Dr Mo Throp
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Senior Lecturer
College
University of the Arts London
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Biography
Dr Mo Throp is a practising artist, curator, writer and researcher in the CCW Graduate School where she supervises a number of PhD students. She was BA Fine Art Course Director at Chelsea College of Arts until 2011 and was previously critical theory tutor on the MA Fine Art at Goldsmiths. Mo studied sculpture at St Martin’s College of Art followed by an MA and PhD at Chelsea. With Dr Maria Walsh, Mo is co-convenor of the Subjectivity & Feminisms Research group at Chelsea. Mo is an AHRC Peer Review College panel member.I have most recently been working with video installations which seek to collapse gendered positions, where the viewing subject might experience another possible relation to the self as a making and re-making of each other through a sense of self as interactive in the process of viewing. My work seeks to question how a re-thinking of desire might elaborate alternative definitions of female sexuality, not in a relation to lack (the psychoanalytic model) - but rather as an active force. This is informed by more recent theorising by Gilles Deleuze and the writings of Luce Irigaray who proposes a new relation to gender as on-going and non-oppositional with a fluid relation to difference.