Mick Wilson

Professor Contemporary Art
Belgium, Ireland, Sweden (residence), Ireland (citizenship) °1964
research interests: necropolitics / political community with the dead, foodways and political imaginaries, rhetorical form & method discourse in knowledge conflict
affiliation: University of Gothenburg
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Teacher, researcher, and artist based in Gothenburg, Brussels and Dublin. Currently Professor of Art at the University of Gothenburg. He was a 2018/2019 Fellow at BAK, basis voor aktuele kunst, Utrecht. He was previously Head of Valand Academy, Gothenburg (2012-2018); founder Dean of the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Ireland (2008–12); and editor-in-chief of PARSE Journal (2015-2017).  Edited volumes include: Curating After the Global (MIT Press, 2019) with P. O’Neill, L. Steeds and S. Sheikh; Public Enquiries: PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn (BDP, 2018) with G. Zachia et al; How Institutions Think (MIT Press, 2017) and The Curatorial Conundrum (MIT Press, 2016) both with P. O’Neill and L. Steeds; Curating Research, Open Editions/De Appel (2014); Curating and the Educational Turn, Open Editions/De Appel (2010) both with P. O’Neill; and SHARE Handbook for Artistic Research Education, ELIA (2013) with S. van Ruiten.

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  • Mick Wilson - ARTISTIC RESEARCH, THE UNIVERSITY, AND THE TRAJECTORY OF A DELEUZIAN MOTIF (last edited: 2016) author(s): Paulo de Assis, Mick Wilson This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Mick Wilson | University of Gothenburg, SE Day 1, 9 November, De Bijloke Kraakhuis, 10:00–11:00 This presentation seeks to problematise a certain appropriation of Deleuzian devices within the rhetorical field of artistic research, with particular reference to the reinstatement of “Art” the renewed attention to the specificity of the aesthetic, and an associated metaphorics of exceptionalism, revolt, resistance, refusal, and flight. This problematisation is not proposed as an act of delegitimation with respect to a given “reading” of Deleuze, but rather as an intervention into the field of operations across art-philosophy. In the wake of the perceived failure of institutional critique and the politics of representation in artistic research programmes, the paper asks, What are the critical alternatives to bourgeois revolt and aesthetic exceptionalism for artistic research conducted within the precincts of the contemporary university? What might the turn to Deleuze offer in this regard?
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