Dr Outi Remes
Dr Outi Remes (PhD, MA, BA) is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Culture at Richmond, where she teaches on contemporary art. She is also the Director of the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey. She leads the service, strategic direction and organisational objectives of the Gallery as an educational charity that promotes contemporary visual arts and crafts to as wide a public as possible through a programme of changing exhibitions, projects with artists and educational events. Outi also lectures at Birkbeck College, the University of London. Previously, Outi worked as the Head of Exhibitions at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire (2007-11). She was awarded a PhD from the University of Reading (2005). Outi is a curator of many interdisciplinary projects, including 'Rules and Regs' live art residences (2007-11) and the 'At Play' exhibition series (with Cally Trench, 2009-12), re-creating a sense of what it is like to be a child at play. She is a committee member of the Museums and Exhibitions Group, the Association of Art Historians, representing the interests of UK gallery employees and creating a cross-dialogue between academics and curators. She is also a member of the Contemporary Art Society and the Museum Association.
Outi teaches Contemporary Art in the Spring semester and her office hours are on Tuesdays from 2.30-3.30pm.
EXHIBITION AND CONFERENCE NEWS
AAH MUSEUM & EXHIBITIONS SESSION: “PERFORMATIVITY IN THE GALLERY: STAGING INTERACTIVE ENCOUNTERS”, 38th Annual Conference, the Open University, Milton Keynes, 29 - 31 March 2012.
http://www.aah.org.uk/annual-conference/2012-conference/academic-sessions-2012/academic-session-32-ou-2012
BANQUET: RAIMI GBADAMOSI
3 December 2011 - 28 January 2012, South Hill Park Arts Centre, Bracknell, South East. http://www.axisweb.org/seCuratorProjectDetails.aspx?CID=179&PID=698
UBIQUITOUS MATERIALS: JEANNIE DRIVER & CHRISTOPHER LUNDIE
10 February - 8 April 2012, South Hill Park, Bracknell, South East. http://www.axisweb.org/seCuratorProjectDetails.aspx?CID=179&PID=700
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Outi’s research interests include contemporary art in relation to global media culture, the production of the self, participation and interaction in public spaces as well as interactivity in gallery settings.
BOOKS & BOOK CHAPTERS:
Turner, M. and Remes, O. (eds.) Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia. Taiwan: Charnwood Arts et al. 2012.
Remes, O. and Skelton, P. (eds.) Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art. Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010.
Remes, O. “After Bad Taste: Tracey Emin’s Work on Abortion and Other Confessions” in Harris, J. (ed.) Inside the Death Drive Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool, 2010. 119-143
Remes, O. “Confessional Art”, Jackson, R.J. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Identity. SAGE in association with University of Illinois, 2010. 123-5
Shaw, M., Stonyer, A., Remes, O., Abbott, F. and Chong, A. Virtually Sculpture. Loughborough University; The Study Gallery of Modern Art; South Hill Park; AHRC, 2009.
Engberg, J., Remes, O. and Hansen, R. Richard Billingham: People, Places, Animals. Southbank, Australia: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2007.
ARTICLES:
Remes, O. ”Finding Africa(s) in Finland” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Vol. 39, No. 4, January/February, 2012)
Remes, O. “Occupying Spaces” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (New York: Vol. 38, No. 2, September/October, 2010) 27-28
Remes, O. “Replaying the Old Stereotypes into an Artistic Role: the case of Tracey Emin” in Women’s History Review (Vol. 18, No. 4, September 2009) 561-577
Remes, O. “Reinterpreting Unconventional Family Photography: Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh Series” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Vol. 34, No. 6, 2007) 16-19
Remes, O. “From the Regenerated Black Country to the Mystified New Forest: Richard Billingham’s Urbanscape and Landscape Photography” in Inferno: Cartography and Urban Representations throughout History (10, 2005) 75-82
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES & SYMPOSIA (CONVENER/ORGANISER):
• Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters, Annual AAH Conference, Open University, Milton Keynes, 2012 (convener, Museums & Exhibitions Group)
• International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Belfast, 2009 (convener)
• Conspiracy Dwellings: Symposium on Surveillance in Contemporary Art, South Hill Park Arts Centre, 2008 (organiser & convener)
• AAH Summer School, University of Plymouth with Association of Art Historians, 2004 (organiser & convener)
• New Voices, University of Reading with Association of Art Historians, 2004 (organiser & convener).
ONLINE AND DIGITAL PROJECTS:
Remes, O. ”Following the Acts of Surveillance Society” in O’Reilly, L. and Lines-Slatter, I. Trail Blazing: Artist Residencies in Supported Housing for Young People. Look Ahead, 2010. 18-19 [DVD with a catalogue].
Member of selection panel for MAstars 2009, Axis. MAstars presents a selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses.
Art historical contributions for the interdisciplinary web exhibit Color, Vision and Art: Vision Science and the Emerge of Modern Art. The exhibit is a public service, intended for the use of schools, undergraduate students and the general public. Project by: Livingstone, M., Lustig, L.J., Zek, S., Remes, O., Mathews, S. and Douma, M. Rockville: Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA), 2006. http://webexhibits.org/colorart/index.html.
