Clémentine Deliss

Clémentine Deliss was born in 1960 in London. She is a curator, researcher and publisher.

Biography

Clémentine Marie Deliss is born in 1960 in London from French-Austrian parents. She studies art in Vienna and she holds a B.A. in Social Anthropology and a Ph.D. in Philosophy at the SOAS in London on eroticism and exoticism in French anthropology of the 1920s^[1].

She has acted as a consultant for the European Union in Dakar and various cultural organizations, and conducted specific research projects through the support of art academies in Vienna, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bordeaux, Bergen, Copenhagen, Malmö, Stockholm, and London.

She works as an independent curator and her 1990's early exhibitions include Lotte or the Transformation of the Object (Styrian Autumn, Graz 1990, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, 1991), and Exotic Europeans (National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London). From 1992 to 1995 she was the artistic director of Africa’95, an artist-led festival coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts, London^[2]. For this festival she curated Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1995; Malmo Konsthall, 1996).

In 1996 she creates "Metronome (artists' and writers' organ)", a magazine which moves each time to a different location including Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, and Paris. In 2005, as a result of the research of Metronome No.9, she has established with the co-founder Thomas Beautoux a non-for profit publishing company, called Metronome Press, for the publication of fiction written by artists^[3].

In 2002 she initiates the Future Academy, in 2007 she establishes and directs the Randolph Cliff. In 2010 she is appointed director of the Museum der Weltkulturen (Museum of the World's Cultures) in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.^[4]

Work

Her theoretical interests include research into bridging mechanisms between artists working in different parts of the world, the related post-colonial issues, the status of the verbal in today’s art practice, and curatorial projects that go beyond the exhibition^[5].

The Future Academy is an international research, investigating the global future of the art academy with students, and with the support of Edinburgh College of Art, Chelsea College of Art & Design, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, and associated post-institutional organisations in Senegal. As part of the Future Academy research, there is the first experimental Future Academy's voiceforum^[6], that is an oral newspaper with a speech-led feedback system.

The Randolph Cliff is an artist in residency program supported by Edinburgh College of Art and the National Galleries of Scotland.

Exhibitions and Publications

• Lotte or the Transformation of the Object, Styrian Autumn in Graz 1990, Art Academy of Vienna 1991
• Exotic Europeans, South Bank Centre in London e tour, 1990-1991
• Report on research undertaken in Nigeria with Annabelle Nwankwo, Whitechapel Gallery, 1994
• Seven Stories About Modern Art in Africa, Flammarion, New York, 1995. Curated by Clémentine Deliss and Salah Hassan, David Koloane, Catherine Lampert, Chika Okeke, El Hadji Sy, Wanjiku Nyachae, Everlyn Nicodemus, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (27/09-26/11/1995), inside Africa95; Malmö, Svezia (27/01-17/03/1996); Gugghenheim Museum, New York (1996).
• "Metronome" since 1996
• Strategies of presentation, SCCA, Zavod za sodobno umetnost, 2002, ISBN 9619015754, 9789619015759

References

1. ^ Biography of Clémentine Deliss in Open Library.
2. ^ James Clifford, Routes: travel and translation in the late twentieth century, Harvard University Press, 1997, p. 203.
3. ^ Andrew Gallix interviews Clémentine Deliss in "3am Interview", 2005.
4. ^ Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung; 5th September 2010, page R3
5. ^ [1] Biography of Clémentine Deliss in Curating Degree Zero Archive
6. ^ http://www.voiceforum.org.

External links

• Metronome and Metronome Press
• Future Academy
• Randolph Cliff
• Future Academy's voiceforum
• Picture of Clémentine Deliss

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