Within the University, many artist’s pass through through the doors to engage in workshops, lectures and conversations with an audeience. We were lucky enough to have a ‘In Conversation…’ with Rose English. Having done some research into her vast catalogue of events within her life. What I had not discovered was the significance of her work during the women’s liberation movement in the 60’s and 70’s and her participation in WHACK! of which I had focused on in my 2nd year at Duncan of Jordanstone.
The conversation was opened with a quote from Hannah Arendt, an interesting character that could most definitely take up another post. which became a platform for the discussion of power, the ephemeral and a discovering of the self that leads you through the portfolio of English.
I have been luck enough to be given the opportunity to be part of a collaboration in response to ‘Men Gather, In Speech…’ an exhibition that explores the importance of contextualisation and the value of conversation in relation to the everyday.
Along with 4 other women from the Student Curatorial Team, we reviewed and discussed the artist’s background, Rose English is exhibiting alongside Emma Charles and Abri De Swardt. Having expression similar opinions of their work, we decided to exchange sentences from discussions, or internal monologues from having researched the works. From this we would each make a video and project it onto an ephemeral material: visualising the fragmentation of the conversations within the video.
The exhibition begins 16th February in Cooper Gallery Project Space,Dundee.
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/djcad/exhibitions/exhibitions/hot-air-sct/
