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Jean Fisher

Born, 1962 in USA

Biographical content is taken from page 232 of The Ghosts of Songs: The Film Art of the Black Audio Film Collective

”Former editor of the international quarterly Third Text, and the editor of the anthologies, Global Visions: Towards a New Internationalism in the Visual Arts (1994), Re-verberations: Tactics of Resistance, Forms of Agency (2000) and, with Gerardo Mosquera, Over Here: International Perspectives on Art and Culture (2004). A selection of her essays, Vampire in the Text, was published in 2003. She currently teaches at the Royal College of Art, London, and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University.”

A major text by Jean Fisher, ‘Dialogues’ was included in the book Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain. According to Kobena Mercer (writing in “ “Diaspora Didn’t Happen in a Day”: Reflections on Aesthetics and Time”, a chapter in “Black” British Aesthetics Today, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007/2009) “Fisher was not a participant in the [Shades of Black conference] but was commissioned by the editors to provide an overview.”

Jean Fisher contributed the essay Toward a Metaphysics of Shit - p. 63- 71 to the Documenta 11_Platform 5 catalogue.

Information on Jean Fisher taken from the iniva website: www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/f/fisher_jean

“Jean Fisher studied zoology and fine art, later becoming a freelance writer on contemporary art and post-coloniality. During the 1980s whilst in New York, she was a regular contributor to Artforum International, co-curated exhibitions of contemporary Native American art with the artist Jimmie Durham and taught at various times in the School of Visual Arts, State University of New York at Old Westbury and the Whitney Students’ Independent Study Program. She currently teaches at the Royal College of Art, London and is Professor of Fine Art and Transcultural Studies at Middlesex University.”

Fisher contributed a chapter - Diaspora, Trauma and the Poetics of Remembrance - to Exiles, Diasporas & Strangers, one of four books in a series titled Annotating Art’s Histories, jointly published by The MIT Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts and iniva the Institute of International Visual Arts, London, published in 2008 and edited by Kobena Mercer.