityartsonline.org.uk/Aaron-Williamson-The-Eavesdropper The Forgotten History of the Affligare - sculptural works and accompanying texts, 34pp, full colour. (Spike Island Publications, 2012). The DAG Bite the Hand that Feeds! DVD compilation of video works by the Disabled Avant-Garde (with Katherine Araniello). (Live Art Development Agency, 2012; 92 mins). http://thisisunbound.co.uk/index.php? main_page=product_book_info&cPath=1&products_id=369 Splitting the Atom on Dalston Lane the Desperate Bicycles and the Birth of the UK Punk DIY Movement. With an Introduction by Iain Sinclair, (The Eel, 2009)

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(As co-editor): Art Becomes You (Article Press, 160pp; co-edited with Henry Rogers and also as essay contributor. Includes art theory essays by Amelia Jones, Judith Halberstam and others). 100 Years of Art and Power - documenting workshops with Art and Power collective, (48 pp; Arnolfini Gallery 2003) Hearing Things (60pp; Book Works 2001 artists book: texts and colour photos). Sonictraps Involuntary Head Sounds (texts to accompany installation at the Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, 16 pp, 2000).

Contributions to Publications (Selected):

The Collapsing Lecture essay in Performing Knowing edited by Gavin Butt (Article Press/Goldsmiths College 2011). Friedrich from the Front, Foaming Liveartwork 6 DVD magazine (Berlin). A Cripple at the Feast in Art Becomes You! (ed., Rogers/ Williamson, Article Press, 2007). Essay in Artist Links (Artist Links China/ British Council, 2006, p.202-205) Cover feature for Art In Sight Magazine, Performance Film (June 03). Essay for Art, Lies and Videotape exhibition catalogue (Tate Liverpool, Oct. 2003) Introduction to Hayley Newman, Performancemania (Matts Gallery, 2001) Audible Within Brian Catlings Performance Soundings Essay in Performance Research 4.3 (Routledge, 1999) Exposures performance images (Live Art Dev. Agency / Black Dog 2002). Writing Art - essay in Art Monthly Oct 1999; republished by SIRS on-line. Conductors of Chaos: The Picador Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (1996, p. 473-483). Performance Research Journal 2:3 and 4.3 (Routledge, 1997; 1999). Random Access 2, (Rivers Oram/Glasgow School of Art, 1996).

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About (Selected):
Review of 15mm Films The Way Out (Beaconsfield, 2009) in Art Monthly May, 2009; Artists Newsletter, May 09; The Big Issue May 09. Victor and Aaron essay by Louise Stern on the Wild Boy performance installation at the Showroom Gallery, published in The Showroom Annual January 2006. Hearing Things:The Scandal of Speech in Deaf Performance essay by Michael Davidson in Signing The Body Poetic (Bauman, Rose, Nelson eds; Uni. California Press 2006). Wild Boy Exhibition Catalogue, The Showroom Gallery, London 2005 by Kirsty Ogg. Analysis of Performance Art Anthony Howell (Contemporary Theatre Studies, 1999). Lights Out For the Territory, Iain Sinclair, (Granta 1997) Media Ecologies: Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture Matthew Fuller, (Leonardo Books 2006). Disability and Contemporary Performance Petra Kuppers, (Routledge, 2003). Architecturally Speaking: Practices of Art, Architecture and the Everyday Alan Read, (Routledge, 2000). The Anatomy of Utterance, The Poetry and Performance of Aaron Williamson, - Richard Dyer, in Rapid Eye 2 (Creation Books, 1992).

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