Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Peter Lewis
Senior Lecturer
Peter Lewis is an artist and curator. His work has extended over two decades, holding posts as varied as the Chief Curator of Sharjah Biennale, and Independent Curator at Kunstverein, Bregenz. He has curated projects at Tramway and Tate Modern, publishing new research in his journal.
Peter Lewis has been involved in artist-curating since 1976, when he began working with the artist and curator Paul Neagu, within his artist-run space in London. He was central to the London alternative scene in 1990s with Runa Islam, and over the thirty years of practice, has developed highly complex relationships between the institution and the specific event bases of independent practices as they are formalised in their market currencies.
Current Teaching
- MA Art and Design, and Curating
Research Interests
Online curatorial project, www.slashseconds.co.uk, using new content management software affirms curating as that of constitutive world networks which are engaged and expanded between artists and publics. This has enormous significance in how the cognitive functions at the level of politics as assemblage.
Selected Outputs
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Lewis PN (2014) Monograph, Rasheed Araeen. New York: SAF, Sharjah Art Foundation.
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Lally C; Lewis PN (2013) E:vent – Archive and Related Documents. Live Art Development Agency.
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Lewis PN (2017) 'On the Artist's Failure'. In: Hatchondo R; Bustamante JM ed. L'irresponsabilité de l'artiste. Paris: Beaux-Arts, pp. 87-104.
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Lewis PN (2016) Sci-fi and Art.
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Lewis PN (2016) ‘Look forward in Anger’. In: ‘Look forward in Anger’, 1 January 2016, CSM, University of the Arts.
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Lewis PN (2015) /seconds - Conference organised by SAF at Jamjar Gallery, Dubai, September 2015.
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Lewis PN (2015) /seconds. In: SAF, 1 September 2015, Jamjar Gallery, Dubai.
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Lewis PN JOSEPH BEUYS AT LEEDS ART GALLERY Leeds Art Gallery. 1 January 2017 - 1 February 2017.
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Lewis PN 'GARBAGE WALL' in 'A LESSON IN SCULPTURE' HENRY MOORE INSTITUTE. 24 March 2016 - 19 June 2016.
More information: http://www.slashseconds.co.uk/jane-crawford/15/475/submission/garbage-wall--reconstruction,-henry-moore-institute-/
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Lewis PN Boom Bubble Blast Motorenhalle, Dresden. 1 March 2015 - 1 April 2015.
More information: http://www.bbm.cfnt3.de/index.cfm?id=1164&as=14282&ln=uk
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Lewis PN ‘No Longer Real’ The Airplant Project at Williams House, Virginia, USA. 1 January 2015 - 1 January 2016.
More information: http://airplantproject.org/
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Nagaya M; Lewis PN Curator Exhibition, 2008-2009, Moths to/from a Flame, Curating of works by Makiko Nagaya, performances by artists Johnny Vivash, Roger Cremers, and sound composition by Joe Banks/Disinformation, Rorschach Audio T1+2 Gallery, London. 1 January 2008 - 1 January 2009.
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Lewis PN Restless Serpents, inverted Århus Kunstbygning, Denmark. 26 June 2010 - 15 August 2010.
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Lewis PN (2015) DADA100 SEMINAR 100 years on: rethinking the legacy of DADA and documenting the international critical and artistic response to WWI.
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Lewis PN (2015) /seconds issue 15 – video edition [Video].
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Lewis PN (2015) Six Pillars: The Internet, the Voice, the Gulf [Podcast].
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Lewis PN (2004) /seconds.
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Lewis P (2008) ‘Meno {2:1}’ Artist: One Person Exhibition T1+2 Gallery London
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. (n.d.) Performance/installation with Makiko Nagaya. -
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. (2016) DRIVE THRU. 6 October 2016 - 9 October 2016. QPark underground car park in Cavendish Square, London: Geoff Leong and QPark. -
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. (2014) Some Bullets Are More Important Than Other Bullets. 1 January 2014. Royal College of Art,: ‘Project 2’ Rushgrove House, London.
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Lewis PN (2016) Board Member.
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Lewis PN (2016) SAF Associate Curator.
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Lewis PN (2016) The Archive.
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Lewis PN (2015) /seconds - Sharjah Art Foundation UAE.
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Lewis PN (2015) Curator, Sharjah Art Foundation.
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Lewis PN (2015) /seconds.
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Lewis PN (2014) March Meeting.
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Lewis PN (2013) Publisher, and Commissioning Editor /seconds, the online journal of contemporary art research, issues from 2008 to 2013 /seconds, issues 7 -13.