Bridget Crone

Bridget Crone is a curator, writer and lecturer working in London and South West England. She is the Artistic Director of Media Art Bath – a publicly funded commissioning organization that champions contemporary art and ideas through the development of bold new work collaborating with artists and partners locally, regionally, nationally and internationally. And since 2008, she has been an Associate Lecturer at Chelsea School of Art and Design, University of the Arts London teaching on the MA Critical Writing and Curatorial Practice. Bridget is interested in the expanded field of artists' film and video – that is, work that engages with performance, installation, sound as well as film and video. Her curatorial work can be typified through its enquiry-based approach working through an engagement with ideas and practice that considers them co-joined. Examples of this practice can be found in her work such as the conference, Imploded action, dissonant affects: Towards a new politics of non-relationality?, which she convened with Amanda Beech (2010) to explore anti-humanist impulses in current contemporary art practice; and also in her ongoing curatorial research projects, A theatre to address: a festival of textual form – concrete, material, scripted and performed (2010) and The Sensible Stage (2008-9), which each take a radically difference position from which to address ideas of affect, participation, staging and performance. Bridget enjoys working closely with artists and she has recently commissioned work from artists such as: Gail Pickering, Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Clare Gasson, Tom Nicholson, Juneau/projects, Melanie Gilligan and Maryam Jafri. Bridget has written for a range of catalogues and magazines and has a forthcoming article “Disaffect in the theatre of representation” appearing in the Journal of Visual Arts Practice. Interests: Affect – Spinoza, Deleuze and theories of the affective body; Alan Badiou, Gilles Deleuze and the event, the interruption and the distinct; Jacques Rancière and staging, participation and performance; the current conditions and operations of the image in regards to relational and anti-relational possibilities, war and violence; lens-based and moving image work, sound, performance and the theatrical in contemporary art practice.