Claire Bishop is Associate Professor of Art History, at the CUNY Graduate Center and a scholar of contemporary art. Her dissertation was published as Installation Art: A Critical History, and she has also published anedited volume, Participation. She is the author of theessays“Antagonism and Relational Aesthetics” (October, 2004) and “The Social Turn: Collaboration and its Discontents” (Artforum, 2006).