Lucia King CV |
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| HIGHER EDUCATION: | ||
| Ongoing: | PhD
candidate at: The School of Oriental and African Studies, Centre for Film and Media, University of London |
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| 1990-92 | The Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten,
AmsterdamAn MA-equivalent course (Interdisciplinary Arts and Media) |
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| 1989-90 |
Royal College of Art, London M.A. Fine Art, Sculpture |
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| 1984-87 |
Central St. Martins School of Art, London B.A. Fine Art, 1st Class Honours |
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| Associate Artist - | Artsadmin, London Artsadmin is a producing organisation for contemporary artists working in theatre, dance, live art, visual arts, and mixed media |
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| 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) |
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| PhD Research area: |
Indian
independent documentary and art films 1985-2009 |
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| 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’.
Exhibition of drawing installations,
group show, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London
Conference screenings:
Persistance/Resistance documentary film festival/seminar, |
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| 2008 |
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary
Visual Art,
Q! Gallery, Scotland, A Solo exhibition of screen-based artworks & drawings |
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| 2007 |
Artsadmin,
‘Summer Season’ of Live Art and Screen-based works, video installation, London |
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| 2005 |
British Council, New Delhi, Solo exhibition of videos and drawings |
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| 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 |
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| 2004-5 |
Sikh Cultural Heritage Museum, Anandpur Sahib, India Film & Museum display design |
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| 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 |
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| 1999 |
Metis Gallerie,
drawings, solo exhibition, Amsterdam Gallerie F15, groups show, drawings, Moss, Norway |
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| 1998 |
Galleria Palazzo Borghese, Residency/exhibition; Scholarship Netherlands Embassy in Rome Palais de Beaux Arts, Antwerp |
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| 2002-1989 |
Rijksakademie van
Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam, Four exhibitions/presentations |
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Films: Produced in the UK |
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| 2008 |
Creation of an AV project
within a live performance, ‘Bhakti and the
Blues’ collaboration with Vayu Naidu theatre company |
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| 2006 |
Tell Me
A 12 minute video artwork developed from a play |
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| Produced in India | ||
| 2004 |
At Play A 17 minute
three-screen video installation, commissioned by Roysten Abel directed in collaboration with Smita Bharti |
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| 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 |
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| 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) |
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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. |
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Performance Projects: UK |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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. |
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| 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. |
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| 2000 |
Freelance curator - World Wide Video Festival, Amsterdam |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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Teaching: 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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