My PhD research project, This Must Be the Place: Mapping Artistic Kinship and Economic Change in Downtown New York, 1973–1987, explores the relationship between the artistic community of Downtown New York and the transformation to a FIRE (finance, insurance, real estate) economy. The central research question of the project is: How was this artistic community both resistant to and complicit with the nascent neoliberal political project? A combination of secondary sources and theoretical texts on the topics of race, place, counter-publics, kinship, and labour guide my analysis of archival materials. My research project emerged from a decade spent working as a curator in New York. Most recently, I balanced my roles as Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Co-founder and Assistant Curator at the galleries of Rutgers University – Newark. My project is supervised by Stephanie Schwartz in the Department of History of Art and funded by UCL’s Graduate and Overseas Research Scholarships.
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