Dr Claire Holdsworth

Biography

Dr Claire M. Holdsworth is a writer, archivist and audio-maker. Specialising in sound theory, artists’ moving image (1960s to late 1980s), and technology-based art, her research considers the voice, investigating narration, historiography, archives, and social collectives, with a focus on feminist and queer subjects.

Claire was an Early Career Research Fellow at Kingston School of Art (Kingston University London) and prior to that completed an AHRC funded PhD at Central Saint Martins (UAL) based in the British Artists' Film and Video Study Collection in the CSM Museum.

Currently writing a monograph on the overlaps between experimental sound and expanded cinema in feminist subcultures of the late-1970s, she undertakes a variety of research and curatorial projects, alongside freelance archiving (for artists), programming and publishing work and has recently started to develop a sound-based, performative audio-essay practice.

As an Associate Lecturer on the MRes Art: Moving Image at and MA Performance: Screen at Central Saint Martins, Claire runs seminars on histories of experimental film and video, ecology, landscape, and sound, also running object-based sessions in the CSM Museum collections. With parallel specialisms in decolonial film histories and technology-based art, they also lecture on other courses at UAL (including animation and games design), and previously worked at the Creative Research into Sound Arts Practice (CRiSAP) research centre at London College of Communication.

Claire is also a Lecturer in Film at Queen Mary University of London and a Researcher on the project 'Archiving Community: Social Infrastructure and Small-Scale, Online Radio Stations' at the University of Glasgow/National Library of Scotland.