Sophia Phoca: Research Outputs

Books

Author of Introducing Postfeminism - Icon Books, 1999.
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ISBN 1 – 84046 – 010 – 5 Currently sold in the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Canada & US. Sold aprox: 9000 copies in 18 months. Reviewed in The Times: 6/3/1999. Interviewed in: Sibyl (feminist magazine) May/June 1999.

2007

Catalogue essay: ' Near and Elsewhere' on European video work curated by Film and Video Umbrella to be shown in various galleries on the edges of London in 2008 (forthcoming 2007).
Essay on postfeminism, in the Routledge Reader on Feminsim & Postfeminism. Ed Sarah Gamble 2007 (forthcoming).
Essay on 'Europa: Film and Video From the Centre of Europe' an exhibition at Tate Modern co-curated for 'Issues in Curating, Contemporary Art and Performance', Intellect Books. Ed Dr. Judith Rugg, 2007
Editor & Editorial essay for the Catalogue 'Besides it isAlways OthersWho Die' essays by: Richard Dyer, John Gange, Janet Hand. ISBN 0 9539800.

1999

Chapter on Gender & Feminism (essay) & extracts on Laura Mulvey & FilmTheory - The Dictionary of Feminism & Postfeminism, Ed Sarah Gamble, Icon Books, 1999 (pp.55-65 & p.232 – pp.279-280). ISBN 1 – 84046 – 042 – 3

1998

Essay on hyperrealist painting in the journal Art, Technology & Technique, Volume 4 – a collection of essays including Howard Caygill and Sean Cubitt. Ed John Gange, Pluto Press 1998, (p.p.121-128). ISBN 0 – 7453 – 1316 – 7

2007

Review of Destroy Athens: Fist Athens Biennale, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 94, October, 2007.
Review of Dimitri Papioannou's '2" Contemporary Magazine, Issue 92, June , 2007.

2006

Review of Deadad by Andrew Kotting at the Herbert Read gallery, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 82, 2006.

2004

Review of Brittania Works curated by Katerina Gregou, an exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, Athens, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 64, June 2004.
Review of Plain Song by Conor Kelly at Peer Gallery, London, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 63, May 2004.
Review of Candyland Zoo curated by Martin Clark at the Herbert Read Gallery, Contemporary Magazine, Issue 61, April 2004.

2003

Review of the Turner Prize exhibition Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art & culture, Issue 59, Spring 2003.

2002

Catalogue essay on Andrew Kötting's feature film 'This Filthy Earth' (2001) for an exhibition of his work at Lieu D'Art Contemporain, Aude, France, 2002.

2001

Review of the exhibition Protest and Survive at the Whitechapel Gallery September-November. Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art & culture, Issue 53, Winter, 2001.

2000

In Conversation with Hélène Cixous (a rare interview with Cixous in her flat in Paris) Wasafiri: Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, Teaching: Theories into Practice, Essays on Film, Art & Cultural Events Reviews, No.31 Spring 2000, (pp. 9-13).
Review of Hélène Cixous' Stigmata Escaping Texts, Wasafiri: Creative Writing, Literary Criticism, Teaching: Theories into Practice, Essays on Film, Art & Cultural Events Reviews, No.31 Spring 2000, (pp. 9-13).

1999

Review - She's Streetwise and a Stalker, Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art & culture, Issue 45, Winter, 1999.
Review - In your Face, Third Text: critical perspectives on contemporary art & culture, Issue 43, Summer 1999.

Curator of Exhibition - 'Europa – Film and Video from the Centre of Europe, Tate Modern. Produced and Co-curated (Tate Modern) a programme of film and video (including Demetrius Narkevicious, Constantine Giannaris and other European film and video work) and talks at Tate Modern, Co sponsored by the Goethe Institut, the Hellenic Foundation & Easy Jet.
Curator of the exhibition "Besides it is Always Others Who Die" (After Duchamp's epitaph on his tombstone) – Post Viral, at the 291 Gallery, 291 Hackney Road, London E28NA, supported by KIAD & the LUX Centre. A show of digital installation, video installation, sound installation, photography, video projections, text installation and painting. Including the work of: Clio Barnard, Stuart Brisley, Jason Brooks, Andrew Kötting, Victoria Mapplebeck, Richard Sawdon.
Previewed/Reviewed in Time Out: Jan 17/24 & 24/31, Evening Standard: 17th of January, Dazed & Confused, Issue 74, February 2001.

Visiting lecture - Budapest University of Craft and Design (Magyar Iparmuvészeti Egyetem), Budapest, 2006
Visiting Lecturer - Harvard University, MA 02138. The School of Science and Humanities 2001
Chair of Philosophical Symposium on Post Viral Art at the 291 Gallery - Speakers: Jonathan Dronsfield (Post Doctoral Researcher in Philosophy - Middlesex University), Janet Hand (Senior Lecturer in Visual Arts - Goldsmith's College), John Gange (Senior Lecturer in Visual Theory - KIAD), Graham Higgin (Author of Porcupines - Penguin books).