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Chloë Barker

I am Co Investigator Turning Fylingdales Inside Out: making practice visible at the UK’s ballistic missile early warning and space monitoring station - 2020-2023. My contribution is based on my academic research Public Programmes: Documenta 10 and 11 and anchored in nine years of professional experience at cultural organisations: Turner Contemporary, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art and Tyneside Cinema. I have an MRes in Exhibition Studies from Central Saint Martins UAL having originally studied Fine Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design UAL. I approach the history and theory of contemporary art on the basis that art’s potential is event-based and context-dependent. My research is centred on the field of exhibition histories, with ‘exhibition’ understood in an expanded sense, as taking on myriad forms and without necessarily privileging the museum, gallery or biennial as host. Interested in both interdisciplinary collaboration and diverse cultural production, I work in a broad and geopolitical diverse intersection of thinking and practices.

Recent projects include: The Four Minute Warning Drawing Machine, The Unblinking Eye: 55 Years of Space operations on Fylingdales Moor, A British Guide to the End of the World BBC Four Arena. Public programmes: Caribbean Diaspora research symposium co-organiser in association with Durham and Northumbria universities, What’s Left? A Century in Revolution 10 day public programme of live performance, screen-ings, exhibition and talks developed in partnership with Durham University School of Modern Languages & Cultures. Producer for Artist commissions by Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman and Dr Sandra Johnson. Curated exhibitions: Avant-garde Cinema (Marie Menken, Mary Ellen Bute, Marcel Duchamp and Len Lye), John Adams, David Haines, Ming Wong and Dr Andrea Luka Zimmerman.