May 3, 2007 3pm
Independent art publishing as a form of collective art work with "Metronome"

May 4, 2007 3pm
Collective Research on the Future of the Art College with "Future Academy"

Clementine Deliss is an independent curator, researcher and publisher and was born in London of French-Austrian parents. She holds a PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Early exhibitions include Lotte or the Transformation of the Object (Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Vienna 1990);

Exotic Europeans (National Touring Exhibitions, London, 1990); and Seven Stories about Modern Art in Africa (Whitechapel Gallery, Konsthalle Malmo 1995). From 1992 to 1995 she was the artistic director of africa95,

an artist-led festival coordinated with the Royal Academy of Arts, London and over 60 UK institutions. Since 1996 she has produced the writers’ and artists’ organ Metronome, publishing in Dakar, Berlin, Basel, Frankfurt, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Paris, London, and Tokyo. Metronome has been launched at the Dakar and Venice biennales; the Kunsthalle Basel; DAAD, Berlin; documenta X; and at Galerie Chantal Crousel in Paris.

In 2005 she founded Metronome Press in Paris together with French critic Thomas Boutoux (www.metronomepress.com). In September 2006, Cl?mentine Deliss had a solo exhibition of her work (“Think With Your Feet”) at Kandada gallery (CommandN project collective,Tokyo), featuring ten years of Metronome and a special edition of sandals made from second-hand books. At the same time she curated the Metronome Think-Tank in Tokyo, which was hosted by the Mori Art Museum and organised by Arts Initiative Tokyo and Edinburgh College of Art. Metronome is an official participant of documenta 12 magazines. Since 2003 she has directed Future Academy at Edinburgh College of Art with members and research cells in Senegal, India, Australia, USA, and Japan (www.futureacademylab.net). She has acted as a consultant for the European Union, AFAA (now Francecultures), the Ministry of Culture, Senegal, and is a member of the scientific research council of the School of Art and Design, Geneva (HEAD).