Karen Di Franco
Karen Di Franco
- Programme Leader, M.Litt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art)
- Job Title
- Programme Leader, M.Litt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art)
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- UNSPECIFIED
- k.difranco@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Office and CPCA Studio address: Barnes Building, Level 2, 9-11 West Graham Street Glasgow G4 9EL
- Country
- Scotland
Biography
Dr Karen Di Franco is Programme Leader of M.LItt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) at the School of Fine Art. Her work frequently intersects with lesser-discussed artistic practices and histories — described through materials that complicate notions of archive, ephemera and the art collection. As such, her public projects often involve event and process-based forms with an emphasis on text and publishing. She has written and spoken on feminist archival methodologies, enacted in research and practice, which have developed through her background in digital archiving.
Her educational background includes a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from the University of the West of England, an MA in Contemporary Art Theory from Goldsmiths, University of London and her AHRC funded PhD research thesis Embodied Iteration: Materialising the Language of Writing and Performance in Women Artists’ Publishing, 1968–1979, was a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership based between the University of Reading and Tate Britain.
She has
Latest Additions
- Di Franco, Karen (2022) It is in all our bodies stretching into materials! Carolee Schneemann, agent in the book repository. In: Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Yale University Press, pp. 234-236. ISBN 9780300260649
- Di Franco, Karen (2022) Nancy Holt: The Horizon of the Text. In: Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside. Monacelli: A Phaidon Company, New York, pp. 117-138. ISBN 978-1-58093-597-5
- Rossenova, Lozana and Di Franco, Karen (2022) Iterative Pasts and Linked Futures: A Feminist Approach to Modeling Data in Archives and Collections of Artists’ Publishing. In: Perspectives on Data. Perspectives, 2 . The Art Institute of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-86559-315-2
- Di Franco, Karen (2020) How Does a Work End? Bricks From the Kiln (4). pp. 173-193.
- Di Franco, Karen (2020) Visual Territory, Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book. In: Beau Geste Press. CAPC musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Bourdeaux, France, pp. 387-402. ISBN 2877212505
- Di Franco, Karen (2019) Speaking Lines: Kathy Acker’s Mantras. Tinted Window (2). pp. 8-20. ISSN 2517-4789
- Di Franco, Karen (2013) Book Works' Archive: a partial response. Art Libraries Journal, 38 (3). pp. 37-42. ISSN 0307-4722
