Karen Di Franco

• Programme Leader, M.Litt Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art)
• School of Fine Art

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Book Works' Archive: a partial response

Di Franco, Karen (2013) Book Works' Archive: a partial response. Art Libraries Journal, 38 (3). pp. 37-42. ISSN 0307-4722‎

Breakthrough Fictioneers: Chance and Collage in Artists’ Publishing (1972–79)

Di Franco, Karen (2021) Breakthrough Fictioneers: Chance and Collage in Artists’ Publishing (1972–79). In: Cutting Edge: Collage in Britain, 1945 to Now, 5 - 14 October 2021, Online.

Concrete Erotics: Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book

Di Franco, Karen (2021) Concrete Erotics: Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book. In: Eroticism, Poetic Concretism, and Visuality (1960-1970), 17-18 September 2021, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Pompidou.

How Does a Work End?

Di Franco, Karen (2020) How Does a Work End? Bricks From the Kiln (4). pp. 173-193.

It is in all our bodies stretching into materials! Carolee Schneemann, agent in the book repository

Di Franco, Karen (2022) It is in all our bodies stretching into materials! Carolee Schneemann, agent in the book repository. In: Carolee Schneemann: Body Politics. Yale University Press. ISBN 9780300260649

Literal Corpus: Tracing a material history of women’s art practice through publishing

Di Franco, Karen (2021) Literal Corpus: Tracing a material history of women’s art practice through publishing. In: Visual Culture Methodologies in Periodical Studies, 19 March 2021, Online.

Nancy Holt: The Horizon of the Text

Di Franco, Karen (2022) Nancy Holt: The Horizon of the Text. In: Nancy Holt: Inside/Outside. Monacelli: A Phaidon Company, New York, pp. 117-138. ISBN 978-1-58093-597-5

Publishing the Self: Fiction and the aesthetics of self-publishing in 1970s New York

Di Franco, Karen (2021) Publishing the Self: Fiction and the aesthetics of self-publishing in 1970s New York. In: Xerography: Women Artists, 1965–1990, 18-19 November 2021, Institut national d’histoire de l’art, Paris.

Seeing and Meaning: Fiction writing at the intersection of art practice in the 1970s

Di Franco, Karen (2022) Seeing and Meaning: Fiction writing at the intersection of art practice in the 1970s. In: Association for Art History Annual Conference 2022, 7-8 April 2022, Online.

Speaking Lines: Kathy Acker’s Mantras

Di Franco, Karen (2019) Speaking Lines: Kathy Acker’s Mantras. Tinted Window (2). pp. 8-20. ISSN 2517-4789

Visual Territory, Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book

Di Franco, Karen (2020) Visual Territory, Carolee Schneemann’s Parts of a Body House Book. In: Beau Geste Press. CAPC musée d'art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite, Bourdeaux, France, pp. 387-402. ISBN 2877212505

“and all we left or lost no longer need here having all together” — Reproducing Carolee Schneemann

Di Franco, Karen (2022) “and all we left or lost no longer need here having all together” — Reproducing Carolee Schneemann. In: American Art Archives in Britain, 6-7 May 2022, The Courtauld / online.

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Iterative Pasts and Linked Futures: A Feminist Approach to Modeling Data in Archives and Collections of Artists’ Publishing

Rossenova, Lozana and Di Franco, Karen (2022) Iterative Pasts and Linked Futures: A Feminist Approach to Modeling Data in Archives and Collections of Artists’ Publishing. In: Perspectives on Data. Perspectives, 2 . The Art Institute of Chicago. ISBN 978-0-86559-315-2