Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Design

Research Fields

Sculptural installation with sound components
Cut-up techniques
Fairytales and archetypes
Art multiples
Curation

Current Research

Monica Biagioli is a Senior Lecturer at the London College of Communication. Her practice comprises installation and text based works reminiscent of concrete poetry.

A key trajectory of her work involves the use of language and its socio-political context to re-imagine psychological landscapes in installations and works on paper—shredding narratives to create new meanings. In works on paper, that means breaking up images and texts to construct new readings through layering, composition, and use of materials. In installation works, time-based story lines are disrupted by fragmenting sounds into sections to fracture the expected flow and build new narratives on top of the original texts. This technique emerged from early experiments with fragmentation and has been applied to works on paper and installations, such as 40 Years at Schloss Ettersburgh, Germany (2003), The Jepma Effect and Route Service Interruption at Lokaal 01, Netherlands (2010), Tall Tale at CARTER presents, London (2011), and Before Charge at Untitled Gallery, Manchester (2012).

Biagioli studied at Goldsmiths where she received her MA Fine Art in 2000. Recent exhibitions include Speak Through (2012, solo exhibition at Untitled Gallery, Manchester); Manchester Contemporary (2011); the BEAR PIT (2011, CARTER presents, London), Memory Flash (2011, CARTER presents, London), State Your Business (2010, Lokaal01, Breda, Netherlands); and Unrealised Potential (2010, Cornerhouse, Manchester).

Her curatorial work on the exhibition series Sound Proof received the Ray Y Gildea Award from the Royal Geographical Society (2008), was published in Limited Language: Rewriting Design—a collection of essays edited by Monika Parrinder and Colin Davies (2010), and was selected in 2011 by the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) as Guest Researcher to develop Sound Proof 4. She has been interviewed on Resonance FM for Sound Proof and given public presentations at 24 Hour Olympic State (See Studio Exhibition Space) and Hackney Museum—the depository of the multiples from the exhibition series.

To view an archive of work and current projects, see her website at http://www.monicabiagioli.com/

Peer Esteem

Residencies and Prizes
Forum UNESCO-University and Heritage International Network; Member
Royal Geographical Society; Gildea Award, London 2008
Engrammne; Prize in Paysage de l'âme exhibition, Quebec City 2008
Radar Project; artist residency in Venice and Germany, 2003
Engramme; artist residency, Quebec City, Canada, 1999
LabCulture, PVA Organisation; artist residency, Bridport, England, 1999
Fulbright Scholarship; finalist, 1995

Professional Affiliation
AICA (International Association of Art Critics); Member
Information Environments Research Unit, Associate Member

Email

m.biagioli@lcc.arts.ac.uk