Rachel Lois Clapham

rachellois@opendialogues.com www.opendialogues.com

Curatorial
Open Dialogues Co-Director 2008- current
Tate Britain Curator ‘Nahnou-Together Now’ 2008
Writing From Live Art Editor 2006-2008
Tate Britain Curatorial Assistant 2006- 2007

Producing
Writing Live Yorkshire forthcoming 2011
Critical Communities Yorkshire/London 2009
Question Time COP15 in association with Wooloo Productions Copenhagen 2009
Overspill Spill Festival of Performance London 2007 and 2009 (Supported by Arts Council England)
Open Dialogues: Performance Saga in association with Performance Saga Lausanne 2009
Open Dialogues: New Life Berlin in association with Wooloo Productions Berlin 2008
We Need to Talk About Live Art NRLA Glasgow 2007 and 2008
Writing Live Performa Biennial New York 2007 and 2009 (Supported by Arts Council England)

Selected Residencies/Performances/Exhibitions
READERS WANTED Wandle Park London 2010
Essaying Touch Islington Mill Salford 2010
Re- PSL Gallery Leeds 2010
10 Performances +1 Jubilee Theatre Roehampton 2009
Notes on a Return Laing Gallery Newcastle 2009
FREE PRESS Plan 9 Bristol 2009
Without You It’s Nothing Deptford X, London 2008
Writing From Live Art Live Art UK, London 2006- 2008 (Supported by Arts Council England)

Selected Talks and Seminars

Some of the Pasts ICA Live Art Programme 2010
Writing in Parallel Drama Department, University of Bristol, 2009
Live Review Photographers Gallery, London 2009
Confessions of a Critic Limoncello Punctuation Programme, London, 2008
Critical Encounters Writing Encounters Symposium, York St. John University, 2008
Writing on Performance Laban 2007
Vital Bodies International Liverpool John Moores University 2007

Selected Publications
Performance Writing: A Guide Live Art Development Agency forthcoming (UK) 2010
NOTES Very Small Kitchen (UK) 2010
RITE Open Dialogues ed. (UK) 2009
A Score for Writing Performance The Reading Room (DE) 2010
Inside Performance Dance Theatre Journal (UK) 2009- ongoing
This Text Too Shall Pass opendialogues.blogspot.com 2009
Long March Projects Performa 07 Biennial Catalogue (US) 2009
Incommunicado FM Site Gallery Commission (UK) Oct 2008

Education
2007 Goldsmiths College MA Contemporary Art Theory
2000 Goldsmiths College BA Honours Fine Art and Art History