Francette Pacteau is the author of The Symptom of Beauty
(London, Reaktion, and Cambridge, Harvard University, 1994; Japanese
translation, 1997; Korean translation, 1999, Turkish translation, 2004;
excerpted in F. Timeto (ed.), Culture della Differenza: Femminismo, visualità e studi postcoloni,
Novara, 2008). Her essay contributions to books include The seduction
of difficulty: a note on interpretation, in N. Bryson, P. Wollen et al,
Victor Burgin, Barcelona, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, 2001, and In search of Lost Times, in Homi Bhabha, Stuart Hall et al, Mitra Tabrizian: Beyond the Limits, Göttingen, Steidl Verlag, 2004. She collaborated with the artist Victor Burgin on the audio installation The Little House
at the MAK Center, Los Angeles, in 2008 – an outcome of comparative
research on modernist architecture (via Rudolf M. Schindler’s Hollywood
King’s Road House) and 18th century interior decoration (via Jean
François de Bastide’s 1758 novella La Petite Maison).
Frederico Camara
Justin Coombes
Francis Summers (with Yve Lomax)
Esther Teichman (with Professor Carol Mayor, University of Manchester)
Norma Thallon (with Yve Lomax)