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Staff profile / Professor André Stitt

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Born in Belfast, N. Ireland, Stitt is considered one of Europe's foremost performance and interdisciplinary artists. He has worked as a time based artist since 1976 creating hundreds of unique performances at major galleries, festivals, alternative venues and sites specific throughout the world including the Venice Biennale 2005, Baltic Contemporary Art Centre, Gateshead, 2005 and The Drawing Centre, New York, 2006. In 2004 he became a professor of the University of Wales.

In 2000 he opened trace: Installaction Artspace in Cardiff initiating a robust programme of international time based work: www.tracegallery.org

There are several books published about his life and work. Recent examples of work include:

2007 Flashes from the Archives of Oblivion: Stuart Brisley, Ian Hinchliffe, Alastiar Maclennan and Tatsumi Orimoto, curated by Andre Stitt
2007 Dingo: A Treatment towards a new communionism, in Aftermath Installation and Performance, Artspace, Australia
2007 irioshima Art Document Installation & performance, Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
2006 Cardiff Art in Time Festival (curator)

Professor Andre Stitt is a member of the Centre for Fine Art Research (http://www.wirad.ac.uk/research-themes/centre-for-fine-art/), part of the Fine Art & Ceramics theme within WIRAD.

André Stitt is represented by:
curcioprojects New York

Email: cucioprojects@yahoo.com

Research:

2000 – 2007 Director/Curator, TRACE: Install-action Artspace, Cardiff
2005 – 2006 curated & produced 10 performance/installation Exhibitions & 1International Exchange
2006 Trace Archive Exhibition, Howard Gardens Gallery, Cardiff
2006 Cardiff Art In Time, International Performance Art Festival & Conference

Authored Works

2007, We Don’t Dig Doom, The Panacea Society (CD)
2006, Flowers & Beads, The Panacea Society (10” vinyl record)
2006, Tour Blog, Samizdat Press
2006, TRACE 00’05, Seren Wales
2005, The Institution, Chapter, Cardiff

Conference Contributions:

2005 Welsh performance Art Conference, Québec (Chair)
2004 RHWNT, exchange between Wales and Quebec (Chair)
2001 Material, Form, Discourse, Turku, Finland (Chair)
2001 Span2/International Artists Encounters,London (Chair)

Recent Exhibitions and Other Events:

2007 Arcadia Painting Exhibition, Tactile Bosch, Cardiff
2007 British Performance Art, British School in Rome, Italy
2007 Performances, Campbelltown Arts Centre, N.S.W. Australia
2007 Aftermath Installation and Performance , Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2007 Hirioshima Art Document, Installation & performance, Bank of Japan, Hiroshima, Japan
2007 EPAF, Contemporary Art Centre, Warsaw
2007 Flashes From The Archive of Oblivion, Chapter Art Gallery, Cardiff
2006 Ivor Davies Prize, National Eisteddfod for conveying the spirit of fight over the Welsh language, culture and politics of Wales.
2006 Acute Zonal Outer, Drawing Center, New York
2006 Artspace, Staffordshire University
2005 Reclamation, Chapter, Cardiff (exhibition and catalogue)
2005 Of Contradiction, Beijing Residency, Beijing New Art Projects (studio residency and exhibition)
2005 DWR site specific project & video installation, Cywaith Cymru/Artworks Wales
2005 Reaction: Venice Agendas. Venice Biennale, Italy.
2005 Harlech Biennale, Wales
2005 Traces: Exhibition and Conference. New York: Franklin Furnace Archive.
2005 Navigate Live Art Festival. Gateshead, Newcastle: Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
2005 Political Art. Arnofini, Bristol, UK.
2005 International Congress on Performance Art. Chile: Valparaiso Auditorium.
2005 ASA Performance Art Conference. Berlin, Germany.

Research Residencies

2007 Residency, Artspace, Sydney, Australia
2005 Of Contradiction, Beijing Residency, Beijing New Art Projects

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.