The lecture will focus on the use of performers and performance in Keren Cytter’s work. The characters in Cytter’s videos and live performances are a mix of friends, fellow artists, actors and dancers, many of whom reappear repeatedly over the years. Although each work is scripted, there is a collaborative act that occurs during each work’s making, where the character’s “real” and “performed” selves merge purposefully. Alongside this, Cytter is an auteur “performing” multiple roles herself; of director, camera person, editor, choreographer and writer —yet during making she also leaves much to chance, acting as a kind of voyeur onto the situations she has masterminded.

Kathy Noble is a curator and writer based in London, currently working with the Institute of Contemporary Arts to curate “Art Night,“ a new festival of site-specific works, including Alexandra Bachzetsis, Linder, Joan Jonas and Jason Moran. She was curator in residence at Wysing Arts Centre in 2013-2014 where she worked with artists including Cecile B Evans, Rachel Maclean and James Richards. Prior to this she was Head of Exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary where she organised exhibitions with Asco, Geoffrey Farmer, Mark Leckey and Tala Madani. From 2007-2012 she was a curator at Tate Modern, where she organised numerous commissions, exhibitions and performances, including major commissions with Tania Bruguera, Michael Clark, Keren Cytter, Haris Epaminonda and Sung Hwan Kim. She writes widely for magazines such as “Artforum” and “Mousse Magazine,” has published numerous catalogue essays, and is a Trustee of Michael Clark Company.