Artists Work in Museums: Histories, Interventions, Subjectivities - Tapa blanda

Artists Work in Museums: histories interventions and subjectivities brings together artists, historians and museum professionals to explore the history and contribution of artists working in museums as members of staff. It examines how the museum has functioned as a specific site of cultural production and subjective engagement for artists and designers in their role as directors, curators, project managers, and educators. Drawing on specific case studies and interviews, the essays document the historically contingent, problematic character of the artist museum professional, and his/her agency within the museum system.

Matilda Pye studied at the Ruskin School at the University of Oxford and the Jan Van Eyck Akedeime in Maastricht. Since 2004 she has worked predominantly with museums including Tate Britain, Tate Modern and the National Portrait Gallery. She was a visiting lecturer at Roehampton University and a researcher for the Engine Room at the University of the Arts London. As a practicing artist she has exhibited in the UK and Europe. In her current role, she manages the conferences and symposiums programme at the V&A. Dr Linda Sandino is the CCW University of the Arts London Senior Research Fellow at the V&A, where she is conducting an oral history of curators lives. Her publications include News from the past: Oral history at the V&A , V&A Online Journal, 2 (2009); A Curatocracy: Who and what is a V&A curator? , in K. Hill (ed.), Museums and Biographies: Stories, Objects, Identities (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2012), and she is co-editor (with Dr M. Partington) of Oral History in the Visual Arts (London: Bloomsbury, 2013).