Victoria Miguel is a writer. She created a 'thesaurus' A Volume of Fanatics (Glasgow) as part of the collaborative exhibition A Roomful of Lovers (Glasgow) with the artist Richard Wentworth, commissioned by SWG3 for Glasgow International 2018. Triple Canopy published her online play De Tribus Impostoribus in 2010. Her first book My Favourite Words, Phrases, Sentences, and Paragraphs was published by The Proconsul Editions in 2012. She was the assistant to the Director of the John Cage Trust from 2001 until 2007 and was commissioned by the John Cage Trust to create an online version of his composition Reunion, which premiered in tandem with her play Laquearia at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in August of 2013, supported by a grant from the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, one of four grants awarded in honour of John Cage's centenary.
Her curatorial projects include Cage in the Garden a day of performances of Cage’s music in Inverleith House and the Victorian Palm House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2007, which featured Cage compositions that use plants and natural materials as instruments; Child of Tree (1975), Branches (1976), and Inlets (1977)--performed by So Percussion--and those incorporating ‘local’ sounds: 4’33” (1952), 0’00” (4’33” No. 2) (1962), and Scottish Circus (1990). She also curated a John Cage film series hosted by the Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh in 2007, which premiered Experiments in Art and Technology's John Cage’s Variations VII (2006) by Barbro Schultz Lundestam and previewed the then work in progress, David Tudor’s Bandoneon! [Bandoneon Factorial] (a combine).
She has written about art and music for newspapers and journals and was one of the founding members of the faculty for the MA in Contemporary Art programme at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York where she continued to work as a a Consultant Lecturer for their Online Learning Programme teaching courses in Contemporary Art and art writing until 2017. In 2015, she developed and taught the course Museum Curating Now: Behind the Scenes at Tate in collaboration with the Public Programmes team at Tate Modern and the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London and gave a talk on John Cage as part of Cambridge University's Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) 2015-16 programme.
Her curatorial projects include Cage in the Garden a day of performances of Cage’s music in Inverleith House and the Victorian Palm House at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh in 2007, which featured Cage compositions that use plants and natural materials as instruments; Child of Tree (1975), Branches (1976), and Inlets (1977)--performed by So Percussion--and those incorporating ‘local’ sounds: 4’33” (1952), 0’00” (4’33” No. 2) (1962), and Scottish Circus (1990). She also curated a John Cage film series hosted by the Filmhouse Cinema in Edinburgh in 2007, which premiered Experiments in Art and Technology's John Cage’s Variations VII (2006) by Barbro Schultz Lundestam and previewed the then work in progress, David Tudor’s Bandoneon! [Bandoneon Factorial] (a combine).
She has written about art and music for newspapers and journals and was one of the founding members of the faculty for the MA in Contemporary Art programme at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York where she continued to work as a a Consultant Lecturer for their Online Learning Programme teaching courses in Contemporary Art and art writing until 2017. In 2015, she developed and taught the course Museum Curating Now: Behind the Scenes at Tate in collaboration with the Public Programmes team at Tate Modern and the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London and gave a talk on John Cage as part of Cambridge University's Interdisciplinary Performance Network (CIPN) 2015-16 programme.
