Michael G. Birchall

Michael G. Birchall holds a collaborative post with Tate Liverpool where he is curator of public practice, and Senior Lecturer in Exhibition Studies at Liverpool John Moores University. Where he is an active researcher in the Exhibition Research Lab devoted to the study of exhibitions and curatorial knowledge; and programme leader for the MA in Exhibition Studies.

His research interests include, socially engaged art, participatory practices, community art (particularly in Europe and North America), curatorial practice and theory, exhibition histories from the 1960s onwards, and new forms of creative labour in the arts. He would welcome prospective PhD applications in these areas.

Previously he has held curatorial appointments at The Walter Phillips Gallery at The Banff Centre (Canada), The Western Front (Vancouver, Canada), and Künstlerhaus Stuttgart (Germany). His curatorial practice concerns socially engaged art, performance, and public practice. From 2012-2015 he lectured on the Curating Program at Zurich University of the Arts, and was co-publisher of the journal On Curating. He received his PhD from the University of Wolverhampton under the tutelage of Professor John Roberts.

He has spoken at a wide range of conferences internationally, and museums, including, Tate, International Studio & Curatorial Program (USA), Migros Museum (Switzerland), Rogaland Kunstsenter (Norway), Université du Québec Montréal (Canada), The Banff Centre for the Arts (Canada), and The Model (Ireland). In 2014 he delivered a keynote address at Sydney College of Art, as part of the conference, 'Curating Feminism: a Contemporary Art and Feminism', and in 2016 he participated as guest faculty in the SAAS-FEE Summer Institute of Art, on Art and the Politics of Individuation in Berlin.

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