Chris Fite-Wassilak
- Associate Lecturer
- Writing MA
Chris is a writer, editor and critic, author of The Artist in Time (Herbert Press, 2020) and Ha-Ha Crystal (Copy Press, 2016).
Contributing Editor at ArtReview, a contributing editor to Draught journal, and regular contributor to publications such as e-flux and Art Monthly, Chris Fite-Wassilak writes regularly on artist practices and exhibitions, with art criticism that has featured in Afterall, Camera Austria, Frieze, Tate Etc and other art publications, and essays on cultural histories and suburban arcana in publications including Feast Journal, Glut, The Quietus, The Serving Library and Vittles. He is the co-organiser, with artist Anne Tallentire, of the bi-annual peripatetic event hmn.
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Research interests
Chris' research interests include hygiene culture; science fiction; suburban aesthetics; comic books; exhibition histories and art infrastructure; productive doubt; time travel; food narratives; abandoned sculpture parks
Current and recent projects
Emmenthal and Immortality: essays on hygiene culture (in progress).
Microbial Writing, collaborative essay zine, 2024
Bod Liqbt: Eat Dirt, sound EP, Tremolo Projects, 2024
Practice
Chris' critical writing and essays have appeared in publications including Afterall, Apollo, Art & Australia, Art Papers, Camera Austria, frieze, Tate Etc, The Quietus, RA Magazine, The Serving Library and Vittles.
He has contributed to influential books shaping art discourse including Politics of Food (eds. Dani Burrows and Aaron Cezar, Delfina Foundation and Sternberg, 2019), Curating Research (eds. Paul O’Neill and Mick Wilson, Open Editions, 2014) and Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art (Now) (ed. Clare Doherty, Art/Books, 2015). He has written monograph essays for catalogues on John Carson (AVA Public, 2021), Imogen Stidworthy (Netwerk Aalst, 2019), Matt Calderwood (Baltic and De La Warr Pavilion, 2015), and many others, including forthcoming publications on Anne Tallentire and Alexis Teplin.
Awards and Funding
London Library Emerging Writers Programme (2023-24)
Arts Council England DYCP (2020)
Andy Warhol Foundation Art Writers Grant (2021)
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Books
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2020). The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Artists. London: Herbert Press.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2016). Ha-Ha Crystal. Ventnor: Copy Press.
Essays and contributions in
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2024). Abstract Feelings. In: Sophie Smallhorn. London: Counter-Print Books.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2024). Days. In: Silvia Bächli: Partitura. Santander: Centro Botín.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2024). Putrefying Territories. In: Avril Corroon: Got Damp. London: TACO!
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2023). In This Room(s). In: Anne Tallentire. Southampton: John Hansard Gallery.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2023). A Hovering Sense of Opacity. In: Gavin Murphy: Remaking the Crust of the Earth. Eindhoven: Set Margins’.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2023). Tour of the Question. In: Inland (ed.), Microbiopolitics of Milk. Berlin: Sternberg.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2022). Recipes for a New Society. In: Anfossi, F. (ed), From the Pot to the Earth at Rochester Square. Berlin: Sternberg.
Fite-Wassilak, C.(2021). Notes from Maybe Eye, in: Brendan Earley: some time later. Dublin: Fält.
Fite-Wassilak, C.(2021). Going Back to Your Own Country. In: John Carson: what not, Selected Artworks and Ephemera 1975-96. Limerick: ACA Public.
Fite-Wassilak, C.(2020). Implement. In. McNulty, D. (ed.), Everything is Somewhere Else. Dublin: Paper Visual Art.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2019). Species of Specialities. In: Burrows, D. and Cezar, A. (eds.). Politics of Food. London and Berlin: Delfina Foundation and Sternberg.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2015). Matt Calderwood. In Won, J and Scarth. E. (eds), Matt Calderwood. Bexhill and Newcastle: Baltic and De La Warr Pavilion.
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2015). In. Doherty, Claire (ed.). Out of Time, Out of Place: Public Art
Fite-Wassilak, C. (2014). In: O’Neill, P. and Wilson, M. (eds), Curating Research. London: Open Editions.
External collaborations and activities
(2018-ongoing) Contributing Editor, Art Review magazine
(2011 – ongoing) Member, International Art Critics Association (AICA) UK
(2015-present), co-organiser with artist Anne Tallentire, a bi-annual peripatetic event hmn