Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital Residency Artists Selected

Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital Residency Artists Selected

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CRATE Studio and Project Space is delighted to announce its digital exhibition: Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay (August 2020 – October 2020).

Two Black Kent-based artists (Shamica Ruddock and Laura-Joy Pieters) have been selected by Margate-based writer and filmmaker, Yero Timi-Biu  for the Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital Residency. Yero will curate the online exhibition in conjunction with the Durham Art Gallery in Ontario, Canada.

Shamica and Laura were selected in response to our Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital Residency callout for a paid opportunity for BAME artists to develop, research and respond to the global movement of racial justice and equality. Both artists have been given a reference point of Octavia E Butler’s unfinished sci-fi book series ‘Earthseed’ of parables about humanity’s uncertain future.

Find out more about artist Laura-Joy Pieters’ work and proposed piece:
My residency will explore two main themes: firstly, the idea of multigenerational endeavours - the idea of certain ventures taking place across generations of people, and all of the issues that arise from this. The ones who start these endeavours will not live to see them through to the finish; here space travel and settling on other worlds are seen as the ultimate expression of engaging with an idea of the future. Secondly, I will explore the notion of ‘change’, as indicated in the novels, from a scientific perspective - using the laws of thermodynamics to create a picture that challenges our conventional understanding of how time passes. The themes will be explored through research, discussion, and moving image, which will be exhibited on Crate Studio’s online space.

Shamica and Laura will be documenting their work via CRATE’s social media and website between July 2020 and October 2020.  The digital exhibition will be accessible via CRATE's website, with staggered responses.  This residency is a collaborative project developed by Crate Studio & Project Space in Margate, UK and Durham Art Gallery in Durham, West Grey, Ontario, Canada https://www.durhamartgallery.com/ Selected artists in Ontario are Kaya Joan and Whitney French, who will exhibit in August and September, culminating in a work-in-progress and/or final project response from Shamica and Laura in October.

Find out more about Shamica Ruddock’s work and proposed piece:
Recently I’ve become enchanted by the notion of Sonic Fiction as laid out by Kodwo Eshun in More Brilliant Than the Sun: Adventures in Sonic Fiction. Through this I’ve begun exploring the ways in which sound allows us to navigate alternate worlds and present new ones. I would like to use this opportunity to consider the sonic landscape of Octavia Butler’s Parables. I am interested in ideas around broadcast, transmission and amplification. I am also interested in the emancipatory power and restorative potential of collective gathering through sound. I propose using this space to consider sound in relation to the Earthseed religion developed throughout. I think there’s scope here to perhaps explore what a mantra, sonic meditation or a hymn in this context could sound like.

Watch this space for more documentation on the Trickster, Teacher, Chaos, Clay Digital Residency.