#curatorial projects

Sound Field, at the Royal College of Art Galleries, 2016 

For our MA Graduate Show, myself, Sanghee Kim and Grace Storey curated Sound Field, an exhibition of sound works that physically affect the body. Immersive by design, site-specific installations and performances afforded visitors the opportunity to temporarily break from the image-saturated world. 

In a first-time collaboration between Florian Hecker and Mark Fell, Hecker’s 2012 piece Modulator is combined with Fell’s new work Two Opposing Spectra and is together a site-specific sound installation. The two artists spent extensive time working in the space utilising the architecture and measurements of the room with the frequencies, direction, and amplification of sound waves to achieve a very precise affect on the audience which alters with the participation of moving around the room and between the speakers. 

The second new, site-specific installation was Ain Bailey’s CRTYRDGLLRYii. Bailey’s work investigates public spaces; places where people from diverse backgrounds congregate. For example, previous works have taken place at the British Museum, the Rio Cinema in Dalston, and St. George’s Church in Bloomsbury. Through her sound works, she explores the qualities of these particular spaces by taking field recordings, capturing the innate hummings of the structures. Bailey then processes the sounds and plays them back into the space from which they originated. For Sound Field, Bailey conducted her work in Courtyard Gallery II, a thoroughfare and exhibition space in the heart of the art school. 

Sound Field also had two programmed performance-events: Field Music, a Sound Seminar by Jon Wozencroft, and Tiling Sessions, an audio-visual performance by Theo Burt. 

lockjaws* double-page spread, gif, and The Madness of the Crowds, banners by Matilda Moors shown at the Trinity Centre, Bristol, 2015

lockjaws* functions like a biennial show; the first issue of lockjaws* draws together over 50 artists from around the UK and a number from abroad, and teams them with one of 8 curators. lockjaws* is an Artist led publication currently supported by Spike Island, Situations, and Modern Art Oxford. The first issue was officially launched as part of Bristol Art weekender with a major show.

Three Rings London Lesbian and Gay Switchboard Archive Exhibition at The Waldorf hotel and The Trafalgar Hotel, 2015

Switchboard - a volunteer run helpline which offers support, information, and referral service to the LGBT + community, invited the Royal College of Art Queer Society to work with their 41 year old archive to create an exhibition for their relaunch gala event. The Queer Society invited myself and my colleague to curate the show. 

Multiverse Masterclass Retreat with Pil and Galia Kollectiv at Wysing Arts Centre, 2015

For this project myself, Sanghee Kim and Karina Pragnell Lopez curated a four-day Masterclass Retreat to be led by Pil and Galia Kollectiv at Wysing Arts Centre. Together, with director Donna Lynas, we selected artists Daniel Lichtman, Rachel Pafe, Claire Potter, Dylan Spencer-Davidson and Lauren Velvick from an open call as our participants. 

The retreat consisted of workshops, talks, screenings and reading groups to collectively explore multidisciplinary practice, employing Wysing Arts Centre’s overarching theme of the Multiverse; a proposed scientific theory which suggests the possibility of multiple worlds, universes and truths. 

Invited contributors to the retreat were artist Bill Drummond and Tzuchien Tho, a mathematician and philosopher who is associated researcher at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften.

Material discussed in the retreat included Preface of Logics of Worlds, Being and Event II by Alain Badou, 2009; Contradiction and Overdetermination by Louis Althusser, 1962; and sci-fi miniseries The Lost Room, 2006.

The Shift (2016) Flat Time House, London

Part of the closing programme of Flat Time House, this exhibition revisited every project and commission from the houses eight-year history as a public institution.

Featuring over 100 artists and many more works, the exhibition was curated by current and former staff Gareth Bell-Jones, Elisa Kay, Claire Louise Staunton and John Hill.

flattimeho.org.uk

Keynote Screening, PARSE Conference 2015, University of Gothenburg 

Utilising John Latham’s 1971 film ERTH as a scale or score, this two channel screening contrasted Latham’s minimalist experimental work with seven contemporary artists — Nicholas Mangan, Keren Cytter, Jennifer West, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Wojciech Bruszewski, Patrick Tarrant and Anne Tallentire — to look the use of complex and overlapping temporaries and frequencies in artists’ moving image.

www.parsejournal.com

Cinema6 (2014), Arcadia Missa, London

A two-month-long artist run community cinema, Cinema6 transformed the Arcadia Missa gallery into a screening, discussion and workshop space. Conceiving of the cinema as a share cultural resource, the project hosting diverse feature film, documentaries and artists’ moving image and worked with local political and community groups and well as presentations and conversations with international artists and filmmakers such as Trevor Mathison and Surabhi Sharma.

Cinema6 commissioned four new artists’ projects from Three Experiments in Translation with Hana Janeckova, Julia Tcharfas and Anna Galkina, Superlative TV’s documentary Equal Temperament, Screen Shadows’ six-week education programme and an artists’ 3D filmmaking workshop. 

www.cinema6.co.uk

You Screen, I Screen, Unscreen, Sunscreen (2013), Library+, London

A group exhibition looking at the flatness of screens in relation to sculpture. Featuring work by Nicole Morris, Richard Sides, Hania Stella-Sawicka and Holly White.