Uma Breakdown is an artist/writer/researcher working around horror studies, feminist literature, and queer RPGs. This year they finished a PhD about The Evil Dead, care, trans* écriture féminine, disaster and play. Also in 2020 they presented a plant horror RPG (with Una Hamilton Helle, Eltons Kūns, and Erik Martinson) at Kim?, Riga; a video game about sleeping on the ground next to animals for FACT, Liverpool; and a short story about SSRIs and Artaud for Ma Bibliothèque. They are currently researching criminality as love/writing in Genet and Cixous.
When | Where | What |
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2020 | Northumbria University Fine Art Department (AHRC funded) | PhD “Becoming Ahuman: making it desirable to abandon certainty, including certainty of the self, and play in this chaotic situation” ABSTRACT |
2008 | Royal College of Art (RCA bursary and Coates Foundation funded) | MA Sculpture |
2006 | University of East London | BA Fine Art (first) |
When | Where | What |
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2020 | NewBridge Project, Gateshead | Dungeons & Disaster: Everything I learned about art I learnt from the Monster Manual READ IT HERE |
2020 | FACT, Liverpool | "Animal Agency" videogame as part of 2020 FACT Together Digital Fellowship PLAY IT HERE |
2020 | Kim? Contemporary Art, Riga | All Flesh is Grass (collab RPG and exhibition with Una Hamilton Helle, Eltons Kūns, and Erik Martinson) DOCUMENTATION |
2019 | Queens Hall Arts Centre, Hexham. | Polymorph Other DOCUMENTATION |
2019 | South London Gallery | The Graveside Orations of Carl Einstein (lauch performance) DOCUMENTATION |
2018 | Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent | The river flowed down the waterfall without bringing any profit (group exhibition) |
2018 | Dublin Digital Radio (for Dublin Art Book Fair 2018) | Keepers Diary (Radio Play) for the Alison Balance and Alice Rekab curated project "Broken Diorama" LISTEN HERE |
2018 | SERF, Leeds | "The Woodland Behind The Finishing Plant" remote performance for lauch of Paperwork III DOCUEMTNATIOSNSS |
2018 | South Kiosk, London | "The Sodden Gates of Vunerability" remote performance for the Artlicks Weekend 2018 event "Sex and Other States" curated by INGRESS DOCUTMENTS |
2018 | Whitechapel Gallery, London | "Frolic in Brine" performance as part of the event "Its Origins are Indeterminate" DOCUEMNTSIONS |
2018 | WORMWORM.ORG | "The Inhuman Ecstacy of Tocxic Waste" web work for Refuse: (v)(n)(-) Documentos |
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