Biography
Prof. Colin Fallows is Professor of Sound and Visual Arts at the Liverpool School of Art and Design Liverpool John Moores University. Prof. Fallows’ research explores crossovers between sound and the visual arts, frequently investigating the conditions and potentialities of listening. As artist and curator, he has produced soundworks for live ensemble performance, recordings, exhibition, installation, radio and the Internet. His artistic and curatorial projects have featured in numerous international festivals, galleries and museums. He leads the Colin Fallows Ensemble - an electric guitar trio (with Bee Hughes and Eva Petersen) dedicated to the performance of multi-layered soundworks, dense with microtones which generate numerous overtones through bespoke tuning to resonant performance spaces. His large-scale curated exhibitions, with related internationally distributed book publications, reinterpret previously under-researched figures and works in popular culture including: Stuart Sutcliffe - A Retrospective (2008), Astrid Kirchherr - A Retrospective (2010), and Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs at the Kunsthalle, Vienna (2012) and the International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). He has been instrumental in the acquisition of several world-class archives of popular culture/counterculture held at Liverpool John Moores University. As curator and research consultant to these archives, he has researched and curated materials in a variety of contexts for large-scale exhibitions in galleries and museums across nine countries. He is the founder and Artistic Director of Audio Research Editions, a limited edition imprint for artists’ soundworks, which since 1998, has published over two hundred works by artists from over twenty countries.
Publications
Composition
Fallows C. 2017. Analogue
Fallows C. 2017. Spring Reverb
Fallows C. 2015. Reverbs
Fallows C. 2015. Winter Reverb
Fallows C. 2015. Summer Reverb
Fallows C. 2015. Autumn Reverb
Fallows C. 2015. Winter Reverb II
Fallows C. 2014. Tonement I
Fallows C. 2009. Colourfield for Strings
Other
Fallows C, Friedrichs H. 2014. The Art of the Rockers' Jacket
Fallows C. 2012. Kunstradio Classics Fallows C, Zimmermann E.
Fallows C. 2012. Cut-Ups Fallows C, Zimmermann E.
Fallows C. 2012. William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin
Fallows C. Audio Research Editions Fallows C.
Chapters
Fallows C, Clements N. 2014. Vintage Girls Vintage Girls Men’s File Archive in association with Photo Ed Press. London 9780955932250
Fallows C. 2014. The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket’ Pride and Glory: The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket Daab Books. Cologne, Germany 978-3-942597-20-3
Fallows C. 2012. The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket Daab R. Pride and Glory: The Art of the Rockers’ Jacket Daab Books. Cologne, Germany 978-3-942597-20-3
Fallows C. 2009. Soundings Biggs B, Sheldon J. Art in a City Revisited :209-227 Liverpool University Press / The University of Chicago Press 9781846310836
Journal article
Fallows C. 2013. Faith - Friendship - Freedom: The Fifty-Nine Club and the Art of the Rockers’ Jacket Nicolai: Magazine for Art, Culture, Design & Architecture, :23-23
Fallows C. 2012. Chance Encounters: The Art and Methods of John Cage and William S. Burroughs Dussini M. Falter,
Book
Fallows C, Genzmer S. 2012. Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs Fallows C, Genzmer S. Verlag fur Moderne Kunst. Nurnberg, Germany 978-3-86984-315-5
Exhibition
Fallows C, Cleary S, Linehan A. Punk 1976-1978
Fallows C, Cleary S, Linehan A. Punk 1976-1978
Fallows C, Miles B. Real English Tea Made Here
Fallows C, Cleary S, Linehan A. Punk 1976-1978
Fallows C, Miles B, Kugelberg J, Young K, Daley MP, Chinn L. Cut-ups: William S. Burroughs 1914 - 2014
Fallows C. Sex Pistols - April 1976: The Art of PTMADDEN
Fallows C, Clough, M . Stuart Sutcliffe - A Retrospective
Fallows C, Clough, M . Astrid Kirchherr - A Retrospective
Fallows C. Punk Archives
Fallows C. Punk Archives
Fallows C. Cut-ups, Cut-ins, Cut-outs: The Art of William S. Burroughs
Engagement & Impact
Conference organisation:
Creative Dates III: A Conference of the North West Art and Design Research Group., Director and Chair. In partnership with Government Office North West, 8 North West HEI’s and Tate Liverpool as part of Liverpool Biennial.
Editorial boards:
FutureEverything Awards, Chair of FutureEverything Awards Panel, http://futureeverything.org/
External collaboration:
Villa Medici, the French Academy in Rome., Director
External committees:
Audio Users' Group, The British Library, National Sound Archive, London, Invited Member, http://www.bl.uk/nsa
External PGR examinations performed:
Northumbria University, PhD, Your Trash, My Treasure: A Re-Assessment of the Value of Souvenirs
Goldsmiths, University of London, PhD, Hear One Near and Think of the Other: An Artist's Investigation into the Dialectic of Sound and Nonsound
Goldsmiths, University of London, PhD, I Thought I Grew An Ear In My Stomach: The Phenomenological Experience of the Art Event as Sublime Encounter
Royal College of Art, MPhil, Rivival: The Aesthetics of Revival Subcultures and Re-enactment Groups Explored through Fashion Image-Making
Membership of professional bodies:
Member of Board of Directors`of FutureEverything, FutureEverything, http://futureeverything.org/