"I am an arts programmer and curator. For the last eight years, I have been based in Liverpool working at Liverpool University, Tate Liverpool and FACT and contributing to the curatorial team of the Liverpool Biennial 2004, 2006 and 2008. My research is in art and social change, public realm and civic space, technology and public imagination, the family, mass experience and intimacy, the changing role of arts institutions, women and 21st century feminism. I am currently under-taking a Clore funded sabbatical to produce a public art work with MOCAD in Detroit, develop a new festival for the Bowery area of New York for the New Museum and to research for an exhibition that explores contemporary artists and activism around concepts of work." Laura Sillars

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