Theorising the Artist Interview

Lucia Farinati is a writer-researcher, curator and activist. She holds an MA in Curating from Goldsmiths University and a PhD in Critical Studies from Kingston University, London. She is the co-author of The Force of Listening (2017), and Training for Exploitation? Politicising Employability and Reclaiming Education (2017).Jennifer Thatcher is an art historian, critic and curator. She co‑curated Folkestone Book Festival (2023), curated the public programmes for Folkestone Triennial (2014, 2017) and Whitstable Biennale (2016), and was Director of Talks at the ICA (2003–2010). She is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Kent, Canterbury.

• Part 1 History and Historiography of the Artist Interview 1. The History of the Artist Interview: Conventions, Conditions, Contexts, Collaboration 2. Re‑Stor(y)ing the Self 3. Articulating Artworks: On the Theory and Practice of Oral History in Art Conservation Part 2 Subverting the Biographical Model 4. The Voice of the Artists: Notes about Vasari’s Lives and Early Modern Sources 5. As A Possibility of an Encounter: A Performative Reading of Autoritratto (Self‑Portrait) by Carla Lonzi 6. Herstory or Mine? Writing Feminist Histories of Art with Self‑Mythologies in Mind Part 3 Interviews as Art Practice 7. I Prefer Talkers: Andy Warhol and His Philosophy 8. Audio Arts: A Recorded Space for Contemporary Art and Artists 9. Face to Face: Interviews as Practice in the Work of Stephen Sutcliffe Part 4 Materiality and Technology 10. New Ways of Speaking: The First Artist Interviews on BBC Radio 11. Interview as Action/Archive: The Role of Televised Reportage in Contemporary Visual Art in the Turkish Cypriot Community 12. The Pleasures of the Transcript: Why Transcription of Artist Interviews Matters

“In this bold endeavour to theorise the artist interview, Farinati and Thatcher have put together a thought-provoking anthology discussing the artist interview from various perspectives. It is interesting to realise that the interview is a tool for both the artist, art historians, critics, and conservators, and often a collaboration on multiple levels.”-- Sandra Kisters, Director of Collections and Research at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen"Vital reading for anyone who conducts or uses quotes from interviews with artists, this anthology asks us to pause and reflect on the interview as a complex mode of cultural production. The essays gathered here do the best kind of interdisciplinary work, modeling how to ask better, more careful questions about how artist interviews are produced and what work they do in the world."-- Jennifer Sichel, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Art and Theory, University of Louisvillehttps://flash---art.it/article/67114/-- Flash Art Italia