Degree show for students studying the BA Visual Arts By Negotiated Studies.
Dan Auluk is an artist-curator living and working in Birmingham, UK. Auluk is interested in creating collaborative experiences nurturing different ways of knowing and approaching art-making as a place of change, innovation and uncertainty. Dismantling authorial demarcation and challenging pre-existing rules and models and inviting visual artists, performers, curators, and writers to collaborate, participate and experimentally respond to the situation created; to generate a multiplicity of understanding. Reoccurring themes of communication, authorship and ownership is responded to or a resistance to, in a gallery or indoor setting; or off-site and/or on-line location. The outcomes during are playful, transformative in object and experience; unknown and messy, liberating and embracing of uncertainty and imagination of what once was and what it has become. New strands begin to emerge for future possibilities, an internal and external change through shared experiences, open up. Auluk’s practice is reflexive and responsive to his own anxieties, experimenting with the before and after, the temporal and transient; utilising the exhibition making process as medium in which to test out, observe and ultimately generate conversations, with participants to understand wider viewpoints and a space for listening and learning and interconnectedness. The projects encourages audiences to be involved in further disruption and play. Since 2012, Auluk has produce self-initiated collaborative live art experimental exhibitions and projects. In 2016 Auluk created Feature PROJECT (2016 - 2018) which was an online audio-visual collaborative space of exchange for artists. In 2015 Auluk produced an outdoor residency programme opportunity, for selected artists’ from submitted artist proposals, titled Grasslands (2015 – 2017), to test out experimental art ideas outside of their studio practice. Auluk is currently consolidating his practice and research to focus on group, solo and ongoing projects in 2023.
