Artist group, LuckyPDF talk to DACS about their work, the digital space and their experience of the DACS Open workshops.
DACS.Open.
A programme to look for ways the Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS) can help artists in the digital age.
Artist, Elpida Hadzi-Vasileva about her work, the digital space and her experience of the DACS Open workshops.
DACS Open round-up session
Today, DACS will be hosting a round-up session to conclude our four cycles of experimental workshops with artists as part of our DACS Open project. We launched the project in November 2011 with the first cycle of workshops held at DACS in London based on the theme of ‘Storytelling’. We then kicked off the next cycle of workshops in 2012 at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art in Oxford exploring the theme of ‘Screens and Tablets’ followed by a cycle based on the theme of ‘Post-Digital’ hosted by Lighthouse in Brighton. Our final cycle of workshops is currently underway at Arnolfini in Bristol looking at the theme of ‘Microphilanthropy’.
We have invited all the artists and hosts that participated in the workshops. Today’s session is about drawing together the threads of all the different workshops and sharing with everyone the outcomes, getting their feedback about the workshops and then opening up a discussion of where we go next.
More to come…
Meet our Microphilanthropy Workshop Artists
The following artists are currently participating in the fourth cycle of workshops based on the theme of ‘microphilanthropy’ at Arnolfini in Bristol.
Oliver Flexman was born in 1978. After graduating from Duncan of Jordanstone and L’École Supérieure d’Art d’Aix-en-Provence he worked as an engaged or social practice artist for six years. In 2010 Oliver begun a new body of work partly in response to the memories and nostalgia of living in the Middle East as a child. The work investigates how the same elements of culture, commerce and identity are pervasive in opposing or radically different cultures. The work looks at the strength of personal investment people of all cultures put into inanimate or mass-produced objects and the role of context in articulating or proposing these item’s specific and varied meanings.
Oliver is a current recipient of Arts Council England, Grants for the Arts funding.
Upcoming Solo Exhibitions.
May 2012 - Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.
July 2012 - Contact Zone. Exeter Phoenix Gallery.
Janet McEwan is an artist and educator whose research led practice predominantly investigates our contingent dynamic with the natural environment: often probing the space between the encounter and the mediated experience. Adopting variant, layered, and collaborative modes of enquiry, she attempts to make nuanced responses that will prompt imaginative dialogue and generate renewed understandings.
Outputs are diverse and playful, situated both in gated and public realms; encompassing and frequently fusing traditional, digital, temporal and relational art forms. Enduring interests include the parallels between the worlds of art and agriculture, as sites of durational performative activity, production, and uncertainty.
Not insignificantly, McEwan has mainly lived and worked in rural areas, both in her native Scotland, and in Cornwall where she has been based for the past 6 years. After studying sculpture in Aberdeen, she worked in various spheres including conservation and health, both in the UK and the global south, before completing a post graduate course in community education. She has been engaged as an artist/educator/curator widely since 1997.
Recent commissions include a legacy public artwork for Oldmeldrum, Aberdeenshire, installed Dec 2011, and a site-specific work at North Wyke, Soil and Grassland Research Station, Devon, for presentation in May 2012.
Debbie Locke is an artist and multimedia designer born in London, 1966. BA Fine Art: Painting, Wimbledon College of Art, 2009. An artist whose practice is mainly drawing based, working with kinetic drawing machines and installations. Has just had a solo exhibition ‘Dialogue’ at The Stone Space, London. Group exhibitions include ‘Artworks Open 2011’, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London and ‘Emergent Art Show’, Vyner Street Gallery, London.
Katrina Horne is an Interdisciplinary Artist working with Installation, Video and Movement, based in Bristol, UK. Her practice includes collaborative and curatorial projects. She received her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, US; consistently ranked as No. 1 Graduate School by U.S. News and World Report.
Grace Ndiritu (Kenya/UK) lives and works in London. She studied at Winchester School of Art, London; De Ateliers, Amsterdam (1998-2000); and had a UK studio residency at Delfina Studios, London (2004-2006).
Her ‘Hand-crafted videos’ and ‘Video Paintings’ have been widely exhibited, recent solo shows at Artists Film Survey, ICA London (2011), Artprojx Presents at Prince Charles Cinema (2009), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005) and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham (2005). Recent group shows include those at the International Center of Photography, New York (2009), Studio Museum Harlem, New York (2008), Dakar Biennale,Senegal (2008).
She won the 1st Prize for Landscape Video and Photography, at the Centre for Art and Nature, Spain (2010). Her work has been commissioned by Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool (2010), Chisenhale Gallery, London (2007), and Glynn Vivian Gallery, Wales (2006). Her work is also housed in museum collections such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York and private collections such as The Walter Collection, Germany and New York specializing in Contemporary Photography.
Grace Ndiritu Video Art Collection www.axisweb.org/artist/gracendiritu
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