Visiting Experts: Maria Fusco
Save the date for an open lecture by the Scotland-based writer and performer Maria Fusco.
Maria Fusco’s contribution to the Theatre Academy’s Visiting Expert Lecture Series takes place through the form of a screening of her Opera Film “History of the Present”, followed by a conversation with curator Paul O´Neill, artistic director of PUBLICS Helsinki. In the course of Oct 9th Maria Fusco will activate a curatorial reading group at PUBLICS. The Curatorial reading group with Maria Fusco focuses on art writing and takes place during the day of October 9th at PUBLICS as part of The Centre for Curatorial Thinking programme. A small group of participants from local museums, institutions, freelance and small-scale organisations are invited to meet at PUBLICS to think, discuss, read, engage and listen to Maria Fusco to discuss art writing currently as an innovation in curatorial practices. If you are interested in this reading group please contact annabelle.antas@publics.fi to sign up for a place.
Please note:
The screening space of Maria Fusco´s opera-film History of the Present (2023) needs particular features to ensure an optimal sound quality. Unfortunately, K-244 at KUVA can only host a very limited amount of people. Please register in advance or via jyri.aarila@uniarts.fi or via PUBLICS, https://www.publics.fi/calendar/1809/
About Fusco
Maria Fusco is an award-winning, working-class writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she now lives and works in Scotland, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical writing, she is the author of eight books and four largescale performances, her writing is translated into ten languages.
Her most recent projects are History of the Present, an avantgarde opera-film about the legacies of defensive architecture in Belfast, is co-directed with artist Margaret Salmon with new music by Annea Lockwood, and Who does not envy with us is against us, a book of lyric essays about working-class-ness as method (both 2023).
The upcoming open lecture is part of the Visiting Experts series where international experts in the arts and sciences, invited by Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, share their knowledge.
Maria Fusco’s contribution to the Theatre Academy’s Visiting Expert Lecture Series takes place through the form of a screening of her Opera Film “History of the Present”, followed by a conversation with curator Paul O´Neill, artistic director of PUBLICS Helsinki. In the course of Oct 9th Maria Fusco will activate a curatorial reading group at PUBLICS. The Curatorial reading group with Maria Fusco focuses on art writing and takes place during the day of October 9th at PUBLICS as part of The Centre for Curatorial Thinking programme. A small group of participants from local museums, institutions, freelance and small-scale organisations are invited to meet at PUBLICS to think, discuss, read, engage and listen to Maria Fusco to discuss art writing currently as an innovation in curatorial practices. If you are interested in this reading group please contact annabelle.antas@publics.fi to sign up for a place.
Please note:
The screening space of Maria Fusco´s opera-film History of the Present (2023) needs particular features to ensure an optimal sound quality. Unfortunately, K-244 at KUVA can only host a very limited amount of people. Please register in advance or via jyri.aarila@uniarts.fi or via PUBLICS, https://www.publics.fi/calendar/1809/
About Fusco
Maria Fusco is an award-winning, working-class writer. Born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, she now lives and works in Scotland, where she is Professor of Interdisciplinary Writing at the University of Dundee. Her work is protean in nature, characterised by critical attention to intersectional socio-economic circumstances through an experimental lens. Working across performance and theoretical writing, she is the author of eight books and four largescale performances, her writing is translated into ten languages.
Her most recent projects are History of the Present, an avantgarde opera-film about the legacies of defensive architecture in Belfast, is co-directed with artist Margaret Salmon with new music by Annea Lockwood, and Who does not envy with us is against us, a book of lyric essays about working-class-ness as method (both 2023).
The upcoming open lecture is part of the Visiting Experts series where international experts in the arts and sciences, invited by Uniarts Helsinki’s Theatre Academy, share their knowledge.