CONVERSATION WITH IRIT ROGOFF

Irit Rogoff
is a writer, theorist and curator who works at the intersections of the critical, the political and contemporary artistic practices. She is Professor of Visual Culture at Goldsmiths College, London University and was Director of “Translating the Image – Cross Cultural Contemporary Arts” (AHRC Research Project 2001-2006) from which two volumes will be published by Koenig Verlag in 2009. Irit Rogoff is currently heading the Ph.D. programme Curatorial/Knowledge at Goldsmiths.
She is the author of Terra Infirma – Geography’s Visual Culture (Routledge 2001). Her upcoming books Unbounded and Looking Away – Participating Singularities – Ontological Communities will both be published in 2009.
Recent curatorial projects include “De-Regulation with the work of Kutlug Ataman” (Antwerp 2006, Herzylia 2006, Berlin 2008), “Academy – Learning from the Museum” (Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 2006) and “SUMMIT: Non-aligned Initiatives In Education Culture” (Berlin 2007).