Irit Rogoff

Irit Rogoff is a writer, theorist, teacher and curator. Her research interests include visual culture; contemporary art and critical theory;[1] postcolonialism, geocultures and geographies,[2] cultures of education[3] and gender. Rogoff obtained her PhD from the Courtald Institute of Art in 1987.[4]

Teaching

Between 1989 and 1997 Rogoff taught at UC Davis, where she merged the graduate programs in Art and Critical Theory under the department of Visual Culture.[5] In 2002, she founded the trans-disciplinary department of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London[6] where she is a Professor of Visual Culture, heading the PhD in Curatorial/Knowledge program.[7]

Curating

Between 2005 and 2006 Rogoff was part of the curatorial team of the A.C.A.D.E.M.Y project which consisted of a series of exhibitions, projects and events at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp and the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven.[8]

In 2011, together with Stefano Harney, Adrian Heathfield, Massimiliano Mollona, Louis Moreno and Nora Sternfeld she founded the curatorial and research collective freethought.[9] In 2016 freethought was the Artistic Director of the Bergen Assembly.[10]

Between 2020 and 2022 freethought will be the global fellows at BAK, Utrecht.

Writing

Rogoff has written and co-written a number of essays. She has only authoured one book 20 years ago:

  • Visual Cultures as Seriousness This is a short pamphlet. (2013) (co-written with Gavin Butt), Sternberg Press [11]
  • Terra Infirma: Geography's Visual Culture (2000).[12]
  • A.C.A.D.E.M.Y., co-eds. Angelika Nollert and Irit Rogoff, Revolver (2006) [13]
  • Museum Culture – Histories, Discourses, Spectacles (with Daniel Sherman) Minnesota 1994, Routledge 1998.[14]

Rogoff has contributed to various periodicals such as Art Journal,[15] e-flux,[16] and Third Text.[17] She was a guest-editor for the special issue of e-flux journal no. 14 entitled Education Actualised which was published in 2010[18]

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References
  1. "Rogoff | transform.eipcp.net". transform.eipcp.net. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJOP9l0_nbI
  3. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 15 November 2012.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  5. "Professor Irit Rogoff". Goldsmiths, University of London. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  6. "Art Concerns". Art Concerns. 1 March 2007. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
  7. "Irit Rogoff | Curatorial / Knowledge". ck.kein.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  8. "Academy". vanabbemuseum.nl. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  9. "Who We Are". freethought-collective.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  10. "Freethought – Bergen Assembly". bergenassembly.no. Archived from the original on 12 June 2016. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  11. "Sternberg Press - Gavid Butt, Irit Rogoff". www.sternberg-press.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  12. "FORMER WEST – Irit Rogoff". www.formerwest.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  13. "A.C.A.D.E.M.Y. | Revolver Publishing". revolver-publishing.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  14. "Museum Culture: Histories, Discourses, Spectacles, 1st Edition (Paperback) - Routledge". Routledge.com. Retrieved 27 October 2019.
  15. Rogoff, Irit (2002). "Hit and Run—Museums and Cultural Difference". Art Journal. 61 (3): 63–73. doi:10.2307/778213. JSTOR 778213.
  16. "Turning - Journal No. 0 - e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  17. "third text". www.thirdtext.org. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  18. ""Education Actualized" – Editorial – Journal No. 14 March 2010 – e-flux". www.e-flux.com. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
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