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Lauren Goode's recent arts practice has included working with performance, film and drawing. She is London-based and has exhibited and performed in the UK and oversea. She is director of the arts, architecture, sound and ecology project, the Live Art Garden Initiative.

Her current research has the working title ‘Desire, Event. Version Zero’ and forms an arts engagement with interdisciplinary contemporary philosophy/science and the politicality of Becoming and Event. Firstly, the research addresses Version Zero, problematising Immanence, Desire and Event via the work of Nietzsche, Klossowski, Deleuze, Lyotard, DeLanda, Golding, Kuhn, Ho, Badiou, Laruelle, Hayles and Parisi, amongst others. Secondly, the research is directed at libidinal and aleatory growing environs, and takes the thematic ‘Repression and Expression of Event’. This part of the research inquiry is via Dispossession in works by Haneke, Tarr, Sauper, McQueen; and then via Immersivity in contemporary Fine Arts, with practice interventions in urban green-space and field-garden environs. Lauren is an Associate Researcher at CFAR (Centre for Fine Art), BIAD – Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (Birmingham City University).

Lauren's early sculptural and media installations drew upon the intensities of, and situated works within, specific architectural environs and interiority: zoo cages, multi-storey car parks, castles; a bungalow, beach hut and garden shed; wardrobes and bedside cabinets. Later experimental site-specific performance projects developed collaborative and solo practice in a wide range of public and private contexts, but especially outdoors in urban open/green-space settings, parkland and garden landscapes. Her principal in-situ performance, and film, projects, have involved durational performative elements and movement-based improvisation.

Selected publications – projects, exhibitions, performances, films, video, etc.

A Review of Manuel DeLanda’s ‘Philosophy and Simulation. The Emergence of Synthetic Reason’. 2011. Published in the Journal ‘Philosophy of Photography’, Volume 2 Number 1. (Intellect Journals: 2011). ISSN 2040-3682.

‘Dormancy and Event’. 2010. A presentation introducing a green-space film project with reference to notions of dormancy and the aleatory, and drawing upon ‘Nietzsche & Philosophy’ by Gilles Deleuze. Postgraduate/Postdoctoral Research Conference: ‘Allergic Bodies’. Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences (ICAS), University of Greenwich.

‘Aleatory’. 2010. Invited artist. A large format ink drawing (from a series in-progress). ICAS conference exhibition group show ‘Allergic Bodies’. Stephen Lawrence Gallery, University of Greenwich.

‘Art as Event: Different/ciation and Marie Cool & Fabio Balducci’s work’. 2009. A draft article upon Cool & Balducci’s work ‘Untitled 2006_2009’, as given at the South London Gallery (May–June 2009). Strongly influenced by re-reading ‘Ideas and the synthesis of difference’ in ‘Difference & Repetition’ by Gilles Deleuze.

‘Intimacy as Event’. 2007. A workshop commissioned by Maria Chatzichristodoulou and Rachel Zerihan for the ‘INTIMACY Across Visceral and Digital Performance’ conference event programme, Goldsmiths, University of London.

‘The Artist Review Series: Immersivity, Art, Architecture, Sound and Ecology’. 2006–07. Six transdisciplinary symposia events facilitating critical exchange and review. Co-curated/chaired: Lauren Goode with Dr John Levack Drever and Ian Stonehouse. Presenters: Bill Aitchison, Tsai-Wei Chen, Lauren Goode, Dr Mae-Wan Ho, Ayssar Arida, Mark Fisher, Brandon Labelle, John Lely, Carla Vendramin, Professor John Gruzelier, Christina Kubisch, Jockel Liess, Fabrizio Manco, Lawrence Upton, Jem Finer, Ruairi Glynn, Mick Grierson, Honor Harger, Thor McIntyre-Burnie, Ajaykumar, Charlotte Bernstein, Sebastian Lexer & Emmanuelle Waeckerle, Maria Llanderas, John Levack Drever & Lawrence Upton, Robert Davis, Professor Johnny Golding, Helen Palmer, Dr. Aura Satz, Jon Thomson & Alison Craighead. Initiator and coordinator: Lauren Goode. Supported by ‘Networking Artists’ Networks Initiative’ (NAN) through a-n The Artist Information Company. Co-organised by Live Art Garden Initiative and Electronic Music Studios, Goldsmiths, University of London.

‘Spatial Integrations and Involving Artists’. 2006. Presentation. Invited speaker at Dr Mae-Wan Ho’s ‘Dream Farm’ conference workshops.

‘This Week’. 2006– . An online yearbook project, image and text-based. Contributing artists: associates of the Live Art Garden Initiative. Published on the Live Art Garden Initiative’s website.

‘Field Foci’. 2006. A creative text arising from performance practice at Gunpowder Park, Herts. Published on the Live Art Garden Initiative’s website.

Observatory Garden, in-situ performance events. 2005. Five durational performances by Lauren Goode and Maria Llanderas, with sculptural costumes by Lauren Goode. Greenwich Royal Park, London.

‘Live Art Garden Initiative. 2004– . Arts, architecture, sound and ecology project. Artists’ network development and new garden-farm environments for in-situ arts practice and events. Creation of new work: durational, movement-based in-situ performance, and moving-image. Project initiator, director and artist: Lauren Goode. Associate artists: Charlotte Bernstein, Fabrizio Manco, Maria Llanderas, Helen Palmer, Carla Vendramin.

Becoming, Desire and Event. 2003–06. Research, study and writing on historicity, subjectivity, desire and live art. Strongly influenced by reading works by Gilles Deleuze, J-F Lyotard, Johnny Golding, Manuel DeLanda, Mae-Wan Ho and others, including Vito Acconci, F. Braudel, E.M. Cioran, G. Debord, F. Guattari, A. Lingis, B. Massumi, Z. Motokiyo, J. Russell, J. Toufic, P. Virilio, and Depraz, Vermersch and Varela. Draft papers: ‘Dynamics Conditioning a Live Art of Movement-Fields’ (2006); ‘Phonic Surfaces and Theatre’ (2004); and ‘Writings’ (2003). Invited presenter / associate artist researcher at University of Greenwich, 2005 Postgraduate Conference.

‘Lighthouseworks I & II’. 2002. A live art performance series (four events), with sculptural costumes, objects and installations, in Toynbee Theatre (London). Solo works.

‘Azygy’. 2000–01. A residency project supporting experimental collaborative, performative practice for one-year. Based at Old Spitalfields Market, London. Sound and movement-based improvisation in-situ, forming weekly public performance events. Across the year, over 56 invited artists participated. Associated projects also included core Azygy artists: Antonia Doggett, Andrew Downes, Evrah, Lauren Goode, Chris Leeds, Mario Moro, Steve Moyes, Daniela de Paulis, Max Reed, Joanne Roberts and Jeremy Tranter. Project concept and direction: Lauren Goode.

Sound and movement-based in-situ live art sessions. 1999–. In-situ performance practice, research, interventions and preview events in museum, gallery, community, festival and various green-space contexts (UK and oversea). Specially designed sculptural costumes. Solo practice and collaborations: with Claire Taylor and Adrian Fisher (1998–99); with Azygy artists (2000–02); and with Live Art Garden Initiative associate artists (2004– ). [‘Three Enormous Cauliflowers’ (2001); ‘Slippers in the Woodland’ (2001); ‘The Leaf Eaters and Tree Hopper’ (2001); ‘The Administrator’s Playing Duration’ (2001); ‘The Illusory Gliders’ (2001); ‘NotBadminton’ (2000); ‘Dazzle…’ (2000); ‘Sound, Space & Movement’, curated by Jovair Longo, (2000); ‘The Apple Eaters’ (1999); ‘The LadyBirds’ (1999); ‘Lido, Libidinal & Libacious’ (1999).]

‘She Had Four Legs’. 1999. A creative text from the collected writings ‘Flawlessly Mutilated’ by Lauren Goode. Published in OMSK Book, A Testing Ground for Film, Video, Live Art, Sound and Mayhem. Ed. Clare Maloney. (London: OMSK, 2007). ISBN: 978-0955611209

‘The Deleuze and Guattari Reading Group’ (DGRG). 1996–97. Initiated and coordinated by Lauren Goode. Meetings and events attended by artists, writers and lecturers. London.

‘Markers’. 1995–99. Site-specific sets of handcrafted multiples that were planted, floated or affixed. Mixed-media, installation, performance, film/video and digital image series. Presented at events in London (‘The LadyBirds’, 1999; ‘Poem of Quantity’, Brixton Market, 1999; Camberwell Arts Week, 1998; LMC screening, 1998; ‘DGRG go to Hyde Park’, 1997); Liverpool (‘Submerge’, ISEA, 1997); and Amsterdam (‘The DGRG visit Amsterdam…’, Het Consortium, 1997).

Architectural forms, spatiality and embodied philosophy. 1993–96. Project research, writing, installations and images. Site visits to visionary garden landscapes; filming of castles (Spain and UK); and photography of multi-storey car parks (UK). MA dissertation (1995), ‘A Multi-storey Park: Spine, Concrete Bone; Spiral Skeleton; Prevalent Impossible Wall’. Royal College of Art MA Final show (London, 1995): a mixed-media installation – adapted wardrobes and bedside cabinets as castles, with battlements and secret garden chambers, and containing miniature castles (made from printer’s lead typeset), film projections of castles and light-boxes presenting a series of digital images.

‘On Show IV’, Commission. 1993. An installation: a set of twelve skeletal urn-forms each with code, tabula rasa and seashells; and lit (inside) by candles. (Material: plaster with stone aggregates). Usher Gallery, Lincoln County Council.

‘Content and Configuration’. 1992. A series of six installations: arrangements of multiples – cast, growing and constructed elements. (Materials: resin, aluminium, concrete, steel, wood, sand, shells, shingle and leather). (Solo show). Prittlewell Priory Museum, Southend County Council, Essex.

Selected artist for group show, ‘Annexed’. 1990. An installation (transparent cast resin forms). London.

Education

• Associate Researcher of CFAR (Centre for Fine Art), BIAD – Birmingham Institute of Art & Design (Birmingham City University).
  Research Supervisor: CFAR Director, Professor Johnny Golding.
  BIAD PhD Bursary Recipient. 2012 –
• Associate Researcher of ICAS - Institute for the Converging Arts & Sciences (ICAS Director: Professor Johnny Golding, University of Greenwich). Attendance of Media Arts Practice Philosophy PhD programme seminars led by Professor Golding). 2009 – 2012
• Artist-in-Residence. Live Art & Movement Residency, linking to Media Arts Philosophy MA/PhD Programme directed by Professor Johnny Golding. University of Greenwich. 2004/05.
• Independent study and cpd. 1995 –
• MA Fine Art . Royal College of Art. 1995
• BA Hons Fine Art (Sculpture). Central Saint Martin's. 1991
• Movement training (various techniques).

Images

• Selected project images
• Moving image documentation