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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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PARSE Journal Issue #2 The Value of Contemporary Art
- 2015
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In: http://www.parsejournal.com/issue/2. - Göteborg : University of Gothenburg. - 2002-0953. ; 1:2
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Other publication (other academic/artistic)abstract
- With Professor Andrea Phillips (University of Gothenburg) and Dr. Suhail Malik (Goldsmiths, University of London) , I co-edited the second edition of the peer-reviewed PARSE (Platform for Artistic Research Sweden) Journal. This edition dealt specifically with questions of value in contemporary art and included a total of 11 peer reviewed contributions.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Speaking Mandy
- 2014
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In: European Artistic Research Network Conference: Thinking on Stage, May 2 2014, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, EIRE.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I will present at the very beginning of a research process, towards the making of a new art work through which I aim to interrogate the heritage of the phonocentric Oralist tradition in the education of Deaf people. I seek to ‘read’ and deconstruct Alexander McKendrick’s film, Mandy (1952) through a co-participatory process - with Deaf people educated through Oralism and of the same generation as the child protagonist in the film - to question the advocacy of entry into the symbolic via the ‘spoken’ and ‘speech-identification’ and its relations to psychoanalytic and inter-subjective, spectator-focused film theory. Through mimetic and performative processes inherent to Oralism (such as speech-reading, lip-reading, ventriloquism, echo-practice, dubbing and lip-synchronisation) I aim to adapt Mandy - itself an adaptation of Hilda Lewis’ novel, 'The Day is Ours' (1947) – in ways that reveal the psychoanalytic dynamics of shame at play in Oralism’s delineation of Deafness as a culture and its adherence to Deafness as a disability.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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De-Imagining Critical Communities
- 2015
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In: Community Arts? Learning from the Legacy of Artists' Social Initiatives Conference, Liverpool, 1st of nov.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I contributed a presentation and moderated a session. This daylong event brings together distinguished thinkers and practitioners from the field of community arts, in order to discuss the legacy of such practices in the light of a renewed interest in socially engaged art. This event will re-open conversations and instigate new ones, ensuring that important work undertaken in the 1970s and 1980s continues to resonate. Speakers: Assemble, Ania Bas, Sonia Boyce, Jason E. Bowman, Polly Brannan, Anna Colin, Anna Cutler, Rosie Cooper, Janna Graham, Granby 4 Streets Community Land Trust, Jeanne van Heeswijk, Homebaked, Sophie Hope, Nina Edge, Bill Harpe, Wendy Harpe, Loraine Leeson, Angela McKay, Andrea Phillips, Laura Raicovich, Alan Read, Frances Rifkin, Sally Tallant, Nato Thompson and Ed Webb-Ingall. This event is part of a weekend of programmes in Liverpool and beyond that considers current approaches in socially engaged art
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Expert Panelist : Visible Art Award
- 2015
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In: Visible Award Parliament.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- I was invited as an expert panelist for the Visible Award. The Visible Award is the first international production award devoted to art work in the social sphere, that aims to produce and sustain socially engaged artistic practices in a global context. Part of the broader research project, aims to research, support and offer a discursive and productive platform to innovative artistic projects that are able to become visible also in fields other than the artistic ones.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Elements of Performance Art : The Theatre of Mistakes
- 2015
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In: PARSE Conference, Universitty of Gothenburg, 3-6 November.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Elements of Performance Art. The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes ‘Working without a watch and without a tape-measure, the performance artist may come to rely on a sense of “performance time”- where yards are expressed by strides and feet by paces, where minutes are expressed by counts and, where time and space are expressed by any means that may be devised.’ Instigated by Anthony Howell, a poet and dancer and founder of conceptualist magazine Wallpaper, The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes was a UK-based collective formed in 1974, which disbanded in 1981. Their foundational work was generated through a series of openly advertised events at which, from 1974-1976, attendees co-developed a series of game-based exercises via instructional rules informed by spatiotemporal mechanisms, which were collectively named The Gymnasium, and thoroughly recorded in a suite of eponymous notes. Their sole publication Anthony Howell and Fiona Templeton’s Elements of Performance (refined by activities developed via The Gymnasium from 1974-76) was self-published and distributed by Ting in 1976 in an initial edition of 60 and in 1977 in a revised edition of 800. The Ting: The Theatre of Mistakes’ ethos and methods of production are outlined in the publication against six convergent elements: conditions, body, aural, time/space, equipment and manifestation with a total of 42 exercises to be structured via chance allowing for multiple formations and focalised structures. Designed as a comb-bound instructional manual with an introductory manifesto, Elements of Performance Art offers a unique insight into how Ting advocated the temporal liveness of performance art be created via instruction and chance with cross-disciplinary activities. It remains an out-of-print but influential publication within the history of inter-disciplinary and is arguably the first manifesto for Performance Art in the UK. Jason E. Bowman will curate a career survey of The Theatre of Mistakes in 2017. For the PARSE conference he has invited Anthony Howell to workshop, with a series of participants, a re-activation of exercises from Elements of Performance Art. Bowman and Howell will subsequently be in conversation regarding Elements of Performance Art, temporalities and inter-disciplinary concepts of time.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Scavenging Surveillance
- 2015
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In: WATCHED! Symposium 7-8 oktober. Surveillance Art & Photography in Europe post 9/11'.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Jason E. Bowman will examine his 2009-10 project Untitled (on a day unknown), commissioned by the Whitworth Art Gallery. Bowman worked with Out in the City - a group of LGBTQ senior citizens - to exhume then re-iterate and interpret a court case of a group of 29 men tried for homosexual crimes in 1936 in a small English town. From multiple archival resources - newspaper reports, criminal and court records etc. – the trial, its mediation within popular press and its meanings within a culture of inter-war years surveillance were re-traced. Via a performative reiteration of the trial, held in private, a series of pinhole photographs and a suite of drawings, conducted from memory by a official court artist, were produced, then co-exhibited. Jason will discuss the relations between the psychoanalytic culture of shame, the performativity of the legal body, and of scavenging amidst an historiography of surveillance as a method to ingeminate the queered archive as a site of trauma, violence and inspection.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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What is at Stake in Community Practice? What Have We Learned?
- 2016
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In: Stages: Journal of the Liverpool Biennial. - 2399-9675. ; :5, s. 2-9
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this writing I seek to detect a few precursory concerns that may inform an initial response to the question, ‘What is at Stake in Community Practice? What Have We Learned? In doing so I consider issues of legacy and obfuscation; the delimiting of education as a public good, and indicate the potential for artist-organisation to be considered in determining organisational practices.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Accidentally on Purpose: Curating Aleatoric Certainties
- 2017
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In: Goldmsmiths College Choreographic Seminar Series.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this presentation Jason E. Bowman will offer two case studies of his curatorial endeavours, both being survey exhibitions incorporating live works: Yvonne Rainer: Dance and Film (Tramway, 2010) and the current, In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes (Raven Row, 2017). Jason has worked on this latter project for over 10 years, firstly cataloguing the divergent records and ephemera of the UK performance company The Theatre of Mistakes (1974-81) including manifestos, diagrams, instructions, logbooks, photographic documentation, correspondence etc. He will address how hypertemporal frameworks have operated in the organisation and manifestation of these projects and in particular consider how In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes seeks to develop ways in which to make ‘exhibitable’ the logics of this artists’ group in terms of their working processes and their commitment to additive and subtractive forms of replication. He will also consider the problematics and discontents of revitalising performances.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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"Jason E. Bowman - Talk to the Hand"
- 2023
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In: Gothenburg, Galleri Cora Hillebrand, 17 November - 9 December 2023.
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- "Talk to the Hand" was an exhibition that sought to re-think the dominant conventions of monographic (retrospective) exhibitions which are largely dependent on the contention that artworks have stable and immutable ontologies. The author's art is ephemeral, mutable, context- and socio-specific, and relational. "Talk to the Hand" sought to identify and test methods by which to navigate how selected works from an oeuvre of over 30 years may be re-articulated through modalities of nuanced reconstruction and revitalisation. In tandem new works were also produced to question the oft-implied temporalised notion of 'pause' or 'arrest' that punctuates conventional forms of retrospective exhibitions. In doing so the exhibition begins to develop ways to re-assess the notion of retrospection in monographic exhibitions by attempting to foreground concepts of practice alongside art works as indicators of the mutability of practice as non-sequential and non-chrono-normative. "Talk to the Hand" builds on the author's ongoing but occasional research into monographic exhibitions. The exhibition was directly invited by the gallery's director and the gallery receives subsidy, and thus the project is understood as peer-reviewed.
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- Bowman, Jason E., 1967
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Three exhibitionary iterations on artist-organisation via curating.
- 2019
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In: Valand Academy Research Day 2019.
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Jason E. Bowman will present on three exhibitions that are constitutive of his recent practice-based, artistic research: ‘In Case There’s a Reason: The Theatre of Mistakes’ (Raven Row gallery, London. 2017); ‘Setting the Table’ (BALTIC Contemporary Arts, Newcastle. 2018) and ‘queer timɘs school prints’ (Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow. 2018). Collectively these interrogate different modes and constellations of artist-organisation as possible forms of ‘curating’.
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