My work is about dis/placement, especially in relation to culture, language and territory. I work with video, photography, sound (often digitally generated and manipulated) and occasionally performance, often in a site-sensitive manner. Most of my works are grounded in the ordinary everyday and use domestic, low-resolution production methods (e.g. non-professional camera-formats); my images are of the most basic familiars (sand, water, naked bodies), located in local familiars (parks, pools, homes). I often build enclosed or enclosing spaces for them, which the viewer is free to negotiate on their own terms. Nonetheless, my work also resonates something more unfamiliar, gestures towards something unknown or hidden. What I present may potentially be recognised, yet it is also quite foreign; something one may be drawn to, yet is also frightened of. As much as I create spaces the viewer can enter into, I also deny access to the very space that is created - thus inviting hesitation, doubt and ambivalence, but also considerations about dwelling in general, and belonging in particular.
My work, firmly located in the now, nevertheless takes its clues from the past. The most appropriate metaphors to describe my working process come from the fields of archaeology, anthropology and psychoanalysis. For like in archaeology and psychoanalysis, my work is both an unearthing of forgotten or hidden elements and a reformulation of something hitherto not named or seen. Like the archaeologist or the ethnographer, I focus on the details of everydayness and its artefacts and like an anthropologist, I am interested in various systems, cultures and their meanings. Ultimately however, my work is a research space in which I formulate ideas and speculate about being in the world.
Education
1980-81 J.W. Goethe University, Frankfurt [Philosophy], Germany.
1981-85 Reading University, (BA Joint Hons. Fine Art & History of Art), Reading, England
1985-87 Slade School of Art (H.D.F.A. Experimental Media), London
Awards/Grants
2002 British Council Exhibition Award
2001 Audrey and Stanley Burton Trust Award
1999 British Council Exhibition Award
997/8/9/00/02 Kent Institute of Art and Design Research Awards 1
1997 Westminster Arts Council Photography Bursary
1994 British Council Travel Grant
1994 Arts Council of Canada, Foreign Artists Visiting & Travel Grant
1992 British Council Travel Grant
1987 Julian Sullivan Award
1987 AM Dommett Trust Scholarship
1985 RW Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievements
*An asterisk in the listings below indicates a catalogue/publication/website.
Selected Exhibitions/Screenings include:
2006 Time, Flesh & Nerve Lounge Gallery, London, England*
Heaven Das Haus, (German Kulturstiftung), London Biennale
Talkshow Lounge Gallery, London, England*
Migratory Aesthetics, University Gallery Leeds, England*
2005 Dash 291 Gallery, London, England
‘Joanna Jones-work in progress’ Pharos Centre for Contemporary Art, Cyprus
Art ‘after Landscape’ Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, England*
Still Moving – Moving Still Photographers’ Gallery, London, England
Electives Morley Gallery, London, England
2004 Art ‘after Landscape’ Dean Clough, Halifax, England*
UK-CAN Video Exchange CCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow, Scotland*
Experiments in Moving Image Old Lumiere Cinema, London, England*
UK-CAN Video Exchange YYZ, Toronto, Canada*
Selected British video works V-Tape, Toronto, Canada
2003 TransitARTen, Vogelfrei 5 Vogelfrei Festival, Darmstadt, Germany*
UK-CAN Video Exchange* South London Gallery, London*
2002 Shorts Film Festival Kriterion Cinema, Amsterdam, Holland
Unpainted Pictures Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
Promise II (solo exhibition) Mount St.Vincent University Gallery, Halifax, Canada*
2001 Lightbox Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury, England*
Mute Loops The Lux Gallery, London, England*
Vernissages et Nocturnes L’Espace Huit Novembre, Paris, France
Places (solo exhibition) University Gallery, Leeds, England*
Places to Remember II (solo exhibition) Centre CATH, Parkinson Court, University of Leeds, England*
Performance and Cinema festival Studio 303, Montreal, Canada*
Harvey’s Bodies (with Joanna Jones) The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, England*
2000 Volumes (of Vulnerability) Standpoint Gallery, London, England* (travelling)*
L’immagine leggera Palermo, Italy
Swimming to Jerusalem (solo exhibition) Oriel 31, Newtown, Wales
Split Film festival, Croatia
Jonctions IV Constant vzw, Brussels, Belgium*
World Summit on the Arts (e_lounge) National Arts Centre, Ottawa, Canada
VideoEx Kino Xenia Zurich, Switzerland
1999 Medway Open Royal Engineers Museum, Gillingham, England*
Viper Picollo Cinema, Lucerne, Switzerland*
Promise (solo exhibition) The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, Canada*;
Impakt T Hoogt Cinema 1, Utrecht, Holland*
EMAF Lagerhalle, Osnabruck, Germany*
1997 Hit and Run Tramway, Glasgow, Scotland*
A Conversation (solo exhibition) The Lux Cinema Foyer, London, England
Pandaemonium Lux Cinema, London, England*
1996 Rubies and Rebels Barbican Cinema, London, England*
1995 After Auschwitz – Installations Imperial War Museum, London
10th Dublin Film Festival Dublin, Ireland*
International Culture Festival Krakow, Poland
Feminale, Intern Film & Video Festival Cologne, Germany*, Special Opening Event;
Silence Woke me up today (solo exhibition) Gallery Articule, Montreal, Canada
Touring Venues include:
UK/CAN Video Exchange: YYZ, Toronto/ Cinemateque, Brighton/ Showroom, Sheffield/ CCA Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow/Tranz-Tech Festival, Toronto
The Best of EMAF: Proyecton Culturales, Madrid/ Shortfilmfestival Manchester/ Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen/ Koki, Freiburg/ Neues Kino, Basel/ Olive Edison, Fribourg/ Koki, Giessen/ Goethe Institute, Glasgow/ School of TV, Dundee/ Kunsthaus, Dortmund/ Goethe Institute, Warsaw/ Goethe Institute, Krakow/ Filmfestival Emden/ Goethe Institute, Hong Kong/ Goethe Institute, Bangalore
The Price of Words: Studio Voltaire, London/ Witte de With, Rotterdam/ ICA Institute for Contemporary Arts, London/ Appendiks, Copenhagen/ Manifesta 4, Kunstverein Frankfurt/ Dean Clough, Halifax/ Gallery Portikus, Frankfurt. It was also included in a number of touring exhibitions organised by Bookworks and Revolver (an independent German Publisher) which toured extensively in Europe and the United States.
Selected Invited Lectures & Presentations at:
01/05 Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Migratory Aesthetics Research Seminar
07/02 NASCD, Halifax, Canada Summer School, Fine Art/Media
10/01 Lancaster University, Lancaster Department of Social Sciences, PhD Seminar
10/01 Lancaster University, Lancaster Department of Fine Art (BA & MA)
04/00 Leeds University, Leeds Department of Fine Art (BA & MA)
09/99 York University, Toronto, CAN MA in Fine Art
09/99 University of Guelph, Toronto, CAN MA in Fine Art
09/99 Concordia University, Montreal, CAN Cross-disciplinary Postgraduate Studies
07/99 Goldsmith College, London MA in Fine Art
04/95 Southbank Centre, RFH, London Exhibition Talks
03/95 Imperial War Museum, London Exhibition Talk & Workshops
02/94 Brynmar College, Philadelphia, USA Visiting Lecturer (Graduate school)
03/94 Concordia University, Montreal, CAN Visiting Lecturer (Postgraduate Programme)
Employment
Camberwell College of Art, Birkbeck College and the City Lit.
Visiting Research Fellow at the AHRC Centre CATH at the University of Leeds between 2003-06
Symposium/Conference presentations:
2006 Slade and Bartlett School, London TOPOS: The Moving Image Between Art and Architecture (DRIVEN) (accepted)
Centre CATH, University of Leeds, Congress CATH: The Afterlife of Memory: Memoria/Historia/Amnesia (Splitting the difference) (accepted)
Institute of Contemporary Interdisciplinary Art Present: trauma/art/presentation ICIA at the University of Bath (Respondent) (Invited)
2005 Centre CATH, University of Leeds, Congress CATH: The Ethics and Politics of Virtuality and Indexicality (The paradox of intentionality) (accepted)
Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) Migratory Aesthetics (Some thoughts on feeling at home- ii) (Invited)
2004 Henry Moore Institute & Leeds City Art Gallery Becoming Helen Chadwick (Loop-my-loop - The paradox of duality) (Invited)
University of Leeds & University West England Art 'after landscape': memory, place and identity (Some thoughts on feeling at home - i) (accepted)
Syracuse University & De Moyne College, USA The International Association for Philosophy and Literature IAPL: Virtual Materialities (Out of the Blue - an Artists Narrative)
(accepted)
University of East London at SOAS Culture and the Unconscious 2 (Threshold:visibility) (accepted)
2001 University of Leeds, Centre CATH Places and Memories (Places) (accepted)
1993 Sheffield University Incisions: A Symposium on the Body and Installation (part of Sheffield Media Show) (Trans/formation - Re/location) (Invited)
Work in collections:
Tate Gallery, London - Victoria & Albert Museum, London - Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA - Museum van het Boek, Netherlands - University Gallery Leeds Collection, Leeds - Manchester Metropolitan Library, Manchester - University of Vermont, USA - Louisiana State Library, USA - several private collections
Curated film/video screenings for
2002 Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada,
1997 Frauenschule, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1994 Feminale, Cologne, Germany
1994 Gallery Articule, Montreal and Gallery 101, Ottawa, Canada
1988 Filmmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1988 Stadtkino, Vienna, Austria
1998 Consulted on "Story time", Candid Arts Trust, London and travelling
1995 Consulted on "After Auschwitz", South Bank, London and travelling
Selected Bibliography include (Books/Catalogues/Journals only):
2002 Promise II, (Exh. Cat.), Dorota Glowaka, Mount St. Vincent Art Gallery, Halifax
2001 Promise, (Exh. Cat.), Devora Neumark, Griselda Pollock, Koffler Gallery & Leeds University
2001 Places (Exh. Cat.), Ian Hunt, Leeds University
1998 Breaking Crystal, (ed.) Ephraim Scher, University of Illinois Press
1996 ACT 2, 1996 #02, Alexia Defert, p.77-78; An Intimate Distance, Rosemary Betterton, Routledge
Bookworks, A Partial History & Sourcebook (ed.) Jane Rolo/Ian Hunt, Bookworks p.101-103
1995 Art & Design #41, Peggy Rawes
New Feminist Art Criticism, (ed.) Katie Deepwell, Manchester University Press, Debbie Duffin
After Auschwitz, (ed.) Monica Bohm-Duchen, Lund Humphries
1994 Blaue Wunder, (ed.) Hohenberger/Jurischik, Argumente Sonderband, Marion Kranen
Publications
2007 No place – like home Book Chapter in Migratory Aesthetics. Eds. Samuel Durrant and Catherine Lord. Rodopi Press Amsterdam, forthcoming. (Invited)
The paradox of duality Book Chapter in Becoming Helen Chadwick, Ed. Griselda Pollock, Prestel 2007 (Invited)
2006 Some Thoughts on ‘feeling at home’ essay in Journal of Visual Art Practice 5:1, pp. 21-28, doi: 10.1386/jvap.5.1.95/1 (Invited)
Distant Lands are here - Adam King Essay for exhibition pamphlet and Website (under construction) LAF Artists Group (Invited)
2005 Looking for a new audience in Frauen und Film FuF (Women and Film) 2005/6 (Invited)
2003 Taking Time Catalogue Essay Andrea Thoma/Mara Zoltners, Dean Clough & Jack Olson, Illinois (Invited)
2000 The Pool Artists Book, Millennium Box, Gefn Press, London 2000 [Invited]
1997 “You don’t...? Article in the Jewish Quarterly, Summer 1997 and the Guardian: 09/07/97 (Invited)
1996 Places To Remember II Artists Pages in ACT 2, Writing Art, Pluto Press, 1996/2 (Invited)
"Thank You For E'vry...' Review in the Journal for Performance Research, Routledge 1996/1 (Invited)
Untitled Artists Pages in the Journal for Performance Research, Routledge 1996/1 (Invited)
1992 The Price of Words Artists Book, Bookworks, 1992 (commissioned)
e-mail: lilym@blueyonder.co.uk
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