Acatia Finbow

Personal details

Email:

af406@exeter.ac.uk

Education

2014-present:

University of Exeter

MPhil/Phd, English 

Working Title: An Exploration of the Value of Performance and Performative Art Documentation in the Contemporary Art Museum. 

2012-2013:

University of Leeds

MA, Distinction, Art Gallery and Museum Studies

Dissertation title: An exploration of key issues raised by the exhibition of performance art in the art museum context, with particular focus on the retrospective

2009-2012:

University of Leeds

BA (Hons), First Class, Managing Performance. 

Dissertation title: An Exploration of the Development of the Professional Visual Arts Organisation in Early 20th Century Britain. 

 

Professional/research experience

February 3 2017:

TaPRA PGR Symposium, University of Leeds

Performance Documentation in the Space of the Contemporary Art Museum 


November 11 2016:

Time Immaterial Postgraduate Symposium - University of York

Deconstructing Roberta: exploring the layering of time in Lynn Hershman Leeson's performance documentation 


October 31 2016:

Future of the Document symposium - City, University of London

Performance at Tate: Documents and Documentation in Research 


September 5 2016 - September 7 2016:

TaPRA Conference, University of Bristol

Approaching Documentation through the lens of Value: Documenting 'If Tate Modern was Musee de la danse' - Documenting Performance Working Group 


July 6 2016:

STR NRN Symposium, University of Bristol

The Innovative Document: Negotiating the Unknown Future Value of Documentation in the Museum



 


April 19 2016:

Humanities PGR Conference, University of Exeter

'Exhibiting Documents and Experiencing Performance: A Case Study of Rebecca Horn's "Body Sculptures" at Tate Modern' 


February 6 2016:

TaPRA Postgraduate Symposium, University of Sheffield

The Permeability of the Performance Document: Rebecca Horn's 'Body Sculptures' at Tate Modern


March 30 2015:

Humanities PGR Conference, University of Exeter

'Performance and the Museum: Embodied Knowledge in the World of the Object. Two work in progress case studies from Tate'. 


 

CV: Membership of Professional Bodies/Professional Qualifications

2015-present:

Conservation of Contemporary Art Research

Member of PGR and ECR network. 


2014-present:

Theatre and Performance Research Association

Postgraduate Member 


2014-present:

Society for Theatre Research

Postgraduate Member and Member of New Researchers Network