Curriculum Vitae                                                                                             Ruth Maclennan Lives in London. UK and US citizen. Selected exhibitions and projects 2005 The Body.The Ruin. Ian Potter Museum, Melbourne, (November) (catalogue) OverAwe, Ruth Maclennan, Sarah Dobai, Ester Partegàs, Foxy Production, (October) Prog:me, International Festival of artists’ film and video, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil State of Mind, debates and exhibition, London School of Economics (April); curator and artist 2004 Fleamarket, TemporaryContemporary, London definitively provisional, Whitechapel Project Space; APPENDIKS in Copenhagen 2003 House of Science and Film, film festival, Kino Central, Berlin, British Council Coming Out – Introducing United Net-Works, Kulturhuset, Stockholm, exhibition and mobile archive, artists’ and curators’ workshop Four Plus: Writing DNA, The Wellcome Trust, commission and exhibition, (publication) Contemporary Video Works from Britain, Pántlika Borház, Budapest On Foot, children’s video project with Richard Wentworth, BBC Broadcasting House Project Critical Home Video, Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand; and Artspace, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada (catalogue) 2002 Potential: ongoing archive, TENT, Centre for Visual Arts, Rotterdam (book) Potential: ongoing archive, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Break In Theatre 3, Nadiff, Shibuya, Japan (catalogue) Dream Operator 2: exorcising video, Public Life, London 2000 The Archives Project: Part 1, British Library of Political and Economic Science, LSE Televisions, [Szuper Gallery], Kunsthalle, Vienna Critical Video Lounge, in Sight Sonic, York City Art Gallery Dream Operator: untimely narrations, video screening at Sparrwasser HQ, Berlin The Doughnut Concept, britart.com Gallery, London (catalogue) NR, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney A Project, Milch, London Insider Trading, Mandeville Hotel, London (CD ROM catalogue) 2000 Choose your Life, Kojimachi Gallery, Tokyo; Gallery le Deco, Shibuya, Japan Art Forum Perm, Gallery SL, Perm, Russia (catalogue) Winter Agglutinates 5, 291 Gallery, London Event 5 – Paradise 0, Uppsala International Biennale, Sweden [working title], [Szuper Gallery], Stanley Picker Gallery, Kingston University Without Day, [Szuper Gallery] Edinburgh City Arts’ Centre 1999 Crash! [Szuper Gallery], ICA, London (catalogue) The MaxMara Coat Project, with Volker Eichelmann, in the MaxMara shop, London Limit Less, [Szuper Gallery], Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna Dial M for..., [Szuper Gallery], Kunstverein, Munich (catalogue) Big Warm Open, [Szuper Gallery], Cambridge Darkroom Medway Open, [Szuper Gallery], Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham (catalogue) Programm Fernsehen, [Szuper Gallery], Shedhalle, Zürich Remote Sensing, [Szuper Gallery], The Living Art Museum, Reykjavik Video Biennale, [Szuper Gallery], Geneva (catalogue) First Toronto International Video Biennale [Szuper Gallery] Concept and Design for interactive Video Wall, for Sellic Library at Edinburgh University, for Webster and Reiach and Hall architects [library not built] 1998 Galerie Brighi presents Szuper Gallery, Galerie Brighi, Paris Szuper Gallery, 30 Underwood Street Gallery, London (website and catalogue) Crystal State, Art Transpennine ‘98, [Szuper Gallery], 3 Month Gallery, Liverpool (cat.) 1997 Unique!, [Szuper Gallery], Kunstpark Forum, Munich 1996 Restricted Vision, Bellevuesaal, Wiesbaden Soundings, Varbergs Museum, Sweden; Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (catalogue) 1994 Speculating for Immortality, Galerie Szuper, Munich; Kunstverkehr, Berlin 1993 After the City, 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Awards, commissions and residencies 2004-05 Artist in Residence at BIOS centre, the London School of Economics and Political Science; conceived and co-curated project: State of Mind (exhibition and series of debates: including Richard Wentworth, Susan Hiller, Rod Dickinson, Uriel Orlow, Richard Gregory and others; supported by the Wellcome Trust and the Arts Council, England. 2004 Double-screen video installation, Satellite Contact, poster, and book, with Uriel Orlow (see major publications), commission from School of Advanced Study and The National Archives 2003 Video works, We saw it –Like a Flash, and Drosophila, using BBC footage of science programmes from 1954-2003, commissioned by the Wellcome Trust 2001-02 Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the London School of Economics and Political Science: solo exhibition; conceived and organised Out of the Archive: a series of artists’ talks and screenings on the archive in contemporary art practice with Volker Eichelmann, Richard Wentworth, David Mabb, Monica Ross, and Patrick Keiller. 1996 Artist in Residence, Wiesbaden Kunstverein, Germany Major publications: artist’s books, catalogues, articles Magic Moments, ed. Anna Harding, conversation with Richard Wentworth, Black Dog (10/2005). Re: the archive, the image, and the very dead sheep, Ruth Maclennan and Uriel Orlow, Double Agents: Central St Martins; SAS and TNA, London, November 2004. ‘We saw it — Like a Flash’, feature for Mute magazine, # 27, winter 2004. Break in Theatre, exhibition catalogue edited by Saki Satom, Pola Art Foundation, Tokyo, 2003. Corporate Mentality, Aleksandra Mir, Lukas and Sternberg, New York and Berlin, 2003; includes introduction to The MaxMara Coat Project and extract from book. Building the BBC: A Return to Form, Nicola Jackson, BBC, London, 2003. ‘Proposal for a new industrial psychology in practice’, artist’s project in The Office of Utopic Procedures, editor Bernard Sachs, Westspace Projects, Melbourne, 2002. Potential: ongoing archive, exhibition catalogue, edited by Anna Harding, includes images and poster from ‘The Archives Project — Part 1’, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton; TENT, Rotterdam 2002. The Archives Project — Part 1, poster edition, designed with Nicole Kapitza, distributed during exhibition, London School of Economics, 2001. ‘Stella in the Cellar’, short story, Black Diamond magazine, Liverpool, 2001. Everything magazine, Szuper Gallery project, March 2000. Style/Substance—The MaxMara Coat Project, Ruth Maclennan and Volker Eichelmann, 1999. Asked by the fashion label to interpret their famous coat, we offered it up to the public as a swap. We eventually chose our favourite offers—a play and a miniature copy of Marx’s Capital—which we included with other contributions in a book designed by Nicole Kapitza. Crash! exhibition catalogue, ICA, London, 1999. Video Biennale, Geneva, catalogue, introduction to Szuper Gallery by Emma Dexter. Dial M for..., exhibition catalogue, ed. Dirk Snauwaert, Kunstverein, Munich, 1999. Medway Open, exhibition catalogue, Royal Engineers’ Museum, Gillingham 1999. Szuper Gallery, Szuper Editions, artist’s book for exhibition at 30 Underwood Street Gallery, 1998. Art Transpennine ’98, exhibition catalogue, 1998. Soundings, exhibition catalogue, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 1996. From a Record of Lives — Wiesbaden, 10 screen prints, edition of 100, 1996. Conferences, public lectures 2005 Consuming Mind: Marketing Minds for Pleasure and Profit, debate with Professors Nikolas Rose, and Judith Williamson, State of Mind series, 12 May 2004 Unleashing the Archive, Senate House, London University Friends of Art, ELIA conference, Lucerne, with Uriel Orlow and Double agents at Central St Martins College of Art & Design 2003 Introducing United Networks in Stockholm, Sweden Lecture on The Office at the Photographers Gallery, London 2002 Potential: ongoing archive symposium, John Hansard Gallery Out of the Archives: lecture at the Womens’ Library, London Employment 1999-2005 Associate lecturer in Fine Art, teaching undergraduates and graduate students, and giving lectures on my work, at art colleges across Britain including: Central St Martins College of Art & Design, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Bournemouth College of Art and Design, Camberwell College of Art and Edinburgh College of Art. 03.08.2005 South London Gallery, Summer Daze workshop, ‘Have you met my hat?’ 10.02-12.2003 Visiting Lecturer in film and art history, Media Studies department, London College of Communications, University of the Arts. 10.2002‑1.2003    On Foot, children’s video project with Richard Wentworth, for BBC Broadcasting House Project. 1992 369 Gallery, Edinburgh, drawing instructor, evening classes. 1996-2001 Freelance translator (French and Russian) for television and film, for Lesley Howard Languages, translating documentaries and news, and subtitling. 1998 Research Assistant to historian of science, Dr. Thomas Söderqvist, Wellcome Fellow (researching and translating modern French scientific biography). Radio BBC 4 Start the Week, 3 May 2005 (with Waldemar Januszak, Mark Knights, Nigel Spivey and Sue McGregor) West End, BBC Russian Service Selected Reviews and Articles ‘Archives’, Stephen Bury, review of Re:, Art Monthly no. 285, April 2005 Reviews of ‘Four Plus: Writing DNA’ in Blueprint, The Lancet, The BMJ, Physiology News Magazine, 2003 ‘Mr. Smith goes to…the Archive’, Stephen Smith, New Statesman, 25 February, 2002 ‘A Project’, Sally O’Reilly, Time Out, March 7-14, 2001 ‘Winter Agglutinates at Gallery 291’, Lisa Prior, Flash Art, January 2001 ‘Designer coat to swap — style substance’, Alexandra Bradley, Dutch magazine, March 2000 Reviews of ‘Crash!’ in The Guardian, The Times, Blueprint, Time Out, Artists’ Newsletter, Mute, Art Monthly ‘Bibliomania and a Coat’, Cathy Courtney, Art Monthly, November 1999 ‘Dial M for...’, Kunstforum, September 1999 ‘Mad Max’, The Guardian, Alison Smith, 13/8/1999 ‘Szuper Gallery’, Matthew Higgs, Art Monthly, 7-8/1998 ‘Unique’, Justin Hoffmann, Kunstforum, 7/1997 ‘Der Charme der dunklen Augenringe’, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Birgit Sonna, 3/04/97 ‘Der Kunstbesucher auf dem Fahrradsattel: Zwei Britinnen in Wiesbaden’, FrankfurterAllgemeine Zeitung, 24/08/96 ‘Der Schatten an der Wand - Jane Fawns Watt und Ruth Maclennan in Wiesbaden’, Dorothee Baer-Bogenschutz, Frankfurter Rundschau, 23/08/96 ‘Caithness Class and Northern lights’, John Fowler, The Herald, 22/09/94 ‘Demokratisches Raumexperiment’, Eva-Maria Hilker, Tip (Berlin), 6/07/94 Education 1998-2000 Goldsmiths’ College, London, MA Fine Art 1991-95 Edinburgh College of Art, BA (Hons), Sculpture and Drawing 1993-94 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany 1987-91 Trinity College, Cambridge University, MA (Hons) Russian and French 1989-1990 Maurice Thorèse Institute of Foreign Languages, Moscow, USSR 1974-1987 Lycée Français Charles de Gaulle, London