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Dr Gillian Dyson-Moss

Senior Lecturer

Dr Gillian Dyson is Senior Lecturer in Performance. Her work has been exhibited and published internationally, including with Konsthalle Gothenberg Sweden; Baltic Gateshead; Latitude 53 Gallery Edmonton Canada; National Review of Live Art, Glasgow and Asiatopia Festival Bankok Thailand.

Gillian has been delivering teaching and learning with Leeds Beckett University since 2009. She was Course Leader of BA Performance 2012 to 2016, and previously the Course Leader MA Creative Enterprise, and Course Leader for BA Contemporary Performance Practices top up course. Previous to working with LBU, she was Head of Learning with Arc Architecture Centre Hull.

Gillian was previously a lecturer with Hull School of Art & Design, University of Lincoln and has been a visiting lecturer at a number of other higher education institutions including Nottingham Trent University, Manchester Metropolitan University and Dartington College of Art.

Gillian co-curated the ReROOTed programme for Humber Street Gallery, Hull 2017 UK City of Culture. She was on the Management Group for New Work Yorkshire and on the Board of Trustees for New Work Network London, and is currently the Acting Chair for Centre for Live Art Yorkshire (CLAY). Gillian has also mentored other artist professionals including Vanessa Grasse for the 4Dance Commission 2013.

Current Teaching

BA Performing Arts, BA Theatre & Performance, BA Dance:

Thinking Bodies
Performance, Politics & Protest
Lift Off - final major project
Publishing Project 1: Conference
Publishing Project 2: Document
Design in/for Performance
Ensemble
Self

MA Performance, MA Choreography:

Artist Project Minor
Artist Mentor
Conference

Research Interests

Gillian's research interests include 'the domestic', the uncanny in contemporary performance art, and issues relating to feminist art practices. Her live work is informed by continental philosophy and feminist theory. This practice-based research is concerned with understanding the relationship between the body and ordinary, mundane objects, and the spaces and places we inhabit.