Christof Migone
Lecturer of Curatorial Studies and Contemporary Art
Undergraduate Appointment: Department of Visual Studies (UTM)
Other Appointments: Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery
Contact
christof.migone@utoronto.ca
905-569-4650
CCT 3134A, UTM
Education
2007 PhD in Performance Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University
1996 Master of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design
1991 Bachelor of Arts, Concordia University
Biography
Professor Migone teaches undergraduate courses in the Art History Program as well as in Visual Culture & Communication (VCC) Specialist Program. He joined the faculty in 2008, having previously taught in the graduate program at Concordia University, Montréal; at New York University in the Department of Performance Studies, the Expository Writing Program and the Department of Drama; and at the Nova Scotia College of Art & Design in the Studio Program.
Professor Migone also serves as the Director/Curator of the Blackwood Gallery. As curator, he has curated over 12 exhibitions and projects for the Blackwood Gallery. He was selected as the curator for the 2010 edition of Toronto's Nuit Blanche presenting the project Should I Stay or Should I Go featuring ten major commissions.
As an artist, Professor Migone has performed and exhibited internationally, including Mercer Union (Toronto), Optica (Montreal), Ménagerie de Verre (Paris), Resonance FM (London), SFX 2007 (Seoul), kaaistudios (Brussels), Mutek (Montreal), On the Air (Innsbruck), CCS Bard, Banff Center for the Arts, Rotterdam Film Festival, Victoriaville Festival, Kill Your Timid Notion (Dundee), Whitney Biennial (New York). A monograph on his work, Christof Migone - Sound Voice Perform, was published in 2005. In 2006, the Galerie de l’UQAM in Montreal presented a mid-career survey of his work accompanied by a catalog and a DVD entitled Christof Migone - Trou.
Courses Taught
VCC207 Urban Sites and Sounds
FAH310 Curatorial Practice I
VCC310 Audio Art in the Visual Field
VCC400 Advanced Project: Performance Art
VCC405 Independent Study
FAH451 Curatorial Practice II
Select Publications
Books
"Volume" anthology for the Blackwood Gallery, (co-editor with Barbara Fischer) (upcoming).
Sonic Somatic: Performance of the Unsound Body. Berlin: Errant Bodies Press, 2012.
Editor, WOOD TWO: A Compendium of the Blackwood Gallery’s Exhibitions & Projects in 2010, Blackwood Gallery: 2012.
Editor, WOOD: A Compendium of the Blackwood Gallery’s Exhibitions & Projects in 2009, Blackwood Gallery: 2011.
Editor, START, STOP. Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University: 2008.
Essays
“The Sequitur Principle.” WOOD TWO, Blackwood Gallery (2012).
“The Opening (30 days in the life of an exhibition).” WOOD, Blackwood Gallery (2011).
“Auditorium”. Performance Research: A Journal of the Performing Arts, Vol. 15, Issue 3, Taylor & Francis Group: 2010.
“Touch that Dial: Creating Radio Transcending the Regulatory Body”. Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada, edited by Andrea Langlois, Ron Sakolsky & Marian van der Zon. Vancouver: New Star Books, 2010.
“On Off.” START STOP, Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, Concordia University, 2008.
Curatorial Projects
"Volume: Hear Here" exhibition for Blackwood and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery. Group exhibition (upcoming).
"Door to Door (6th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Nathalie Quagliotto and Sandy Plotnikoff (upcoming).
"Door to Door (5th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Adam David Brown and Nancy Nowacek (upcoming).
"Door to Door (4th edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Gina Badger and Tazeen Qayyum, 2012.
"Landscapes Events Reproducted" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Seripop (Yannick Desranleau and Chloe Lum), 2012.
"Door to Door (3rd edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Karen Kraven and John Marriott, 2011.
"Door to Door (2nd edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Alexander Irving and Micah Lexier, 2011.
"Door to Door (1st edition)" exhibition for Blackwood. Featuring Camilla Singh and Germaine Koh & Gordon Hicks, 2011.
"Should I Stay or Should I Go" for Nuit Blanche (Zone C), Toronto. Featuring ten commissions: Kim Adams, Martin Arnold & Micah Lexier, Davide Balula, Annie Onyi Cheung, Michael Fernandes, Zilvinas Kempinas, Julia Loktev, Sandra Rechico, Jocelyn Robert, Max Streicher; and five artists selected from the open call: Olivia Boudreau, France Dubois, Lili Huston-Herterich & Brad Tinmouth, Aubrey Reeves, Chris Shepherd, 2010.
Links
http://www.blackwoodgallery.ca/
http://www.ubu.com/sound/migone.html
http://www.youtube.com/CMigone
