laura Hunt
Laura Hunt is a Sydney based artist and musician working with mixed media installation and sound. Hunt is interested in invisible forces and political philosophy. She has been involved in multiple Museum of contemporary Art events in Sydney as well as participating in Underbelly Arts Festival, Island salon on Cockatoo Island in 2015. Hunt has performed with band Ghastly Spats at The Sydney Opera House in 2014; as well as touring interstate in Australia with various projects and releasing a multiple cassettes/records with Australian labels R.I.P Society, Exxe records, Paradise Daily, Heinous Anus, and Special Awards. She has exhibited sound work and sculpture throughout Sydney and has spent the beginning of 2017 at Cité international des arts in Paris. |
ANYSE DUCHARME
Anyse Ducharme is a Canadian artist, based in northern Ontario. Her work is engaged with the circulation of digital imagery and the malleability of data. She has exhibited nationally and internationally, notable shows include Proof 23 at Gallery 44 (Toronto), extended party mix at Satellite Gallery (Vancouver), (Arti)fiction/Realities at la Galerie du Nouvel-Ontario (Sudbury), Digital Alterities at InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre (Toronto), and as part of the Flash Forward festival for emergent photography (Boston, Portland, Toronto). |
SHAN SHAN
Shan Shan is an experimental filmmaker and video artist. Her film and installation work has been shown in the U.S and internationally. Working with both analog film and digital video, Shan Shan is very interested in the visual experience that can’t be contented by conventional dialogue. Her research centered practice focuses on exploring digital humanities and socio‐political interactions. Shan Shan is currently an Assistant Professor in Media Arts at Sacred Heart University, Connecticut, US. |
PASCAL UNGERER www.pascalungerer.com
Pascal Ungerer is a visual artist form Cork, Ireland. Here works in an interdisciplinary practice incorporating various elements of photography, video, painting and sound in his art making process. Much of his work is based on themes around social, geo-political or ecological issues. He is currently based in London. |
Tomie Seo www.tomieseo.net Tomie Seo is a Japanese female artist, and her work depicts the world’s structure and hidden meaning through socio-political and philosophical view-points by focusing on provocative issues and movements as subjects, stating that every phenomena of this world are all intertwined. She obtained a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a MA in Painting from Royal College of Art, and she participated in Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center and Flint Public Art Project. She currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan. |
LOUISE BENNETT - WWW.LOUISEBENNETTART.COM
LOUISE BENNETT IS AN ARTIST FROM BRISBANE, AUSTRALIA WHOSE PRACTICE NEGOTIATES TENSIONS BETWEEN DAY-TO-DAY EXPERIENCE AND ITS MEDIATION. BENNETT NARRATES JOURNEYS IN HER CAR AND IN LANDSCAPES BY USING AUDIO AND TEXT AS TOOLS TO ORCHESTRATE SPECIFIC EXPERIENCES. THESE SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS, IN ADDITION TO HER VIDEO ART PRACTICE, POSE QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW OUR CONCEPTS OF AND ENGAGEMENTS WITH NATURE AND EACH OTHER SHIFT IN CONTEMPORARY CONTEXTS DOMINATED BY SCREEN-BASED TECHNOLOGIES. THROUGH A COMBINATION OF DIGITAL AND HAND-MADE PROCESSES BENNETT’S VIDEO WORKS BECOME MEDIA-SPECIFIC ANALYSIS OF SCREEN SPACE AS AN IMAGE WITH BOTH SCULPTURAL AND CONCEPTUAL ATTRIBUTES. |
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JAMES WATTS - WWW.WITHINTHEDOLMEN.COM JAMES WATTS EXPLORES THE PHYSICALITY OF SOUND MAKING FROM A BACKGROUND OF EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC AND NOISE. INSTRUMENT BODIES ARE MADE MANIFEST THEN PUSHED TO LIMITS OF EXHAUSTION. THE EXERTION OF THE SCREAM, THE STRETCH OF THE DIAPHRAGM AND TIGHTENING OF THE TENDONS IS MADE MANIFEST THROUGH TEXT, PERFORMANCE AND SCULPTURE. |
Jonathan Montague - www.jonathanmontague.com
''Using space as a material with the motion and affects of sound, I investigate the spatial narrative created via the inhabitation of the viewer and the perception of sound. My background in Architecture informs the way in which work can inhabit a place and the spatial parameters of its context; giving insight into the way in which boundaries and intersections of spatial territory could be manipulated then occupied. Through investigation into the sonic potential properties of space and sound, conditions of an affect laden automated future, are addressed through access to a dialogue positioned in giving agency to dismantling notions of a predefined future.'' |
Makeda Zucco - https://soundcloud.com/alldaybreakfast
Makeda is interested in health, bass and creating utopic realities. As a composer, sound artist and DJ, Makeda is energized through creating sonic dualities: the oddity of a hypermasculine 180-bpm jungle or footwork dancefloor, beside dub, ambient and the new left club sound. The aforementioned all inform the atonality and asexuality of her own music. Through sound Makeda aims to question her own role in conveying ideas, as well as those of the broader music community, activists and conservatives alike. She advocates a movement toward a community who support each other and work together. |
DICKIE WEBB WWW.DICKIEWEBB.COM/
DICKIE WEBB OPERATES FROM A NOMADIC ART PRACTICE AND CURRENTLY MIGRATES BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES, AN ONGOING COMMUTE FOR THE LAST FOURTEEN YEARS. DUE TO THIS CONTINUAL MIGRATION WEBB’S LIFE HAS BECOME DISLOCATED FROM SOCIETAL NORMS. WEBB’S NOMADIC LIFESTYLE MEANS HE HAS HAD TO ADAPT AND QUESTION OUR CONNECTION TO LANDSCAPE, ALTERING HIS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED HOME AND THE ROLE OF SOCIETY’S EXPECTATIONS. CURRENT RESEARCH UTILIZES BOTH MARC AUGES’ “NON-PLACES” AND MICHEL FOUCAULTS’ “HETEROTOPIAS” AS INITIAL STARTING POINTS. WEBB USES THESE IMAGINARY AND TRANSIENT SITES AS A MEANS TO REVEAL ANOMALIES, INACCURACIES SIMILAR TO THOSE DISPLAYED WITHIN HUMAN PERSONALITIES. THIS CONNECTION TO SPACE THROUGH ITS ANTHROPOMORPHIC QUALITIES PROMPTS WEBB TO CONSIDER SPACE AS REPRESENTATIONAL OF CURRENT ISSUES EXPERIENCED WITHIN BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE. USING SPACE AS A METAPHOR AND AS A MEDIUM WEBB LOOKS PAST THE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE AND EXPLORES THE LIMINAL QUALITIES, DISCOVERING THIS BLURRED ARENA FROM AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE.
DICKIE WEBB OPERATES FROM A NOMADIC ART PRACTICE AND CURRENTLY MIGRATES BETWEEN NORTHERN AND SOUTHERN HEMISPHERES, AN ONGOING COMMUTE FOR THE LAST FOURTEEN YEARS. DUE TO THIS CONTINUAL MIGRATION WEBB’S LIFE HAS BECOME DISLOCATED FROM SOCIETAL NORMS. WEBB’S NOMADIC LIFESTYLE MEANS HE HAS HAD TO ADAPT AND QUESTION OUR CONNECTION TO LANDSCAPE, ALTERING HIS UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT IS CONSIDERED HOME AND THE ROLE OF SOCIETY’S EXPECTATIONS. CURRENT RESEARCH UTILIZES BOTH MARC AUGES’ “NON-PLACES” AND MICHEL FOUCAULTS’ “HETEROTOPIAS” AS INITIAL STARTING POINTS. WEBB USES THESE IMAGINARY AND TRANSIENT SITES AS A MEANS TO REVEAL ANOMALIES, INACCURACIES SIMILAR TO THOSE DISPLAYED WITHIN HUMAN PERSONALITIES. THIS CONNECTION TO SPACE THROUGH ITS ANTHROPOMORPHIC QUALITIES PROMPTS WEBB TO CONSIDER SPACE AS REPRESENTATIONAL OF CURRENT ISSUES EXPERIENCED WITHIN BOTH THE INDIVIDUAL AND COLLECTIVE. USING SPACE AS A METAPHOR AND AS A MEDIUM WEBB LOOKS PAST THE ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE AND EXPLORES THE LIMINAL QUALITIES, DISCOVERING THIS BLURRED ARENA FROM AN OUTSIDER’S PERSPECTIVE.
Kin designs site-specific, interactive artworks that often combine repurposed and recycled materials and structures found within the environment with contemporary technology (i.e. motion sensors, digital software, tracking devices, etc). In the past few years, she has created installations for arts festivals, frequently collaborating with local people, including pieces for DNweekeND (Doncaster), Chorlton Arts Festival (Greater Manchester), Sound UK (rural touring in Wiltshire, Devon and Cornwall), Reuse Aloud (New Bridge Project, Newcastle), Sand, Sea, Sculpture (Essex), Wandsworth Arts Festival (London), InTransit festival (Kensington and Chelsea, London), Hackney WickED (London) and the Poor Door at A-Side B-Side Gallery (London). Her installations are often designed for unusual, non-traditional art spaces, including disused shop units, playgrounds, green spaces, piers, beaches, and derelict buildings. The artist works under many pseudonyms, Kin being one manifestation of the artist’s practice that focuses on our interactions with rural and urban environments and how they can mediate relationships between people. During the residency, Kin will be creating an installation that explores the pervasiveness of contemporary surveillance and its integration into our ‘natural’ environment.
Supported by Arts Council England. https://cell-less.com/ |
Richard Forrest www.richardforrest.info/ Working across sculpture and installation, my practice is characterised by a spirit of studio experimentation and an analysis of human perception. In exploring our learned and visual understanding of form, material and space, I make physical artworks and installations which question simulacrum and authenticity. My research is heavily influenced by contemporary notions of representation. I am interested in re-negotiating our interaction with the world around us by using physical artworks that I have made - knowingly - in an age of technological and virtual acceleration. I seek to reimagine the internet, and the information it carries, as a sculptural organism. In my most recent installations, I have created speculative scenes, whereby exotic structures have seemingly travelled through an otherworldly vortex into the exhibition space, carrying physical fragments from a virtual environment. |