Caroline Smith
Courses
Introduction to Media Writing
Screen and Performance Writing
Advanced Screen and Performance Writing
Media Writing Placement
Media Writing Project
Tel: 020 8331 8001
Email: c.smith@gre.ac.uk
Office: King William 123
Recent Publications &
Performances
Office Hours
Tuesday 2-3pm
Thursday 3-4pm
Caroline Smith is a Senior Lecturer, writer and performance artist. She is the Programme Leader for the BA Hons Media Writing.
Eating Secret, written by Smith in collaboration with the public and performed by her alter ego, Mertle, was selected for Tate Moderm, The Roundhouse. Arts Depot and the Cochrane Theatre in 2009. She has previously performed Spank in the Tramway for the National Review of Live Art 2008; Albany Theatre for the International Symposium of Intimacy 2007; at the Edinburgh Room in the Stephen Lawrence Gallery; Rich Mix Studios and the Whipping Rooms (for the collective, OMSK) in the East End; as well as in numerous site specific venues.
Eating Secret has featured extensively in the press, including BBC Radio London; the Guardian Women's pages (http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifestyle/2009/jun/19/mertle-food-eating-secret-caroline-smith); The Times' Art pages (http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/
article6556222.ece) and Diva magazine. Spank has been reviewed in Contemporary Art, Art Monthly and Total Theatre.
Caroline received her Masters in Creative Writing at Middlesex University. She was co-founder/director of new nedia company Liquid Idea, shortlisted for the Telegraph New Business Award in 2001. her writings on visual art and culture have been extensively published in Attitude magazine, where she was Arts Editor; Creative Camera (New Media Editor), Women's Art Magazine and Wasafiri Journal of International Contemporary Writing in London as well as Black Book in New York, where she was European Editor, running its London Office. Her fiction has been published by Cornerhouse and Tank. Eating Secret was most recently published as an eight page text and art pieces in the Issues.
Research Interests
Eating Secret/Secret Eating;
Structures and processes of text and performance and text into performance;
Shedding Skin: intimate exchange between artist and participant(s)
Performances
2010
Eating Secret, Multimedial Art Gallery, 4 day durational installation/intimate exchange performance, May, Serbia
NeMLA 41st Convention hosted by McGill University, selected for panel: Remapping Queer Identities (Geneva University of Fine Art) April, Montreal
Food Glorious Food, panel with speakers including Bobby Baker, organised by Oreet Ashrey/Live Art Development Agency, held at InIVA, February, London
2009
Eating Secret
Eating Secret, London Tour: Tate Moden (for Once More with Feeling: Feminist Artists & the Archive event in association with Feminist Review, East Wing Room, June; The Roundhouse, May, Art Depot, April, Cochrane Theatre (for GFest 09), November, Stephen Lawrence Gallery (pre-launchevent: Institute of the Converging Arts & Sciences - Symposium), October Project Pilot: Starvation Point: Whitstable Biennale Satellite June/July 2008
Spank, directed by Susannah Hart (Station House Opera): Rich Micx Studios, November 08; Betsey's Salon of Interdisciplinary Arts, London, N1, May 08; 55 Leroy Street, London SE1, April 2008; OMSK at the Whipping Rooms, London, EC1, March 08; National Review of Live Art (Elevator Artist), Tramway, Glasgow, February 2008; Antenna Studios, South East London 2006-07
Recent Writings/Essays
Eating Secret/The Edge: Issues, 8 page text project, published by Nerve/ICAS March 2009
The Edge: Michael Petry's Golden Rain in Stavanger (European City of Culture, June 2008)
End ofthe Line: flash fiction collection on trauma. Reading at Rich Mix, Bethnal Green, London, E2 (March 2008)
Hide and Seek with Rebels: Tracing Contemporary Queer Art in Cracks and Rips (publ.In Wasafiri: Taylor & Francis, Vol 22, 1 March 2007)
Experience, Renate Wohlman (publ. Dryphoto arte Comporanea for the artist's exhibition Portraits in Prato, Italy 2007)
Chaos of Appearances, Kobi Israel, (publ. Hamiltons Gallery for the artist's exhibition Promised Lands in London and LA (2006)
Scenes from the Wishing Room in 'It's Wrong to Wish on Space Hardware', (Cornerhouse Publications/Photoworks, 2002)
Fears are Easily Rationalised in the Attic for Proboscis' Cultural Snapshot series, 2002: Essay: ISSN 1475-8474
Firewall: Commissioned Proposal for Proboscis on converging media technologies and their social and cultural impact on the relationship between private and public spaces:
http://proboscic.org.uk/prps/artists/proposals/Liquid_Idea/firewall/docs/index/htm
Conferences/Panels
The Guardian newspaper International Development Master Class 2010 with Sue George & Natalie Bennett, Chair. In King William Court, University of Greenwich (London host)
Performing Lives International Symposium, Kingston University, July 09 (Eating Secret: Intimate Exchange)
Spank, International Symposium on Intimacy, University of Goldsmiths & Laban at Albany Theatre, December 2007
Spanking for Enfield! re: Actor 2: International Conference of Digital Arts & Performance, Bad Grrls, Gadgets & Guerrilla Tactics, University of Leeds, September 2007
Caroline Is a Fellow of ICAS, University of Greenwich
She is a member of NeMLA (North East Modern Languages Assoc)
Further Information
http://eatingsecret.blogspot.com
www.newworknetwork.org.uk/Caroline_Smith