Hoxton Arch 402, Cremer Street, London
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Nicola Chamberlain
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Emma Tod
"Watching the News comes from a body of work that looks at our relationship to news coverage and its preoccupation with violence and conflict. I am interested in how visible or invisible these often dramatic or catastrophic events are to us. The filming process becmes an attempt to address the difficulty of making sense of the ethical, political and social complexities of such events, and how we choose to engage with them - or not. The footage was shot over a number of evenings filming into The Guardian newspaper offices from the street below."
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Chloe Rose Wiltshire
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Amy Louise Wright
"As an artist I endeavour to capture the private experiences of a young female with a chronic illness. I use my own body as a medium for making art, using the body as a site of politics to comment both on the medical industry and on the performance of the female body. The work is suggestive of a struggle between the loss of control over my body internally and an attempt to reclaim the control externally through the display of the body in film and performance.
Often the work will isolate an experience, identifying a particularity of the medical and pharmaceutical industry and magnifying that. Through installation, I have attempted to draw out what is captured in my recordings of the treatment or my clinical surroundings with projections and objects."
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Alice Shanly Bell
"To my mind, the meaning or quality of an image cannot be evaluated independently of the excess of information that created it. I understand the desire for reduction and simplicity, but I cannot help but represent the world in the same way that I see it: as chaotic, complex and overloaded. Simplicity tries to find one sign through which to communicate. But the world is cynical. A single sign is not enough. Sometimes less is in fact less.
The individual already harbours within their self, deep complexity and an entire range of contrasts. Our present era is characterised by inundation. We experience overflow and excess, sheer mass of information and hostile social structures. We live with dishonesty, manipulation, disaffection and separation as a kind of socio-cultural poison. Why shouldn’t all of that be recognized and used to send a signal back into the information super-drive. In the hope that just one more image might bring us to critical mass."
“My practice focuses on the psychology of children’s play, especially Socio- dramatic play, in particular, the way in which children act out assigned roles or imitate dominant figures. My practice questions this type of play as a means to approach social behaviour in children, showing how children demonstrate socially or politically fuelled scenarios within play that they have potentially witnessed or been exposed to unknowingly.”
“My practice focuses on the psychology of children’s play, especially Socio- dramatic play, in particular, the way in which children act out assigned roles or imitate dominant figures. My practice questions this type of play as a means to approach social behaviour in children, showing how children demonstrate socially or politically fuelled scenarios within play that they have potentially witnessed or been exposed to unknowingly.”
“I try to create an atmosphere within my paintings, especially one that evokes a very personal experience. I usually produce each painting by tapping into a very personal visual memory, which attempts to capture the ‘mood’ of the sea on that particular day and also the light. I work most successfully when my conscious mind is switched off and I am tuning into my unconscious impulses only. My most successful paintings come about when I am not restricting myself and not over thinking what I am doing. So much can happen during my painting process.”
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Atsuhide Ito
“Megan Montgomery In Conversation with Lewis Oppenheimer is a thirteen-minute long video in which two actors are engaged in a conversation. The work concerns the issues surrounding nuclear energy and political action, highlighting transgressions of gender, ethnicity and age through the use of a prosthetic make-up. Perpetual nuclearity and the threat of radioactive contamination produce unstable subjects and individuals who strategically move across variant subjectivities in order to voice their views.”
