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Prof. dr. C.M.K.E. (Christa-Maria) Lerm-Hayes

Modern and Contemporary Art History
Faculty of Humanities
Capaciteitsgroep Kunstgeschiedenis
Photographer: Jeroen Oerlemans

Visiting address
  • Turfdraagsterpad 15
  • Room number: 2,07
Postal address
  • Postbus 94551
    1090 GN Amsterdam
  • Publications

    2023

    2022

    2021

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2021). The Finnegans Wake Reading Group as a Model for “Stealth Activities” Between Art and the University. Forum Modernes Theater, 32(2), 278-287. https://doi.org/10.2357/FMTh-2021-0025 [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2021). Art History Rooms, Decoloniality, and Liberature: Practicing Art History in the Heerenlogement at the Turfdraagsterpad. In H. Westgeest, & K. Zijlmans (Eds.), Mix & Stir: New Outlooks on Contemporary Art from Global Perspectives (pp. 329-339). (Plural; Vol. 4). Valiz. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2021). ‘Sometimes you need help from other people’s ghosts’: Alastair MacLennan’s multi-disciplinary and ‘instituting’ practice as civil action”. In S. Johnston, P. Blair, & C. Driver (Eds.), Actional Poetics – ASH SHE HE: The Performance Actuations of Alastair MacLennan, 1971-2018 (pp. 97-108). Intellect.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2021). “Future-Oriented Systemic Thinking: Effects of Beuys, Duchamp, Joyce, O’Doherty … Yours and Mine”. In M. Holzhey, K. Neuburger, & K. Röder (Eds.), Beuys & Duchamp: Artists of the Future (pp. 354-368). Hatje Cantz.

    2020

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2020). Art and Research: A Portrait of a Humanities Faculty as an Inclusive Workspace. Krisis : Journal for contemporary philosophy, 40(1), 180-202. https://doi.org/10.21827/krisis.40.1.37009 [details]
    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2020). Zeitgenössische Kunst zwischen Medium der Menschenrechte und ihrer normativen (Neu)Erschaffung. Ariella Azoulay und die Performanz der Menschenrechte durch das Bild. In B. Hofmann (Ed.), Menschenrecht als Nachricht: Medien, Öffentlichkeit und Moral seit dem 19. Jahrhundert (pp. 347-380). Campus Verlag. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2020). “His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery”: Towards an Indirect Social Efficacy of Joyce’s Attitude to Mistakes – through (Beuys’) Art Responding to Joyce. In E-L. Silva, S. Slote, & D. Van Hulle (Eds.), James Joyce and the Arts (pp. 40-54). (European Joyce Studies; Vol. 29). Brill Rodopi. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004426191_005 [details]

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • Benus, E., Breugelmans, T., Buta, C., Eckenhaussen, S., Kerchman, A., Lerm Hayes, C. M., ... Sperling, F. (2017). Strijd ∞, a Performative Exhibition. Sztuka i Dokumentacja, 16, 133-141. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2017). Art Since 1945: Word and Image, Brian, Patrick, and Art Writing. In C-M. Lerm Hayes (Ed.), Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique (pp. 269-285). (Vis-à-vis). Amsterdam: Valiz. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2017). Introduction, or the Crossdresser’s Secret. In C-M. Lerm Hayes (Ed.), Brian O’Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique (pp. 9-25). (Vis-á-vis). Amsterdam: Valiz. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2017). Ljubav koja prihvaća i paradoksi (političke) umjetnosti u Sjevernoj Irskoj: Sandra Johnston = Accepting Love and the Paradoxes of (Political) Art in Northern Ireland: Sandra Johnston. Zivot Umjetnosti, 100, 28-43. https://www.ipu.hr/content/zivot-umjetnosti/ZU_100-2017_028-043_Lerm-Hayes.pdf [details]

    2015

    • Evans, O., Lerm Hayes, C-M., & Pyle, D. (2015). Joyce Smithy: A Curated Review of Joyce in Visual Art, Music, and Performance (2016). James Joyce Quarterly, 52(3-4), 693-706. https://doi.org/10.1353/jjq.2015.0039 [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2015). Mad, Marginal, Minor (Artistic) Research. In C. Pontbriand (Ed.), Dora García: I see words, I hear voices (pp. 299-312). (Mad marginal: cahier; No. 4). Sternberg Press. [details]

    2014

    2013

    • McCleland, A., Peel, D., Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E., & Montgomery, I. (2013). A values-based approach to heritage planning: raising awareness of the dark side of destruction and conservation. Town Planning Review, 84(5), 583-603.

    2012

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2012). Considering the Minor in the Literary and Photographic Works of Rodney Graham and Tacita Dean. In Minor Photography: Connecting Deleuze and Guattari to Photography Theory (pp. 85-102). Leuven University Press.

    2011

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2011). Post-War Germany and ‘Objective Chance’: W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys and Tacita Dean / Nachkriegsdeutschland und ‘Objektiver Zufall’: W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys und Tacita Dean. Steidl.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2011). The Role of Diversity in the Production and Reception of Art in Belfast: Space Shuttle. In C. M. K. E. Lerm-Hayes, & V. Walters (Eds.), Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics (pp. 118-146). LIT Verlag.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2011). ’The Joyce Effect’: Joyce in the Visual Arts. In R. Brown (Ed.), A Companion to James Joyce Blackwell.

    2010

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2010). Rodney Graham: Literature and What an Artist Does With It. In Rodney Graham: Through the Forest Hadje Cantz, MACBA, Museum fuer Gegenwartskunst Basel, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Ostfildern, Barcelona.

    2008

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2008). Carola Giedion-Welcker: Misrepresented Mediator of Modernists. In K. M. Brown (Ed.), Women’s Contributions to Visual Culture, 1918-1939 (pp. 89-100). Ashgate.

    2007

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2007). Post-War Germany and ‘Objective Chance’: W.G. Sebald, Joseph Beuys and Tacita Dean. In L. Patt (Ed.), Searching for Sebald: Photography After W.G.Sebald (pp. 412-439). Institute of Cultural Inquiry.

    2004

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2004). Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce. Liliput Press.

    2022

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2022). Instituting Interconnecting Cosmologies: Documenta History, German History, and Art History in the Wake of Aby Warburg, Joseph Beuys and ruangrupa. Simulacrum, 31, 7-9. [details]

    2021

    2019

    • Göttke, F. U. (Author), & Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2019). Florian Göttke: Burning Images – Chapter 7: Resemblance and the Grotesque, A presentation of discursive image assemblages based on chapter 7 of his PhD “Burning Images: Performing Effigies as Political Protest”. Exhibition
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2019). Brian O’Doherty: Institutional Work / Institutional Critique. Exhibition, Van Abbemuseum.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2019). Memory, Word and Image: Tacita Dean at BoekieWoekie, Books by Artists, 9 December 2019-6 January 2020. Exhibition, BoekieWoekie Artists' Books. https://boekiewoekie.com/pages/news

    2018

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2018). Living Archives: The paradoxes of art as incriminating evidence behind the Iron Curtain. Simulacrum, 26(3), 40-44. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2018). An Emerging Ethics of the Transhistorical Exhibition: Beuys, Büchler, Books. In E. Wittocx, A. Demeester, P. Carpreau, M. Bühler, & X. Karskens (Eds.), The Transhistorical Museum: Mapping the Field (pp. 118-133). (vis-à-vis ). Valiz uitgeverij. [details]

    2017

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (Ed.) (2017). Brian O'Doherty/Patrick Ireland: Word, Image and Institutional Critique. (Vis-à-vis). Amsterdam: Valiz. [details]

    2016

    2015

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M., Benus, E., Breugelmans, T., Eckenhaussen, S., Kerchman, A., Rhodes, E., de Smalen, J., & Sperling, F. (2015). A Performative Exhibition: Strijd ∞. The Nomos of Images, [259]. http://nomoi.hypotheses.org/259 [details]
    • Lerm Hayes, C. M., & Talec, K. (2015). Performance Art and the Conflict in Northern Ireland: A Troubles Archive Essay. (Troubles Archive Essays). Belfast: Golden Thread Gallery. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (Author). (2015). Tino Sehgal: Constructed Situations, Joyce and Beuys. Web publication/site, Amsterdam: Sedelijk Museum, Amsterdam. Retrieved from http://journal.stedelijk.nl/essay/tino-sehgal-constructed-situations-joyce-and-beuys/ [details]
    • Tuck, S., Long, D., O' Cuiv, R., Hanrahan, S., Lambe, T., Tubritt, G., Jordan, F., Jewesbury, D., Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E., Finlay, A., & Donnelly, D. (2015). Spectrality and Urbanism. In S. Tuck (Ed.), After the Agreement: Contemporary Photography in Northern Ireland (pp. 16-55). Black Dog. [details]

    2014

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2014). Conceptual Art. In C. Marshall, & P. Murray (Eds.), Art and Architecture of Ireland. -vol. 5: Twentieth Century (pp. 80-83). (Studies in British Art). Dublin/New Haven/London: Royal Irish Academy/Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University Press. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2014). Concerning the Work of Royden Rabinowitch: Our Disenchanted Ontology or Paradoxical Hope. In R. Kurzmeyer, C-M. Lerm Hayes, F. Maes, R. Nachtigäller, & R. Rabinowitch (Eds.), Royden Rabinowitch: Ghent (pp. 21-36). Gent: AsaMER. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2014). Sandra Johnston: Doubt, Gesture, Love and the Paradoxes of (Political) Art in Northern Ireland. In S. Johnston (Ed.), Beyond Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation of Doubt, Risk and Testimony Through Performance Art Processes in Relation to Systems of Legal Justice (pp. 3-42). (European studies in culture and policy; No. 13). Wien: Lit. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2014). Violer d'amores, 2004. In A. Rühl (Ed.), Jürgen Partenheimer: Das Archiv = The Archive (pp. 233-237). Berlin: Distanz. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2014). Equilibrium? Royden Rabinowitch: Historical Turning Points and Artists’ Solidarity. Exhibition

    2012

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2012). Polyhedra and Joyce: A Room for Thought. James Joyce Broadsheet, 91, 1-4.

    2011

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2011). I will re-create Finnegans Wake anyway. In L. de Domizio Durini (Ed.), Beuys Voice (pp. 480-481). Kunsthaus Zurich, Electa.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2011). Introduction. In C. M. K. E. Lerm-Hayes, & V. Walters (Eds.), Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics (pp. 1-17). LIT Verlag.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E., & Walters, V. (2011). Beuysian Legacies in Ireland and Beyond: Art, Culture and Politics. LIT Verlag.

    2010

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2010). Bloomova Stolice / Bloom Stool. In Pavel Buchler: Marna race / Labour in Vain (pp. 104-107). DOX Centre for Contemporary Art.

    2009

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2009). In the Wake (of) - as a Theory of Participatory Practice. The Recorder, 21,(2), 41-48.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2009). The Loneliness of East Germany. Circa, 128, 54-57.

    2006

    2022

    • Lerm-Hayes, C-M. (2022). A Shout in the Street: Some artists’ dialectical theory of urbanism. In A. Gowen (Ed.), Rights of Way: The body as witness in public space (pp. 21-34). Onomatopee. [details]

    2020

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author), & Richards, P. (Author). (2020). Not Alone: A touring exhibition. Exhibition, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.

    2019

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2019). “The Library of Unread Books: Working for the Commons With Books”, , English and Arabic, Dubai: Art Jameel 2019 pp. In N. Chandour, & U. Kattan (Eds.), Heman Chong, Renée Staal: The Library of Unread Books (pp. 28-43).
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2019). A Tale of Hidden Histories. Exhibition, Amsterdam University Press/ EYE Film Instituut Nederlands. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSs6MilqGi0&feature=youtu.be
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2019). Brian O’Doherty: Attending to what is necessary, Part of "Ephemeral Evidence" series of exhibitions, RongWrong Gallery, Amsterdam, 5 October-5 November 2019. Exhibition, RongWrong, Amsterdam. http://www.rongwrong.org/Louwrien-Wijers-Brian-O-Doherty

    2018

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2018). Joyce in Art. Exhibition, M HKA.

    2015

    • Lerm Hayes, C-M. (2015). Writing Art and Creating Back: What Can We Do With Art (History)? (Oratiereeks; No. 537). Amsterdam: Universiteit van Amsterdam. [details]
    • Lerm Hayes, C. M. (2015). Inleiding. In H. Berger (Ed.), Bibliografie: Beeldende kunst en kunstnijverheid 1850-heden: 2010-2014 (pp. 5-7). Utrecht: Vereiniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici. [details]

    2014

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2014). Sticks from West Limerick Hedges. In Seanie Barron Limerick: Askeaton Contemporary Arts. [details]

    2012

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. (2012). Peter Richards in Conversation with Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes. In P. Richards (Ed.), Peter Richards: An Elective Family Album (pp. 23-29). Belfast: Queen's University Belfast. [details]
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2012). Reading Ulysses: Brigid McLeer Performs. In One + One: Brigid McLeer (pp. 15-21). Highlanes Gallery Drogheda.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2012). [Exhibition review in Enclave review, Wordpress] [Review of: (2012) Kasper Koenig (curator): Before the Law: Post-War Sculptures and Spaces of Contemporary Art]. Enclave Review, 15-17.

    2011

    2009

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2009). Gary Coyle: The Daily Practice of Swimming. In Gary Coyle Royal Hibernian Academy and Project Art Centre.

    2006

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2006). La disolución de los límites. La Tempestad, 48, 72-73.

    2004

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (Author). (2004). Joyce in Art. Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy and Project Art Centre.

    2022

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2022). Documenta History, German History, Art History: Instituting Interconnecting Cosmologies with Aby Warburg, Joseph Beuys and ruangrupa. Paper presented at (un)Common Grounds, Amsterdam, Netherlands. https://vimeo.com/showcase/9917537
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2022). Story-telling: The Free International University in Derry, Northern Ireland, 1974, and at documenta 6, 1977. Paper presented at Practitheorizing Counterinstitutions, Kassel, Germany.

    2020

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2020). “‘I will re-create Finnegans Wake anyway’: Joseph Beuys’ reading of James Joyce as a first step in using Beuys’ library to ascertain how art may predict the future”.

    2019

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2019). “Instituting Institutional Critique: Performative, Experimental, Forensic”.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2019). “SPACEX and (Social) Art Practices”.

    2018

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2018). Walid Raad and the Politics of Warburgian Ghosts.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2018). “Artists’ University Projects: Legacies of Joseph Beuys’ Free International University”,.

    2017

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2017). Artists’ Textual Strategies during the Cold War – Between Incriminating Evidence, Dissident Conceptualism and Overidentification: Pavel Büchler Tamás Szentjóby and KwieKulik. Paper presented at American Comparative Literature Association, Utrecht, .
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2017). Semi-Academic and Artistic Practices of Communal Reading: The Finnegans Wake Reading Group as Model for ‘Stealth Activities’. Paper presented at Text, Performance, and the Production of Historical Knowledge conference, Jan Lazardzig organiser , .
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E., & Thurston, N. (2017). Conceptual Writing and Artistic Research in the Force Field of De-/Re-Skilling. Paper presented at International Association of Word and Image Studies conference, Lausanne, Switzerland.

    2016

    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2016). Contemporary Artists’ Works in / on Museum Collections: Between Affirmation, Curation and Critique.
    • Lerm-Hayes, C. M. K. E. (2016). White Martyrdom: art on the Northern Irish ‘Troubles’ – from Richard Hamilton to Sandra Johnston Through James Joyce and Samuel Beckett. Paper presented at Canonization & Cross-Cultural Martyrdoms expert meeting Amsterdam School of Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, UvA, 9 December 2016, .

    Membership / relevant position

    • Lerm Hayes, C.-M. (2019-). Academy of Finland review panel on arts and literature research: 2019 onwards.
      , Academy of Finland.

    Media appearance

    Others

    • Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (participant) (10-11-2017). Art and Ethics: the Flag of Compassion, Amsterdam. panel discussion with Nick Aikens, Binna Choi, Rini Hurkmans (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (participant) (10-6-2017). Die Mediatisierung der Menschenrechte, Heidelberg. Die Kunst zwischen Medium der Menschenrechte und ihrer normativen (Neu)Erschaffung (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Lerm-Hayes, C.-M. (participant) (18-9-2016). CIHA, Global Art History Conference, Beijing. Mistakes are the Portals of Discovery: James Joyce’s Mistakes and (Beuys’) Art Discovering Joyce (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).

    2023

    2022

    • Cueto Gutierrez, B. (2022). White papers on dissent: Politics and poetics of blockchain. [details]
    • Verga, F. (2022). Tainted memory: Repetition and reconstructions in Mike Kelley’s performative practice. [details]

    2019

    2017

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