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Expertise:
Conceptual, Performance, Photography, Curating, Theoretical
Job title:
Associate Dean
Biography:
Tim Brennan (PhD) has exhibited internationally over the last 20 years. His practice is not limited to any one media and has incorporated performance, object making, curating and teaching. Over the last 2 decades he has developed a methodology based on the guided walk and conversation as art, which he refers to as the manoeuvre. This activity is built on academic research to form new imaginative reflections upon the ways in which we ‘do history’.
He has been described as one of the most important practitioners to contribute to the social and political role of contemporary art.
Brennan is Head of Arts & Design at the University of Sunderland.
Qualifications:
Tim Brennan – Curriculum Vitae
Born - Sunderland (UK) in 1966.
Education
1984-85 Sunderland Polytechnic (Foundation).
1985-88 Humberside College of Higher Education. BA (Hons. 1st) in Fine Art.
1988-90 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
1996-98 Ruskin College Oxford. MA Public History & Historiography. (Dist)
2008 PhD without corrections
Teaching
1989-2008 Visiting Lectures to following art departments: Goldsmiths College, Winchester, Loughton, Southend, Central School of Speech and Drama,
Leeds College of Art, Hull, MMU, Exeter, Dartington College of Arts, Brighton College of Art and Design
1992-95 Full time Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts
1997-99 Assistant Director MA Fine Art Administration & Curatorship, Goldsmiths Collegmore...
Tim Brennan – Curriculum Vitae
Born - Sunderland (UK) in 1966.
Education
1984-85 Sunderland Polytechnic (Foundation).
1985-88 Humberside College of Higher Education. BA (Hons. 1st) in Fine Art.
1988-90 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London.
1996-98 Ruskin College Oxford. MA Public History & Historiography. (Dist)
2008 PhD without corrections
Teaching
1989-2008 Visiting Lectures to following art departments: Goldsmiths College, Winchester, Loughton, Southend, Central School of Speech and Drama,
Leeds College of Art, Hull, MMU, Exeter, Dartington College of Arts, Brighton College of Art and Design
1992-95 Full time Visual Performance, Dartington College of Arts
1997-99 Assistant Director MA Fine Art Administration & Curatorship, Goldsmiths College, University of London,
2001-2008 AHRB teaching allocation rising to FT, University of Sunderland (MA Photography, Fine Art, Programme Leader MA Curating, History of Art and Design)
Performance workshops
1987 Photoaction Posterngate Gallery, Hull (UK)
1992 Kill Your Pillow [with Ulay], W139 gallery, Amsterdam, (Neths)
1993 24 Hour Lab Dartington College of Arts (UK)
Pain Dartington College of Arts (UK)
Lighthouse Dartington College of Arts (UK)
1994 This House Arnolfini, Bristol (UK)
1997 Impossible Teaching Pack Camerawork, London (UK)
2007 Spacex Gallery, Exeter
Awards
1989 The Duveen Scholarship
Travel Award British Council
1991 European Pepiniere for Young Artists Eurocreation,
1992 Travel Award British Council.
1993 New Collaborations Arts Council England
1997 A4E Express National Lottery
1998 Project Award Barry Amiel and Norman Melburn Trust.
2001 Creative and Performing Arts 3 Year Fellowship AHRB
2003 Grants to Individual Artists Arts Council England
Artists Award Elephant Trust
2006 Grants to Individual Artists Arts Council England
2007 Community Champions Award Scarman Trust
2008 Shortlist Award Northern Art Prize
Honorary Fellowship University of Wales Newport
Exhibitions
1986 Cradle performance, Hull (UK)
The Great Learning performance, ‘Eye Music’, Ferens, Hull (UK)
1987 Torchbell performance, Sheffield Media Show (UK)
Material Investigation performance, Events Week, Hull (UK)
Floorwork Photo-work with Simon Drury, H.C.H.E., Hull (UK)
Drums Along The Humber performance with Paul Burwell, Hull (UK)
Performance Photographs with Simon Drury, Posterngate Gallery, Hull (UK)
Material Metaphor performance, Outsiders, Ferens, Hull (UK)
1988 Taut performance with Artworks, Ferens, Hull, ‘Sheffield Media Show’, Newcastle Polytechnic, ‘National Review of Live Art’ (NRLA), Nottingham (UK)
Automatic Material photographs & text with Simon Drury, Newcastle Polytechnic (UK)
The People's Flag? tape-slide, London Film-Makers Co-op (UK)
Is This England? performance, ‘The Blue Line Project’, Hull (UK)
The British Camp performance-installation, Hull (UK)
Four Postcards postal-works, ‘Seven Days For New Thinking’, Free International University, London (UK)
219 A Situation performance with Artworks, (NRLA) Third Eye Centre, Glasgow (UK)
Physical Minimum performance, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (UK)
1989 Whitewash & Black Propaganda performance with David Coxon, Sheffield Media Show (UK)
Intervention performance, ‘Sheffield Media Show’ (UK)
The State Welfare Project installation, Hull; Open Hand Studios, Reading (UK)
Naturgeschichte Bureaukratie performance, ‘Ripple Effect’, ICA, London (UK)
Impasse performance with David Coxon, ‘Artists and War’, Ferens, Hull (UK)
Ager Publicus exhibition with Gillian Dyson, Gallery NK, Bergen, Norway
The British Camp photo-works with Simon Drury, ‘Staged for Bulgaria’, touring Bulgaria and Leicester Picture House
Obleute performance with Gillian Dyson, ‘Windfall '98’, Bremen, Germany
Free State performance, ‘Audio-Visual Experimental’ (AVE), Arnhem, (Neths)
1990 Interstice performance with Nicholas Lowe, Act-up, Diorama, London (UK)
Naturgeschichte, A Natural Selection photo-installation, UCL, London (UK)
Activity at Short Range performance with Human Performance Laboratory, ‘Test 7’ Hull (UK)
Activity at Short Range no.2 performance with John Jordan, ‘Sheffield Media Show’ (UK)
The Welfare State Project photo-text, ‘AND The Journal of Art Education’
Fortress Europe installation, UCL, London (UK)
Of Private Property & Public Insubordination performance, AVE, Arnhem, (Neths)
Ourselves Alone performance, Post Morality, Kettles Yard & Cambridge Darkroom (UK)
The List performance, The Desk Project, W139, Amsterdam (Neths)
Fortress Europe no.7 performance, Oceaan, Arnhem, (Neths)
Kein(e) Prozess(ion), Fortress Europe no.8 installation, Arched Space, London (UK)
Fortress Europe no.9 performance, VIP Film 8, Berlin, Germany.
1991 The Double Silent installation with Dean Brannagan, Multiples, Jan Van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht (Neths)
At The Point Of Engagement performance with Dean Brannagan, Moltkerie Werkstatt, Cologne, (Germany)
Fortress Europe no.10 installation, Bethune (France)
Fortress Europe nos. 11 -42 photographic works, Bethune Centre Regional de Ia Photographie, Douchy Les Mines (France)
Post Festum Fortress Europe no.43 installation with Gareth James, Bethune (France)
Proletary performance, Regroup, Arched Space, London (UK)
Black Reaction performance, W139, Amsterdam (Neths).
Fortress Europe No.56 performance with Katia Jaworska, B.W.A., Lublin (Poland)
1992 Walking, Talking, Beating performance with Gillian Dyson, Gallery Fisch, Braunschweig (Germany)
A Foreign Office, Fortress Europe No.58 performance, De Achterstraat, Hoorn (Neths)
Fortress Europe No.59 performance, ‘Interzone’, Quebec, (Canada)
Fortress Europe No.60 performance, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, (Canada)
Fortress Europe nos. 11-42 photographic works, ‘Festival de Lille’, Palais de Ricour, Lille (France)
1993 A$under manoeuvre, Cardboard City, London (UK)
Auto performance, Ripple Effect, ICA, London (UK)
Exhallations Fortress Europe Nos.62-63' performic lecture as Performance South West (PSW), NRLA, ICA, London (UK)
A Home Office, Fortress Europe no.61 performance, The Showroom, London (UK)
Floe performance, ‘Melting Time’, Overgaden, Copenhagen (Denmark)
1994 Insiders manoeuvre, ‘Outsiders’, Camerawork/Cable St. London (UK)
Fortress Europe nos.65-71 sculpture & photographic works, Dartington Gallery, Devon (UK)
A Banana Republic performance, (PSW), Spacex, Exeter (UK)
The Royal Chamber performance with Gillian Dyson, Violence of the Imagination, Zap Club, Brighton (UK)
Conversations with Louis Althusser & Charlotte Corday performance (PSW), Caen (France)
Conversations with Charlotte Corday & Louis Althusser performance (PSW), Bethune (France)
Fortress Europe no.72 performance (PSW), Fribourg (Switzerland)
The Occident & Other Orientations performance-photography with Clare Brennan, Kurdistan Nov. '94, Dartington Gallery, Devon (UK)
A Royal House manoeuvre (PSW), Arnolfini Live, Fishponds Housing Estate, Bristol (UK)
1995 February 2nd performance, Old Plaster Room, Dartington College of Art, Devon (UK)
Fortress Europe no.81 photo-text, Versus magazine (4)
IX sculptural works, with Ian Gregory, Spacex, Exeter (UK)
Forum manoeuvre, Brutus Bridge, Totnes, Devon (UK)
Relocations manoeuvre, The Peace Process, Ferens, Hull (UK)
Entartete Kunst photo-text, ‘Art Criticism & Theory’ journal
Walks On Water manoeuvre, Still Water, Leeds City Art Gallery (UK)
Luna Mare Muscoviae readings, Morden Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Dislocation, Friern: A Common Treasury manoeuvre with Camerawork/MIND in Camden, Friern Hospital, London (UK)
1996 One & The Same readings, ‘The Spuggies are Fledged’, Morden Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
A Weave readings, Morden Tower, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK)
Dislocation, In Sanitorium manoeuvre, Camerawork, London (UK)
Crusade manoeuvre, (Jarrow, Chester-le-Street, Ferryhill, Darlington, Northallerton, Ripon, Harrogate, Leeds, Wakefield, Barnsley,Chesterfield, Northampton, Bedford, Luton, St.Albans, Edgware, Marble Arch, House of Commons, Camerawork, London. ‘The Jarrow Festival’, Bede Gallery, South Tyneside (UK)
1997 Emporium manoeuvre residency, Camerawork (UK)
A Cut manoeuvre, Royal London Hospital Camerawork, London (UK)
I Sight/Death Site performance, Winchester School of Art (UK)
Islandsmanoeuvre, Exeter School of Art, Plymouth University (UK)
Work in Faith, Faith in Work manoeuvre, Summer Collection, South London Gallery, London (UK)
Bradford Atlas: Lost Empires; Salt Air, Salt March; Industrial Steps manoeuvres, Gallery One, Bradford (UK)
1998 Lines of Desire manoeuvres, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (UK)
The Street manouevre, Souvenirs, Museum Street, London (UK)
Academic Diary edition of 6 artists books, Multiples, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (Eire)
Fortress Europe photographs, l'Hippodrome de Douai, Douai, (France)
1999 Rough Guide to Brindleplace 5 manoeuvres, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (UK)
Manifest Publication marking the 1 50th anniversary of the ‘Communist Manifesto’ (Working Press)
Manifest Installation for Rich Mix festival, London (UK)
Manifest co-design of Manifest website browser with Ade Ward and Geoff Cox.
Prospectus Guidebook for Norbury Park/Mole Valley Gap, Surrey County Council (UK)
Walk contribution to ‘297x210’ for Arthur R Rose Gallery, Exhibited at Firestation Studios Dublin (Eire)
2000 Moon-Walk book-work, ‘297x210’, Arthouse, Dublin (Eire)
My Sisters Record Collection process-sculpture, ‘As It Is’, Ikon, Birmingham (UK)
Arcus manoeuvre, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin (Eire)
Shepherds of Arcadia manoeuvre, Millennium Intervention Group, Pavillion, Leeds (UK)
Manifest ‘Intermedia 2000’, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork (Eire)
Consistency prepared book, ‘In Consistency II’, Arthouse, Dublin (Eire)
Triad prepared books, Ikon Touring, Birmingham (UK)
Journal performance writing, Mobile Library, London (UK)
Reading Capital prepared book, ‘You Are Here’, Holden Gallery, Manchester (UK)
2001 Blood Eagle wall-work, Post-Viral, 291 Gallery, London (UK)
3 Manoeuvres manoeuvres, Compton Verney (UK)
Marginalia prepared books, ‘Day Tripper’, The Stratford Gallery, Stratford. (UK)
All the Anthems of The Soviet Union ‘Record Collection’, International 3, Manchester (UK)
Monument to the First Constellation installation with Gary Kirkham, ‘Making History’, Burton-on-Trent (UK)
http://www.angelacademy.co.uk with Gary Kirkham
My Wife's Book Collection Bibliography, ‘Bibliomania 2’, http://www.bibliomania.org
Not The MA in Curating discursive performance, Project, Dublin (Eire)
http://www.not-the-ma-in-curating.org web-work with Simon Morris, including: Rosse Yael Sirb, Andrea Phillips, Roman Vasseur, Esther Lydia Furley, Caitlin Ní Houlihan-Dickens, Amy Plant, Maurice O'Connell, Geoff Cox
http://www.touringlondon.org web-work, InIVA (UK)
Journal' and 'The Fourth Front: Voices for Text, Text for Transmission performance writings, ‘Day of the Unread’, Library of Unpublished Books, Waterstones, Picadilly, London (UK)
We Live in an Economy, Not a Nation newspaper work with Kathy McArdle, ‘Transact 2’, Museum in Progress, Der Standard, (Austria)
2002 Curationism - The Nu-Curator as Performer text-work in ed. Simon Morris ‘Interpretations 2’ publisher: Information as Material (UK)
Das Rheingold installation, Symptom of the Universe, Manchester (UK)
Blackest Pool text-work in ed. David Blamey ‘Here, There, Elsewhere’, publisher: Open Editions (UK)
World Atlas prepared book, ‘Here, There, Elsewhere’ (exhibition), London Print Studio Gallery (UK)
Sectoral Shit sculpture/mail-art, ‘Private’ Views, London Print Studio Gallery (UK)
The Republic of Atlantis discursive performance, ‘New Visions 2’, National Maritime Museum, London (UK) http://www.nmm.ac.uk
Vinylarium (Performing Northumbria) exhibition, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland (UK)
Vinylarium (Performing Northumbria) LP, Reg Vardy Gallery, PN001
Ligne de Foi manoeuvre, Chillington Hall, Staffordshire (UK)
Ligne de Foi with Gérard Mermoz (Semiographics), publication
Peregrination #1 (Performing Northumbria) with Mike McHugh, St. Peter’s Monkwearmouth, Sunderland to site of St. Hilda’s, Hartlepool (UK)
Curationism - The Nu-Curator as Performer text-work, ‘Strike’ Wolverhampton Art Gallery (UK)
The Antiquary (Performing Northumbria) manoeuvre, Sunderland (UK)
A Weave manoeuvre ‘Raphael Samuel's London’ Bishopsgate Institute (UK)
A Phonic Track (Performing Northumbria) manoeuvre, Sunderland (UK)
2003 A Scrip (Performing Northumbria) manoeuvre, Roker Beach to St.Peter’s, Monkwearmouth, Sunderland (UK) http://mysite.freeserve.com/scrip
The Curationist Manifesto text-work, publisher: Information as Material
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Museum of Angels manoeuvres, British Museum, London (UK) http://www.jamesputnam.org
Museum of Angels: A Guide to the Winged Creatures in the British Museum artist book, publisher: Gli Ori (launched at Venice Biennale, Italy, 2003).
Being a Communication between Ash Brooke Tempel and the British Museum texts, drawings, communications, ‘Imaging London’ Houldsworth Fine Art, London (UK)
Radical Ramblers of Northumbria (Performing Northumbria) manoeuvre, Sunderland to Cox Green (UK)
Radical Ramblers of Northumbria (Performing Northumbria) manoeuvre, Cox Green to Durham Cathedral (UK)
Being the Anticipated Journal of a Walk from Ash Brooke Tempel to Cairn T texts/paper weight, ‘Definitively Provisional’ Whitechapel Project Space, London (UK)
Vive L’Indifference chapter contribution in ‘Conversation Pieces: Pavel Büchler’ ed. Martin Vincent, publisher: i3
Vive la Curationisme ‘Gustav Metzger Symposium’, Atlantis Gallery, London (UK)
Inside My Head: Theorem 1 drawing, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Exhibition’ International 3, Manchester (UK)
Appian Manoeuvre: Platform#1’ (Performing Northumbria) via Appia, Rome (Italy)
Appian Manoeuvre: Platform#2’ (Performing Northumbria) York College Gallery, York (UK)
City of Angels manoeuvre, ‘Art Weekender’, Sunderland (UK)
Mercator Manoeuvre manoeuvre, The Royal Society of Geographers and British Society of Geographers, London (UK)
Performing Northumbria: Martin Brennan A&B performance, Bromtom Cemetery, London (UK)
Performing Northumbria: A Red Shoe Diary performance, ‘Anti-Panto’ Floating IP, Manchester (UK)
2004 Peterlee Project 1976-2004 (by Stuart Brisley), Curation, exhibition, Reg Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland (UK)
Performing Northumbria: A Black Box manoeuvre sculpture/archive, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
Performing Northumbria: A White Paper Tabled sculptural performance/installation, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
Performing Northumbria: A Red Shoe Diary #2 performance, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland (UK)
Performing Northumbria: A Red Shoe Diary #3 performance, ‘Suicide of Objects’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast (UK)
We Live in an Economy, Not a Nation newspaper work with Kathy McArdle, ‘Transact 2’, Museum in Progress, Der Standard, Austria, ‘Suicide of Objects’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast (UK)
2005 Belgrade Studiorum discursive performances Museum of Contemporary Art, Pedagogic Museum, Belgrade (Serbia)
Red Shoe Diary #4 Hull Art Lab, Hull (UK)
Curating Degree Zero International Project Space, UWE, Birmingham (UK)
Performing Northumbria performance, ‘Navigate’ Baltic Gateshead (UK)
Aurora with Dean Brannagan, ‘There Is Always An Alternative’ Temporary - Contemporary, London (UK); International 3, Manchester (UK)
2006 The NORTH one person exhibition (photography, painting and curated works). Northern Gallery of Contemporar
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