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November 2022
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Encountering Survival: Launch at Holocaust Centre North: Over the past year sound artists Linda O Keeffe and Louise K Wilson have worked with Holocaust Centre North on a commission for a set of ‘audio guides’, Encountering Survival. The audio guides invite visitors to reflect on our collection and community, but also draw attention to those things that are not there – those materials, stories, atmospheres, and memories that are absent, lost, destroyed or impossible to archive. Through close work with our collection, our survivors, and their families, Linda O Keeffe and Louise K Wilson have mediated sensory memories and object histories into immersive soundscapes. |
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June 2022
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Recent and forthcoming screenings and exhibition:
The video work Horizontalis (2019) made as part of a collaborative project (with Michal Kindernay) for ET4U has recently be re-screened for the TANKEN project in Denmark https://et4u.dk/tanken/ and will be screened at the opening weekend of Earth Minus Environment at Kestle Barton, Cornwall
I am re-presenting the participatory installation Memory Timeline (with a specially re-made audio work Memoriagraph) for the exhibition Brain(s) at CCCB (Centre de Cultura Contemporà nia de Barcelona) in Barcelona, Spain (26 July - 20th November 2022) https://www.cccb.org/en/exhibitions/file/brains/237851 >>http://www.kestlebarton.co.uk/arts-and-events/earth-minus-environment-opening-weekend/?fbc
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November 2021
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Lancaster talk - link to Time video: As part of a Tuesday talk on November 16 (for Lancaster Arts in collaboration with Lancaster Institute for the Contemporary Arts) I was asked to make a 25 minute video about the use of time in my practice
>>https://vimeo.com/manage/videos/646191962
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January 2021
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Online Event: Louise K Wilson In Conversation with Rona Lee and Jean Boyd: Thursday January 28th 2021 at 7 pm In this special online in conversation event Louise K Wilson and Rona Lee will be exploring commonalities in their practice that focus on geology, photography and travel at a distance/remote viewing. >>https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/online-event-louise-k-wilson-in-conversation-with-rona-lee-
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October 2020
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Hardwick Gallery Artist at Distance September - December 2020: Louise K Wilson is Hardwick Gallery’s first artist-at-distance, working with the Special Collections and Archives at the University of Gloucestershire to present work on the gallery’s website from September to December 2020. Louise’s proposal encompasses drawing, animation, text, audio, collaborative and participatory projects and activities, talks, and exercises – and considers the engagement with artefacts as a ‘portal for [armchair] travel’ and an archaeological investigation.
Residency blog at http://hardwickgallery.org/residencies/time-travels-in-the-archive/ Theorist and educator Jean Boyd will be in conversation with Louise K Wilson on Tuesday 27 October 7pm-8.30pm. |
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July 2020
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Euphony at the Geelong International Film Festival: "This program shows a range of moving image work made over the last seventeen years by UK artist Louise K Wilson. Her use of film and video is on occasion raw - the project ‘Spadeadam’, for instance, made use of a hand held camera to explore the concrete ruins of a rocket test site. At other times her work embraces more high-end production values - the project ‘Runway’ was filmed over a single day with a camera crew distributed on the ground and in the air, in order to document an extraordinary, choreographed group activity. At the heart of all the work though is an interest in examining our fraught and complex relationship to place, in the form of acoustic fields, scarred surfaces, traces of histories and pluralistic, non-linear modes of temporality. Attention to the relationship between sound and image is prevalent in work by artists David Chapman (UK) and Michal Kindernay (Czech Republic), with whom Wilson has been fortunate to have collaborated. Solo works by these artists keenly explore the natural world, its intensities, its surfaces and the exploitation of its resources." >>www.geelonginternationalfilmfestival.com/euphony-louise-k-wilson-retrospecti?fbclid=IwAR1A
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June 2020
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Sounds from the Bunker: My article Sounds from the Bunker - aural culture and the remainder of the Cold was recently' published in a special guest edited issue of the Journal of War and Culture (Volume 13, 2020, Issue 1) which explored the 'after-life' of the Cold War bunker. It explores its less commonly considered aural culture by critically examining three instances of 'sounds from the bunker'. It brings to a close a body of work I've made exploring Cold War ruinated sites in this country and Australia that culminated in the production of a radio programme for BBC Radio 4. In 'Cold Art', a 30-minute documentary produced by Loftus Media, contemporary artists' fascination with Cold War sites were explored through three case studies recorded in Berlin and the UK. |
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April 2018
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Cold Art on iplayer: Cold Art (broadcast on Radio 4 on 12/04) is now on iplayer. The page includes clips and a gallery of images. >>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09yfplt
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Documents, Alternatives, Friday April 20th at Bath Spa University: The documentation of ephemeral artwork, works made to be transient, changeable and un-fixed, is often problematic for the intent and premise of creation as it aligns itself with a particular moment, place and viewpoint in time. Lens-based methods are mostly relied upon to communicate actuality and happening and to fix the un-fixed memory of the artwork, and this is part of that problem. Effectively, this type of documentary device works in opposition to the concept of the artwork, cementing into a fragmentary history when all it wants is to be fleeting in its temporality. The lens-made recording tends to generalise vision and, by extension, it does not fully communicate the experience of ‘being there’ and present. This is problematic for artwork whose very premise is to be transient and time-based, and for which direct experience is a priority. ‘Documents, Alternatives (#3)’ is an exhibition that includes time-based works that rely on performative process and created experience, which aims to resolve this issue by making the document and artwork reflexive. In doing this it acknowledges their need for change so that they remain continuous and in process through staging a practical and thought provoking visual discussion. The symposium accompanies this exhibition at BSAD, and acts in response to process with artistic practice and the experience of the artwork. It situates a series of opportunities for the experience of process through a structure of colloquialism adjacent to the exhibition, to open the nature of artistic process to critical debate. To enable a dialogue about process (as that exhibited and that discussed) informed by both academic and creative domains, symposium speakers are the artists with work in the accompanying exhibition. The opening of the exhibition follows the symposium, to which delegates are warmly invited.
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March 2018
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Late Junction, Radio 3: A taster of Teufelsberg, one of the sites visited in Cold Art. Recordings made by Freya Hellier, who produced Cold Art. >>http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09wvt3p
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September 2017
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Lure of the Bunker:
My 30 min radio programme The Lure of the Bunker about artists & musicians fascination with Cold War ruination is being commissioned by BBC Radio 4 to be broadcast 12th April 2018, produced by Loftus Media
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April 2017
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Chthonic starts today: http://www.acart.org.uk/chthonic.html >>http://www.acart.org.uk/chthonic.html
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March 2017
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Thackray Uncovered, Thackray Museum, Leeds - Now open: 13th March - 30th June 2017 Thackray museum, Leeds >>http://www.thackraymedicalmuseum.co.uk/visit/exhibitions/thackray-uncovered/
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October 2016
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As Above So Below: As Above So Below starts this Friday October 28th. See ACA website for details >>http://www.acart.org.uk/aasb.html
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June 2016
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ACA Residency (Allenheads): As Above So Below/ Three Days Chthonic:
Three Days Chthonic Four artists one engineer and three days and two nights underground.
Alan Smith, Louise K Wilson, John Bowers, Tim Shaw and Peter Mathews will enter Smallcleugh mine in Nenthead, Cumbria to settle into the vast cavern cut out of solid limestone by the lead miners; now known as the Ballroom. The Ballroom gets its name from an event that that took place on September the 2nd 1901 when around 30 local people travelled into the mine for a village dinner party and dance. The five will be faced with the challenge of not only existing in in this extreme environment for 72 hours, but will also be challenged to produce sufficient electricity for the production of works that will respond to the place through their overall experience. On the 3rd day licensed mine guides will bring an audience down to Ballroom to view the results and meet the artists.
http://www.acart.org.uk/aasb.html http://acart.org.uk/chthonic.html
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New Books out now! Beyond Text and the Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods: I have a text (and extract from an audio work) in Beyond text? Critical practices and sensory anthropology (University of Manchester Press, 2016) and a chapter in Routledge Companion to Military Research Methods (Routledge, 2016)
http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9780719085055/
https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Companion-to-Military-Research-Methods/Williams-Jenkings-Woodward-Rech/p/book/9781472442758
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May 2016
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Gec Stones Wilson website: The GecStonesWilson website is now live (http://gecstoneswilson.org/). First public event to be announced soon.. >>http://gecstoneswilson.org/
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April 2016
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Land2 Traffic conference: I will be presenting a paper on Friday April 15th >>https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/whats-on/traffic-movement-place-flow-mobility
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Interalia: March issue of Interalia Magazine now live online. Place and Space. Inside and Out explores the sense of place and space, both as an exterior phenomena (physical space) and as a source of internal personal transformation (altered mental space).
It includes my paper In Surgical Sleep >>http://www.interaliamag.org/
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January 2016
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States of Mind at the Wellcome Collection, London Feb 4th - Oct 16th, 2016: I shall be showing a participatory work Timeline - originally made in collaboration with psychologist Professor Madeline Eacott as part of the forthcoming exhibition States of Mind: Tracing the edges of consciousness at the Wellcome Collection, London (February 4th - October 16th, 2016). An accompanying new audio work Memoriagraph (2016) will be developed during the run of the exhibition. "Following on from ‘States of Mind: Ann Veronica Janssens ’, this changing exhibition will examine perspectives from artists, psychologists, philosophers and neuroscientists to interrogate our understanding of the conscious experience. Exploring phenomena such as somnambulism, synaesthesia, and disorders of memory and consciousness, the exhibition will examine ideas around the nature of consciousness, and in particular what can happen when our typical conscious experience is interrupted, damaged or undermined." Wellcome Collection, 183 Euston Road, London, NW1 2BE, UK |
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September 2015
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KOSMICA, Mexico City and Sound Activism at Ohrenhoch, Berlin: Just back from the wonderful KOSMICA event in Mexico City. Documentation here: https://instagram.com/kosmicafestival
Documentation of my new work Submerged: Silent Service (Ohrenhoch, Berlin), presented in August 2015 will be posted shortly
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July 2015
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Earlid: My work is being featured on Earlid (US sound art site, curated by Joan Schuman):
“We cannot truly see something until we allow it to disarrange us.”
"Three sound artists encourage a deliberate turning towards the broken and wasted, to gaze at it. They focus our sights via the ears. The mind quiets and sees the ruined landscape, the potential for destruction." >>http://www.earlid.org/
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Sound Activism: I am currently making work for the Sound Activism programme at Ohrenhoch, Berlin in July/ August 2015. More details to follow...
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June 2014
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"Duet for One: Intangible culture", Ohrenhoch, Berlin: ohrenhoch, der Geräuschladen | Weichselstr. 49 | 12045 Berlin-Neukölln | |
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