Acatia joined The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ as the Research Forum Event Producer in March 2020 and was part of the Research Forum team who pivoted the public-facing research event programme to be fully online during the pandemic. In December 2023 Acatia moved to a new position at The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ, as Departmental Administrator for the History of Art department. She continues to work in administering and supporting the work of The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ’s Decolonising Action Groups.Ìý
Acatia was awarded her PhD in 2018, which was completed through a Collaborative Doctoral Award with the University of Exeter and Tate. Her thesis was titled ‘‘.
She was a pre-doctoral researcher on the AHRC-funded project ‘’ (2014 -2016), a research assistant in the pilot year of the Horizon-funded research project ‘’ (2016-2017), and a freelance researcher on the ‘‘ (2016 – 2021) project with Tate’s Time-based Media Conservation team.
Since being awarded her PhD, she has worked as a research assistant on the 2024 book ‘‘ by Richard Pilbrow and as a freelance proof reader on two forthcoming volumes on dance, memory and museums.
Publications:Ìý
Finbow, A. (2021) ‘New Approaches to Documenting Performance in the Museum: Value, History and Strategy’, in Moving Spaces: Enacting Dance, Performance and the Digital in the Museum’,Ìýeds. Susanne Franco and Gabriella Giannachi:
Giannachi G, Sinker R, Benford S, Finbow A, Hunter H, Ravaglia V, Pringle E, Glover T (2020) ‘The Cartography Project: Towards a Relational Form of Documentation, the Case of Participatory Art Practices in Museums and Art Galleries’, inÌýDigital Cultural Heritage, ed. Horst Kremers:
Lawson, L. Finbow, A. Marcal, H. (2019) ‘Developing a strategy for the conservation of performance-based artworks at Tate’,ÌýJournal of the Institute of Conservation, 42(2):
Finbow, A. (2018) ‘Multiplicity in the documentation of performance-based artworks: Displaying multi-media documentation in Rebecca Horn’s Body Sculptures at Tate’,ÌýJournal of New Music Research, 47(3):
Giannachi, G; Tolmie, P; Finbow, A (2018) ‘How Tate Modern Became the Musée de la Danse’, Contemporary Theatre Review, 28(2):
Finbow, A (2017) ‘Space and value in the contemporary art museum: The journey of a performance document at Tate’,ÌýJournal of Art Writing by Students, 3(1):
