CV
Education
2005
MA The Body & Representation (Awarded with Distinction), University of Reading, UK
2002
BA Fine Art (Awarded with First Class Honours), Nottingham Trent University, UK
Selected Solo Exhibitions, Projects & Performances
2024
Offcuts, Selbst Tanken, Berlin, DE
2023
FEIERTAG, Galerie-P6/Artsy, Berlin, DE
An Empire: A Performance-in-Print in 7 Acts with Litsa Kiousi, Fonds Darstellende Künste, Berlin, DE
2022
Traci Kelly: Bones That Whisper Through The Years, Maryam Gallery, Kashan, IR
Traci Kelly: Bones That Whisper Through The Years, Aknoon Art Gallery, Isfahan, IR
2019
An Extraordinary Rendition with Traci Kelly, InDialogue, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
An Extraordinary Rendition with Traci Kelly, Goat Island Archive – We Have Discovered the Performance By Making It, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, US
Jackie Kennedy Flees the Scene of Her Husband’s Murder with Traci Kelly, IN>TIME Festival, 6018 North, Chicago, US
2017
UNION (Parts I-V) with Traci Kelly, WAKE Festival, Performance Space, Folkestone, UK
2014
Gilding the Lily with Traci Kelly, Tempting Failure, The Island, Bristol, UK
2011
Pulse and I_land with Traci Kelly, Between Sea and Sky III, Bergen, NO
I Thought You’d Never Come…, AKA Project Space, Berlin, DE
Circle Jerk (Live Solo Aktion), A Queer (dis)position, Performance Space, London, UK
2010
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, InBetween Time Biennial of Live Art, Bristol, UK
Lone Duets: Dermographia, In Season and Postures A-to-M with Traci Kelly, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt-am-Main, DE
My Body Tries To Cry with Traci Kelly, and feat. Esther-Maria Ufer, Schwelle7, Berlin, DE
2009
In Season with Traci Kelly, European Performance Art Forum 09, Warsaw, PL
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, Escrita Na Paisagem, Museu de Évora, Évora, PT
Viral Bodies with Traci Kelly, and feat. guest performers, Escrita Na Paisagem, Évora, PT
I Feel Your Weight And My… with Traci Kelly, and feat. Felix Ruckert and guest performers, Schwelle7, Berlin, DE
Lone Duets: Dermographia, In Season, Postures A-to-M, The Mirror Pool, Open Wound and Rupture with Traci Kelly, The National Review of Live Art, The Arches, Glasgow, UK
2008
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, PSi #14: Interregnum, In Between States, University of Copenhagen, DK
Rupture with Traci Kelly, Bob Kayley Studio Theatre, University of Reading, UK
I Thought You’d Never Come… with Traci Kelly, and feat. Felix Ruckert and guest performers, Schwelle7, Berlin, DE
2007
threepointthreeseven with Julie Vulcan, Online
Open Wound with Traci Kelly, Performance Space, Carriageworks, Sydney, AU
Iconographia with Traci Kelly, Bodily Functions, Granary Theatre, Cork, IE
Gilding the Lily with Traci Kelly, Re-visions of Excess, Fierce! Festival, Birmingham, UK
The Mirror Pool with Traci Kelly, Future Factory, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Tattoo with Traci Kelly, SPILL Festival of Performance, Shunt Vaults, London, UK
Dermographia with Traci Kelly, The National Review of Live Art, Tramway, Glasgow, UK
2006
The Way of All Flesh feat. Veenus Vortex, Future Factory, Bonington Building, Nottingham, UK
In the Parlour with Traci Kelly, Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Postures A-to-M and Iconographia with Traci Kelly, Greenroom, Manchester, UK
Untitled Collaboration with Traci Kelly and Manuel Vason, Greenroom, Manchester, UK
In Season with Traci Kelly, Sensitive Skin, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK
2005
Dermographia with Traci Kelly, Future Factory, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK
With Held Breath with Traci Kelly, and feat. Yvonne Varnier, 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, Special Salon Event, Home, London, UK
Nine Performances with Milk with Traci Kelly, Sensitive Skin, The Powerhouse, Nottingham, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
The Strangely Bent, Ox-Bow, Saugatuck, US
2022
I Saw You Staring Out In Space, Galerie-P6, Berlin, DE
2021
Alte Münze SommerFest, Alte Münze, Berlin, DE
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
2015
Manuel Vason: Intimate Collaborations. The Bare Body of Performance in UK and Russia, Solyanka State Gallery, 6th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow, RU
Nyama Nyama International Art Festival, Diébougou, BF
2014
I’m With You: International Queer Business, Room of Requirement, Berlin, DE
2013
In The Making, Bonington Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2012
Visiting Times, Panke, Berlin, DE
2010
What Next For The Body?, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
Exist-ence, Judith Wright Centre of Art, Brisbane, AU
Ego, AKA Project Space, Berlin, DE
IN:ACT, Nhasen Studio, Hanoi, VN
2008
Exist in 08, Judith Wright Centre of Art, Brisbane, AU
Distance and Intimacy, Commissioned by SJ Norman, Sydney, AU
2006
Excess, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Pure Collaborations, ANTI Festival, Kupio, FI
Pure Collaborations, Les Halles de Schaerbeek, Brussels, BE,
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)