Professor Stephen Barber
Faculties, departments and locations
- Kingston School of Art
- Department of Critical and Historical Studies
- School of Creative and Cultural Industries
Research Professor in Art History
- Email:
- [email protected]
About
Since 2012, I have been a research professor in Art History in the School of Art faculty at Kingston University and co-director of the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre. I previously held research positions at the California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles, the University of Tokyo and Tokyo Keio University, the IMEC Research Institute in Paris, the Berlin Free University, and the Berlin University of the Arts.
My research has been funded by a wide range of research councils and foundations, including the AHRC, the German Ministry for Research and Education, the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Japan Foundation, the Getty Foundation, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Leverhulme Trust, and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art. My research is focused on urban cultures and their relationship to art and moving-image forms.
I have published many books in my areas of research, most recently Berlin Bodies: Anatomising the Streets of the City (2017), Film's Ghosts: Tatsumi Hijikata and the Transmutation of 1960s Japan (2019), and The Projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge, and the Future Projections of the Moving Image (2020). In 2022, a book of my translations of Antonin Artaud's final writings, 'A Sinister Assassin', will be published. I am now developing a new research project, 'Into the Wastelands', spanning art, film and urban topographies, on the subject of the future of urban wastelands.
I have presented my research at such venues as the Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Royal Academy, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the Japan Society in New York, the Mori Museum in Tokyo, and the Rockefeller Center in Bellagio.
In June 2020, David Peace wrote about my books in the Times Literary Supplement: ‘Beginning in 1993 with Artaud: Blows and Bombs, Stephen Barber has quietly, independently forged one of the most singular and enriching bodies of work in contemporary writing.'
Qualifications
- BA (Hons)
- PhD
Publications
A War of Fragments: J.G. Ballard's World Versus America
Barber, Stephen, 2017, Diaphanes: Art, Fiction, Discourse, Published
Corporeal Disintegration as Last Gasp Vocal Act: the Final Works, of Murobushi, Artaud and Chereau
Barber, Stephen, 2017, New Theatre Quarterly (33), 2pp 169-178, Published
The Skladanowsky Brothers: the Devil knows
Barber, Stephen, 2010, Systematic Entomology, 56, Published
Coma: the art of unconsciousness
Barber, Stephen, 2010, Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery, Published
Vers la zone
Barber, Stephen, 2009, Journal of Baltic Studies, 961pp 160-173, Published
Genealogies of film's ruination
Barber, Stephen, 2009, Vertigo (4), 2pp 30-30, Published
Pasolini and Sade: a maleficient obsession
Barber, Stephen, 2008, Vertigo (4), 1pp 50-51, Published
The last words of Antonin Artaud: on the cinematic dimension of the envisioned final notebooks
Barber, Stephen, 2008, Vertigo (3), 8pp 10-11, Published
The projectionists: Eadweard Muybridge and the future projections of the moving image
Barber, Stephen (2020). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
Film's ghosts: Tatsumi Hijikata's Butoh and the transmutation of 1960s Japan
Barber, Stephen (2019). Zurich, Switzerland: [Published]
Artaud 1937 Apocalypse
Artaud, Antonin (2019). Zurich, Switzerland: [Published]
On disfiguration
(2018). Abingdon, U.K.: (Routledge) [Published]
Berlin bodies: anatomizing the streets of the city
Barber, Stephen (2017). London, U.K.: [Published]
Pierre Guyotat: revolutions and aberrations
Barber, Stephen (2016). London, U.K.: [Published]
Performance projections: film and the body in action
Barber, Stephen (2014). London, U.K.: [Published]
Pasolini: the massacre game : terminal film, text, words 1974-75
(2013). New York, U.S.: [Published]
Muybridge, the eye in motion: tracing cinema's origins
Barber, Stephen (2012). Washington, D.C., U.S.: (Solar Books) [Published]
The walls of Berlin: urban surfaces: art: film
Barber, Stephen (2011). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
Abandoned images: film and film's end
Barber, Stephen (2010). London, U.K.: [Published]
Hijikata: revolt of the body
Barber, Stephen (2010). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
Artaud: terminal curses: the notebooks 1945-48
Barber, Stephen (2008). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
London eyes: reflections in text and image
(2007). New York, U.S.: (Berghahn Books) [Published]
The vanishing map: a journey from LA to Tokyo to the heart of Europe
Barber, Stephen (2006). Oxford, UK: [Published]
Caligula: divine carnage
Barber, Stephen (2006). Chicago, U.S.: [Published]
Jean Genet
Barber, Stephen (2004). London, U.K.: (Reaktion Books) [Published]
The art of destruction: the films of the Vienna action group
Barber, Stephen (2004). London, U.K.: (Creation Books) [Published]
Projected cities
Barber, Stephen (2002). London, UK: (Reaktion Books) [Published]
Extreme Europe
Barber, Stephen (2001). London, U.K.: (Reaktion Books) [Published]
Tokyo vertigo
Barber, Stephen (2001). London, U.K.: [Published]
Edmund White: the burning world : a biography
Barber, Stephen (2000). London, U.K.: [Published]
Artaud: the screaming body
Barber, Stephen (1999). London, U.K.: [Published]
Weapons of liberation
Barber, Stephen (1996). London, U.K.: [Published]
Fragments of the European city
Barber, Stephen (1995). London, U.K.: (Reaktion Books) [Published]
Hijikata Tatsumi at the Osaka World Exposition's Pepsi Pavilion, 1970. Multiple Historiographies of a Lost Performance
Barber, Stephen (2022). In: Fisher-Lichte, Erika, Sugiera, Małgorzata, Jost, Torsten, Hartung, Holger, Soltani, Omid, (eds.), Abingdon, U.K.: Routledgepp 106-124 [Published]
Lovers: corporeal projections and ocular demands
Barber, Stephen (2017). In: Eckersall, Peter, Scheer, Edward, Shintarō, Fujii, (eds.), Copenhagen, Denmark: Museum Tusculanum Presspp 191-202 [Published]
Cinemas' Sonic Residues
Barber, Stephen (2014). In: Gandy, Matthew, Nilsen, BJ, (eds.), Berlin, Germany:pp 138-144 [Published]
The films of the Skladanowsky Brothers
Barber, Stephen (2011). In: Langford, Michelle, (eds.), Bristol, U.K.: Intellect [Published]
Traces and surfaces
Barber, Stephen (2011). In: Gandy, Matthew, (eds.), Berlin, Germany:pp 174-177 [Published]
August Walla: Devil/God, image/text
Barber, Stephen (2010). In: Hunt, John Dixon, Lomas, David, Corris, Michael, (eds.), London, U.K.:pp 317-328 [Published]
The films of the Vienna Action Group
Barber, Stephen (2010). In: Weiner, Robert G., Cline, John, (eds.), Plymouth, U.K.:pp 217-225 [Published]
An indescribable blur: film and London
Barber, Stephen (2007). In: Cunningham, Gail, Barber, Stephen, (eds.), New York, USA: Berghahn Bookspp 123-134 [Published]
Introduction: Part II: The modern age: London in image
Barber, Stephen (2007). In: Cunningham, Gail, Barber, Stephen, (eds.), New York, U.S.: Berghahn Bookspp 119-121 [Published]
La matiere de lecriture: sur Pierre Guyotat
Barber, Stephen K. (1999). In: Forest, P, Sollers, Philippe, (eds.), France:pp 123-135 [Published]
Coming home: Eadweard Muybridge's return to Kingston
Kim, Seoyoung and Barber, Stephen(2022). [Published]
'Thatcher's tomb': a talk and reading
Barber, Stephen(2018). [Published]
Challenging the frames of performance: memory, trauma and activism in the multimedia and interdisciplinary performance practices of dumb type in 1990's Japan
Barber, Stephen and Lloyd, Fran(2014). [Published]
The art of intervention: Kingston University responses: Japanese mob
Barber, Stephen, Davies, Rachel, Horrocks, Chris, Mancke, Carol and Maude-Roxby, Alice(2009). [Published]