JIM DROBNICK
	Positions Held
	2006-Date	Associate Professor, Contemporary Art and Theory, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto.
	2006-Date	Exhibition and Conference Reviews Editor, The Senses & Society, Berg Publishers, Oxford.
	2005-2006	Research Fellow/Visiting Scholar, Art History and Visual Studies, The School of Arts, Histories and Cultures, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK.
	1992-2005	Senior Editor, Parachute, Montreal.
	1990-2005	Adjunct Faculty, Graduate Program in Fine Arts and the Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montreal.
	2001-2002	Research Fellow, Post-1970 Canadian Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa.
	1986-Date	Independent Critic and Curator (co-founder of DisplayCult).
	Education
	2006	Doctor of Philosophy. Humanities Doctoral Program, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.
	1986	Master of Fine Arts. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia.
	1981	Bachelor of Arts. Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
	Selected Books and Catalogues
	2007	Listening Awry, exhibition catalogue, Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 32 pp.
	2006	The Smell Culture Reader, editor, Oxford & New York: Berg, 442 pp.
	2004	Aural Cultures, editor of anthology and CD, Toronto & Banff: YYZ Books & Walter Phillips Gallery Editions, 288 pp.
	2002	Museopathy, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre in association with DisplayCult, catalogue (co-author), 112 pp.
		CounterPoses, Montreal: Oboro and DisplayCult (co-author), 80 pp. (in English and French).
	Selected Publications
	2009	“Airchitecture: Guarded Breaths and the [cough] Art of Ventilation,” in Art History and the Senses, Patrizia di Bello and Gabriel Koureas, eds., London: Ashgate.
		“Sense and reminiSCENT: Performance and the Essences of Memory,” Canadian Theatre Review 137, Winter, pp. 6-12.
		“Body Events and Implicated Gazes,” Performance Research, 13(4), pp. 64-74. MetroSonics, exhibition brochure, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 5 pp.
		“Airchitecture: Guarded Breaths and the [cough] Art of Ventilation,” in Art History and the Senses, Patrizia di Bello and Gabriel Koureas, eds., London: Ashgate.
		“Sense and reminiSCENT: Performance and the Essences of Memory,” Canadian Theatre Review 137, Winter, pp. 6-12.
		“Body Events and Implicated Gazes,” Performance Research, 13(4), pp. 64-74. MetroSonics, exhibition brochure, Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 5 pp.
	2008	“Simon Starling: The Entangled Life of Things,” Switch 1: 1, Winter, pp. 4-5.
		“Sonic Intimidation: Santiago Sierra’s El Degüello,” One Hour Empire, Fall, adaptation from the catalogue essay in Listening Awry, pp. 72-76.
		“White Wall: Hilda Kozarí,” The Senses & Society 3:3, pp. 361-64.
		“Odor Limits,” The Senses & Society 3:3, expanded version of the exhibition pamphlet from the Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (co-author), pp. 349-58.
		“HEXhibitionism,” in FASTWÜRMS: Donky@Ninja@Witch, Vancouver: Contemporary Art Gallery (co-author), pp. 27-42.
	2007	“Kimsooja,” in Equatorial Rhythms, Oslo: The Stenersen Museum, reprinted excerpt from the catalogue essay in Listening Awry, pp. 50-55.
		“Listening Awry,” in Listening Awry, exhibition catalogue, Hamilton: McMaster Museum of Art, 32 pp.
		“Smell – Old Sense, New Art,” Fragrance Forum, Spring/Summer, pp. 6-7.
		“Bodies of Interference,” in Carolee Schneemann: Split Decision, Toronto/Buffalo: Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art/CEPA Gallery, pp. 26-31.
		“Sometimes It’s Good to Put Up a Couple of Walls: Rirkrit Tiravanija,” Sketch, Spring, pp. 8-11; reprinted as “Untitled 2007 (Rirkrit Tiravanija),” exhibition brochure for the Professional Gallery, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, n.p.
	2006	Reprint of “In the Garden of Nirvana: Noritoshi Hirakawa” (co-author), pp. 320-4, and “Platefuls of Air,” pp. 342-56, in The Smell Culture Reader, Oxford & New York: Berg.
		“Deborah Hay: A Performance Primer,” Performance Research, 11(2): Indexes, pp. 43-57.
		Chinese translation of “Reveries, Assaults and Evaporating Presences: Olfactory Dimensions in Contemporary Art” in Yishu Shijie (Art World Magazine), trans. Yu Miao, August, pp. 26-45.
		Reprint of “Volatile Architectures,” in Intimus: Interior Design Theory Reader, ed. Mark Taylor and Julieanna Preston, London: John Wiley & Sons, pp. 89-95.
		“Fear, Shame, Ecstasy and Self-Transformation: Marina Abramovic,” in Technologies of Intuition, ed. Jennifer Fisher, Toronto & Winnipeg: YYZ Books & MAWA (co-author), pp. 141-53.
		“Do Me!” in 7a11d 6th International Festival of Performance Art, catalogue (co-author), pp. 10-11.
		“From Anechoic Cave to Sonic Chasm,” in Su-Mei Tse, Chicago & Luxembourg: The Renaissance Society & Editions Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, pp. 89-112 (in English and French).
		“Oleg Kulik: Zoophrenic Odours,” The Senses & Society 1(1), March, pp. 141-8.
		Reprint and translation of “Museum vivants” in Adad Hannah: Video Projects, Seoul, pp. 9-15 (co-author) (in English and Korean).
	2005	“Radu Stern: Against Fashion,” Parachute #118, Spring, pp. 137-8.
		Revised and expanded reprint of “Jayce Salloum: Archive of the Street,” in Image, Index and Inscription: Essays on Contemporary Canadian Photography, ed. Robert Bean, Toronto: Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and YYZ Books (co-author), pp. 167-79.
		“Letter to the Editors,” Fuse 28(3), pp. 7-8.
	2004	“Platefuls of Air,” Public #30: Eating Things, Scott McFarlane, ed., pp. 175-93.
		Reprint of “Volatile Effects: Olfactory Dimensions in Art and Architecture,” in Empire of the Senses: The Sensual Culture Reader, ed. David Howes, Oxford & New York: Berg, pp. 265-80.
		“Wenda Gu: Art from Middle Kingdom to Biological Millennium,” Parachute #116, Fall, p. 125.
		Revised version of “Ambient Communities and Association Complexes: Aernout Mik’s Awry Socialities,” in Aernout Mik: Dispersions, ed. Stephanie Rosenthal, Munich: Haus der Kunst/DuMont (co-author), pp. 16-60, 78-80 (in English and German).
		“Lorraine Simms: Painting through Surveillance,” Galerie Sylvian Poirier, Montreal, exhibition brochure (in English and French).
		“Control[Space] and Julia Scher,” Parachute #113, Winter, pp. 139-40.
		Reprint of “Multicultural Blues: An Interview with Michele Wallace,” in Michele Wallace, Dark Designs and Visual Culture, Durham, NC: Duke University Press, pp. 238-48.
	2003	“Trafficking in Air,” Performance Research 8(3), Fall, pp. 29-43.
		“Introduction: Automata,” Parachute #112, Fall, pp. 6-8 (in English and French).
		Reprint and translation of “Dialectical Group Materialism,” in AIDS Riot: Artist Collectives Against AIDS, New York 1987-1994, Grenoble: École du Magasin, pp. 275-80 (in English and French).
		reminiSCENT, exhibition brochure, Toronto: FADO (co-author), 8 pp.
		Reprint of “Saying It With Attitude: A Short History of the Magazine,” Attitude 16(4), Winter, pp. 8-12.
	2002	“Toposmia: Art, Scent, and Interrogations of Spatiality,” Angelaki 7(1), Gary Banham, ed., April, pp. 31-46.
		“Volatile Architectures,” in Crime and Ornament: In the Shadow of Adolf Loos, Bernie Miller and Melony Ward, eds., Toronto: YYZ Books, pp. 263-82.
		“Brandon LaBelle and Christof Migone, eds., Writing Aloud,” Parachute #107, Summer, pp. 136-7.
		“Clara Ursitti: Scents of a Woman,” Tessera #32: The Senses/Les sens, Lianne Moyes, ed., Summer, pp. 85-97.
		“Adad Hannah: Museum vivants,” exhibition brochure, Ottawa: Galerie SAW (co-author), 6 pp. (in English and French).
	2001	Excerpt and French translation of “Aernout Mik,” in Biennale de Lyon art contemporain: Connivence 2001, prélude à 2003, Paris: Biennale de Lyon/Réunion des musées nationaux, p. 260.
		Excerpt from “Mock Excursions and Twisted Itineraries: Tour Guide Performances” reprinted in Janet Cardiff, New York: PS 1/Museum of Modern Art, p. 170.
		“Vital Signs: Curatorial Statement,” Material History Review (co-author), Summer, pp. 75-6.
		“Ambient Communities and Association Complexes: Aernout Mik’s Awry Socialities,” Parachute #101, Winter (co-author), pp. 91-8.
		“Blue Mountains: Itinerant Television and Monitored Luggage,” in Karen Kipphoff: Time-Based Work, CD-ROM and catalogue, English/German translation (co-author), pp. 44-50 (in English and German).
		“Olfactory Dimensions in Contemporary Art,” Compendium of Olfactory Research, ed. Avery N. Gilbert, New York: Olfactory Research Fund, Ltd. (co-author), pp. 93-9.
		Museopathy, short guide/exhibition brochure, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (co-author), 4 pp.
	2000	“Inhaling Passions: Art, Sex and Scent,” Sexuality and Culture, 4(3), Summer, pp. 37-56.
		“The Servant Problem,” in Trespassers & Captives, Jamelie Hassan, ed., London: London Regional Art and Historical Museums (co-author), pp. 49-61.
		“Laura Steward Heon, Billboard: Art on the Road,” Parachute #98, Spring, p. 71.
		Vital Signs, exhibition brochure, Montreal: Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery (co-author).
	1999	“Recipes for the Cube: The Aromatic and Edible in Art,” in Foodculture: Tasting Identities and Geographies in Art, Barbara Fischer, ed., Toronto: YYZ Books, pp. 69-79.
		“Naomi Sawelson-Gorse, Women in Dada,” Parachute #95, Summer.
		“Compacts: Digital Works of Art on CD-ROM,” Parachute #95, Summer, pp. 55-6.
		“Genevieve Cadieux,” ARTnews, April, p. 130.
		“CounterPoses, a Curatorial Pose,” Etc Montreal, March-April (co-author), pp. 17-22.
		“Archive of the Street,” in Jayce Salloum, Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre (co-author), pp. 19-26.
		“Out of Actions,”Parachute #94, Spring, p. 64.
		“Maurice Berger: The Crisis of Criticism,” Parachute #94, Spring, pp. 61-2.
	1998	“Trevor Gould: True Confessions of a ‘Leaf Thief’,” in la Biennale de Montreal, Montreal: CIAC, www.ciac.ca/bienniale/angl_gould.html (in English and French).
		“George Segal,” ARTnews, March, p. 181.
		“Bob Ross: The Painting Cure,” Parachute #91, Summer (co-author), p. 51.
		“Perfumativities: Olfactory Dimensions in Contemporary Art,” Aroma-Chology Review, 7(1), pp. 1, 4.
		“Bill Burns, Trevor Gould, Mark Vatsndal: The Life of Animals Living in the Shadow of the Twentieth Century,” Parachute #90, Spring, p. 59.
		“Reveries, Assaults and Evaporating Presences: Olfactory Dimensions in Contemporary Art,” Parachute #89, Winter, pp. 10-19.
		CounterPoses, exhibition brochure, Montreal: Oboro (co-author), 16 pp.
	1997	“In the Garden of Nirvana: Noritoshi Hirakawa,” Parachute #88, Fall (co-author), pp. 31-5.
		“Clive Robertson, Speaking Volumes,” Parachute #88, Fall, p. 74.
		“Robert Lepage,” Parachute #87, Summer, pp. 56-7.
		“Interactivity and Real Time-Envy: Diller + Scofidio,” Parachute #86, Spring, pp. 10-13.
		“Corporealities and Choreographing History,” Parachute #85, Winter, p. 72.
		“Mary Abrams: Twilight at the Tip,” Attitude, 12(3), pp. 42-3.
	1996	“Interrogating the Ideologies of Technology: Judith Barry,” Parachute #84, Fall, pp. 20-4.
		“The Waiting Game,” Darshan #115, pp. 56-9.
	1995	“Mock Excursions and Twisted Itineraries: Tour Guide Performances,” Parachute #80, Fall, pp. 32-7.
		“Rodney Sappington and Tyler Stallings: Uncontrollable Bodies,” Parachute #80, Fall, p. 67.
		“Rita Felshin: But is it Art?,” Parachute #80, Fall, p. 66.
	Selected Curating
	2009	NIGHTSENSE, Nuit Blanche, Zone B, Toronto, October 3-4 (DisplayCult).
		MetroSonics, National Gallery of Canada Library and Archives, Ottawa, May 6-August 28 (DisplayCult).
	2008	Odor Limits, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Monell Science Center, Philadelphia, May 9–June 30 (DisplayCult).
		Two Clouds: Aernout Mik, video screening, Special Projects Gallery, York University, January 14-24, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2007	Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, ON.
	2006	Do Me!, instruction performance series, Toronto (DisplayCult, with Dave Dyment and Roula Partheniou).
		6th 7a11d International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto (co-organizer).
	2005	Aural Cultures, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff.
	2003	reminiSCENT, performance series in association with FADO, co-curated with Paul Couillard, Toronto.
		Aural Cultures: Audio Art Residency, Charles Street Video, Toronto.
	2002	Stills: Adad Hannah, SAW Gallery, Ottawa, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2001	Museopathy, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and local history museums and heritage sites, Kingston, co-curator (DisplayCult).
		Empathology, performance series, local history museums and heritage sites, Kingston, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	2000	Vital Signs, Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montreal, co-curator (DisplayCult with Colette Tougas).
		Sentience: Performance Salon, Montreal, in conjunction with the conference Uncommon Senses, co-curator (DisplayCult with Colette Tougas).
	1999	The Servant Problem, performance collaboration with Jennifer Fisher, in Trespassers & Captives, organized by Jamelie Hassan, Eldon House, London (DisplayCult).
		Room 208, site-specific installation, in 48 Hours/48 Rooms, organized by Ingrid Bachmann, Montreal (DisplayCult).
	1998	CounterPoses: Reimagining Tableaux Vivants, Galerie Oboro, Montreal, co-curator (DisplayCult).
	Selected Speaking Engagements
	2009	Curatorial Talk, "MetroSonics," National Gallery of Canada Library, Ottawa, May.
		Invited Lecturer, Olfaction and the City, University of Vienna, May.
		Invited Lecturer, Ryerson University, Toronto, March.
		Invited Lecturer, Faculty Research Talk, OCAD, March.
	2008	Presenter, Cultures of Display, UAAC Conference, Toronto, November.
		Moderator for talk by Amelia Jones, Power Plant, June.
		Invited Lecturer, “Odor Limits,” Esther M. Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, May.
		Invited Presenter, Curatorial Round-table, Gallery 1313, Toronto, March.
		Moderator for talk by Iara Boubnova, Urban Field Speakers Series, Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto, March.
	2007	Chair, Listening Awry: Contemporary Audio Practices, UAAC, Waterloo, November.
		Invited Lecturer, York University, September.
		Invited Lecturer, The Power Plant, Toronto, August.
		Interview appearance in the documentary Miscellaneous Symptoms: Sweet Basements and Gasoline, dir. Kathy Sperberg.
	2006	Invited Lecturer, University of Manchester, UK, November.
		Invited Lecturer, York University, October.
		Presenter, Other than the Visual, Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Leeds, UK, April.
		Invited Lecturer, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto, March.
	2005	Co-organizer and Lecturer, Sensory Collections and Display, conference, Montreal.
		Invited Lecturer, Aural Cultures, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff.
		Invited Lecturer, Ontario College of Art and Design, Toronto.
		Invited Lecturer, Sensing the City, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal.
		Critic/Curator in Residence, Sound/Vision Residency, Banff Centre for the Arts.
	2004	Invited Lecturer, Rethinking Exhibitions, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon.
		Invited Lecturer, Colloquium on Visual Culture, University of Toronto.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Art & Social Policy, New York University.
		Invited Critic, studio visits/critiques MFA Program, University of Toronto.
	2003	Invited Lecturer, Visual Studies in a State of Emergency, Visual Studies Program, Cornell University, Ithaca.
		Presenter, R/Evolution: Disrupting Genders/Sexualities/Ideologies, Concordia University.
		Invited Critic, studio visits/critiques MFA Program, Cornell University, Ithaca.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, University of Regina.
	2002	Invited Lecturer, Joan Carlisle-Irving Lecture Series, Critical Curatorial Studies Program, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
		Invited Lecturer, Museums After Modernism: Strategies of Engagement, Toronto.
		Invited Lecturer, University of Ottawa, sponsored by Artengine.
		Invited Lecturer, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, D.C.
	2001	Session Chair, Popular Art Histories: Presenting and Consuming Interpretations of Art in Media Culture, Universities Art Association of Canada, Montreal.
		Session Chair, Popular Art Histories: Presenting and Consuming Interpretations of Art in Media Culture, College Art Association, Chicago.
		Presenter, Cultures of Display, Canadian Anthropological Association, Montreal.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, Concordia University.
	2000	Co-organizer and Plenary Speaker, Uncommon Senses: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the Senses in Art and Culture, Concordia University, Montreal.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, Concordia University.
	1999	Presenter, In the Belly of the Beast: Museum Intervention as Artistic Practice, Universities Art Association of Canada, Toronto, ON.
		Presenter, 5th Performance Studies International Conference, University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UK.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, Concordia University.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
	1998	Presenter, The Shapes of Space: Images & Readings of Space in 20th Century Art, Universities Art Association of Canada, London, ON.
		Presenter, Sex on the Edge, Concordia University, Montreal.
		Presenter, Come To Your Senses!, Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation, Amsterdam.
		Session Chair, Beyond Vision: Art, Aesthetics and the “Other” Senses, College Art Association, Toronto.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, Concordia University.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
	1997	Presenter, Cultural Studies and the Question of Aesthetics, International Communication Association, Montreal.
		Presenter, Purity & Contamination: Category Confusion in Theory, Discourse and Practice, Concordia University, Montreal.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Anthropology/Sociology, Concordia University.
		Invited Lecturer, Department of Fine Arts, Concordia University.
		Presenter, Rethinking Human Display: Tableaux Vivants, Performance Art and Living Exhibitions, College Art Association, New York.
	1996	Session Chair, Beyond Vision: Aesthetics and the Other Senses, Universities Art Association of Canada, Montreal.
		Invited Lecturer, Summit 2000: The Globalization of the Senses, The Fragrance Foundation, New York.
		Invited Lecturer, Aesthetic, Political and Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Art, Centre for Cultures, Technologies and the Environment, Mysore, India.
	1995	Presenter, Display Culture, Canadian Communication Association, Montreal.

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