Thursday 10 March 2022, 6pm
Thursday 24 March 2022, 6pm
97-99 Hoxton Street, London N1 6QL (map)
A two-part series of conversations between artists exploring our relation to the city and the urban landscape.
In conjunction with her exhibition, By Hand, on Foot at Peer, Vlatka Horvat invited seven artists, writers, and performance makers to join her in conversations exploring different ways of encountering, looking at, and imaginatively transforming the spaces we occupy. The invited artists presented a work of theirs that in some way spoke to these processes and concerns.
Themes explored in the invited artists’ projects and in Horvat's exhibition at Peer – especially the idea of seeing things ‘otherwise’ – became starting points for the conversations, to reflect on our interaction with the city and its spaces, and consider how we might reimagine our relation to the urban landscape, to nature, and to people and communities.
Part 1: 10 March 2022, 6pm at Peer
Presentations by Jemima Yong, Lucy Joyce, Tara Fatehi Irani and Vlatka Horvat
Part 2: 24 March 2022, 6pm at Peer
Presentations by Andy Field, Graeme Miller, Rebecca Moss and Maria Mahfooz
BIOGRAPHIES
Tara Fatehi Irani is an artist, performer and writer. Using performance, text, video, movement, voice and mediums-in-between, Tara’s work forefronts mistranslation, ambiguity, disjunction, playfulness and unfinishedness. Tara has performed at the Royal Academy of Arts, United Nations Office at Geneva, SPILL Festival, Battersea Arts Centre, Nuffield Theatre, RichMix, Chapter and Molavi Theatre as well as in houses, museums, galleries, parks, streets, a gym, a police station, journals and books. Mishandled Archive, Tara’s yearlong series of 365 performances, is published as a book by LADA (2020) and tours as a performance-installation. In 2021, Tara was the first ever artist in residence at the United Nations Archives at Geneva.
Andy Field creates projects that invite people to consider their relationship to the places they live and the people they live with. Over the last decade this has manifested itself across a range of forms and disciplines, including street games, event scores, installations, studio theatre shows and one-to-one performances. A key strand of Andy’s practice involves making work in collaboration with young people with the aim of enabling them to play a meaningful part in the civic discourse of the cities and towns in which they live.
Vlatka Horvat is an artist working across sculpture, installation, collage, photography, and video, as well as writing and performance. Her work has been shown internationally in a variety of contexts – in museums and galleries, performance venues and festivals, and in public space. Reconfiguring space and social relations at play in it, her projects often rework the precarious relationship between bodies, objects, materials, the built environment, and landscape. Her work is held in many public and private collections. Born in Croatia, she moved to the US as a teenager and spent twenty years there. She currently lives in London.
Lucy Joyce asks the viewer to look and then look again at their surroundings, reimagining and questioning what is possible through drawing, sculpture, actions and gestures often in relation to architecture and public space. Recent solo exhibitions include: A Drawing for a Building, 2021 and Proposals + Props, 2017 at UKMAS, London; Electric Blue at E-Werk Luckenwalde, Germany, 2019-20. In 2018 she was commissioned by Tate St Ives to make her site specific art work: I Becomes You, Becomes We, Becomes Us, involving over 200 local people on the coastline alongside a performance. Lucy has previously developed a series of public art commissions in towns around the UK and is currently making a new work as a recipient of a 2020-21 Arts Council Project Grant and A-N Bursary Grant.
Maria Mahfooz is the green screen queen and Princess of Manor Park, her practice is often autobiographical and guided by her identity as a visible Muslim woman of colour. Work plays on ‘othering' within the framework of popular culture and the digital realm and interrogates themes of representation, construction of selfhood and the many intersections at play.
Graeme Miller is an artist, theatre maker and composer. Emerging from the bold and influential stage work of Impact Theatre Co-operative in the 1980s, a group he co-founded, his own work now embraces a wide range of media. With the idea of being ‘a composer of many things that may include music’, he has made theatre, dance, installations and interventions. Often reflecting a sense of landscape and place, he regularly makes site-specific works to commission.
Rebecca Moss is an artist based in Essex. Taking inspiration from slapstick and absurd comedy, she stages anti-monumental interventions on camera. While inspired by the site-responsive gestures and approaches of Psychogeographic and Situationist practice, she notes a distinct lack of feminist voices within these discourses. Her work manifests across a variety of media, but often takes the form of short edited videos documenting absurdist and humorous scenarios performed for camera. She was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize in 2017 and is currently a Peer Notices commissioned artist, Peer Gallery, Hoxton, London.
Jemima Yong is a performance maker and photographer. Uninterested in creating anything she can imagine on her own, Jemima works exclusively in collaboration with others. She uses a variety of forms including photography, film, archiving, publishing, puppetry and experimental theatre; centering liveness, performativity and audience imagination in the things she creates. Conversation, improvisation, play and experimentation are tenets of her practice which is process-driven, slow and porous. Recent work includes the award-winning performance Marathon with JAMS and photo chronicle Field, which has been acquired into the Museum of London collection.
