ARTISTS TALKING
Visual art exhibitions and events with a platform for critical writing
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Alchemy programme
Manchester Museum’s first sustained research programme for artists.
The Alchemy programme supports artists to work with museum collections and to access university expertise in the creation of new work. The UK-based artists taking up Alchemy Fellowships at the museum are Jordan Baseman, Jacob Cartwright & Nick Jordan, Ilana Halperin and Jamie Shovlin. As much concerned with the process of discovery as the presentation of a final outcome, Alchemy aims to reinvigorate museum displays, encourage diverse approaches and present alternative voices through a programme of exhibitions, talks and events developed through the artists’ research. Jordan Baseman’s research investigates ideas around contemporary portraiture and narrative structure. At Manchester Museum, Baseman will develop new video works and screenplays that combine the factual with the anecdotal. He hopes to work with university academic disciplines such as Visual Anthropology to explore his own methods of investigation and representation and to collaborate with the museum’s Herbarium, home not only to a collection of nearly one million specimens of mosses, flowering plants and fungi, but to a large and lively team of enthusiastic volunteers and curators. Based in Manchester,...
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