Patrick Van Rossem
Dep. History and Art History - Art History
Utrecht University
Netherlands
Biography
Patrick Van Rossemis Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art. He studied Art History and Media and Communication at Ghent University and Creative Curating at the Goldsmiths' College (University of London). In 1999 he was co-founder of the Antwerp Arts Center Objectif_Exhibitions. From 1999 to 2008 he was a researcher and education assistant to the Department of Art History, Modern and Contemporary Art of Ghent University. In 2006, he became Doctor of Art Sciences with a dissertation on the relationship between the artist and the public after 1960. His research is based on the image of the public in art, visual culture and critical and theoretical writings. He looks, inter alia, at the image of the public as represented by artists in art and writing, as well as how the public represents itself on, among other things, social media. In addition, he also searches the image of the audience as produced by filmmakers, art critics and art theorists.
Research Interest
modern and contemporary art art history
Publications
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van Rossem, P. (2007). Fear of failing, failure to signify intentionally: Bruce Nauman encountering his audience. International Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft , 115, (pp. 293-306) (322 p.).
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van Rossem, P. (2012). The audience as a authorial presence in the creative act. Considering authorship and the performive turn in the 1960s and 1970s. Kunstgeschichten der Gegenwart , 10, (pp. 161-174) (14 p.).
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van Rossem, P. (09-02-2016). Beyond expert vision: visitor photography as inspiration. In Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert (Ed.), Museums and Visitor Photography: Redefining the Visitor Experience (pp. 11 - 37) (27 p.). Edinburgh, UK & Boston, USA: MuseumEtc.
