Artist Bursary 2018 - Page 8 of 10 - a-n The Artists Information Company

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Week 3 (Inquiry? Enquiry?)

Each week the blog will act as a resource for any notes or references mentioned during the workshop, as well as featuring at least one visual or written response from one or more of the participants.   WEEK 3 Recap […]

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Week 2 (Breathing)

Each week the blog will act as a resource for any notes or references mentioned during the workshop, as well as featuring at least one visual or written response from one or more of the participants.   WEEK 2 Recap […]

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From afar

Orford Ness is a spit of shingle precariously attached at the north end at Slaughden, near Aldeburgh. It is the largest vegetated shingle spit in Europe and best preserved in Britain largely due to control in visitor numbers by the […]

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Letterpress Workers International Summit in Milan

I travelled to Milan last month to participate in the Letterpress Workers International Summit, an annual gathering of letterpress practitioners. It was established in 2012 by the cultural association Officina Tipografica Novepunti (tr: Novepunti Typographic Workshop) and is now an […]

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Starting a conversation

In July 2017, I invited beach-goers on Aldeburgh beach, Suffolk, UK to lie still a while on light-sensitive cloth laid out on the shingle. The result was a series of full-scale cyanotypes, Still on the Beach. They were installed on the […]

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Commonalities

Felicity told me about the most easterly part of Long Island: Montauk Point. I started to find out about the area and was struck by a number of commonalities with Orford Ness, an area in Suffolk that has fascinated me […]

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Oh No! Another Hero!

  “It is a waste of time hating a mirror or its reflection instead of stopping the hand that makes glass with distortions slight enough to pass unnoticed until one day you peer into your face under a merciless white […]

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Change Chance and Circumstance: Field Notes

A research collaboration with New York-based artist Felicity Faulkner examining coastal and environmental change around Orford Ness, Suffolk, UK and Montauk Point, Suffolk County, USA. My travel to the USA is supported by a-n Artist Bursary.

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Sam Ivin

Welcome to my a-n blog, where I’ll be covering two Magnum & British Journal of Photography (BJP) workshops I’m attending thanks to an a-n Artist Bursary. The first is on Personal Projects, 21st-22nd July, the second NGO’s, Social Practice and […]

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Clouds of sweetness permeates my mouth

The past two weeks have been very productive and I have continued to use Marshmallow, as an ‘edible flesh.’ I have been thinking a lot about women, our bodies and food recently. The studio visit from  film-maker Tereza Stehlikova and performer Tereza Kamenicka allowed […]

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Manifesta 12: Chercher La Femme, Chercher Le Queer

I applied to for a bursary to visit Manifesta 12 partly out of interests for its core themes of migration, and space/place as politically charged, especially as sites of repression, which I explored in my own work (Ghost House, Disciplinary […]

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Sitting on a Man’s Head: Review

An account of ‘Sitting on a Man’s Head’ (2018), a collaboration between Okwui Okpokwasili, Peter Born and a number of Berlin-based artists at the 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, 2018

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Education and learning at Manifesta 12

During my visit to Manifesta preview I concentrated on looking into the work undertaken by the Manifesta education department. I often work on participatory projects with outreach, learning and education departments of museums, art organisations and galleries in the UK […]

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Berlin Reflections

The following blog consists of reflections and personal meditations on my recent trip to Berlin which was supported by a-n artist bursaries to attend the preview of the 10th Berlin Biennale.

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Manifesta 12

Reflections on the opening of Manifesta 12, supported by an a-n Biennial Bursary.

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Sugary Mucilage

I have begun my bursary research by reflecting on a previous piece of work titled ‘Consuming surfaces’ A 5ft x 2ft Marshmallow slab. The marshmallow weighed 1stone and had 126 gelatine leaves, 14lbs of sugar and 28 egg whites. It […]

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Who’s doing the gardening?

Part of a research project ‘Who’s doing the washing up?’ engaging with feminist approaches to ask questions that often go unasked in discourses of hospitality, self-organisation & imagined futures: who has a voice, who’s actually doing the work, and what work is valued.

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