Emma Susan Balkind

Academic Interests

Commons Groups

HC

Political Philosophy & Theory

Recent Commons Activity

joined the group Political Philosophy & Theory

About

Currently training in Data Analysis.

Previously, I was a Teaching Fellow in Visual Culture at Edinburgh College of Art at the University of Edinburgh. I was Course Leader for Year 3 and Masters elective ‘What is the commons? Participation, objects and place in contemporary art’, and for Year 2 core teaching ‘Critical and Cultural Theories of Contemporary Art’. I taught into MA Contemporary Art Theory, MFA, and the MSc in Cultural Landscapes.

Education

PgCert in Academic Practice (Higher Education), University of Edinburgh

Estovers: Practice based research on the concept of the commons within contemporary art
PhD in Fine Art, Glasgow School of Art (funded by AHRC)

MA in Contemporary Art Theory, Edinburgh College of At at the University of Edinburgh (funded by SAAS)

BA Hons in Film and Media Studies, University of Stirling

Blog Posts

Publications

Nothing in Common? with Edward Dorrian for ~~Being Together Is Not Enough~~, Five Years (2019)

Electric Speech, Review of Telephone by Ariana Reines, MAP (2018)

Back in at the deep end, Review of SINK by Janice Kerbel, MAP (2018)

Autoimmunity: A Self-Destructive Service, Self-Service curated by Kirsty Hendry with Ilona Sagar, CCA, Glasgow as part of Glasgow International (2018)

Exhibiting the Commons, The Shock of Victory, CCA, Glasgow (2015)

Response for Dreams of Machines, Victor & Hester at Transmission, Glasgow (2015)

Communitas: The commons subject and the subject of community, Camera Austria (2015)

The Negotiation is Not Over: The Institution as Artist, discussion with Anthony Schrag for case study in Revista MESA, Instituto MESA, Brazil (2014)

Projects

Collaborative film in series ‘Talking, counting, blinking, noting’ by Alexander Hetherington (2019)

Memberships

Previously

Board member – Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen

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Open University