Theorising the Artist Interview

Lucia Farinati is a writer-researcher, curator and activist. She holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths University and a PhD in Critical Studies from Kingston University, London. She is the co-author of The Force of Listening (2017), and Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education (2017). Jennifer Thatcher, PhD, has published extensively as a freelance critic since 2003, including interviews with artists Pablo Bronstein, Guerrilla Girls, Emma Hart, Mark Leckey, Tino Sehgal, Stephen Shore, Hito Steyerl and Danh Vo.

Introduction: Theorising the artist interview Part 1: History and historiography of the artist interview 1. The history of the artist interview: conventions, conditions, contexts, collaboration 2. Re-stor(y)ing the self 3. Articulating artworks: on the theory and practice of oral history in art conservation Part 2: Subverting the biographical model 4. The voice of the artists: notes about Vasari’s Lives and early modern sources 5. As a possibility of an encounter: a performative reading of Autoritratto (Self-portrait) by Carla Lonzi 6. Herstory or mine? Writing feminist histories of art with self-mythologies in mind Part 3: Interviews as art practice 7. I prefer talkers: Andy Warhol and his Philosophy 8. Audio Arts: a recorded space for contemporary art and artists 9. Face to Face: interviews as practice in the work of Stephen Sutcliffe Part 4: Materiality and technology 10. New ways of speaking: the first artist interviews on BBC radio 11. Interview as action/archive: the role of televised reportage in contemporary visual art in the Turkish Cypriot community 12. The pleasures of the transcript: why transcription of artist interviews matters