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Barnaby Drabble *1971 UK Barnaby Drabble curates, researches and writes about artistic and cultural projects. He lives in Zurich and Edinburgh and works internationally. He curates independent projects, co-runs the office Drabble+Sachs (with Hinrich Sachs) and is co-curator of the ongoing project Curating Degree Zero (with Dorothee Richter) As a critic he is a regular contributor to art magazines and catalogues. He holds a BA in Literature (Edinburgh University), a PgDip in Exhibition Interpretation and Design (Edinburgh), an Ma in Curating Contemporary Art (Goldsmiths college, London) and is currently holder of a three year research award at the Institute of Curatorship and Education (Edinburgh College of Art). He regularly delivers seminars, tutorials and workshops on post-graduate courses in the UK, France and Switzerland. Selected positions National Maritime Museum and Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London. Curator of Contemporary Art (2000-2003) Projects with Steven Pippin (2000), the Boyle Family (2000), Faisal Abdu Allah and Dalziell & Scullion (2001), Tim Brennan and Beth Derbyshire (2002). APT Gallery, London Gallery Coordinator (1999-2001) Deptford X Festival of Art in The Public Space, London. (1999-2001) Festival Co-organiser and Chair of selection Panel. Tate Gallery Archives, APG Archive. Researcher (1998-2000) looking at practice of Artist Placement Group (1968-1989) Agency Contemporary Art, Shoreditch, London. Exhibition Coordinator. (1998-1999) Selected Projects Indoor Language, ongoing research project, incorporating talks, texts and web-based material. (with Hinrich Sachs as Drabble+Sachs), events to date staged in Basel and Helsingborg. Curating Degree Zero Archive, touring exhibition co-organised with Dorothee Richter, (2003-05) Venues to date in Basel, Geneva, Bremen, and Linz. The Family, An exhibition of photography at The Gallery , Windsor, Florida. (2003) featuring work by amongst others: Diane Arbus, Tina Barney, Richard Billingham, Nan Goldin, Philip-Lorca Dicorcia, Sally Mann, David Hockney and Thomas Struth and Larry Sultan. (Catalogue) Expo 02, Arteplage Mobile De Jura, Switzerland, TM Guerrilla-A presentation of work from Artists and Activists, (2002). (with Hinrich Sachs as Drabble+Sachs). Critical Aesthetics, LUX, London. Curated screenings and discussion with Ursula Biemann and Oliver Ressler. (2001) Szuper Gallery, the new collection. Kunstlerhaus, Bremen. Germany (June 2001) Exhibition of London-based group looking at links between art, architecture and economic structures. Ross Sinclair, I Love Real Life, Public Art Event, Hackney, London. (June 1999) Curating Degree Zero, (June 1998) Co-curated with Dorothee Richter.3 day International Symposium, GAK Bremen. Selected Publications On the compatibility between the languages of Art and Activism, an interview with Oliver Ressler. (with Hinrich Sachs) for the catalogue The Bourgeois Show, Social sculptures in Urban Space, Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg (2003) Indoor Language for the catalogue Curatorial Mutiny. Ed Per Hüttner (2003) Theres no history like the present, for catalogue Potential. John Hansard Gallery (June 2002) Hinrich Sachs, Conversations in a White Room for catalogue Kunsthalle Basel. (April. 2002) Trading Places: Art and Global Economics. Article Flashart (Oct. 2001) Profile: Guy Bar Amotz, Article Flashart, January (2001) Ross Sinclair, Public Art is Dead, Long Live Real Life, catalogue for Fruitmarket Gallery, (2001) Selected Lectures, Talks and Seminars: Collaborative practice in the field of curating. Goldsmiths College London (May 2003). MA program. Creative Curating. Critical Curating and the Archive as Exhibition with Dorothee Richter at L Ecole des Beaux Artes, Geneva (Feb-May 2003) Program CCC Curating and Cultural critique. Art and Activism Seminar at L Ecole Du Magasin, Grenoble. (Dec 2002) Innovation and Creating Conference, Aarhus Denmark. (Sept 2002) Lecture at SpLab. Business has an agenda for working with artists, but what about artists for working with business? Presentation and discussion on the theme Artist-Curators at Nomads and Residents, New York (August 2002) Working inside and beyond the art institution. Seminar at L Ecole des Beaux Artes, Geneva (March 2002). Program CCC. Teambuild Baltic Art Centre, Gateshead (Sept 2001).