Mick Wilson

Mick Wilson is an artist, educator and researcher based in Gothenburg and Dublin. He is currently Professor of Art and Director of Doctoral Studies, at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg. Current teaching and research interests address aspects of the political imaginary: constructions of 'public-ness' and the 'social' in the contemporary art field; bodycounts – political community with the dead and the regime of calculation; the rhetorical dynamics of knowledge, conflict and violence; and the aesthetic politics of foodways.

Recent edited volumes include: with Gerrie van Noord & Paul O'Neill (eds.) Kathrin Böhm: Art on the Scale of Life, Sternberg / MIT Press (2023); with Henk Slager (eds.) Expo-Facto: Into the Algorithm of Exhibition, EARN (2022), with Cătălin Gheorghe (eds.) Exhibitionary Acts of Political Imagination (Editura Artes/ArtMonitor, 2021); with Nick Aikens et al. (eds.) On the Question of Exhibition 1, 2, & 3 (PARSE, 2021) and with Paul O'Neill et al. (eds.) Curating After the Global (MIT, 2019).