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Mark D B Waugh (born 1963) is a British Writer, curator and cultural strategist. His novels Come (1997 Pulp Books)[1] and Bubble Entendre (2009 Bookworks)[2] sit alongside theoretical essays and contributions across the fields of visual arts and cultural studies including; Networks of Care, May Edited by Anna Anna Schäffler[3] (2022), Artists Re:Thinking the Blockchain Edited by Ruth Catlow, Marc Garrett, Nathan Jones & Sam Skinner. Torque Editions & Furtherfield[4] (2017), Touched, Bark Boat and Paper Mountain published by Liverpool Biennial (2011),[5] Art of Clubbing: Zap Art (2008), Its Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation. Performance and Place: Palgrave Macmilan.[6](2005), 2005 - We Love You: On Audiences; co-edited with Thomas Frank. Published by Revolver.[7] (2002) and I Love LA: Postcards from a volatile corpus Arts Council England.[8] (2002). His curatorial work with institutions such as A Foundation, SUUM and Waugh Office has presented works that embrace the ephemeral and transgressive with a strong focus on international artists. As a cultural strategist he has worked for Arts Council England, Creative Scotland, Creative and Cultural Skills Council, and Design and Artists Copyright Society. Since 2011 he has been Chair of the International Curators Forum and is on the Board of SEA which is charity of Lewisham Art House.

Early life and education

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Born is St Albans to British parents Waugh grew up in Cornwall as part of a cultural migration of Beatniks to the West Country in the early 1960s.He went the Humphry Davy Grammar School[9] before studying for a BA Philosophy in the School of Cultural and Community Studies at the University of Sussex[10] where he graduated in 1985.

Club life and early works

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Waugh worked within the nightlife of Brighton forming The SN Ensemble a post pop group which performed with live immersive films and then he became a member of the collective Situation Cinema creating expanded cinema environments. Key works were commissioned for the Brighton Festival[11] such as,Leonardo Seduce Me which Waugh Directed.

As club culture mutated Waugh curated film at the Zap Club and then contributed to the Fundamental Club collective and POW WOW which brought the Sweat Sound System[12] from Bristol who were part of the Free Party movement.

In 1995 Waugh collaborated with Roger Ely, Neil Butler and Julian Weaver on the Transmutations Festival of Live Art[13] and the production of the Die Leiber Rausch a multi media club and performance platform which was funded by Arts Council England.[14] The early years is fictionalised in part in the novel Come[15]. which received reviews in magazines such as Sleaze Nation. and an extract was later published in Penthouse magazine as an example of the new erotic fiction.

Waugh created a number of shorts films in this period including YX, After Parade and the promotional film for his novel. Waugh ended this period with the interactive media work Pyschostasia which was commissioned by Impressions Gallery in 1998 and based on the Andrzej Wajda film Kanal

Professional Career

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Arts Council England 2000-2006 Waugh joined Arts Council England in 2000 to develop their national strategy for live Art. This included innovative collaborations such as Shooting Live Artists[16] (2003), Private View[17] (2005 )and interactive content for Simon Shama's Power of Art[18] 2006.

A Foundation 2008-2010

As A Foundation Director Waugh and Founder James Moores disrupted gallery culture in the UK with ambitious and popular exhibitions at the sites in Liverpool and London. Key exhibitions included: 2010- Sachiko Abe and Antti Laitinen: Touched.Liverpool Biennial[19] 2009 - Bloomberg New Contemporaries,[20] Tatsumi Orimoto: Live in Translation. Jon Fawcett: Hearts and Minds. Artur Zmijewski: Following Bauhaus. The Economy of the Gift. Daniel Partniener. Ben Rivers: A World Rattled by Habit. Haroon Mirza. 2009 - A Foundation London. Clusterf**K.[21] Off Street curated by Blanca De La Torres[22] Suki Chan: Free to Air.[23] Interspecies curated by Alice Sharp[24] 2008 - A Foundation London. Makarebich and Elagina: Mushrooms of the Avant Garde[25] curated by Nadim Samman. Le Gun: The Family. Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Gelitin: Yes OK. 2008 - A Foundation Liverpool.Catherine Sullivan: Triangle of Need. Brian Griffiths: Your Lonely Saucer Eyes. Simparch: Drum n' Basin.[26] Port City curated by Tom Trevor. Artists Anonymous: Communication and Association. Bloomberg New Contemporaries. Manuel Vason; Encounters.[27] Far West Metro. Fantasy Studio Project curated by Jiyoon Lee.Much of this activity was achieved alongside work with David A Bailey and Julia Waugh on the ICF[28] which is documented on Nomadaesthetics.[29]

'SUUM Projects[30]' 2010-2014

Working between South Korea and UK Waugh worked with Founder Jiyoon Lee to deliver key projects including the Samsung Art+ Prize,[31] Samsung IOC Commissions and Art Fairs in Gwangju and Seoul.

Waugh Office[32] 2014-2024

Commissioning, producing and curating artists and writers.

  • 2024 - Bayeux A Stitch in Time, Fluxus Art Projects[33] research award
  • 2023 - Tatsumi Orimoto: A Cosmic Chaos Film Directed by David Bickerstaff, Winner FAFF — ViCA - Venice Institute of Contemporary Art.
  • 2021 - Hiromi Nakajima: Pump Prax; Hybrid Installation Plaval Normandy.
  • 2019 - Port Eliot Festival: Tatsumi Orimoto Bread Man Performance, Hiromi Nakajima, Trees Talking. Co-curators LEAFF Tate Modern programme London.
  • 2018 - Astrologer Who Fell Into A Well CAS Osaka Japan featuring; Eric Lesdema, Jane and Louise Wilson, Semiconductor, Melanie King and Sheena Rose.
  • 2017 - Low Def; Lewisham Art House; Anti Cool, Julia Waugh, Hiromi Nakajima, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Samantha Sweeting and Noriko Okaku.

Leaving Language, Folkestone Metropole Gallery; Anti Cool, Sachiko Abe, Tatsumi Orimoto, Midori Miramar, Hiromi Nakajima, Kirico Tanikawa, Tamaki Kawaguchi, Noe Aoki and Mio Shirai. Tatsumi Orimoto, I Make and Become Mama, Venice Agendas, Venice. Its Cold Out There, Strange Love Festival Folkestone, Samson Kambalu, Sophie Wooley, Hiromi Nakajima, Kimbel Bumstead, Artur Żmijewski, Stewart Home, Felicity Allen and Tom Dale, Julia Waugh and Semiconductor. The Haenyeo - "Women Of The Sea", The National Maritime Museum,[34] Mikhail Karikis, Hyoung S Kim, Heyoung Koh. Sachiko Abe Power Station Art Shanghai.

  • 2016 - Bread Man Walking Tatsumi Orimoto, Chart Art Fair Kunsthal Charlottenborg Copenhagen. Becoming Animal ACC Gwangju; Sheena Rose, Sharon Norwood, Hew Locke, Samson Kambalu, Harold Offeh, Sophie Wooley.

Is the Curator an Agent of Double Agent of Cultural Identity? Conference and workshops; Gwangju Biennial; Melanie Keen JJ XI, Sara Rasa, JW Stella, Judith Greer, Sheikah Hor Bint Sultan al Kasimi, David A Baily, Graeme Evlyen, Young Sung Paik, Giuseppe mos Catello, Nam Soo Kim, Kyong Park, Jessica Taylor and Jeonhwan Cho.

  • 2015 - Air De Turner, Turner Contemporary, Sheena Rose, Tatsumi Orimoto, Fake Richard Prince, Siyasiwa and Sophie Wooley, Richard Parry, Ian Sinclair, Tony White, Kimbel Bumstead, Mark Simspon, Blanca Delatorre, Thaïs Lenkiewicz', Hiromi Nakajima, Jen Wu, JW Steela, Yasmina Reggard, Fiona Parry, Felicity Allen, Ala Yours, David A Bailey and Simon Smith.
  • 2014- Sachiko Abe Cut papers - Geneva. Festival of performance.
  • 2013 - Sachiko Abe Cut papers The Red Queen, Museum of Old and New, Tasmania, AUS. Live event and performance, Center Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France, 18th Bienniale of Sydney " All our relations", Cockatoo Island. Sydney and
  • 2013 - Draw the Line, Wrik Mead at PayneShurvell.
  • 2011- Sachiko Abe Cut papers Nuit Blanche, ESMOD, Paris.

Commercial and digital strategy.

As a consultant and Director of Business Development at DACS Waugh developed commercial strategies to protect artists rights and legacies in the era of the emerging technologies of AI and Blockchain. This culminated in the collaboration with Oxford University and the Alan Turing Institute and the research: Art Market 2.0: Blockchain and Financialisation in Visual Arts.[35]

Waugh co-founded the Charity Art360 Foundation with Gilane Tawadros which between 2015 and 2022 went on to fund more than 50 legacy bursaries for artists and their estates. https://www.youtube.com/@art360foundation7

Publications

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References

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  1. ^ "Mark Waugh | Centre for Creative Writing". 5 January 2015.
  2. ^ "Bubble Entrendre".
  3. ^ https://monoskop.org/images/e/e5/Schaeffler_Schaefer_Buurman_eds_Networks_of_Care_Politics_of_Preserving_and_Discarding_2022.pdf
  4. ^ https://torquetorque.net/wp-content/uploads/ArtistsReThinkingTheBlockchain.pdf
  5. ^ "Item Details | Research Catalog | NYPL".
  6. ^ Waugh, Mark (2006). "It's Very Trippy: Shock Locutions and Dislocation". Performance and Place. pp. 22–33. doi:10.1057/9780230597723_3. ISBN 978-1-4039-4504-4.
  7. ^ https://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Thomas-Waugh-Mark-Frank/dp/386588167X
  8. ^ "I Love L A: Postcards from a Volatile Corpus".
  9. ^ "Sir Humphry Davy Grammar School, Penzance".
  10. ^ "Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies : University of Sussex".
  11. ^ https://brightonfestival.org
  12. ^ "Sweat". 29 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Transmutations".
  14. ^ https://www.artscouncil.org.uk
  15. ^ "Mark Waugh interviewed about her book Bubble Entendre by Stewart Home".
  16. ^ "BBC - Arts - Shooting Live Artists Homepage".
  17. ^ "BBC - Arts - Private View".
  18. ^ "BBC - Press Office - Interactive and online support for Simon Schama's Power of Art".
  19. ^ "Touched | Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art".
  20. ^ https://www.newcontemporaries.org.uk
  21. ^ "CLUSTERFUCK - Exhibition at a Foundation London in London".
  22. ^ https://blancadelatorre.net
  23. ^ "Free to Air (Year 1)".
  24. ^ "An interview with Alice Sharp on climate change and contemporary art".
  25. ^ http://nadimsamman.com/mushrooms-of-the-russian-avant-garde
  26. ^ "A Foundation Oct07 - Apr08". 27 December 2007.
  27. ^ "Encounters – Performance, photography, collaboration".
  28. ^ https://www.internationalcuratorsforum.org
  29. ^ "Nomadaesthetics".
  30. ^ http://suumproject.com/art-project/
  31. ^ "Samsung Art + Prize". 17 January 2012.
  32. ^ https://www.waughoffice.com
  33. ^ https://fluxusartprojects.com
  34. ^ "Haenyeo : Women of the Sea - Exhibition at National Maritime Museum in London".
  35. ^ "OII | the Art Market 2.0: Blockchain and Financialisation in Visual Arts".

1. The artist at the centre of the conversation : https://medium.com/project-art360/the-artist-at-the-centre-of-the-conversation-644887eb5ac

2. Artists Legacies in the Museum: https://www.art360foundation.org.uk/artists-legacies-in-the-museum

3, Make Mine a Haut Medoc: Lyrical Libertine Mark Waugh : https://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/make-mine-a-haut-medoc-lyrical-libertine-mark-waugh/

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