Dr. Alice Planel-Frederiks
Job title:
Lecturer in Contemporary Art Theory
Biography
Dr Alice Planel-Frederiks (she/her) is a curator, artist, activist and researcher with a special interest in decolonial and regenerative practices and socially engaged art forms.
Alice holds a PhD from Kingston University, an MA in Cultural Memory from the School of Advanced Studies and a BA (Hons) in Fine Art and Art History. She trained in an avant-garde physical theatre school in France before moving to the UK, which continues to influence her practice today. Alice has taught Fine Art and Contemporary Art Theory in several institutions before joining ECA. Teaching has been a place to sound ideas and gain inspiration for her work as a curator, artistic and activist.
Alice works part time at Modern Art Oxford and is a trustee of Meadow Arts (UK).
Research interests
- Contemporary art practices based in rural settings.
- Class-based and feminist approaches to art making
- Participatory or socially engaged art practices
- Decolonial, regenerative and ecological approaches.
- Food and radical hospitality as an art form
Alice has taught and led on a wide range of courses in Fine Art, Contemporary Art Theory and History of Art. At ECA she is course organiser for Art in Context 2 on which she also teaches. Since she began teaching, Alice has worked to diversify course and curriculum, introducing a majority of Black, Middle Eastern, Asian, disabled, queer and women artists to taught content. At ECA her courses continue to testify to the diversity of peoples practicing art today.
Research
Research
Alice has published widely on the subject of North African and Middle Eastern Art (Yale University Press, L’Harmattan) and contributed to conferences on this subject internationally. From this body of work stems her current research on decolonial, feminist and regenerative practices in contemporary art. Her focus is on rural life as a site of colonial, feminist, artistic, class based and ecological strife. She is also conducting research at Modern Art Oxford on curating participation in contemporary art galleries.