Research Interests for Kristine Stiles

My research concerns all aspects of global contemporary art and theory, with a focus on artists writings and experimental art, from conceptual and performance art to installation and art and technology. I continue to work on destruction in art and feminism, as well as in the fields of trauma studies and visual and cultural studies. Two areas in which my research is growing are curatorial studies and practices, and animal studies with a concentration on horses.

Current projects:

I continue to work on a comprehensive survey of world art since 1945 with Professor Kathy O'Dell, Associate Dean

College of Arts, Humanities & Social Sciences, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Representative Publications

1. Stiles, K; Selz, P, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (2012), University of California Press (2nd, revised, expanded edition edited by Kristine Stiles.)
2. Stiles, K, Correspondence Course, An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle (2010), Duke University Press (With an Introduction and extensive annotations by Kristine Stiles.)
3. States of Mind: Dan & Lia Perjovschi (2007), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; distributed by Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina (With contributions by Andrei Codrescu, Marius Babius and Ruxana Marcoci.)
4. “Cloud with its Shadow: Marina Abramovic” in Marina Abramovic, in Marina Abramovic (2008), Phaidon, London
5. Stiles, K, Burden of Light, in Chris Burden (2007), Newcastle England: Merrell and Locus Plus
6. Stiles, K, Teaching a Dead Hand to Draw, Kim Jones, War and Art, in Kim Jones: A Retrospective (2007)
7. Stiles, K, Conversation with William Pope.L, in The Voice of Images (2012), pp. 181-193, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
8. Stiles, K, Uncorrupted Joy: International Art Actions, in Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979, Paul Schimmel Edition (1998), pp. 226-238, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art [pdf]
9. Stiles, K, Metzger's Fierce, Poignant, and Prescient Manifestos, in Rett Kopi: Documents the Future (2006), pp. 157-166, Rett Kopi
10. Stiles, K, Performance, in Critical Terms for Art History, 2nd Edition, edited by Nelson, R; Shiff, R (2003), pp. 75-97, Chicago: University of Chicago