CV

 

Education & Qualifications

MA The Body & Representation (Awarded with Distinction)
University of Reading, Reading, UK

BA Fine Art (Awarded with First Class Honours)
Nottingham School of Art & Design, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK

Selected Exhibitions & Performances

2024
The Handwerker’s Daughter III [Photographic work], The Strangely Bent, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, US
Offcuts [Solo show], Selbst Tanken, Berlin, DE

2023
FEIERTAG [Solo online gallery show of photographic works and installation], Galerie-P6/Artsy, Berlin, DE

2022
The Handled & The Laboured [Photographic installation], I Saw You Staring Out In Space, Galerie-P6, Berlin, DE
UNION (Parts I-V) with Traci Kelly [Photo documentation of performance], Traci Kelly: Bones That Whisper Through The Years, Maryam Gallery, Kashan, IR; Aknoon Art Gallery, Isfahan, IR

2021
Fragments of An Empire with Litsa Kiousi [Installation], Alte Münze SommerFest, 2OG/Alte Münze, Berlin, DE
UNION (Part IV: The Gilded Cage) with Traci Kelly [Photo documentation of performance], PSX: A decade of performance art in the UK, Performance Space, Folkestone, UK; PSX: A decade of performance art in the UK, VSSL, London, UK

2019
An Extraordinary Rendition with Traci Kelly [Live performance], InDialogue, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; Goat Island Archive – We Have Discovered the Performance By Making It, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US; IN>TIME Festival, 6018 North, Chicago, US

2017
UNION (Parts I-V) with Traci Kelly [Live performances, print, camera], WAKE Festival, Performance Space, Folkestone, UK

2015
Untitled Collaboration #1 with Manuel Vason & Traci Kelly [Performance for camera], ‘Manuel Vason: Intimate Collaborations. The Bare Body of Performance in UK and Russia’, Solyanka State Gallery, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
Lone Duets, Tattoo and The Way of All Flesh with Traci Kelly [Video screening of documentation], Nyama Nyama International Art Festival, Diébougou, BF

2014
Gilding the Lily with Traci Kelly [Live performance], Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol, UK 
The Net of a Triangle is Just Some Other Triangle on Top... and Clusterfuck, [Installed objects], I’m With You: International Queer Business, Room of Requirement, Berlin, DE

2013
Lone Duets with Traci Kelly [Video screening of documentation], In The Making, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK

2012
After Iconographia with Traci Kelly [Single-channel version of video installation], Visiting Times, Panke, Berlin, DE

2011
Pulse and I_land with Traci Kelly [Live performance], Between Sea and Sky III, Bergen, NO
I Thought You’d Never Come… [Solo gallery show of video, sculpture, drawings, and installation], AKA Project Space, Berlin, DE
Circle Jerk (Live Solo Aktion), [Live performance], A Queer (dis)position, Performance Space, London, UK

2010
After Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Multi-channel video installation], What Next For The Body?, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], InBetween Time Biennial of Live Art, Bristol, UK
Untitled Solo (Circle Jerk), [Video screening],Exist-ence, Judith Wright Centre of Art, Brisbane, AU 
Untitled Solo (Circle Jerk), [Video screening], Ego, AKA Project Space, Berlin, DE
Lone Duets with Traci Kelly, [Video screening of documentation], IN:ACT, Nhasen Studio, Hanoi, VN
Lone Duets: Dermographia, In Season and Postures A-to-M with Traci Kelly [Live performances], Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt-am-Main, DE
My Body Tries To Cry with Traci Kelly, and feat. Esther-Maria Ufer, [Live performance], Schwelle7, Berlin, DE

2009
In Season with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], European Performance Art Forum 09, Warsaw, PL
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Escrita Na Paisagem, Museu de Évora, Évora, PT
Viral Bodies with Traci Kelly, and feat. guest performers, [Workshop and live performance], Escrita Na Paisagem, Évora, PT
I Feel Your Weight And My… with Traci Kelly, and feat. Felix Ruckert and guest performers, [Workshop and live performance] Schwelle7, Berlin, DE
Lone Duets: Dermographia, In Season, Postures A-to-M, The Mirror Pool, Open Wound and Rupture with Traci Kelly, [Live performances as Artists-in-Residence] The National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow, UK

2008
Lone Duets with Traci Kelly, [Video screening of documentation] Exist in 08, Judith Wright Centre of Art, Brisbane, AU
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], PSi #14: Interregnum, In Between States, University of Copenhagen, DK
Rupture with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Bob Kayley Studio Theatre, University of Reading, UK
I Thought You’d Never Come… with Traci Kelly, and feat. Felix Ruckert and guest performers, [Workshop and live performance], Schwelle7, Berlin, DE
I am hunted by…/I am h_unted by… feat. Ginger Murray, [Sound work for radio] Distance and Intimacy, Commissioned by SJ Norman, Sydney, AU

2007
threepointthreeseven with Julie Vulcan, [Multi-media blog] Online 
Open Wound with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney, AU
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Bodily Functions, Granary Theatre, Cork, IE
Gilding the Lily with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Re-visions of Excess, Fierce! Festival, Birmingham, UK
The Mirror Pool with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Future Factory, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Tattoo with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], SPILL Festival of Performance, Shunt Vaults, London, UK
Dermographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], The National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, UK

2006
The Way of All Flesh feat. Veenus Vortex, [Live performance], Future Factory, Bonington Building, Nottingham, UK
In the Parlour and Migration with Traci Kelly, [Live performance and Sculpture], Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Migration with Traci Kelly, [Sculpture], Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Postures A-to-M and Iconographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Greenroom, Manchester, UK
Untitled Collaboration with Traci Kelly and Manuel Vason, [Performance for Camera], Greenroom, Manchester, UK
In Season with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Sensitive Skin, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK
Pure Collaborations with Traci Kelly and Manuel Vason, [Performance for camera], ANTI Festival, Kupio, FI
Pure Collaborations with Traci Kelly and Manuel Vason, [Performance for camera], Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, BE,

2005
Dermographia with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Future Factory, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK
With Held Breath with Traci Kelly, and feat. Yvonne Varnier, [Live performance], The National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow, UK

2004
Nine Performances with Milk with Traci Kelly, feat. Paul Chisholm, Simone Kenyon and Katherine Tydeman, [Live performance], Special Salon Event, Home, London, UK
Nine Performances with Milk with Traci Kelly, [Live performance], Sensitive Skin, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK

Selected Awards & Residencies

  • Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., #TakeHeart Rechercheförderung, Berlin, DE (2023)

  • Stiftung Kunstfonds, Neu Start Kultur Stipendien 2, Bonn, DE (2022)

  • Deutscher Künstlerbund e.V., Digitale Vermittlungsformate Stipend, Berlin, DE (2022) — Award declined due to conflicting commitments

  • Fonds Darstellende Künste e.V., #TakeHeart Prozessförderung for An Empire, Berlin, DE (2021)

  • Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Stipendium-Sonderprogramm, Berlin, DE (2020)

  • Alte Münze Berlin, Research Residency for An Empire, Berlin, DE (2020)

  • Berlin Senate Department for Culture, Performing Arts Research Grant for An Empire, Berlin, DE (2020)

  • Dance4, InDialogue International Artist-in-Residence, Nottingham, UK (2019)

  • 6018 North, IN>TIME Festival Artist-in-Residence, Chicago, US (2019)

  • Arts Council England, UNION (Parts I-V), Folkestone and Nottingham, UK (2017)

  • Arts Council England, Iconographia and Untitled (After Iconographia) at InBetween Time, Bristol, UK (2010)

  • Arts Council England, Lone Duets at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, UK, (2009)

  • The University of Reading Research Travel Award, PSi#14: Interregnum, Copenhagen, DK (2008)

  • Arts Council England, hancock & kelly live attendance at the National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, UK (2008)

  • Critical Path, Artist-in-Residence at The Drill, Sydney, AU (2007)

  • AHRC Overseas Research Award, Performing Intersubjectivity, San Francisco, US (2007)

  • The University of Reading Research Travel Award, Performing Intersubjectivity, San Francisco, US (2007)

  • Nottingham Creative Network, hancock & kelly live International Artist’s Residency, Nottingham, UK (2007)

  • Future Factory, hancock & kelly live International Artist’s Residency, Nottingham, UK (2007)

  • Future Factory Mapping Residency Commission, The Way of All Flesh, Nottingham, UK (2006)

  • Dance4, Artist in Residency at PreSet, Nottingham, UK (2006)

  • Arts Council England, hancock & kelly live: Organisational and Creative Strategy, Nottingham, UK (2006)

  • Arts Council England, The National Review of Live Art Winter School, Glasgow, UK (2006)

  • AHRC Doctoral Awards, Performing Intersubjectivity, The University of Reading, Reading, UK (2005)

  • Arts Council England, With Held Breath at The National Review of Live Art, Glasgow, UK (2004)

  • AHRC Research Preparation Masters Awards, The Body & Representation, The University of Reading, Reading, UK (2004)

  • Arts Council England, Collaboration Between Hancock, Kelly, and Vason, Nottingham, UK (2004)

  • Arts Council England, Nine Performances With Milk at Sensitive Skin, Nottingham, UK (2004)

Selected Teaching, Talks & Seminars

  • De Montfort University, Creatively Innovating the Archive, Leicester, UK (2023)

  • Ohio University School of Art & Design, Guest Artists, Athens, US (2019)

  • Burren College of Art, Guest Artists, Ballyvaughan, IE (2018)

  • University of Bristol, Performing Documents, Bristol, UK (2012)

  • National Academy of the Arts Bergen, A Terrain Full of Errors, Bergen, NO (2010)

  • De Montfort University, BA (Hons) Performing Arts, Leicester, UK (2009, 2008, 2007, 2006)

  • Schwelle7, Practical Performance Workshops, Berlin, DE (2009, 2008)

  • University of Évora, Practical Performance Workshops, Évora, PT (2009)

  • Nottdance Festival, The Witness as Dramaturg, London, UK (2008)

  • Critical Path, Memory at the Intersection of the Body and Culture, Sydney, AU (2007)

  • Performance Space, Talk on Lone Duets, Sydney, AU (2007)

  • Arnolfini, Photography, Performance and Collaboration, Bristol, UK (2007)

  • The Nottingham Trent University, BA (Hons) Contemporary Arts, Nottingham, UK (2006, 2005)

  • The University of Reading, BA (Hons)/MA Fine Art, Reading, UK (2006)

Selected Writing

  • Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, ‘Playing with Shadows, Speaking in Echoes’ in Kaye, N. (ed), Artists in the Archive: Creative and Curatorial Engagements with Documents of Art and Performance, Routledge: London (2018)

  • Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, ‘Postcards from the Powerhouse’ in NVA, Issue 7, Nottingham: Nottingham Visual Arts (2012)

  • Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, ‘…exercises in nothing less than oxygen nothing shorter than breath…’ in NRLA 30th Anniversary Catalogue and Box Set, Glasgow: New Moves International (2010)

  • Richard Hancock & Traci Kelly, ‘I Thought You’d Never Come…’ in Johnson, D. (ed), Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration – Manuel Vason, Bristol: Arnolfini Gallery (2007)

Selected Press & Publications

  • ‘Platforming Someone Terrible’ MYSTI [Article], Mousse Magazine, Mousse #85, Fall 2023

  • ‘The Perception of Self/s’ [Book chapter], An Introduction to the Phenomenology of Performance Art: SELF/s by T.J. Bacon, Intellect Books, May 2022

  • ‘Infinite Amounts of Remaining Time’ [Book chapter], Surviving Theatre: The Living Archive of Spectatorship by Marco Pustianaz, Routledge, Sep 2021

  • ‘UNION (Part II: Affective Labour), hancock & kelly, Stillpoint Magazine, 003:Fallow, Online: https://stillpointmag.org/issue/003-fallow/, Dec 2019

  • ‘On Coal, Labour, Collaboration and UNION: An Interview with Richard Hancock and Traci Kelly’ Jennie Klein [Article], Contemporary Theatre Review, Routledge Journals, Nov 2019

  • ‘An Interview with Hancock and Kelly’ Jennie Klein [Article], Contemporary Theatre Review – Interventions, Sep 2019

  • [Various essays], (States of) WAKE: Dedicating Performance edited by Diana Damian Martin, Performance Space, Jul 2018

  • ‘Lost at Sea’ Wayne Burrows [Review], Hatch Nottingham, Dec 2013

  • ‘Intimacy’ Dominic Johnson [Book chapter], Histories & Practices of Live Art edited by Deirdre Heddon & Jennie Klein, Palgrave Macmillan, Nov 2012

  • ‘Iconographia' Osunwunmi [Review], Realtime Magazine, Feb 2011

  • ‘Dance, Dramaturgy and Dramaturgical Thinking' Synne K. Behrndt [Article], Contemporary Theatre Review, 20:2, 185-196, Jun 2010

  • ‘Small Acts of Great Import' Jennie Klein [Article], Dance Theatre Journal, Laban, 23:3, Sep 2009

  • ‘Lone Duets' Eleanor Hadley Kershaw [Review], Realtime Magazine, Apr 2009

  • ‘Live Art on Camera: Performance and Photography' Alice Maude-Roxby [Essay], Live Art on Camera: Performance and Photography, John Hansard Gallery, Apr 2008

  • ‘Untitled Collaboration #1, #2, #3 & #4' Hancock, Kelly, Vason [Photographic Plates] Encounters: Performance, Photography, Collaboration - Manuel Vason edited by Dominic Johnson, Arnolfini, May 2007

  • ‘Volatile Works for Incendiary Ends’ Author Unknown [Article], Realtime Magazine, Issue 77, Feb 2007

  • ‘It Only Hurts Because it's True: Recent Live Art and Performance in the UK' Dominic Johnson [Article], Western European Stages, 19:1, Jan 2007

  • 'Sensitive Skin' Rachel Zerahin [Review], Dance Theatre Journal, Laban, 22:11, 2007

  • 'The Many-Otheredness of the NRLA' Keith Gallasch [Review], Realtime Magazine, Issue 76, Dec 2006

  • ‘Excess' Deborah Dean [Exhibition Catalogue Essay], Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Dec 2006

  • ‘Geometries of Trust' Dominic Johnson [Article], Dance Theatre Journal, Laban, 20:4, Apr 2005

Archives & Public Collections

  • hancock & kelly Archive, Special Collections - De Montfort University, Leicester, UK (2023)

  • Goat Island Archive, Special Collections - School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US (2019)

  • Dance4, Nottingham, UK (2007)

  • Critical Path, Sydney, AU (2007)

  • Live Art Archive, Bristol University, Bristol, UK (2005)

  • LADA Study Room, Live Art Development Agency, London, UK (2004)

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