Dr Ben Greenman is a Lecturer in the Department of Fine Art Critical Studies. He studied Philosophical Aesthetics and Art History at the University of Essex, where he completed his PhD.
His research is preoccupied with the relationship between art and politics, especially in and through moments of politicisation. North American art of the 1960s and 1970s has been central to his research, especially in performance, photography, and video art, and in relation to a questioning of normative subjectivities (such as in art practices that have questioned paradigms of masculinity). His current research focuses on contemporary photographic practices and their interplay with the material conditions and concepts of political subjectivity, and specifically what Étienne Balibar has called the ‘citizen subject. Most recently, he has written about the enduring value of Critical Theory (when reconnected with its emancipatory premise) in art school education.