Jason E. Bowman

Jason E. Bowman is an artist with a curatorial practice and MFA: Fine Art Programme Leader and Research Representative for Fine Art at Valand Academy, University of Gothenburg. He is a member of the working group for PARSE. Until recently he was affiliated as a researcher to the EU project, NEARCH (New Scenarios for a Community Involved Archeology). Bowman was a co-researcher on the Swedish Research Council Funded Project, Trust and Unfolding Dialogue in Contemporary Art (2010-13) for which he edited the publication, Esther Shalev-Gerz The Contemporary Art of Trusting Uncertainties and Unfolding Dialogues (2013). He is currently principle researcher on Stretched, a three-year long inquiry, via the curatorial, into expanded and organizational practices within artist-led cultures, co-researched with Mick Wilson and Julie Crawshaw and also funded by the Swedish Research Council. Previous curatorial projects have investigated expanded and intermedia practices including Yvonne Rainer: Dance and Film (2010), the first European career survey of Rainer’s extended practice. In July 2017 Bowman will curate Accidentally on Purpose, the first career survey of the work of the disbanded, interdisciplinary performance collective The Theatre of Mistakes, at London’s Raven Row Gallery.