Future Academy
Clémentine Deliss (1960, London) is a curator, researcher and publisher who lives Paris. She holds a PhD in philosophy (on eroticism and exoticism in French anthropology of the 1920s). Early exhibitions include Lotte or the Transformation of the Object (Steirischer Herbst, Graz 1990, Vienna Academy of Fine Arts, 1991), and Exotic Europeans (National Touring Exhibitions, Hayward Gallery, London). From 1992 to 1995 she was the artistic director of africa95, an artist-led festival of new work in all media from Africa and the diaspora coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts and over 60 UK institutions. For this she curated Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Gallery, 1995; Konsthalle Malmo 1996). Since 1996 she has transformed her curatorial interests into print, and edited and published seven issues of the writers' and artists' organ Metronome moving each time to a different location including Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, London, and Paris. Editions of Metronome have been supported by and presented at the Kunsthalle Basel, the DAAD, Berlin, the 100 Days of Documenta X, and the whole series was shown in 2002 at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris. A new production is currently being researched and produced in Paris based on "The Stripteaser" of Maurice Girodias and The Olympia Press of 1953. She has acted as a consultant for the European Union and various cultural organisations, has held guest professorships at the Städelschule in Frankfurt, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Oslo, and conducted specific research projects through the support of art academies in Vienna, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Bordeaux, Bergen, Copenhagen, Malmö, Stockholm, and London.
Since 2002 she has directed the international research lab Future Academy which investigates the global future of independent art production within the art academy. Future Academy is currently based at Edinburgh College of Art, but has also been supported by Chelsea College of Art & Design, Srishti School of Art, Design & Technology, Bangalore, KRVIA Institute of Archtecture in Mumbai, and associated post-institutional organisations in Senegal. Her theoretical interests include research into bridging mechanisms between artists working in different parts of the world, the status of the verbal in today's art practice, and curatorial modalities that go beyond the exhibition.
Metronome N°10 (Oregon) is an instruction manual for artists who wish to live and work portably and features unusual yet vital hints for social and economic survival. It is modeled on the long-running hippie survivalist zine ?Dwelling Portably?, edited by Bert and Holly Davis and distributed from Philomath, Oregon, USA. In March 2006, while living and working out of a temporary, mobile publishing studio located in a RV, Clémentine Deliss, Oscar Tuazon and two Future Academy participants from Edinburgh (artist, Marjorie Harlick and neuroscientist, Guy Billings) searched for the editors of ?Dwelling Portably? covering nearly 2000 miles of logging roads, and typed over 25,000 words on manual typewriters for this latest issue. During this production period they built a ?hill-lodge? into the side of a south-facing slope in the woods near Philomath, digging out the mud bank and setting up tarps and poles to insulate the 3 x 2m cavity against the pouring rain and wind.
Contributors to Metronome N°10 include Ibon Aranberri, Nico Dockx, Didier Fiuza Faustino, Richard Fischbeck, Yona Friedman, Jan Mast, Christos Papoulias, Douglas Park, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Matthew Stadler, and members of Future Academy in Edinburgh, India, and Dakar .
The production was made possible through the support of Edinburgh College of Art, the University of Edinburgh, and Stephanie Snyder, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon.
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