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Yasmin Kauser2017-10-10T15:20:45+01:0010 October, 2017|

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Open Studios are back! After a necessary pause the Open Studios are back! After a necessary pause the last few years, we are very happy to open the studio doors to the public again. We're scaling things back a bit to keep everyone safe and comfortable, but with several years worth of new work having been made, there is a bounty of new work to be seen from over fifty artists. We'll have some fab free activities going on within studios, so check out the website for full programme details (link in bio). Opening hours: Friday 20th May 6-9pm Saturday 21st May 2-6pm Sunday 22nd May 2-6pm
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Our final post about the Myco-Lective website high Our final post about the Myco-Lective website highlights the Map-lective exhibition and workshop that Sonia Barrett organised at Chisenhale Studios, which also included work by Myco-Lective participants. 1/2/3/4) Sonia is the initiator and co-founder of the Map-Lective and convened a Map-lective at Chisenhale Studios on Monday 30 August to create a new work for Studio4. The Map-lective is a collective of black and brown women working with the map, who take techniques of personal care embedded in black communities and use them to deal with maps. In dread-locking or braiding the map, the Map-lective are creating a space for a new understanding of maps. An Inaugural work spanning 6 metres was created At the Royal Geographic Society London earlier this year. The Map-lective work at Chisenhale Studios has been created by Sonia, Mia Morris OBE, Chantelle Purcell and participants to a drop-in workshop. 5) A selection of resources and links compiled by participants to aid in your further research and pleasure. Even as the formal bit ends, Myco-Lective continues to grow. #braiding #maps #mapping #colonialism #ecology #connectivity #artists #working #together #resources #reading #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Myco-lective.net website is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox. Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
Our fourth post about the Myco-Lective website hig Our fourth post about the Myco-Lective website highlights content that individual artist participants organised and produced, that was inspired by and responded to the programme. After the first few sessions, all the participants - Joseph Morgan Schofield, Sonia Barrett, Angela Chan, Linda Persson, Laurèl Hadleigh and Sam Hodge - lead and followed, held space, listened and learned together. The programme was shaped in and became our creative relationship. 1) Linda Persson - images and sound from the forest. During Myco-Lective, Linda moved to rural Sweden, setting up home in the forest, partly inspired by thoughts of the mushrooms she would find. These are some of her Myco-inspired experiments, painting and photos from her new home. 2 and 3) Joseph Morgan Schofield - documentation of a performance These Teeming Forms, which responded to their single-channel video work, duration: 28.33 of the same name. “The land, like the body, is an archive. these teeming forms is a process of communing with the land, of (be)longing with and to it… Queer ecology is enacted here as a process of wilding, looking forwards and out, towards new mythic relations with the land.” 4) Souls of the Tomato Folk. Sonia Barrett found solace and joy in growing tomatoes in her garden during lockdown, and one of the things we often did when we met as a group was discuss our lunches! Food being political, earthly and multispecies, this seemed more than appropriate. Sonia took it to another level with her growing and with her poetry. 5) Sam Hodge led this ink-making workshop for participants online, which really gets into the nitty gritty of her practice. 6)@ mossy.soft.sprot photograph from a project by Angela Chan. #earth #lunch #inkmaking #grief #mushrooms #recycling #queerecology #growing #poetry #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Myco-lective.net is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox
Our third Myco-Lective website post shares a few h Our third Myco-Lective website post shares a few highlights from the ‘taught’ content that formed part of the intensive programme. Myco-Lective was developed and facilitated by Feral Practice (Fiona MacDonald+) in association with Chisenhale Studios. Fiona brought her experience in artist development, posthumanist thought, practices of attention and multispecies aesthetics. The lead artist was speculative writer and researcher Ama Josephine Budge, who brought her expertise in queer identity, speculative fictioning and climate colonialism, and co-held the initial sessions with great warmth and care. 1) Mycorrhizal Meditation by Feral Practice is a guided meditation that choreographs a connective journey through the human body and down into a dynamic, semiotic underworld of living soil and mycorrhizal mycelium. The spoken word entwines with sound recordings made in wooded places, including sonifications of the shifts in electrical current emitted by plants and fungi. It complicates a notion of nature as ‘ultimate digital detox’, and guides the user towards the intelligent responsiveness of beyond-human nature, the ‘wood-wide-web’ that predates our digital connectivity by millennia. 2) Beneath Yaba’s Garden, a speculative fiction by Ama Josephine Budge. Ama guided group exercises in speculative fiction and offered one-to-one writing tutorials to Myco participants. 3) A talk on plants and fungi by Feral Practice #fungi #attention #meditation #plants #mycorrhizalnetwork #bodies #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Website is at myco-lective.net and is best experienced on a computer in Chrome or Firefox. Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
Collective Creativity Starting in Spring 2020, My Collective Creativity Starting in Spring 2020, Myco-Lective was reshaped around the impact of Covid-19 on all our lives. Participants met together on Zoom. Some of us have still yet to meet in in real life. For what was conceived as a holistic, embodied project, this was… tricky. But despite the challenges, and the inevitable online-weariness of us all, Myco-Lective nurtured a space for mutual support, and expanded the situated, critical and creative thinking of participants. Rather than a programme of shiny public outcomes, then, the website invites you into the nurturing, explorative tone of our group. Here are screen shots from the website of some of the content that we produced collaboratively: 1) Oracle cards - Myco-Lective were joined by Hari Byles and Linden Catherine McMahon of Queer Ecologies for a day to explore soil culture and becoming with the earth, and made these personal cards that acted as our offer to and thoughts on the group dynamic. 2) A ‘porch sitting’ conversation. Cameras off, all participants shared the view of this live feed view of a garden, and their conversation ranges around how to come together to create positive change, even while physically separated. 3) Collective speculative fiction - working like an ‘exquisite corpse’ drawing 4) Playlist - for a collective walking exercise we made this playlist together #walking #dancing #writing #fiction #talkingtogether #becomingwith #queerecology #mycolective #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England
We are excited to launch our newly commissioned we We are excited to launch our newly commissioned website which shares excerpts from the Myco-Lective programme. The website has been designed by Myco artists, built by Ali Ashe @ali.ashe, and is itself an artwork! The rippling, interconnected shapes draw inspiration from the soft dynamic arrangements of living and growing beings sharing space. You can find it at myco-lective.net and it’s best experienced in Chrome on a computer or tablet. As you roam around, you can click links to different content, including video, sound, images and texts. More about this in our next few posts. Myco-Lective is a programme for artists engaging with ecological thinking, climate change, and multispecies futures. It takes its inspiration from human and non-human models of education, collective action, care, reciprocal networking, and mutual aid, including the mycorrhizal networks of the forest, where plants share nourishment and knowledge via the under-soil web of fungal mycelium. 1/2/3/4) Screenshots of the garden-forest-homepage 5) The contributors and their weblinks #mycolective #artistdevelopment #artistsmakechange #artistsworkingtogether #ecology #community #climatecolonialism #queeringnature #tenderspaces #multispeciesfutures #care @feralpractice @amajosephine @jmschofield @_linda_persson_ @samhodgeart @cellu.laur @a.y.t.c @soniaelizabethbarrett Chisenhale Studios and Myco-Lective are grateful for the support of Arts Council England.
What will everyone be creating at today's Art for What will everyone be creating at today's Art for Wellbeing session with #CharlotteMew?
Two artists in our studios, Merve Iseri and Aycin Two artists in our studios, Merve Iseri and Aycin Sucuoglu, are offering two different art classes for children to do together with a parent or carer. On Wednesdays, Merve will run creativity sessions with a range of painting styles, 2d and 3d collage making and more. On Thursdays, it's ceramics with Aycin. Both run from 4pm - 5.30pm, starting 10th/11th November for six weeks. These are the artists own courses and have a fee for the six weeks - they are able to offer some places at a lower cost so do enquire. For info and booking contact the artists directly; thisisaycin@gmail.com or iserimerve@gmail.com @aaaycnnn
We’ll be running some new workshops for adults s We’ll be running some new workshops for adults seeking some creative arts activities to help improve their sense of wellbeing. Join Charlotte Mew every Tuesday from 11am to 1pm in the ground floor Education Room at Chisenhale Studios between 9th of November and 7th December. Sessions are free to attend and materials are provided for each workshop – a different one each week, suitable for all abilities. To maintain social distancing, places will be limited so email or call us to book in advance or if you’d just like to find out more. We’ll keep some spaces open for drops-in. #artforwellbeing #artforbeginners #communityart
More local fun today at Bow Community Day 1-4pm, i More local fun today at Bow Community Day 1-4pm, including activities from @chisenhalelearnplaycreate and @chisenhalegallery Huge thanks to @romanroadtrust for making it happen👏! (And @samaacademyuk for yummy samosas )
If you're in our local area today, there is still If you're in our local area today, there is still time to catch a screening of this joyful insight into a unique time in the history of @victoriapark_london Breathing Space 2021 is a community-based experimental documentary that explores the life of Victoria Park during the Covid-19 pandemic.  Breathing Space 2021 is made by artist filmmaker Karolina Raczynski in collaboration with anthropology researcher Caroline Wilson. Filmed and recorded between the first and second UK lockdowns, this short film explores the local experience of this global pandemic. Park staff and visitors reflect on the the park’s sudden and unexpected closure to visitors, its re-opening with heavy restrictions on activity, and the slow return to a new normal. In at the hub til 3pm then a talk with makers. Sat 30th Oct.
As we wave goodbye to Rosie Hermon after three ama As we wave goodbye to Rosie Hermon after three amazing years, we are seeking a new Artists’ Development Co-ordinator (ADC), one day per week until July 2022.  Leading on career development opportunities for artists, the ADC co-ordinates programmes delivered through the Studios, including our flagship programme Into the Wild.  It is a busy role, one day a week, and is based at Chisenhale Art Place with a combination of working from home. The successful candidate will have their finger on the pulse of the developmental needs of artists, gained through a variety of creative experiences. This will likely be through recent work in similar roles, teaching at higher education level and through their own artistic or curatorial practice. A critical but practical thinker, the postholder must also possess an in-depth knowledge of historical and current trends in artistic practices and processes, and be committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for artists.  Fundraising for upcoming artist development programmes is integral to role, and the postholder will be able to demonstrate their success in this area. The full job description and details of how to apply can be found via  https://bit.ly/ChisenhaleADC or in bio above
Did you attend any of the Chisenhale Summer of Ar Did you attend any of the Chisenhale Summer of Arts events? Or maybe didn't go because you weren't sure if it was right for your family? If you'd to tell us more about your experience and/or help us think how our future programmes can serve our community better, do join us for a small resident's forum Thursday 28th 3 -4.30pm The session will take place in Chisenhale Primary School. There will be snacks and drinks, and if your children would like to attend, we will also have art materials and extra staff on-site to keep everyone entertained. The session will be fun and informal. It will offer a space to reflect on how art can impact the lives of local residents and will help shape our public-facing programmes going forward. It would be great to have your input. Let us know you'll be coming by booking on Eventbrite (search: chisenhale art place residents forum) or DM us here.
Still a few places available for Paul Coombs studi Still a few places available for Paul Coombs studio installation and hourly performance of his incredible piece 'Sections'. Today and Sunday (2&3 Oct) 2-7pm. Booking details in our bio.
Reserve your free place for 'Sections' a new perfo Reserve your free place for 'Sections' a new performance and installation by @coombspaul Tickets are now available for the premiere of a new, in-progress, performance by artist Paul Coombs, staged within the unique setting of the studio space where the work was created; the walls and the floor scrawled with experiences, memories, confessions, and workings-out. Presented at the culmination of their month-long studio residency, 'Sections' explores the impacts of anti-LGBTQI+ legislation on those who grew up under their influence, collaging Coombs' own experiences with those of others who contributed through an open-call. This is an opportunity to see intimate performances by the artist. Due to Covid restrictions, there is a limited capacity of 5 audience members per time slot. Each slot will contain a live, spoken-word, performance, with time to view the studio installation. Please arrive promptly at the start of your chosen time slot. Tickets are FREE and can be booked via the link in bio. Opening hours: Saturday 2nd October : 2pm - 7pm (last entry 6pm) Sunday 3rd October : 2pm - 7pm (last entry 6pm) For audiences 16+. These performances contain explicit language and content of a sexual nature. Face masks must be worn in the building at all times, unless you are exempt. We regret that there is no disabled access to the studio, which is on the first floor. #artistinresidence #studio4 #studioresidency #queerperformance #artistperformance
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“Grapple” By Kirsty Harris in Studio 21 Open “Grapple” By Kirsty Harris in Studio 21 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, May 21st 2-6pm, May 22nd 2-6pm. I explore nuclear explosions as cultural, historical and iconic symbols. Referencing the scale, beauty and abhorrent nature of the atom bomb I delve into the periphery of the subject, the myths, characters and surrounding evidence. I work across a wide range of media from vast oil paintings and projections to ceramics you could hold in your hand. I’m drawn to the decisive moment, the disruption of the landscape, the dust, the glow, the force of the explosion. I deliberate the split second that represents our race to self destruction. #kirstyharris #nucleartest #atomicexplosion #grapple
“Aesclepious” By Hilary Rosen in Studio 20 Op “Aesclepious” By Hilary Rosen in Studio 20 Open studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm. This image is part of a Greek Myth series . More of this work can be seen at UCH on the Euston Road in the A and E department .In the studio will be prints , oils and drawings depicting Cityscapes, Greek Myths and Interiors of memory and place.
“Painting 1” 2022 182 cm High x 119cm Wide By “Painting 1” 2022 182 cm High x 119cm Wide By Nigel O'Neill in Studio 10 Open Studios May 20th 6-9pm, 21st 2-6pm, 22nd 2-6pm. My paintings are constucted form separate shaped panels of 6.5mm birchfaced plywood panels painted with acrylic paint. Each painting endeavours to achieve a compelling physical presence through its ambiguous internal spatial relationships. i am a founder member of Chisenhale Artplace, and have exhibited widely including The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition ,Spectrum Fine Art London and many others.He is represented in many collections including Coca Cola, and Paul Smith Ltd #abstractart #reductive #colour #shapedpainting #hardedgepainting
“Carey Burn Revisited” by Mark Fairnington in “Carey Burn Revisited” by Mark Fairnington in Studio 37 Come see Mark’s paintings of the land at the Chisenhale Open Studio on May 20th 6-9pm, May 21st 2-6pm, May 22nd 2-6pm https://markfairnington.com
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Luminous Flow Exhibition #blahblahprojektraum Luminous Flow Exhibition #blahblahprojektraum
Drop by Chisenhale Studios on Thursday the 24th of Drop by Chisenhale Studios on Thursday the 24th of March 2022 from 11am to 8pm to watch Live Montez Press Radio Broadcasts by these incredible artists! @montezpressradio x @chisenhalestudiosprogramme @chisenhalegallery @chisenhalestudiosartists
Live radio broadcast happening at @chisenhalestudi Live radio broadcast happening at @chisenhalestudiosartists in collaboration with @montezpressradio on the 24th of March 2022 from 11am to 8pm. Drop by. Co-programmed by @mann_derr (Montez Press) + @giles.giles.giles (Chisenhale Studios) For full schedule see: https://radio.montezpress.com/#/upcoming
Guest Post from @camillabrendon for @chisenhales Guest Post from @camillabrendon for @chisenhalestudiosartists . Back in 2019 I was resident artist at Chisenhale Studios. I used the residency to develop my work Coast-Hertford Union Canal. . I entered my work Living Canal Mobiles to an open call run by @sustainability_first called Together for a Fair Climate Future and my work was shortlisted. Follow this (https://sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/2021-virtual-book) web address to see all shortlisted artists.  . Sustainability First have launched a digital book on the Together for a Fair Climate Future  (https://sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/2021-virtual-book) you can read it to learn more about the full Together for a Fair Climate Future Programme.  . Image One:  Coast - Hertford Union Canal Installation Shot - Camilla Brendon Studio 4 Residency Image Two:  Sustainability First Art Prize 2021 - Shortlist - Living Canal Mobile, 300 x 150 x 50 cm, fishing rope, fenders, soil, plants, 2019  . Image Credit @georgia_metaxas   . Camilla Brendon highlights habitats being harmed by climate change and pollution, with a particular focus on ocean health. Repurposing found and donated materials, from blue spaces and incorporating living plants, to show how instead of consuming newness we can rework what’s already in existence.  . To see the full Sustainability First Art Prize 2021 Shortlist,visit https://sustainabilityfirst.org.uk/art-prize-2021 . #sustainabilityfirst #takeover #chisenhale #ecoart #artprize #art #arte #installationart #fairclimatefuture #COP26 #sustainableart #coast #canal #colour #recycle #noplanetb #saynotosinglesue #climateoptimism #climate
@giles.giles.giles here in @kumbira.i ‘s and my @giles.giles.giles here in @kumbira.i ‘s and my new studio :) I hope you enjoyed the takeover and thanks for all the likes and support! Xox 📸 @babykarate ty
@giles.giles.giles here with ‘London Extracts’ @giles.giles.giles here with ‘London Extracts’ (2019, London, UK) various rock types, conrete, wood, soil, clay, perspex. 4 columns 0.1m (diameter) x 2.5m (height) “Cored directly from the earth’s surface with a core drill these extractions were sampled from various locations around London. Composed of stratifications of earth, soil, sedimented layers of building materials or geological substrates. The samples of the urban environment were stacked on end. Recognisable as the kind of samples taken by land surveyors or archaeologists in preparation for site exploration, their status is somewhere between the scientific sample of the engineer and the architectural column of some imaginary or as yet unknown order of architecture. Like columns, they stand upright and define the physical space of habitation. Unlike architecture, these totemic columns support no ornamentation, pediment or superstructure. These cores simply are present, like the earth or buildings, in ways that make one aware of the materiality of our physical being and aware of the absences in the ground elsewhere, that now correspond to the presence of the cores here. That matrixial network is, like the earth from which the cores are extracted, the default setting for each newly generated boundary and edge that defines a new being, object and self.” (Text by Claire Pajaczkowska) Exhibited in Dazzling Encounters at the Sanderson Hotel in London in 2019.
@giles.giles.giles here with my latest WIP. ‘Sli @giles.giles.giles here with my latest WIP. ‘Slices’ 2021 glass and acrylic Some material extractions I took from London’s built environment with a core drill, which I then put under a🔬and made stained glass
@giles.giles.giles here with a work from 2016 The @giles.giles.giles here with a work from 2016 The gridded table/sandpit/rock-garden featured in JULIO, RICHARD, CLAUDIA AND/OR LUPITA provided a platform for three scientists to impart their knowledge onto the ruins of a modern city. Authorities from various scientific disciplines embellished the found stone objects with imaginative speculation allowing for both factual and conjectural understandings of form. The stone objects travel through our thoughts moving from discarded rubble to historic artifact and back again without proof. The head of the Museum of Geology - Julio Caballero Corona, an Anthropologist Museum of Anthropology - Claudia Valeria Pérez and a Landscape Ecologist from the University of Queensland - Richard Thackway (my father) rearranged the rock's formation to explain each of their diverging views concerning the stones on display. Mexico City is made up of many different rock types that are native to the surrounding area. Collected and arranged, these rocks were placed into the table in relation to the city's grid where I found them.
@giles.giles.giles here with a work from 2016 The @giles.giles.giles here with a work from 2016 The gridded table/sandpit/rock-garden featured in JULIO, RICHARD, CLAUDIA AND/OR LUPITA provided a platform for three scientists to impart their knowledge onto the ruins of a modern city. Authorities from various scientific disciplines embellished the found stone objects with imaginative speculation allowing for both factual and conjectural understandings of form. The stone objects travel through our thoughts moving from discarded rubble to historic artifact and back again without proof. The head of the Museum of Geology - Julio Caballero Corona, an Anthropologist Museum of Anthropology - Claudia Valeria Pérez and a Landscape Ecologist from the University of Queensland - Richard Thackway (my father) rearranged the rock's formation to explain each of their diverging views concerning the stones on display. Mexico City is made up of many different rock types that are native to the surrounding area. Collected and arranged, these rocks were placed into the table in relation to the city's grid where I found them.
@giles.giles.giles ‘An Ode Diligently Unfinishe @giles.giles.giles ‘An Ode Diligently Unfinished’ 2019 nylon, wool, elastic, viscose rayon, concrete, cotton. 600cm (length) x 60cm (width) x 1cm (thick) On the surface of this work is a glossy superficial slime, digitally woven together using nylon, wool, elastic, viscose rayon and drone footage. The irregular surface seems to cloak the flotsam and jetsam of a drowned world. A nearby polluted tidal creek bed was mapped in an unorthodox manner to produce this topological from. A thin concrete cast was submerged to bathymetrically capture the bottom of the creek. The section of the creek that was mapped is zoned for redevelopment. The concrete underside in this work mimics the developer’s soon to be material dream. Combined, the concrete form and slime surface nevertheless resist capture and float ominously in the gallery like a spectre from a long-forgotten landscape.
@giles.giles.giles again with Images from my maste @giles.giles.giles again with Images from my masters degree: ‘Heat Haze’ 2020 Perspex Screen (entry piece in image 1, 2, 8) 200 x 300 x 60cm ‘Heat Haze' arises from a history of special effects. Mirages can appear in extreme heat; the type of heat that causes bodily distress. Here, the optical phenomenon is captured at a short distance and in a temperate climate, refracting light into an illusory image. ‘Spowers’ 2020 Charcoal (floor piece in image 2, 3, 4, 5) 40 x 70 x 100cm 'Spowers' revisits a memory I have of a devastating fire 17 years ago. When I relived that catastrophe in early 2020 it distorted my memories of the earlier life-threatening event. These fires are now considered normal and expected. The cork floor and charcoal structure are material echos of those two events. ‘Holder’ 2020 Charcoal (wall piece in image 1, 2, 3, 6, 7) 120 x 170 x 30cm The word ‘Holder’ is synonymous with container or receptacle and is the name of my childhood neighbourhood devastated by a bushfire in 2003. Fire stress is stored within the burnt roof structure, which is both recognisably domestic and architecturally idiosyncratic. ‘Shingle’ 2020 Charcoal (upright floor piece in image 8, 9) 200 x 60 x 40cm Chickenpox is a virus often experienced in childhood that is subsequently stored in the spine. Shingles are the chickenpox virus reemerging as the virus travels through the nervous system. It attacks one side of the body when an adult suffers stress or their immune system is suppressed. Cases are rising amongst healthy young adults. Many thanks to @theo_christelis_photo for these photos. Special thanks to @riverjeann @madswood
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