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Open Debate which was an event organised as part of the Participation exhibition has been transcribed by Sarah Matthews – Thank you! so much for doing this. I hope it will be a useful resource and a valuable documentation of our conversation at the gallery. It is available now here Open Debate
Chantal is a practising artist who has exhibited her work at Eden Project, County Hall Truro, Salt Gallery in Hayle, Open Studios in years 2004/07 and more recently as part of More Cornwall. Chantal is also a B.A. Fine Art student at University College Falmouth.
Sarah Matthews is currently studying for a BA in Fine Art at University College Falmouth. The content of her work relates to social constructs such as nationality and performed culture, and often takes the form of participatory works, such as games, with the logical marrying of social content with social forms.
• June 2007: Organised a semi-curated, collaborative sculpture project at Leaf Gallery, involving 9 fellow artists using only cardboard, and a children’s collaborative workshop.
• June 2007: Worked within a team of curators to organise the first Live Art Falmouth event, a two day programme of live art in all its diversity
• February 2007: Exhibited work in the Fine Art BA Interim Exhibition at Falmouth Arts Centre
• September 2006: Took on the running of Flannel Short Films, a short film night featuring work made by students of University College Falmouth.
• April 2005: Organised an open, participatory Think-In event in the new atrium of South East Essex College, in which a large space was re-assigned for the act of reflection.
Ana Carvalho is a visual artist born in Porto, Portugal and living at the moment in Falmouth, UK.
Major themes in the work of Ana Carvalho are emotional celebrations in daily life, women’s achievements, fictional biography and ways of knowing. Experiencing different cultures and languages is a way of living.
She develops work that describes processes of interaction with other people while telling stories that are nor entirely fiction or reality.
The work is presented as live visual performance, installation/videos and on the Internet. By using images and colors she explores multiplicities in herself, gender and relationships.
Ana’s web design work can be seen at Visual Agency (www.visual-agency.net). She is co-editor of the project VJ Theory (www.vjtheory.net) and one of four members of Art in Hidden Places of Falmouth.
Jem Mackay is currently studying for a PhD at the University of the Arts, London. His Art is an enquiry into the political structures of creative collaboration, particularly looking at the open source model from the field of computer programming and seeing how relevant it is to the practice of filmmaking.
• Mar 2006: Commissioned by Lambeth Arts Council to document a local carnival and the preparation leading up to it.
• Aug 2005: Collaborated with installation artist Kelly Chorpening at the House Art Gallery, London
• Mar 2005: Commissioned by CABE to collaborate with five other artists to consult a community about the future of their built environment.
• Feb 2005: Commissioned by DyFES to collaborate with three teenagers to make a film about the future of their built environment.
• Jan 2004: 200 people took open source CD-ROMs of ‘Genetic Genesis’, which randomly edits video footage live, at the London Art Fair.
• Nov 2002: Set up a discussion online as a solo show, fully editable by visitors for just 7 days, called ‘Should we attack Iraq?’
• Jun 2001: Had a solo installation at the House Art Gallery, London called ‘Genetic Genesis’
• Feb 2000 – Mar 2004: Jem, and his partner initiated the House Art Gallery in London as an artist collective run gallery. Over four years, the gallery exhibited work from over 200 different artists, including Sir Terry Frost and Anthony Gormley.
Jem obtained a Distinction for his MA in Digital Arts from the University of the Arts, London last year and previously studied a BA Hons in Graphic Design (grade 2.1) at St Martins School of Art, specialising in Film & Video.
Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver is the curator of the Participation exhibition. Her research explores the subjects such as collaboration, the common, community and networks and new models of curating, which are conditioned by “social architecture” technologies available on Internet (wikis, blogs, skype, etc.)
She is interested in those subjects in the context of network theory which is being developed by Geert Lovink and Ned Rossiter and also Alexander Galloway’s theory of protocols. She is influenced by theories of Jacque Rancière and especially excited by his ideas discussing the connections between aesthetics, politics and ethics and possibilities which arise when applying the theory of partition of the sensible in the context of network cultures.
She works as a research assistant in iRes at University College Falmouth and this year she graduated from MA course in 20th Century Art & Design: Histories and Theories course at University College Falmouth with the thesis titled Subtle Resistance. Aesthetics of Collaboration in the Network Society.
You can read curator’s statement here.
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