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Kathy Noble is a British art curator and writer, currently working as senior curator at Performa,[1] a New York non-profit dedicated to contemporary visual arts performance. She previously worked as Curator, Interdisciplinary at Tate Modern, London and specializes in performance and cross-disciplinary work.
Early life and education
[edit]Noble was born in London and attended Camden School for Girls. She holds a BA History of Art from the University of Warwick and an MA Creative Curating from Goldsmiths, University of London.
Career
[edit]Curator
[edit]Noble began her career at the Architecture Foundation, before moving to Tate Modern to work as Assistant Curator, followed by Curator, Interdisciplinary, specializing in performance and time-based media,[2] between 2007 and 2012. There she co-curated Tate Modern Live, a program of performance commissions and experimental events with Catherine Wood, working with artists such as Michael Clark,[3] Keren Cytter, Robert Morris,[4] and Neue Slowenische Kunst,[5] also launching BMW Tate Live: Performance Room, the first live streaming performance program in a museum in 2011,[6] featuring new commissions performed live to camera by artists such as Every Ocean Hughes (formerly Emily Roysdon)[7][8] and Pablo Bronstein.[9] In 2012 Noble co-curated the inaugural program for the museum's new performance spaces The Tanks, housed in the underground chambers of the former power station's oil tanks, adapted by architects Herzog & de Meuron, with Catherine Wood and Stuart Comer.[10][11] The program entitled Art in Action featured over thirty artists, including Ei Arakawa, Tania Bruguera, Boris Charmatz, Anthea Hamilton, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Sung Hwan Kim, Rabih Mroué and Hito Steyerl, Lis Rhodes, Haegue Yang and Suzanne Lacy, comprising new commissions, events, and recent time-based media acquisitions from the Tate collection.[12]
Noble later held curatorial positions at Nottingham Contemporary and Wysing Arts Center and launched the inaugural Art Night with the Institute of Contemporary Arts,[13] presenting ten site-specific projects at venues across Westminster, including Koo Jeong A, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Nina Beier, Linder, Joan Jonas & Jason Moran, Laure Prouvost, and Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company.[14][15]
In 2018 Noble began working at Performa in New York,[16] where she oversaw the program for the Performa Biennial 2019[17] and the Performa Biennial 2021[18] as Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs and curated elements of the Performa Biennial 2023.[19] At Performa she has curated commissions by artists including Kia La Beija, Ericka Beckman, Kevin Beasley, Nikita Gale, Paul Pfeiffer, Tschabalala Self, Yvonne Rainer, and Bunny Rogers, alongside numerous other projects, events, and programs.
Writing and publications
[edit]Noble has published reviews and articles in Artforum, Frieze, ArtReview, Art Monthly, Mousse Magazine, Tate etc, Afterall and The Brooklyn Rail; and contributed essays to monographs on Geoffrey Farmer, Tala Madani, Éva Mag, Tschabalala Self, Mary Kelley Reid and Patrick Reid, Haegue Yang, and Yvonne Rainer.
References
[edit]- ^ "Performa".
- ^ "Performa Names Kathy Noble as Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs". 11 July 2018.
- ^ https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/36544/tate-live-michael-clark-company/
- ^ Higgins, Charlotte; Writer, Chief Arts (5 April 2009). "Tate Modern's Turbine Hall recreates a 1971 art sensation". The Guardian.
- ^ ""Retro Monumental Avant-Garde": Laibach Live at Tate Modern". 16 April 2012.
- ^ "Tate and BMW announce major new international partnership: BMW Tate Live – Press Release".
- ^ "Emily Roysdon – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room". YouTube. June 2012.
- ^ "Art Monthly : Article : Emily Roysdon: I am a Helicopter, Camera, Queen – Maria Walsh logs on to a live-streamed web-based performance".
- ^ "Pablo Bronstein – BMW Tate Live: Performance Room". YouTube. 26 April 2012.
- ^ ttps://www.tate.org.uk/tate-etc/issue-25-summer-2012/tates-curators-reveal-their-vision-tanks
- ^ "Get tanked at the Tate: First permanent museum galleries devoted to installation and live art open at Bankside". 30 June 2012.
- ^ Cumming, Laura (21 July 2012). "The Tanks: Art in Action – review". The Observer.
- ^ "Disused Tube platform and London landmarks turned into art venues". 6 April 2016.
- ^ Searle, Adrian (4 July 2016). "Art Night review – London finally catches the 'nuit blanche' bug". The Guardian.
- ^ "Art Night". 9 July 2016.
- ^ "Performa Appoints Kathy Noble as Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs". 11 July 2018.
- ^ "Performa 19 Announces First Commissions by ed Atkins, Yvonne Rainer, Samson Young, and More". 9 April 2019.
- ^ "Performa 2021 is a Chance to Reconnect with Performance After Quarantine, but Also a Tribute to the Small Joys That Got Us Through". 11 October 2021.
- ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/04/arts/design/performa-biennial-new-york-performance.html