Curatorial Projects
Losing Home: Expanded Realities
Open City Documentary Festival, 25-29 April 2024
This exhibition featured five non-fiction works which used moving image practices in the broadest sense of the term to address the sensation of alienation from a domestic environment. These works by Aay Liparoto, Alice Bucknell, Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts, Nick Smith and Patricia Echeverria Liras allowed viewers to inhabit bodies, relationships and built environments which have, each in their own way, come to feel like home and which have since been transformed into hostile and unfamiliar spaces.
Ranging in subject from a neurological condition to the politics of housing and the entwined ecological, indigenous and regulatory histories of Los Angeles, the works used immersive and interactive media including virtual and mixed reality and video game technologies, to make these manifestations of alienation come to be more viscerally experienced, and in some cases, embodied.
More information can be found here.
Open City Documentary Festival, 25-29 April 2024
This exhibition featured five non-fiction works which used moving image practices in the broadest sense of the term to address the sensation of alienation from a domestic environment. These works by Aay Liparoto, Alice Bucknell, Ben Joseph Andrews & Emma Roberts, Nick Smith and Patricia Echeverria Liras allowed viewers to inhabit bodies, relationships and built environments which have, each in their own way, come to feel like home and which have since been transformed into hostile and unfamiliar spaces.
Ranging in subject from a neurological condition to the politics of housing and the entwined ecological, indigenous and regulatory histories of Los Angeles, the works used immersive and interactive media including virtual and mixed reality and video game technologies, to make these manifestations of alienation come to be more viscerally experienced, and in some cases, embodied.
More information can be found here.
Sonic Interventions
Open City Documentary Festival, 24-30 April 2024
I worked with Mo’min Swaitat, founder of the Palestinian Sound Archive and the Majazz Project, to commission a series of interventions by Swaitat that played in Festival venues before and after festival screenings, with the intention of integrating Palestinian voices and culture across this edition of the festival.
The Palestinian Sound Archive is an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk. The Majazz Project is a research project borne out of the archive, focused around sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arabic cassettes.
Open City Documentary Festival, 24-30 April 2024
I worked with Mo’min Swaitat, founder of the Palestinian Sound Archive and the Majazz Project, to commission a series of interventions by Swaitat that played in Festival venues before and after festival screenings, with the intention of integrating Palestinian voices and culture across this edition of the festival.
The Palestinian Sound Archive is an archive of rare tapes and vinyl from Palestine and beyond, spanning field recordings of weddings to revolutionary tracks and synth-heavy 80s funk. The Majazz Project is a research project borne out of the archive, focused around sampling, remixing and reissuing vintage Palestinian and Arabic cassettes.
Absent Forces: The Politics of the Eerie in Rural English Moving Image
Open City Documentary Festival, 26 April 2024
Drawing upon Mark Fisher’s theorisation of the eerie as the sensation of absence, of either a presence or an absence, this screening presented works which activated the dissonance between our imagined notion of the countryside and the political realities of this landscape.
Taking place at Close-Up Film Centre, this screening featured films by Chris Welsby, David Gladwell, Emily Richardson, Rhea Storr, Dan Guthrie and Derek Jarman.
More information about the screening can be found here.
Open City Documentary Festival, 26 April 2024
Drawing upon Mark Fisher’s theorisation of the eerie as the sensation of absence, of either a presence or an absence, this screening presented works which activated the dissonance between our imagined notion of the countryside and the political realities of this landscape.
Taking place at Close-Up Film Centre, this screening featured films by Chris Welsby, David Gladwell, Emily Richardson, Rhea Storr, Dan Guthrie and Derek Jarman.
More information about the screening can be found here.
In Focus: Danielle Brathwaite Shirley
Open City Documentary Festival Expanded Realities, 7-12 September 2023
Co-curated with Lucy Wardley, In Focus: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley presented three recent digital works by the artist in London for the first time, covering formats ranging from film to interactive video games. The exhibition marked the first retrospective programme of the artist’s work and was the festival’s first In Focus programme to feature an expanded realities artist.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London-based artist working across media including moving image, animation, performance and print. Using a range of digital tools, particularly early 3D game engines, Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice creates worlds that serve as archives of black trans experiences designed for black trans audiences in the present and future.
More information about the exhibition, the works presented and a new essay on Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice by artist and curator April Lin 林森 can be found here.
Open City Documentary Festival Expanded Realities, 7-12 September 2023
Co-curated with Lucy Wardley, In Focus: Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley presented three recent digital works by the artist in London for the first time, covering formats ranging from film to interactive video games. The exhibition marked the first retrospective programme of the artist’s work and was the festival’s first In Focus programme to feature an expanded realities artist.
Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley is a London-based artist working across media including moving image, animation, performance and print. Using a range of digital tools, particularly early 3D game engines, Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice creates worlds that serve as archives of black trans experiences designed for black trans audiences in the present and future.
More information about the exhibition, the works presented and a new essay on Brathwaite-Shirley’s practice by artist and curator April Lin 林森 can be found here.
