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After winning a scholarship to attend and study at Musashino Art University in Tokyo, the possibilities within language and mistranslation became a catalyst for my practice. Language went on to inspire me to look at how it molds and affects the individual, their identity and culture.My practice is socially rooted and motivated, abducting subject...
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My socially engaged art practice creates events and encounters with people in everyday situations using everyday objects and materials. I invite participants and passersby to engage actively with art, to be part of the action, especially those who might not step into designated art spaces. These temporary relationships exist in the local and are...
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Concepts My More recent work is generated by reflection and enquiry into the balance between ourselves and our placement through systems of language, translation regulation, and social grouping. I am particularly interested in how we use classification and taxonomy as a proxy for knowledge. I utilise playful strategies to consider the...
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My projects explore the territories between art, ecology and politics and take the form of live events, installations and interventions in public places. Through repeated experiments and actions in specific places, I seek to interrupt my assumptions and understand perspectives I could not see alone. I craft particular objects which open up a...
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Simon Withers is a visual artist, performer and writer; he lives and works in Nottingham. His artistic practice includes exhibition and event curation. Over the past five years Simon co-foundered mere jelly, an artist run agency, through which mere jelly promoted the work of nine East midland based artists work at a London art fair. In 2004 he...
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My work has developed through combining photography and documentation with live art. I have produced projects as an individual, and in collaboration with other people and artists, in Going Nowhere and VAKAV, with audience participation being an important part of my practice. I make art, create interventions, and present interactive lectures and...
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Art work is made and informed by situations, occurrences, conversations and the production of art. Using snippets of information gathered from common sources such as newspapers and the internet, concepts are formed. Research into both the unusual and the trivial create starting points for investigation, which often leads to action, text, and...
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Concepts I work in the areas of installation, sculpture and recently film, Often my installation work has a performative element. Most of my work develops from available found materials and in part deals with society's attitude to these materials. The work questions the value of newness. Other major influences are maps and an ongoing...
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He vivido aquí en el Norte como 5 añosTrabajo en la uva, algodón, amarre, mandarinasEn donde aya trabajo ahí voy a trabajar I've lived here on the north side about five yearsI work on grapes, cotton, amarre, tangerinesWherever there is work I go to work 1 ...
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