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The Biennial’s radical heart
Steve Dutton reflects on the exhausted Biennial model and gives his account of how curators are finding ways to overcome this syndrome.
Steve Dutton
Steve Dutton is an artist, teacher, artistic researcher and occasional curator. He is currently developing a new body artwork under the working title of “the phantom industry” which is including drawings, sound works, animations, objects and large scale texts . His work is difficult to classify, as it moves between various media, materials, processes and forms. Dutton also works in collaborations, currently with Andrew Bracey on a Curatorial project entitled 'Midpointness' which has had manifestations for the Lock Up Gallery in Newcastle, Australia, The Trans Art Triennial and Airspace in Stoke-on-Trent, UK. In the past he worked closely with Steve Swindells (Dutton and Swindells) since 1998, prior to which he was one half of the collaboration of Dutton and Peacock. Individual and collaborative projects have been exhibited throughout the UK and internationally, including The Stag and Hound at PSL in Leeds UK for which Dutton and Swindells were nominated for the Northern Art Prize. (Please see CV for a full list of recent projects). He has recently been published in the Journal of Studies in Theatre and Performance as well being published in the Journal of Writing in Creative Practice and the Journal of Visual Arts Practice along with many contributions to various magazines and publications. He also has curated a number of exhibitions including a co-curated project (with Brian Curtin) for an exhibition for Bangkok Arts and Culture Centre, entitled ‘Possession’. Dutton is a Professor of Fine Art at Bath School of Art, Bath Spa University UK, where he is Director of the Art Research Centre and teaches into the Post Graduate Art Programmes. Before joining Bath Spa he was Professor in Contemporary Art Practice at the University of Lincoln in the U.K., prior to which he was Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University and Professor in Creative Practice at Coventry University (where he founded and developed Lanchester Gallery Projects along with Sadie Kerr). He is based in Bristol UK.
