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Periodicals:
Williams, Eliza, “Studio Visits”, Flash Art International, October 2006
Schwabsky, Barry, “Carey Young”, Artforum, September 2005
Aspden, Peter, “The Revolver: a twilight of ambiguity”, Financial Times, 22 July 2004
Smith, Roberta, “The Passions of the Good Citizen”, The New York Times, 3 May 2002

Web articles:
Goldberg, RoseLee and Stallman, Nick, “Conversations..with RoseLee Goldberg’, New York Foundation for the Arts, 2005[1]
Baker, R.C., ‘The Road to Dystopia’, Village Voice, 2007 [2]

Books:
Nochlin, Linda, in Global Feminisms , Brooklyn Museum , New York, 2007
Bourriaud, Nicolas, in Moscow Biennale 7 catalogue, Moscow, 2007
Hoffman, Jens in ‘Institutional Critique and After’, edited by John C. Welchman, JRP/Ringier, Zürich, 2006
Newman, Michael, in ‘How to Improve the World’, Hayward Gallery, London, 2006
Townsend, Chris, ‘New Art from London’, Thames and Hudson, London, 2006
Farquharson, Alex, Schlieker, Andrea, and Mahony, Emma in ‘British Art Show 6′, Hayward Gallery Publishing, London, 2005
Latour, Bruno and Weibel, Peter, ‘Making Things Public’, ZKM and the MIT Press, Karlsruhe & Cambridge, 2005
Hoffmann, Jens and Jonas, Joan, ‘Art Works: Perform’, Thames and Hudson, London, 2005
Kimbell, Lucy (ed), ‘New Media Art: Practice and Content in the UK 1994-2004′, Arts Council of England / Cornerhouse publications, London, 2004
Farquharson, Alex; Gillick, Liam and Young, Carey; Kelsey, John and Millar, Jeremy, in ‘Carey Young, Incorporated’, John Hansard Gallery and Film & Video Umbrella, London, 2002

Carey Young (born 1970) is a visual artist who incorporates a variety of media such as video, photography, performative events and installation into her works, which investigate the increasing incorporation of the personal and public domains into the realm of the commercial. Young’s projects often center on notions of language, training and performance, and take an ambiguous political stance in order to create a web of complex associations and questions for the viewer.

Born in Lusaka in Zambia in 1970, Young studied in England at Manchester Polytechnic, the University of Brighton and photography at the Royal College of Art in London. She has dual US/UK nationality.

She has exhibited her work at galleries including the ICA,[1] the Whitechapel Art Gallery,[2] the Hayward Gallery, Secession,[3] Kunstverein Munich,[4] Mass MOCA[5] and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.[6]

In 2003 she was nominated for the Beck’s Futures awards at the ICA in London and her work attracted some controversy in the media.[7]

Since 2003 her work has shifted into an interest in legal language and systems of thought, with ‘Disclaimer’, an exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute[8] examining the legal disclaimer as a form of negative space. In 2005 she showed ‘Consideration’, a series of works exploring the connections between contract law and performance art at Paula Cooper Gallery in New York as part of the PERFORMA05 Biennial.[9] RoseLee Goldberg has described the works in this show as “dealing with the overwhelming power of the law.”[10]

Young’s work is included in the public collections of the Centre Pompidou,[11] Arts Council England,[12] and the Tate.[13]

(with Liz Stanley) Breaking out: feminist consciousness and feminist research (1982)
(with Liz Stanley) Men and sex: a case study in ’sexual sexual politics’ (1984)
Becoming a feminist social worker (1985)
(with Liz Stanley) Georgie Porgie: sexual harassment in everyday life (1987)
Doing feminist social work: an annotated bibliography and an introductory essay (1988)
Child abuse: the NSPCC version (1991)
(with Liz Stanley) Breaking out again: feminist ontology and epistemology (1993)

Sue Wise (born 1953) is a feminist author, Professor of Social Justice and Director of Study for BA (Hons) Social Work at Lancaster University, UK.

After having received a social science degree at Manchester Polytechnic, Sue Wise worked as a political activist for several years. In the 1970s and 1980s she was deeply involved in the Women’s Movement and the Lesbian and Gay Movement, mainly in Manchester. She is also a social worker having experience in the voluntary and statutory sectors in both residential and field work, mainly working with children and families.

Since 1989, Wise teaches Social Justice at Lancaster University. She is currently focusing on the Social Work programs and doing research studies in experiences of UK lesbian, gay, and bisexual young people. She is also involved in a current project that is looking at the historical and present-day experiences of South African children, with particular reference to the AIDS pandemic and the emergence of child-headed households.

Apart from these projects, Wise continues to publish on feminist theory and particularly on feminist research methodology. Together with Liz Stanley, she has published several books and articles on social, feminist and gender topics.

Up Up and Oy Vey : How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero (2006)

“Is it a bird, is it a plane …. it’s you know who!” (2006)
“Last men standing” (2006)
“Spirituality in spandex” Kosher Magazine (March 2006)

Simon Weinstein [Hebrew name "Simcha"] was born in Manchester, England, son of Eddie and Valerie Weinstein. He attended Manchester Metropolitan University, where he studied film history. After graduation, he joined the British film commission and worked as a location scout for films like The Full Monty.

In England, Weinstein joined two Orthodox organizations, Aish Hatorah and Manchester Lubavitch, before moving to Jerusalem to study at Mayanot Yeshiva. He married Ariella, an American, and the Weinsteins moved to Crown Heights, Brooklyn. With their two sons, Mendel and Eli, they currently reside in Brooklyn Heights, Brooklyn.

Weinstein is assistant rabbi of the Brooklyn Heights modern Orthodox congregation, Bnei Avraham. He also ministers to Jewish students at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Law School and Long Island University. In 2003 he founded the semiannual Brooklyn Heights Jewish Film Festival.

Weinstein’s book, Up Up and Oy Vey, published in 2006, analyzes the Jewish role in the creation of such popular comic book superheroes as Superman, Batman, Hulk, Captain America, and Spider-Man, as well as super-teams like the Fantastic Four, the X-Men and the Justice League of America. The book also discusses Jewish superheroes, like Shadowcat, Sabra and The Thing and Jewish graphic artists including Jerry Siegel, Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, Bob Kane, Bill Finger, Jerry Robinson, Chris Claremont, Julius Schwartz and Stan Lee. Up Up and Oy Vey won the prestigious Ben Franklin literary award in 2007 for Religious book of the year.

The first sentence of his book reveals Weinstein’s interest in the link between popular superheroes and Jewish tradition: “Before Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, there were the superpatriarchs and supermatriarchs of the Bible and heroic figures named Moses, Aaron, Joshua, David and Samson – not to mention the miracle-working prophet Elijah and those Jewish wonderwomen Ruth and Esther just to name a few. They all wielded courage and supernatural powers to protect and serve their people.”

Simcha Weinstein (1975 - ) is an English author and a rabbi. In 2006, his first book Up Up and Oy Vey : How Jewish History, Culture and Values Shaped the Comic Book Superhero was published.

Tony Warren MBE (born 1936 in Swinton, Greater Manchester) is a British television scriptwriter, best known for creating the soap opera Coronation Street.

Anticipating a short run for the series, Warren penned all thirteen episodes of the serial that Granada Television promised to broadcast. When the show became a success, however, he continued to pen scripts for the programme until 1968, after which he retired. However, he continued to, sporadically, write scripts until the mid seventies. The fame and royalties from creating the series earned him sufficient “clout” to enable him to become involved in projects on his terms, instead of as a necessity for survival (before creating Coronation Street, he only had two writing credits to his name, Shadow Squad and Biggles, two series for Granada). Warren received the landmark achievement award in 2006 at the National Television Awards.

He also helped write the Beatles-inspired film Ferry Cross the Mersey in 1965.

Julie Walters (1950-1999)
Julie Walters OBE (1999-2008)
Julie Walters CBE (2008-)