About
Tom Clark is a curator and writer. He teaches and has worked on curatorial and publishing projects internationally. He is currently an AHRC/CHASE-Funded PhD Candidate at Goldsmiths, University of London, where his research explores infrastructural figures, politics and imaginaries as they relate to the institutions of art. He has been editor at BAK, basis for actuelle kunst, Utrecht (2015–2017); co-director at Arcadia Missa gallery, London (2010–2015); was contributing editor to Para\Fictions – Ed. Natasha Hoare (Rotterdam: Witte de With, 2018) and Maria Hlavajova and
External Projects
2020 – Article – “What if the ground is not art?” March International, no1, co-authored with Susannah Haslam
When asking what one institution (the museum) can offer another (education), what if the answer looks like something else? We ask this question with the aim of consolidating the structural issues already at play as we consider the infrastructural relationship between the museum and the art school and as an idea, in action and in form. Further we wish to consider how to critically look at, engage with and contribute to the critical project of contemporary art via its infrastructures in education, exhibition sites and discourse as examples. This is not simply a problem of distinguishing between the disciplinary conventions of these two fields, but also about mapping new and existing infrastructural torsions, changes and interventions, requiring new conceptual approaches. Later, this text brings together a set of practices that may serve to exemplify an attempt in that direction.
Full article: https://march.international/category/public-actions/