APG PHD ANNOUNCEMENT
The Incidental Artist approach: contemporary reworkings of the methods and legacies of the Artist Placement Group 1966–1989
Winter 2024
Flat Time House are pleased to announce that Elisabeth Del Prete will be undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at Birmingham City University, working in partnership with Eastside Projects and FTHo to examine how are the ideas and models developed by Artist Placement Group (APG) (1966-89) are both relevant today, and to future possibilities for the role of artists in society.
Elisabeth’s research will evaluate contemporary experimental art projects, exploring how principles of regenerative design can generate new understandings of the impact of APG’s approach. Drawing on regenerative design as a method that acknowledges the interconnectedness and co-evolving nature of living systems (social, political, economic and natural), the research will ask how APG's motto “context is half the work” can be expanded upon to evaluate contemporary reworkings and inform future modes of creative practice.
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Roger Coward, Placement with the Department of the Environment, Inner Area Study Birmingham, Small Heath, 1975. Courtesy Roger Coward
Elisabeth Del Prete (she/her) is a London-based, Italian/British curator. Her workexplores socio-political issues through collaborative art practices. She is currently undertaking an AHRC-funded PhD at Birmingham City University with Flat Time House and Eastside Projects. Alongside her research, Elisabeth is Associate Lecturer on MA Curating Contemporary Art at Royal College of Art and also works independently through UK-based and international collaborations.
Prior to starting her PhD, Elisabeth worked at UP Projects as Senior Curator (2018-2024) on Constellations, an annual learning and development programme for public art and socially engaged artists and curators, in partnership with Flat Time House, Liverpool Biennial and Deveron Projects. Recent projects with UP Projects also include curating Co-Creating Public Space: How Can We Thrive?, a conference commissioned by John Hansard Gallery; and leading the curatorial research and development for two public art commissions by Sahra Hersi in partnership with the London Legacy Development Corporation, and by Anne Duk Hee Jordan in partnership with Wigan Council and National Trust, respectively.
In 2018-19, Elisabeth was co-curator of AFTER LEAVING/BEFORE ARRIVING, the 12th edition of Kaunas Biennial, Lithuania. Between 2010-2016, Elisabeth worked as a Post-War and Contemporary Art auction house specialist at Christie’s, London and Wright, New York.
Other recent work also include UK-based and international collaborations with Central Saint Martins (MA Culture, Criticism and Curation), Plus Tate, Barbican, Suprainfinit Gallery, Lady Kitt and The NewBridge Project, as well as speaking at conferences by Getty Museum/MUDEC, and CCA Brighton.
Elisabeth holds a BA in History of Art from Goldsmiths, an MA in Curating Contemporary Art from RCA, and participated in the Clore Leadership Pulse programme.
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