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First Name
Louise
Last Name
O'Hare
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Affiliation
Independent Scholar
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Louise O’Hare is a researcher, writer and organiser. She was an editor at Afterall from 2013-17, and completed her PhD at University of Northumbria in 2019. Her research focused on the contemporary political potentials of writing feminist art histories; representations of socialism and self-pleasure; Artforum’s ‘Muddled Marxist’ moment; and processes of disciplining, all through the lens of a singular artwork – Centrefold (1974) by Lynda Benglis. The project was preoccupied with modes of telling – memoir, gossip and anecdote, and the poetics of manifesto writing. Current research engages with an expanded vision of the caring economy, which necessarily involves continuing to consider perceptions of idleness, gender, and what constitutes work. O’Hare co-curated ‘Safe’, HOME, Manchester 2015; and founded the London Bookshop Map in 2011 as a platform to disseminate writing by artists. Earlier work engaged with embarrassment, the rhetorics and practicalities of ‘self publishing’, and the interstices between the print and digital in small-scale art publishing.
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London
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England
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