Lucia King CV
 

HIGHER EDUCATION:
Ongoing:    PhD candidate at: The School of Oriental and African Studies,
Centre for Film and Media, University of London
 
1990-92 The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, AmsterdamAn MA-equivalent course (Interdisciplinary Arts and Media)
 
1989-90 Royal College of Art, London
M.A. Fine Art, Sculpture
 
1984-87 Central St. Martins School of Art, London
B.A. Fine Art, 1st Class Honours
 
Associate Artist - Artsadmin, London
Artsadmin is a producing organisation for contemporary artists working
in theatre, dance, live art, visual arts, and mixed media
 
2009-10 Independent Curator/ Producer
An Anglo-Indian performance exchange programme between India
and the UK, including film productions.
Developments: Documentary film collaboration with Rajula Shah (Poona, India)
 
PhD Research area: Indian independent documentary and art films 1985-2009
 
Past Exhibitions:
2009 

To part and Return video installation, Shown at Bhavan Centre, CollyerBristow, Artsadmin (London) Made in partnership with Veenapani Chawla, director of the Adishakti Centre, South India

 

Tour of video installation artwork as a part of the project ‘Operation Infinity’.
A collaboration with directors/choreographers: Bock & Vincenzi

 

Exhibition of drawing installations, group show, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
 

Conference screenings: Persistance/Resistance documentary film festival/seminar,
Poona India 09; British South Asian Theatre Conference, Exeter University
 

2008 Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Q! Gallery,
Scotland, A Solo exhibition of screen-based artworks & drawings
 
2007 Artsadmin, ‘Summer Season’ of Live Art and Screen-based works,
video installation, London
 
2005 British Council, New Delhi, Solo exhibition of videos and drawings
 
2004 Riverside Studios, London & Rang Swarm Gold Jubilee Theatre Festival,
New Delhi, Video installation art-works

The Apeejay Media Centre, New Delhi, Video installation art-works
 
2004-5  Sikh Cultural Heritage Museum, Anandpur Sahib, India Film & Museum
display design
 
2000 Khõj International Artists Workshop, New Delhi

Mondriaan Foundation. An installation for a public hospital, Barneveld,
South Holland

Kunst en Bedrijf, Amsterdam, Installation for and Art/Business enterprise scheme

Nederlands Film Museum, Amsterdam, video installation
 
1999 Metis Gallerie, drawings, solo exhibition, Amsterdam

Gallerie F15
, groups show, drawings, Moss, Norway
 
1998 Galleria Palazzo Borghese, Residency/exhibition; Scholarship
Netherlands Embassy in Rome

Palais de Beaux Arts, Antwerp
 
2002-1989 Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Four
exhibitions/presentations
 
Films:
Produced in the UK
 
2008 Creation of an AV project within a live performance, ‘Bhakti and the Blues
collaboration with Vayu Naidu theatre company
 
2006 Tell Me A 12 minute video artwork developed from a play
 
Produced in India  
2004 At Play A 17 minute three-screen video installation, commissioned by
Roysten Abel directed in collaboration with Smita Bharti
 
2001-3 Hide and Seek A two-part 30-minute art documentary in which Delhi
childrens’ perception of ‘Success & Failure’ is explored

On the Moon a Tiger A 30 minute documentary on Hindu ritual and secular
performance traditions in which children play an essential role in India
 
Produced in the Netherlands
1995-2000 The Dark in the Light A 15 minute DVcam video artwork shot in the Arctic
Commissioned by a Dutch Shipping company, Oceanwide

Gabriel, 16mm then made as a 90-minute interactive video installation
artwork. Commissioned by the Dutch Railways Arts Board.

Sea Values (18 minutes/ shot on 35mm film)
 
Screenings of the above projects have included Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Oberhausen Film Festival, San Francisco Short Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Dutch National Film Days (Utrecht), and KunstKanaal TV broadcast, among others.
 
Performance Projects:
UK
2006 Tell Me Writer/ Director
45-minute text-based studio performance. Supported by the Menagerie
Theatre Company’s New Writers’ Development Scheme, showcased at the
Junction, Cambridge, UK
India  
2005 The Hungry Heart Theatre Festival Curator/ Programmer
Featuring seven plays directed/ authored by leading women playwrights,
Venue: India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

Love Bytes Writer/ Director
A performance exploring controversial partnerships.
Venue: India Habitat Centre, Delhi

Khel Tamasha Khel! (Play the Game!) Co-author/ Production designer
A satire on a cultural entrepreneur who exploits performing artists
Venue: St Stephen’s University, Delhi
 
2004 Lahore Ki Vekya Co-director with Smita Bharti
A play dealing with Hindu-Muslim relations during the era of the Partition of
India Venue: St Stephen’s University, Delhi

Seven Steps around the Fire by Mahesh Dattani Production designer
A play exploring the social positioning of the ‘Hijra’ communities (the
transsexuals) in India, Venue: the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi

The Girl Child educational project Curator/performance director
A 10-day theatre, dance, music and digital arts workshop series, supported
by charities, ‘Casp’ & ‘Plan International’ at ‘Sanskriti Kendra’, Hariyana

Tihar Jail, Delhi Collaboration with Smita Bharti
Working with female inmates and based on their experiences using
collective performance devising processes and verbatim accounts.
 
Artist Consultancy:  
2004-5 Senior Consultant - Asian Heritage Foundation, New Delhi, promoting the
sustainable development of handcraft and performance heritage from India
by collaboration with Fair Trade organizations in Europe.
 
2000 Freelance curator - World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam
 
Set Design:  
2005 Production designer - Gods Graves and Grandmothers, a music-based
drama based on a book by Namita Gokhale

Location designer - A world conference addressing (mis)representation of
women in South Asian legislation
 
2002-3 Production Designer - for In Othello, a feature film by director, Roysten Abel.
Screenings include the Florence Film Festival and the Osian film festival, Delhi
 

Teaching:
Ongoing. 
Associate Lecturer Film Production, University of Surrey, Faculty: Film and Dance

 

1992-2008
UK

University of Worcester; University College of the Creative Arts, Canterbury;
Leeds University; Laban Centre, London; University of Kent; Cambridge Regional College;
Central St Martins College of Art and Design, London; and Wimbledon College of Art.

India
Delivered 5 courses in digital filmmaking at my own studio for college students and youth with
no formal education from low-income neighbourhoods in New Delhi; The School of Convergence,
University for media and Film New Delhi; Baroda University Fine Arts Faculty; and
St. Stevens University, New Delhi

The Netherlands
Gerrit Rietveld Akademie,Amsterdam; Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten; and
Eindhoven University


 
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