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Claire Cooke

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Claire Cooke

Position

Lecturer in Arts Management

Department

Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship

Email

c.cooke (@gold.ac.uk)

I am interested in magic, ritual, public space, performance (and its history), contemporary art and film.

I am a Lecturer in Arts Management at the Institute for Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship. I am responsible for co-ordinating and managing the professional practice modules for students as well as those on arts education, and teach arts project budgets. I co-convene Arts in London and Professional Practice Project with Dr Pauline Muir

Academic qualifications

  • Froebel Professional Development Certificate in Early Childhood 2023

Teaching and supervision

Research interests

I am particularly interested in stage magic, ritual, public space performance (and its history), contemporary art and film. Claire also has a strong interest in sound art and experimental music. Most recently I have developed a love for Finnish culture and language and am about to develop research into refraction, birefringence in gem stones and play / playgrounds.

I have worked in outreach and strategic development on range of heritage projects including Pitzhanger Manor, St John at Hackney and produced the original Olympic Park Summer School Much of my career has been spent making connections between artists – specifically the studio sector – and the wider public.

I also established The Smoking Cabinet - an early cinema festival at the Curzon Soho and On the Fringe for Resonance 104.4 FM. I am founder and director of two charities: Mirror Mirror Education which produces public engagement activities for galleries, museums and festivals based around magic and optical illusion (with previous clients including The British Library, TATE, V&A) and Architecture for All which aims to open up debate about and build awareness of design and design history in the build environment.
I work part time for Goldsmiths and am also Head of Widening Participation at the Royal Academy of Music, working to increase the economic and ethnic diversity of applications to the UK's oldest conservatoire.