Alice Maude-Roxby

Alice Maude-Roxby is an artist, curator and writer. Her early publications and exhibitions focused on performance and photography, and feminism included contributions to Art, lies and videotape: exposing performance, (London, Tate Publications, 2003) and her curation of the exhibition and book Live Art on Camera (John Hansard Gallery, 2007). Anti-Academy (an exhibition and book, curated for John Hansard Gallery 2013-14). She  investigated three anti-establishment art schools, founded by artists in the 1960s at Bigakko in Tokyo, Ex-Skole in Copenhagen, and Hans Breder’s Intermedia department at Iowa University. An investigation of of 1920s and 30s collaborative practices by women artists and designers was produced with Stefanie Seibold as Resist be modern (again) for John Hansard Gallery in 2019. She is co-curating with Joan Giroux the exhibition Proof of Presence for Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, 2025

The project

Title: Gina Pane : actions through time

Gina Pane is acknowledged as one of the first artists to use her body as the medium for her practice through live works or ‘actions’ she began in the late 1960s. She became well known for this highly charged body of work, particularly her 1970s live actions that were meticulously orchestrated to communicate viscerally and visually, often incorporating the gesture of small cuts made into her skin, marking an indelible exchange between herself and the viewer. From their first manifestations, Pane’s actions were recognized as having great historical and aesthetic importance, and were the subject of critical texts and subsequently explored within theoretical analysis. Gina Pane deserves the same recognition as contemporaries such as Marina Abramovic, however analysis of Pane’s practice is not conclusively available. Texts are scattered and hard to access, often not translated from French, or were included in short run, now out of print exhibition catalogues or journals.

Hosting institution: Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne - Laboratoire : Histoire Culturelle et Sociale de l’Art (HICSA)

Selective Bibliography

• Gina Pane : actions through time, co-edited with Sophie Delpeux, anthology to be published with Routledge 2025
• «Making Connections : Pia Arke and Feminists Using Photography » in Pia Arke : Arctic Hysteria, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton and KW Berlin, 2024
• «Out of the Archive : Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York and the Carry-All Coat »  in Fast Forward : Women and Photography, Photography and Culture, Vol 13 (3-4), 2020
• “Dialogue with Stefanie Seibold” in Feminist Art Activisms and Artivisms edited by Katy Deepwell, Valiz, 2020
• Resist : be modern (again), 2019, co-authored book with Stefanie Seibold, John Hansard Gallery, UK
• Censored Realities : Changing New York, co-authored book with Stefanie Seibold, Camera Austria, Austria, 2018