Dr Katherine Guinness
Lecturer in Art History
School of Communication and Arts
Researcher biography
Katherine Guinness is a theorist and historian of contemporary art. She is a Lecturer of Art History at the University of Queensland, and was previously Assistant Professor and Director of Art History at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs (UCCS), where she also served as the academic director of the downtown Gallery of Contemporary Art (or GOCA). She received her PhD from the University of Manchester and is the author of the first academic monograph on German artist Rosemarie Trockel, Schizogenesis, which was published by the University of Minnesota Press in 2019. She is a guest editor for Art Journal Open and is the co-founder of FEARS, the Female Emerging Artist Residency Series, at UCCS
Publications
Books
Bollmer, Grant and Guinness, Katherine (2024). The influencer factory: a Marxist theory of corporate personhood on YouTube. Stanford, CA, United States: Stanford University Press.
Bollmer, Grant, Guinness, Katherine and Soncul, Yiğit (2024). The De Gruyter handbook of digital culture. Berlin, Germany: De Gruyter.
Guinness, Katherine (2019). Schizogenesis : The Art of Rosemarie Trockel. Minneapolis, MN United States: University of Minnesota Press. doi: 10.5749/j.ctvsn3n7h
Book Chapters
Guinness, Katherine and Marshall, Jocelyn (2024). Archival defiance: historiographical approaches to feminist performance art and rerformance writing. Women’s innovations in theatre, dance, and performance. (pp. n/a-n/a) edited by Elliot Mercer and Jill Lane. New York, NY, United States: Bloomsbury.
Guinness, Katherine (2021). For no given reason. This:That William Wylie and Corey Drieth. (pp. 9-31) Charlottesville/Colorado Springs: University of Virginia and University of Colorado Colorado Springs.
Guinness, Katherine (2021). The vegetal world. Family Tree Whakapapa: Elin, Madeleine, Sarah, and Susanne Slavick. (pp. 3-9) Auckland, New Zealand: Wallace Arts Trust and Aratoi - Wairarapa Museum of Art and History.
Guinness, Katherine (2017). Heath Franco’s LIFE IS SEXY. The National. (pp. n/a-n/a) Sydney, NSW, Australia: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Carriageworks, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney.
Journal Articles
Jones, Amelia, Cassils and Guinness, Katherine (2023). Feminist interview project: Cassils in conversation with Amelia Jones. Art Journal Open.
Guinness, Katherine (2023). Nuclear mediation and autobiographical ghosts. Apocalyptica.
McGowan, Daisy, Nengudi, Senga and Guinness, Katherine (2022). Feminist Interview Project: Senga Nengudi in Conversation with Daisy McGowan. Art Journal Open.
Jacques, Tabitha, Kim, Christine Sun and Guinness, Katherine (2022). Feminist interview project: Christine Sun Kim in conversation with Tabitha Jacques. Art Journal Open.
Guinness, Katherine (2022). Self-Portraiture and Self Performance. Visual Culture Approaches to the Selfie, 40-59. doi: 10.4324/9780367206109-2
Kent, Charlotte, Guinness, Katherine and Tanga, Martina (2021). Collaborative reflections on the feminist art and architecture collaborative. The Oxford Artistic and Practice Based Research Platform (4).
Bollmer, Grant and Guinness, Katherine (2020). Empathy and nausea: virtual reality and Jordan Wolfson's Real Violence. Journal of Visual Culture, 19 (1), 28-46. doi: 10.1177/1470412920906261
Guinness, Katherine (2020). The Coloniser and Corpus Nullius. Parallax, 26 (1), 76-88. doi: 10.1080/13534645.2019.1685782
Guinness, Katherine (2020). Negative hauntology and the nuclear sublime: on VR and catastrophe. Spectator, 40 (2), 31-39.
Guinness, Katherine (2019). Collaborations – A formless dialectic. Montclair State University Creative Research Center.
Guinness, Katherine (2018). Making Kin with Pessimism (and Mushrooms). Tilt West.
Bollmer, Grant and Guinness, Katherine (2018). ‘Do you really want to live forever?’: Animism, death, and the trouble of digital images. Cultural Studies Review, 24 (2), 79-96. doi: 10.5130/csr.v24i2.5995
Guinness, Katherine (2018). Hard at Play: Zaniness and Labour in Contemporary Art. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, 18 (1), 90-107. doi: 10.1080/14434318.2018.1481333
León, Ana María, Merrett, Andrea J., Ziaee, Armaghan, Mejía Moreno, Catalina, Kent, Charlotte, Stiles, Elaine, Cheatle, Emma, Chuong, Jennifer Y., Maxim, Juliana, Iarocci, Louisa, Tanga, Martina, Touloumi, Olga, Guinness, Katherine, Surface, S., Sohail, Saher, Parrish, Sarah and Paneth-Pollak, Tessa (2018). To manifest. Harvard Design Magazine, Winter 2018, 182-189.
Bollmer, Grant and Guinness, Katherine (2017). Phenomenology for the selfie. Cultural Politics, 13 (2), 156-176. doi: 10.1215/17432197-4129113
Guinness, Katherine (2016). The future is already here, tt’s just the end. Kapsula, 3, 8-15.
Guinness, Katherine (2015). 9B and me (love, touch, destruction). Kapsula, 2 (3), 6-13.
Guinness, Katherine and Bollmer, Grant David (2015). Marina Abramović doesn’t feel like you. Feral Feminisms, 3 (Winter), 40-55.
Guinness, Katherine (2014). Does Heath Franco think I’m a dickhead? (Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the art that makes me angry). Kapsula, 1 (4), 16-19.
Guinness, Katherine (2014). Celebrating an unstable oeuvre: Rosemarie Trockel’s retrospective. Esse (80), 76-81.
Guinness, Katherine (2012). Desiring and destruction: Rosemarie Trockel’s painting machine. NYX: A Noctournal, 93-100.
Conference Papers
Guinness, Katherine (2023). Mediation and autobiographical ghosts. Nuclear Ghosts Workshop, Käte Hamburger Centre for Apocalyptic and Post-Apocalyptic Studies, Heidelberg, Germany, 26-27 July 2023.
Marshall, Jocelyn E. and Guinness, Katherine (2023). Feminist care for the archive: art history, text(ures) and methodologies. Shaking the Archives: Reconsidering the Role of Archives in Contemporary Society, Edinburgh, Scotland, 23-25 June 2023.
Bollmer, Grant and Guinness, Katherine (2023). Virtual reality for a burning world. RE:SOURCE – The 10th International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology, Venice, Italy, 13-16 September 2023.
Seminar Paper
Guinness, Katherine (2021). Katherine Guinness on Denys Blacker. Out of site flow symposium.