Curatorial Projects
What is Development?
Royal College of Art, 15-20 May 2024
This exhibition and public programme presented a range of material produced by curator Grant Watson and artist & Feldenkrais practitioner Yael Davids over the course of their long-term collaboration with residents on London’s Landsdowne Green Estate.
Taking place at the Royal College of Art’s Hangar Gallery, the exhibition included original architectural drawings, interviews with residents and archival material about the estate preserved by residents. A public programme of events included panel discussions with tenants and architectural scholars and demonstrations and lessons of Feldenkrais.
More information can be found here.
Royal College of Art, 15-20 May 2024
This exhibition and public programme presented a range of material produced by curator Grant Watson and artist & Feldenkrais practitioner Yael Davids over the course of their long-term collaboration with residents on London’s Landsdowne Green Estate.
Taking place at the Royal College of Art’s Hangar Gallery, the exhibition included original architectural drawings, interviews with residents and archival material about the estate preserved by residents. A public programme of events included panel discussions with tenants and architectural scholars and demonstrations and lessons of Feldenkrais.
More information can be found here.
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.
