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(919) 684-2467, (919) 684-2224 (office) (email)

• Provost's Common Fund, December, 2007
• Center for European Studies Travel Grant, January, 2006
• Fellow, Franklin Humanities Institute, January, 2006
• Honorary Doctorate of Arts, Dartington College of Arts & The University of Plymouth, England, December, 2005
• Arts & Sciences Research Council Faculty Grant, January, 2005

Lectures

  Invited Lectures:

• "Thinking about Artists' Writings", at tranzit.hu, Budapest, Hungary, December 4, 2008
• "Remembering the Long History of Performance Art", at TEOR/ética, San Jose, Costa Rica, October 04, 2008
• " ' Props for the Memory': Joseph Beuys and the Legacy of Fascism" for the distinguished Allen R. Hite Memorial Lecture, University of Louisville, Kentucky., April 03, 2008
• “Comments on the history of my scholarship, theory, and practice related to Performance Art,”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, New York, 20 December 2007
• “Fillies and Nags: Feminism in Art Today,”, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New York, 20 December 2007
• Moderator for panel on “The Future of Art in a Digital Age,”, Duke University, 20 December 2007
• American Art and The East, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, January 01, 2007
• Invitational educational workshop for the development of courses on “Energy and the Environment,” “War and Peace,” “Science and Society” and “Technology and Policy”, hosted by Institute for Energy and Environmental Research [IEER], in conjunction with Physics Department of East Tennessee State University, 2006
• "Theorizing Visualizations of Trauma", University of Illinois at Chicago, 2006
• "Discussion with Paul McCarthy", for "The Aesthetics of Risk" symposium at The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles, 2006
• Participation in "Periferic: Romanian Biennale 2006," Iasi, Romania., Spring 2006
• Panelist for symposium on Gustav Metzger, Federali Foundation, Vienna, Austria; and, Spring 2005
• "Parapsychology, Art, Trauma, and Science”, Annual Meeting of the Society forScience, Literature, and Art, 2004
• I gave a series of three lectures for an endowed lecture series, Florida State University, 2004
• "Art in Life=Art=Life", Karen Schreiber Gallery, Toronto, Canada, 2004

• Comments on the State of Art, or (Not Just) Horsing Around, for the Distinguished Lecture Series, “Forum for Contemporary Thought,” University of Virginia, 2003
• Between Earth & Sky: Peter d’Agostino’s 'Walks' in a Contemporary Context, Temple University, 2003
• Conversation with Carolee Schneemann and Kristine Stiles, Mead Museum, Amherst College, 2003
• Anomaly, Sky, Sex & Psi in Fluxus, at a symposium for the 40th anniversary of Fluxus, 4T Fluxus, Ecole Nationale Supèrieure des Tèlècommunication, Paris, France, 2003
• Comments on the State of Art and Metaphor, or (Not Just) Horsing Around, symposium on Serious Play/Metaphorical Gestures, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, 2003
• ‘Props for the Memory’: Joseph Beuys and Doing Wrong, Vancouver Performance Biennale, Forthcoming 2003
• Dissociative Consciousness, Multidimensional Awareness, and the Case of Larry Miller, Timisoara, Romania, 2002
• Yoko Ono’s Films & a Telephone Conversation with the artist, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, 2002
• ‘Props for the Memory’: Traumatic Enactment and Cultural Memory in the Work of Joseph Beuys, University Art Association Conference at The Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison University, Sackville New Brunswick, Canada, 2002
• Quicksilver and Revelations, Performance at the End of the 20th Century, Department of Art, University of South Carolina, 2001
• Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography of the Nuclear Age, Engaging Professors series, Rare Book Room, Perkins Library, Duke University, 2001
• David Tudor - Alive, Free, and Without Need of Culture, symposium on The Art of David Tudor: Indeterminacy and Performance in Postwar Culture, Getty Art Center, 2001
• Yoko Ono in discussion and performance with Kristine Stiles, Walker Art Center, 2001
• Mimesis & Media, Wro Internation Media Biennale, Wro Center for Media Art, Wroclaw, Poland, 2000
• Performance as a Commissural Practice, at Migrations: Process & Performance, Centro Galego de Arte Contempor·nea, Santiago de Compestello, Spain, 2000
• Dissociation, Multidimensional Consciousness, and the Mediation of Art & Technology: Larry Miller, A Case Study, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 2000
• Witnessing Trauma, American Studies Association, Women’s Committee, Detroit, 2000
• ‘Props for the Memory’: Traumatic Enactment and Cultural Memory in the Work of Joseph Beuys, Northwestern University, Art History Department, Graduate Symposium, 2000
• Remembering Invisibility: Documentary Photography in the Nuclear Age, University of California at Davis, 2000
• Being Undyed: The Meeting of Mind and Matter in Yoko Onoís Events, University of California at Los Angeles, Department of Design & Media Arts, 2000
• To See Knowing: Dissociative Consciousness, Parapsychology, and Art, Panel on the subject of “Consciousness in the New Millennium,” Annual College Art Association, New York, 2000

Publications

   Books

1. K. Stiles. “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic.  Phaidon, 2008.
2. K. Stiles, ed.,. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi.  Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; distributed by Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina, 2007.
3. K. Stiles and Peter Selz, eds.,. Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings.  University of California Press, 1996. (forthcoming in an expanded new edition edited by Kristine Stiles in 2010)
4. K. Stiles. AmaLia Perjovschi.  Soros Foundation, Bucharest, Romania, 1996.
5. K. Stiles. Dan Perjovschi's Postcards From America..  Pont La Vue Press, New York, 1995.
6. K. Stiles. Raphael Montanez Ortiz: Years of the Warrior, Years of the Psyche, 1968-1988.  El Museo Del Barrio, New York, 1988.
7. K. Stiles. Questions.  KronOscope Press, 1982. (This artist's book contains essays on Kristine Stiles' art by Lynn Hershman, Kathy O’Dell, and Richard Irwin.)

   Articles Published

1. K. Stiles. "More or Less."  June, 2009. [html]
2.  "Irregular Ways of Being in Time." The Third Mind: American Art. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, 2008. (Stiles also served as an advisor to the Guggenheim for this exhibition)
3.  "INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity."  Muzeum Sztuki, Lodz, Poland, 2008.
4.  "Come and Go." California Video. The J. Paul Getty Trust, Getty Research, 2008.
5.  "Burden of Light." Chris Burden. Newcastle England: Merrell and Locus Plus, 2007.
6.  "Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art." Kim Jones: A Retrospective. 2007.
7.  "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations From Cultures of Trauma" (1993), appeared without its 1996 "Afterword" in Bruce Lawrence and Aisha Karim, eds., On Violence: An Anthology (Durham, N.C., Duke University Press); 522-538."  2007. (This essay was originally published in Strategie II: Peuples Mediterraneens [Paris]64/65 (1993): 95-117; it was excerpted in Dan Perjovschi Post R, for the exhibition “Media Culpa,” Bucharest, Romania, 1995; it was reprinted with a new Afterword in Jean O'Barr, Nancy Hewitt, Nancy Rosebaugh, eds., Talking Gender: Public Images, Personal Journeys, and Political Critiques (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1996): 36-64; excerpted in Dan Perjovschi: Anthroprogramming (New York: Franklin Furnace, 1996); excerpted in Lusitania [New York] 6 (1994): 23-39; excerpted in German in kursiv [Linz, Austria] 2-3. (1995): 19-25; excerpted in numerous Romanian journals 1994-present.) [html]
8.  "States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi." States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi. Nasher Museum at Duke University and Duke University Press, 2007.
9.  "Shaved Heads and Marked Bodies: Representations from Cultures of Trauma." The Chain of Violence: An Anthology. Ed. Bruce Lawrence and Aisha Karim Duke University Press, 2007.
10.  "Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos."  2006.
11.  "Chris Burden."  New York: Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, 2006.
12. K. Stiles and Paul Grobstein. "The Art Historian and the Neurobiologist."  Bryn Mawr College, 2005.
13.  "Barbara Smith's Haunting." The 21st Century Odyssey Part II: The Performances of Barbara T. Smith. Pomona, California: Pomona College Museum of Art, 2005.
14.  "Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, the Social Value of Lia & Dan Perjovschis's Art."  2005.
15.  "The Story of the Destruction in Art Symposium and the "DIAS Affect"." Gustav Metzger: Geschichte Geschichte. Vienna: Generali Foundation, 2005.
16.  "Remembrance, Resistance, Reconstruction, The Social Value of Lia and Dan Perjovschi's Art."  Cluj, Romania, 2005.
17.  "Fluxus Performance and Humor." The Artist’s Joke. MIT Press, 2005.
18.  "Agnes Hegedus, Bernd Lintermann, Jeffrey Shaw: reconfiguring the CAVE." Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film. Ed. Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel Karlsruhe, Germany and Cambridge, Mass: ZKM Center for Art and Media and MIT Press, 2004: 492-497.
19.  "Chris Burden's Free Physics."  New York: Zwirner and Wirth Gallery, 2004. (Forthcoming)
20.  "I/Eye/Oculus: Performance, Installation and Video." Art of the Twentieth Century. Ed. Charles Harrison and Paul W. Wood New Haven & London: Yale University Press and The Open University, 2004: 183-229.
21.  "Paul Couillard and Ed Johnson," for Artspace, Ontario, Canada."  Ontario: Artspace, 2004.
22.  "Peinture, Photographie, Performance: Le Cas de Georges Mathieu." Georges Mathieu. Paris: Galerie National du Jeu de Paume, 2003: 75-81.
23.  "Franz West's Dialogic PaBtucke." Franz West. London: The Whitechapel Gallery, 2003: 104-121.
24.  "Performance." Critical Terms for Art History. Ed. Robert Nelson and Richard Shiff 2nd EditionChicago: University of Chicago, 2003: 75-97.
25.  "Anomaly, Sky, Sex, and Psi in Fluxus." Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance & Intermedia at Rutgers University 1958-1971. Rutgers University and Amherst College, 2003: 60-88.
26.  "At Last, A Great Woman Artist: Writing About Carolee Schneemann’s Epistolary Practice." Singular Women. Ed. Kristen Frederickson and Sarah E. Webb Berkeley: University California Press, 2003.
27.  "Jean-Jacques Lebel's Phoenix and Ashes." Jean-Jacques Lebel. London: The Mayor Gallery, 2003: 3-15.
28.  "Thunderbird Immolation: William Pope L. & Burning Racism." William Pope.L: Eracism. Ed. Mark Bessire Cambridge and Portland: MIT Press and the Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, 2002: 36-42.
29.  "David Tudor-Alive , Free, and Without Need of Culture" in a special issue, "Composers Inside Electronics: Music after David Tudor"."  2002. [html]
30.  "The Painter as an Instrument of Real Time, introduction to Carolee Schneemann’s Imaging Her Erotics: Essays, Interviews, Projects."  Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2001: 2-16.
31.  "Il mostro, la maschera e la coscienza allargata, (The Monster, the Mask and the Enlarged Consciousness)." De Dominicis: Raccolta di scritti scullíopera e líartista. Ed. Gabriele Guercio Torino: Umberto Allemandi & Co, 2001: 93-99.
32.  "Concerning Public Art and 'Messianic Time'."  2001. [html]
33.  "Afterword: Quicksilver and Revelations, Performance at the End of the 20th Century." Performance Artists Talking: 1979-7989: Sex, Food, Money/Fame, Ritual/Death. Ed. Linda Montano Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000.
34.  "Never Enough is Something Else: Feminist Performance Art, Probity, and the Avant-Garde." Contours of the Theatrical Avant-Garde: Performance and Textuality. Ed. James M. Harding Madison: University of Madison/Wisconsin, 2000: 239-289. [pdf]
35.  "Being Undyed: The Meeting of Mind and Matter in Yoko Ono’s Events." Yes Yoko Ono. Ed. Alexandra Monroe New York: Japan Society, 2000: 145-149.
36.  "Corpora Vilia: Valie Export’s Body." Valie Export’s Visual Syntagmatics. Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelpia, 2000: 16-33.
37.  "Parallel Worlds: Representing Consciousness at the Intersecton of Art, Dissociation, and Multidimensional Awareness." Reframing Consciousness: Art and Consciousness in the Post-Biological Era. Exeter: Intellect, 2000: 18-21.
38.  "Mapping Joshua Neustein's Art." Joshua Neustein: Five Ash Cities, Domestic Tranquility Bne Brak. Herzliya, Israel: Hezliya Museum, 2000: 122-130. (reprinted in JOSHUA NEUSTEIN: Five Ash cities (Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers in Association with Olive Production, 2000))
39.  "Introduction." Uri Katzenstein's Families. Durham: Duke University, 2000: 1-5.
40.  "Comisuri: Art Actiunile ca Objecte."  Timisoara, Romania, 2000: 3-4.
41. K. Stiles and Edward A. Shanken. "Missing in Action: Agency and Meaning in Interactive Art."  2000. [pdf]
42.  "Beautiful, Jean-Jacques': Jean-Jacques Lebel's Affect and the Theories of Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari." Jean-Jacques Lebel. Milano: Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta, 1999: 7-30.
43.  "The Flux/Med' Collages of Bob Watts." Bob Watts. Francesco ConzMuseum of Koper, Slovenia, 1999: 1-3.
44.  "300 Words for Dan Perjovschi." After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe. Stockholm: Moderna Museet, 1999: 153. [html]
45.  "Battle of the Yams: Contentless Forms and the Recovery of Meaning in Events and Happenings." Off Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957-1963. Newark: Newark Museum and Rutgers University Press, 1999: 118-129.
46.  "Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions." Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979. Paul Schimmel EditionLos Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 1998: 226-238. [html]
47.  "INSIDE/OUTSIDE: Balancing Between a Dusthole and Eternity." Body and the East: From the 1960s to the Present. Ljubljana: Museum of Modern Art, 1998: 19-30.
48.  "Joshua Neustein."  [New York], Fall, 1997: 80-81.
49.  "To the Organizers, Participants, and Audience of REcycling the Mode(ls)'." Messages from the Countryside/Reflections in RE. Chisinau, Moldova: Soros Center for Contemporary Art, 1997: 28-29.
50.  "Debate: Empty Slogan of Self-Representation."  1997: 87-90.
51.  "Schlaget Auf: The Problem with Carolee Schneemann's Paintings." Carolee Schneemann: Up to and Including Her Limits. New York: The New Museum, 1996: 15-25.
52.  "Roman Signer: The Sound of One Bomb Clapping,." Roman Signer. Philadelphia: Goldie Palley Gallery at the Moore College of Art and Design, 1996: 10-15.
53.  "Conversation with Paul McCarthy." Paul McCarthy. London: Phaidon Press, 1996: 6-29.
54.  "Rampman Against a Portable Field: The 'activites' of Pinchas Cohen Gan." Figure Form Formula: The Art of Pinchas Cohen Gan. Greensboro: Weatherspoon, 1996: 19-41.
55.  "Irreparable Damage: Meditation on James Lerager's Tales from the Nuclear Age." for James Lerager: Tales from the Nuclear Age. Raleigh: City Gallery Contemporary Art, 1994: 3-7.
56.  "Tuna and Other fishy Thoughts on Fluxus Events." Alison Knowles. Saarbrucken, Germany: Stadt Galerie Saarbrucken, 1994: 26-35.
57.  "Between Water and Stone; Fluxus Performance, A Metaphysics of Acts." In the Spirit of Fluxus. Ed. Elizabeth Armstrong and Joan Rothfuss Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 1993: 62-99. (excerpted in Tracy Warr, ed., The Artists'Body (London: Phaidon Press, 2000): 211-14)
58.  "Survival Ethos and Destruction Art."  Spring, 1992: 74-102.
59.  "Unbosoming Lennon: The Politics of Yoko Ono's Experience."  reprinted by the University of Havannah, Cuba, 1994, 1992: 21-54.
60. K. Stiles. ""Selected Comments on Destruction Art,"." in Alex Adriaansens, ed., Boek Voor De Instabiele: Book for the Unstable Media. Rotterdam: V2-Organization, 1992: 43-75. [html]
61.  "Thresholds of Control: Destruction Art and Teminal Culture." Out of Control. Linz, Austria: Ars Electronica & Landesverlag, 1991: 29-50. (reprinted in Ars Electronica: Facing the Future (A Survey of Two Decades, ed. Timothy Druckrey, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000)
62.  "Tuna and Other fishy Thoughts on Fluxus Events." FluxAttitudes. Buffalo & New York: Hallwalls and the New Museum, 1991: 25-34.
63.  "Readings: Performance and Its Objects."  November, 1990: 35-47.
64.  "Notes on Rudolf Schwarzkogler's Images of Healing."  Spring, 1990: 13-26.
65.  "Sticks and Stones: The Destruction in Art Symposium."  January, 1989: 54-60.
66.  "Not Just and 'Other' Exhibition."  Fall, 1988: 34-38.
67.  "Introduction to the Destruction in Art Symposium: DIAS & Discussion with Ivor Davies."  [Wales], September, 1987: 4-10.
68.  "Rodforce: Thoughts on the Art of Sherman Fleming."  Summer, 1987: 34-39.
69.  "Synopsis of the Destruction in Art Symposium (DIAS) and Its Theoretical Significance."  Spring, 1987: 22-31.
70.  "Imploring Silence: Words and Performance Essence, A Polemic."  April, 1985: 33-36.
71.  "Modern Myth: A Review of the Interdisciplinary Conference at The New School for Social Research and The Cooper Union."  San Francisco, November, 1984: 32 & 38.
72.  "STELARC: On Evolution."  August, 1984: 25 & 35.
73.  "The Luciferian Marriage: Government/Corporate/Media 'Fact' as Entertainment." The Un/Necessary Image. Ed. Peter D'Agostino and Antonio Muntadas Cambridge: MIT Press, 1983: 28-31. (reprinted)
74.  "Come and Go." Coming and Going NEW YORK (Subway), PARIS (Metro), San Francisco (BART), Washinton (METRO): Peter D'Agostino. San Francisco: Not for Sale Press, 1982: 76-81.
75.  "La Crise de l'avant-garde and an Interview with Jean-Jacques Lebel."  1981: 32-33 & 35-36.
76.  "Trans-Europ Express-Expressed." Alph-Trans-Chung: Peter D-Agostino. Dayton: Wright State University Press, 1980: 55-58.
77.  "No Money Back Anytime."  1979: 19-23. (June-July)
78.  "Brief essays on American painters." 2 Jahrzehnte amerikanische malerei 1920-1940. Dusseldort, West Germany: Stadische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, 1979: 66 & 76 & 116 & 122.
79.  "Helen and Newton Harrison: Questions."  February, 1978: 131-133.
80.  "1.1.78 - 2.2.78: Roberta Breitmore." Roberta Breitmore Is Not Lynn Hershman. San Francisco: De Young Memorial Museum, 1978: 5-14.

   Exhibition Catalogs

1.  "Jean-Jacques Lebel."  London: Mayor Gallery, 2003.
2.  "Bob Watts."  Ed. Slovenia: Museum of Koper and Editions Francesco Conz 2000.
3.  "Hans Waanders."  Raleigh: City Gallery of Contemporary Art, 1997.
4.  "Ion Bitzan."  Bath, England: City of Bath College, 1994.
5.  "Recontre Avec Morgan O'Hara."  Lausanne: Le Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, 1980.

   Book Reviews

1. RoseLee Goldberg, Laurie Anderson. Make: The Magazine of Women's Art 90 (December-Feburary 2000-2001): 90.
2. Pamela M. Lee, Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark. CAA.Reviews, the online reviews publication of the College Art Association  (2000). [html]