Irit Rogoff
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Irit Rogoff | |
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| Born | 1947 |
| Education | Courtauld Institute of Art |
| Occupation(s) | Professor, writer, curator |
| Employer(s) | Goldsmiths, University of London |
Irit Rogoff is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory;[1] postcolonialism, geoculture, and geographies,[2] cultures of education[3] and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD degree from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.[4]
She was born in Jerusalem, Israel and immigrated to London for her studies in the 1970s.
Teaching[edit]
Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture.[5] In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths, University of London[6] where she is a professor of Visual Cultures, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.[7]
Curating[edit]
Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.[8]
In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought.[9] In 2016, freethought was the artistic director of the Bergen Assembly.[10]
Writing[edit]
Rogoff has written co-written a number of essays and pamphlets. She has authored one book over 20 years ago:
- Visual Cultures as Seriousness (2013) (co-written with Gavin Butt), Sternberg Press [11]
- Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).[12]
- A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., co-eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, Revolver (2006) [13]
- Museum Culture – Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (with Daniel Sherman) Minnesota 1994, Routledge 1998.[14]
Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[15] e-flux,[16] and Third Text.[17] She was a guest-editor for the 2010 special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised
References[edit]
- ^ "Rogoff | transform.eipcp.net". transform.eipcp.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ Archived at Ghostarchive and the Wayback Machine: Exhausted Geographies (1 of 7) - Professor Irit Rogoff. YouTube.
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Art Concerns". Art Concerns. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
- ^ "Irit Rogoff | Curatorial / Knowledge". ck.kein.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Academy". vanabbemuseum.nl. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Who We Are". freethought-collective.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Freethought – Bergen Assembly". bergenassembly.no. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "Sternberg Press - Gavid Butt, Irit Rogoff". www.sternberg-press.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "FORMER WEST – Irit Rogoff". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "A.C.A.D.E.M.Y. | Revolver Publishing". revolver-publishing.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ "Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
- ^ Rogoff, Irit (2002). "Hit and Run—Museums and Cultural Difference". Art Journal. 61 (3): 63–73. doi:10.2307/778213. JSTOR 778213.
- ^ "Turning - Journal No. 0 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ "third text". www.thirdtext.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
- ^ ""Education Actualized" – Editorial – Journal No. 14 March 2010 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
External links[edit]
- Irit Rogoff – Panel Discussion, Sonic Acts Festival 22 February 2019, De Brakke Grond, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
- Conversation with Irit Rogoff on her views and approach to education and curating, Radio Web MACBA, July 2019.
- A Pantheon of Disenchantment, lecture at Weaving Politics Symposium, Stockholm 2012 (audio only)
- Exhausted Geographies, keynote lecture, Crossing Boundaries Symposium, INIVA, London 2010
- Professor Irit Rogoff, Goldsmiths University of London
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