Work and a new zine from Project After S will feature in an event at Verkstad, Norrköping, Sweden on the evening of 03.09.2010. The event is organised by Susanne Ewerlöf
I will also be reading from Project After S as part of a two day Vision Forum event at Universität Linköping, Sweden happening between 03.09-04.09.2010
Over the next few months I will be working with the Cuming Museum on a new commission in partnership with Better Bankside and South Tower Social. The project will culminate in a solo show of new works in November 2010. More information to follow shortly.
Pages from my new book ‘Vanishing Point’ resographed in a signed edition of 50 copies currently forming part of a new installation at the exhibition ‘Meeting – Treffen’ at Philara Space, Dusseldorf. Please see editions for more information.
New additions to the Voided Works series will appear in exhibition Meeting – Treffen at Philara Space, Düsseldorf . The show includes work from eight photographers, and a catalogue will be available during the show. A new bookwork of the Voided Works will be presented alongside the exhibition titled ‘Vanishing Point’, and printed by Ditto Press in a limited edition of 50 copies.
Extract: The curtain is drawn, and the projector is switched on. There is a whirring sound, and the door closes as though by itself. In this sealed vessel one of the participants swims in to focus; she is immersed in an aperture of light.
Click here for the full version of my contribution for the Jane Arden Project.
The publication will be presented at London College of Communication on June 3rd 2010, and will be launched later this year with a further exhibition. It is supported by the BFI.
Still from the Other Side of the Underneath, Dir. Jane Arden, 1972.
Jane Arden was, amongst other things, a film director, actor, screenwriter, and poet. Following her death in 1982 her creative output has failed to achieve deserved recognition amongst that of her peers. As one of the only female directors producing feature length films during the 1970s this near omission from the history of radical cinema is a concern that needs be urgently reassessed.
Excerpt from the Jane Arden Project:
By asking women artists to respond to the viewing of two of her films, Separation and The Other Side of the Underneath, the Jane Arden Project aims to draw attention, not only to Arden’s work, but the influence and stimulus her work is able to bring to a new generation of artists, writers and filmmakers.
The project is lead by artist and activist Charlotte Procter and will culminate in a limited edition artist bookwork and accompanying exhibition, which will include my own contribution amongst others including the work of Elaine Tierney, Susanne Bürner, Mia Clarke, and Sophie Brown. The project is supported by the BFI.
In Winter 2009 I was invited to participate in the Vision Forum Programme hosted by KSM at Linköpings Universitet in Sweden. The award will allow me to develop a new body of visual research titled ‘Project After S’. The project investigates the possible application of Utopian imagination and archeological method to research an ancient history of Shenzhen, a city that is in fact only 25 years old.
Extract: …On returning from China I tell you about: buildings, century eggs, the lack of history, the impossible length of history.
I have seen that: Shenzhen presents to us a field of history that is (was actually) flattened, compacted, developed (at great speed), and somehow made miniature.
Old eggs: alike to finds from archaeological digs. (Do you know the process? By which they’re gathered, wrapped in rice and tea and buried in the earth – practically archaeology in reverse)…
‘Project After S’ began whilst working on Inheritance-Shenzhen in China during Winter 2009 and is kindly supported by Inheritance Projects and Vision Forum. The work will be presented at Linköpings Universitet, Sweden in Autumn 2010.
Extract: An image of Kissingtree, the house in which Jacquetta Hawkes spent the final years of her life. In it boarders of trees and plants obscure the home – this outermost film of private life, somehow stilled and peacefully interior. I imagine the archeologist, her knees rested on a flat, old-fashioned, cushion formed like two plastic circles squeezed tight together, carefully positioning seeds to grow in the damp earth. I imagine a bird overhead, time momentarily caught up in a childish delight – how quickly it all seems to change, and how slow it all is. I think of her own film of Barbara Hepworth’s sculptures, pictures cut from their surroundings and placed in a montage of drama and hills – the archeologist brings deep time to surface structures, with Priaulx Rainier’s strange compositions sweeping through.
*Surface – a new publication from YH4885 Press – is presented today at Wysing Arts Contemporary: Presents and can be seen at Wysing Arts Centre alongside other publications from YH485 until the 23.05.2010. More information can be found on the blog of Harriet Mitchell, co-editor of *Surface and founder of the curatorial and research initiative Gymnasium.
*Surface includes my own text ‘Inside Out’ which relates to an ongoing film collaboration with Jessica Anne Stockdale inspired by the life of archeologist Jacquetta Hawkes. Other contributions include Paul Pieroni, Martin Pigott, Helen Sear, and Marine Hugonnier. The publication is available through the YH485 Press website.
Images from A Study In Grey were featured in the University of Westminster’s Alumni Exhibition Biografica, which opened at the Piramal Gallery in the The National Centre for Performing Arts in South Bombay, India on the 14th of September 2009. All the work can now be seen here featured on the University of Westminster website.
Standing West, Facing East, from A Study in Grey, 2007-08.
A Study in Grey has been selected for the exhibition ‘Künstlerbücher’ at Galerie Ute Parduhn, Düsseldorf.
Other artists include Monika Bartholomé, Thomas Schütte, and Lillian Wilkie.
The exhibition will run from 05.02.2010 – 13.03.2010.
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