Spring PhD Seminar Week - Lecture Cally Spooner

Cally Spooner is an artist, writer and choreographer who exhibits performances that unfold across media—through sound, on film, in text, as objects, and as illustrated in drawings or scores. For the past two decades, her work extensively studied ‘performance' in the most gruelling sense of the term: as the ever-increasing quantification of the social by neoliberal, accelerationist and techno-feudal governmentalities. Utilizing rehearsal, duration and embodied social knowledge, Spooner's work systematically explores how such performance can be resisted. Institutional solo exhibitions include: Graham Foundation, Chicago; Cukrarna, Ljubljana; New Museum, New York and Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Her work has appeared in recent group exhibitions including at Museion, Bolzano; Palais de Tokyo, Paris and CAPC, Bordeaux (all 2024).

Spooner was awarded the Mads Øvlisen PhD Scholarship within Practice-Based Artistic Research (2021) and completed her PhD with the University of Copenhagen (2024), and works in Turin.