Photo by Jon Eland


Sue Wilks completed the MA Feminist Theory, History & Criticism in the Visual Arts course at the University of Leeds in 1998 and was awarded a PhD in Fine Art Practice (from the University of Leeds) in September 2005. Her PhD research project Feda: Between Pedagogy and Politicised Art Practice is constituted of three elements; the thesis (in which she explores the effects of economically driven educational reforms on subjectivity and questions the ethical impact of audit-based rationales on the contemporary art education sector and on pedagogic relationships), an internet site/research dossier that is also, perhaps, a form of art practice, and an experimental DVD film titled Stones (prompted by childhood memories of a visit to Babylon, Iraq in 1968).

The first chapter of Sue's thesis titled, Pedagogy: It all adds up... in audit culture, is published in Conceptual Odysseys: Passages to Cultural Analysis, ed. by Griselda Pollock, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2007), pp. 138-152.

Sue Wilks' PhD research website, Feda: Between pedagogy and politicised art practice is available online at:
http://www.feda.co.uk/

In December 2005 Sue participated in a symposia, The Documentation of Fine Art Processes and Practices at The Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Lancaster University. Here is a link to to an audio/visual recording of her presentation titled, Subjectivity through e-motion: Digitised documentation in a dialogical dimension, together with a .pdf document of the paper she presented:

http://www.visualintelligences.com/sue-wilks.html

Here is a link to information about the Symposia:

http://www.visualintelligences.com/documentation-fine-art-processes-practises.html

University of Reading, School of English and American Literature
Mind → →Body Conference

Sue presented a paper during which she also screened the video Stones (produced during her PhD) at this conference. Please find a link (below) to a .pdf file of her text:

http://www.showingexpectations.co.uk/suespage/bmpresent.pdf

Sue presented a paper, 'Putting (Political) Policy into (Art) Practice' at the Creative Practice/Creative Research: Materiality/Process/Performativity Conference held at York St John University, in April 2009. To download a .pdf document of her presentation paper click here.