Director, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham, Surrey
Outi Remes is the Director of the New Ashgate Gallery, Surrey, and the Adjunct Associate Professor in Art History and Visual Culture at Richmond the American International University London. She also lectures at Birkbeck College, the University of London, and worked as the Head of Exhibitions at South Hill Park Arts Centre, Berkshire (2007-11). Outi is a committee member of the Museums & Exhibitions Group, the Association of Art Historians.
The curator and co-ordinator of many exhibitions and projects, including Rules and Regs live art residences (2007-11) and the At Play exhibition series (with Cally Trench, 2009-12), exploring ideas about play and re-creating a sense of what it is like to be a child at play.
Outi's PhD (The University of Reading) examined a range of confessional practices in British art. Her specialisms also include interdisciplinary and global contemporary arts and crafts, interaction and interactivity in gallery space and the production of the self.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Books & book chapters:
Ming, T. and Remes, O. (eds.) Beautiful Life: Memory and Nostalgia, Leicester: Charwood Arts, 2012 (upcoming)
Remes, O. and Skelton, P. (eds.) Conspiracy Dwellings: Surveillance in Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010. http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Conspiracy-Dwellings--Surveillance-in-Contemporary-Art1-4438-2403-8.htm
Remes, O. “After Bad Taste: Tracey Emin’s Work on Abortion and Other Confessions” in Harris, J. (ed.) Inside the Death Drive Excess and Apocalypse in the World of the Chapman Brothers. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press and Tate Liverpool, 2010, 119-143
Remes, O. “Confessional Art”, Jackson, R.J. (ed.) Encyclopaedia of Identity. SAGE in association with University of Illinois, 2010, 123-5
Shaw, M., Stonyer, A., Remes, O., Abbott, F. and Chong, A. Virtually Sculpture. Loughborough University; The Study Gallery of Modern Art; South Hill Park; AHRC, 2009.
Engberg, J., Remes, O. and Hansen, R. Richard Billingham: People, Places, Animals. Southbank, Australia: Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, 2007.
Articles:
Remes, O. "Finding Africa(s) in Helsinki" in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Vol. 39, No. 4, 2012) 32-3
Remes, O., “Occupying Spaces” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Vol. 38, No. 2, 2010) 27-28
Remes, O., “Replaying the Old Stereotypes into an Artistic Role” in Women’s History Review (Vol. 18, No. 4, September 2009) 561-577
Remes, O., “Reinterpreting Unconventional Family Photography: Richard Billingham’s Ray’s a Laugh Series” in Afterimage: The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism (Vol. 34, No. 6, 2007) 16-19
Remes, O., “From the Regenerated Black Country to the Mystified New Forest: Richard Billingham’s Urbanscape and Landscape Photography” in Inferno: Cartography and Urban Representations throughout History (10, 2005) 75-82
International conferences & symposia (organiser/convener):
• Performativity in the Gallery: Staging Interactive Encounters (session co-convener for AAH Museums & Exhibitions Group), Association of Art Historians/Open University, Milton Keynes, 2012.
• International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA), Belfast, 2009 (session convener)
• Conspiracy Dwellings: Symposium on Surveillance in Contemporary Art, South Hill Park Arts Centre, 2008 (conference organiser/convener).
• AAH Summer School, University of Plymouth with Association of Art Historians, 2004 (conference organiser)
• New Voices, University of Reading with Association of Art Historians, 2004 (conference organiser).
Online and digital projects:
Remes, O. ”Following the Acts of Surveillance Society” in O’Reilly, L. and Lines-Slatter, I. Trail Blazing: Artist Residencies in Supported Housing for Young People. Look Ahead, 2010. 18-19 [DVD with a catalogue].
Member of selection panel for Mastars 2009, Axis. MAstars presents a selection of the most promising artists from the UK's leading MA courses. www.axisweb.org/grHOME.aspx
Art historical contributions for the interdisciplinary web exhibit Color, Vision and Art: Vision Science and the Emerge of Modern Art. The exhibit is a public service, intended for the use of schools, undergraduate students and the general public. Project by: Livingstone, M., Lustig, L.J., Zek, S., Remes, O., Mathews, S. and Douma, M. Rockville: Institute for Dynamic Educational Advancement (IDEA), 2006. webexhibits.org/colorart/index.html.
Networking pages:
Follow the New Ashgate Gallery in Facebook: www.facebook.com/newashgate and Twitter: twitter.com/newashgate
Selected live art projects and collaborations:
www.rulesandregs.org/shp07.html; www.rulesandregs.org/shp08.html; www.rulesandregs.org/shp09.html; www.rulesandregs.org/shp11.html; www.testinggrounds.org.uk/; www.testinggrounds.org.uk/
