Anna-Rose Stefatou, Extinct Moons (and Silent Splinters), 2020. Courtesy the artist
Anna-Rose Stefatou, On Extinct Moons (and Silent Splinters), 2020, video, 7 minutes, 39 seconds
Rene Matić, HOW TO AVOID BEING ATTACKED, 2019, video, 8 minutes, 20 seconds Please be aware this work details sensitive racial and queer experiences.
Ahren Warner, AND ONE THING LED TO ANOTHER, OR MORE ACCURATELY, 2021, video, 12 min 39 sec Please be aware this work includes descriptions of sexually explicit acts.
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Zethu Maseko, You do not belong here, 2021, audio recording and moving image, 12 minutes Please be aware this work details racially sensitive issues, and references to gender and sexuality based violence.
Sophie Ruigrok, Meeting the Shadow, 2021, audio recording and image, 14 minutes, 56 seconds Please be aware this work invites the audience to explore personal issues, which may be challenging. To participate in this performance you will need pens, drawing tools and paper.
BLOOMBERG NEW CONTEMPORARIES 2020 DIGITAL PLATFORM
For 2020, New Contemporaries has launched a specially created digital platform showcasing the work of the 36 selected artists. I was really inspired by this talk and it opened up my mind to the use of text and spoken word in my practice as a way of exploring the performative body. I was really intrigued by the use of text and image and how each artist used this same medium in different ways. I was probably most drawn to the works of Sophie Ruigrok who incorporated a drawing exercise into her talk. Ruigrok enabled the audience to experience her practice and immerse themselves in the work. The audio was almost meditative but had a chaotic feel to it as you recorded your response on the paper below. This allowed you to take several minutes out of your day to reflect and think in a different way before you see the result. From this result you could further investigate the ways you responded and see how your work and approach to the activity differed to everyone else. This was something I thought I could try in my work, relying on speech as a way to invite the viewer in to the piece, but I was unsure on the statement this would make so thought I would begin with using text as it is.
Also before the talk the artists were listed on the digital platform and alongside this was a biography of the artists and also a reading list. I found an interest in the following articles for different reasons:
Guttu, Ane Hjort. (2014) 'How to become a non-artist'. e-flux Journal. #53, March 2014. Available here.
Lütticken, Sven. (2008) 'Living with Abstraction'. Texte zur Kunst. #69, March 2008, pp. 132-139. Available here.
McRobbie, Angela. (2010) ‘Reflections on Feminism and Immaterial labour’. New Formations. 70, pp. 60-76. Available here.
Roelstraete, Dieter (2020) 'Anthropy: What the Post-Human Looks Like'. Mousse. #72, Summer 2020. Available here.
Social Text Journal (2013) 'Cruising Utopia'. 2013. Available here.
Steyerl, Hito. (2013) 'Too Much World: Is The Internet Dead?'. e-flux Journal. #49, November 2013. Available here.
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