Maria Fusco

The Happy Hypocrite art writing readings

The Happy Hypocrite's new cycle of art writing readings.

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Convergence: Literary Art Exhibitions

An exhibition about how reading literature can be at the core of contemporary art practice.

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London Word Festival

Me + The Mechanical Copula + London Word Festival.

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The Mechanical Copula Launch

Hot off the press.

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Cove Park

Residency
2 August 2010

Cove Park

My residency at Cove Park in Scotland.

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COSEY COMPLEX

27 March 2010

COSEY COMPLEX

COSEY COMPLEX came crashing into consciousness one Thursday afternoon near Kings Lynn as Cosey Fanni Tutti and I talked about, amongst other things, how nomenclatures can numb, nurture, pay and percolate concepts into life. This wonky process of taxonomy got me thinking on the train back to London if Cosey could be methodology in and of itself.

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Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing

Maybe the world's first Festival of Art Writing? This parley-based event took as its eponymous starting point issue three of The Happy Hypocrite, Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading, as usual themed by methodology, as usual not themed by content.

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Living Clay

Art Writing Readings
22 September 2009

Living Clay

Living Clay was a series of bi-monthly reading events, co-hosted by myself and an invited publication, about art writing as a meeting place for deduction, disagreement and debate, part of my role as Writer-in-Residence at Whitechapel Gallery. Guest publications included: Cabinet (New York), The Happy Hypocrite (London), Fillip (Vancouver), MATERIAL (Los Angeles) and F.R. David (Amsterdam).

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Who is this who is coming?

Arts Writing Symposium
18 June 2009

Who is this who is coming?

A two-day symposium discussing the practice of contemporary art writing at Whitechapel Gallery, London, as part of my role as Writer-in-Residence there. Speakers included: Beatrice Gibson, Jennifer Higgie, Craig Martin and Alexandre Singh.

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Make an Icon Out of Popcorn

An experimental one-day publishing project devised by myself, and produced in collaboration with APFEL A Practice for Everyday Life, Art Quarters Press and Matt’s Gallery, London.

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Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism

Conference
27 February 2009

Judgment and Contemporary Art Criticism

A two-day international conference held at Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada. Participants included: Jo-Anne Birnie Danzker, Jeff Derksen, Diedrich Diederichsen, Maria Fusco, Markus Miessen, Tom Morton, John O’Brian, Kristina Lee Podesva, Jordan Strom, William Wood and Tirdad Zolghadr.

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Put About Conference

Tate Modern
27 November 2004

Put About Conference

A conference on contemporary independent arts publishing which I convened at Tate Modern.

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