Sue Morris
Sue Morris
Vibrating Planet: Posts in a time of pandemic
Lockdown residency
Part I: 1 - 13 December 2020
Part II: 18 - 30 January 2021
Derry, Northern Ireland
Sue Morris
According to seismologists the earth’s hum* has significantly dropped during lockdown, due to the decrease in human activity. However, visual artist Sue Morris is detecting a different kind of vibration – a primal tremor, a collective nervous tic, the shiver of a sick ecosystem. While the planet stills, levels of anxiety and unease are soaring. During this time of pandemic – locking down, unlocking and relocking - Morris tries, unscientifically, to document evidence of this phenomenon.
*Background hum of high frequency seismic noise.
Sue Morris was born in England and is a graduate of the Royal College of Art, London. Since the early nineties she has lived in Ireland, most recently in Derry, Northern Ireland. Her multidisciplinary practice utilizes drawing, text, printmaking, film, photography, sound and installation. Her work explores notions of the known and the unknown particularly around re-imagined and alternative histories.
Selected exhibitions include those at; the Lockhart Gallery, State University New York, USA (2012); the Kunstverein Galerie, Baden bei Wien (2012) and museumORTH, Orth an der Danau, Austria (2013), as part of the International Cultural Programme for Ireland’s Presidency of the EU; Tartu Loomemajanduskeskus, Estonia (2014); Artisterium 7, Tbilisi, Georgia (2014); the State Institute of Culture, Moscow, Russia (2016); the Cultural Centre of Moschato, Athens, Greece (2017); the 16:9 Gallery, Lawrence University, Michigan, USA (2018) and Photophobia Festival of Contemporary Moving Image, the Hamilton Gallery and Artists Inc, Ontario, Canada (2019).
This project is in partnership with St Augustine's Heritage Site and is kindly funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council, Arts Council of Northern Ireland and The Ireland Funds.
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Reset
‘Pass any flowering bush or tree and you can’t help...
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Wish you were here
I am no aficionado of social media. I don’t do...
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Natural (dis) Order
‘Viruses have deep evolutionary roots in the cellular world’ (Morens...
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The Earth Moves
How did I arrive here, contemplating seismic planetary shifts? I...
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Francesco Capponi
Francesco Capponi
a journey round my room
Lockdown residency
9 - 21 november
Perugia, italy
Francesco Capponi
As Italy entered its first lockdown last spring, an unconventional invasion took place in Francesco Capponi’s home: a crew of space explorers had landed. As Italy now faces new restrictions and a regional shutdown, he revisits those close encounters leaving the scene open perhaps for new cosmonauts to join the residency-orbiting mission, acting as Ground Control and documenting the invasion with his self-build camera.
Francesco Capponi is a photographer and sculptor based in Perugia, Central Italy. His work is a cross-contamination of different media and techniques, with a focus on experimental photography, combining analogical and digital processes. As a sculptor he approaches photography three-dimensionally, often building his own optical devices, from dark room equipment to pinhole cameras and magic lantern.
You can view Francesco Capponi’s projects and exhibitions here.
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Epilogue – The Schrödinger galaxy
Blue Planet – Year 2020 Recently, physicists have been able...
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Chapter three – Event Horizon
(watching the stars from a windowless room –...
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Chapter two – As above, so below
“That which is below is like that which is above...
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Chapter one – The Rocket
April 2020 From my kitchen window you can see far...
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Residencies
Residencies
Damien Duffy
lockdown residencies II
EDY FUNG
Catherine ellis
lockdown residencies
Caake
Liverpool Irish Festival
Paul Sullivan
Locky Morris
Sue Morris
La Bratts
Valeria Pierini
Intra Muros
Anne-Marie McKee
Gail Mahon
Stephanie Gaumond
Sue Morris
Pascale Steven
Umbriamico
Sara Riel
Irene Bindi
Mak9
Tracy Peters
Homecoming II
HOMECOMING I
Theo Sims
Lay Devotions & Flawed Recollections
Mourning Becomes Electra II
MOURNING BECOMES ELECTRA I
Without - Collezionando Assenze
Lockdown Residencies
Lockdown Residencies
Sue Morris
Francesco Capponi
Alessandro Ragazzo
Locky Morris
Peter Richards
Adam Sébire
Ciara Finnegan
Abridged
Alessandra Giacinti
CAAKE
CAAKE
Fl*ooow: Orient Ornament Order
CAAKE
Fl*ooow: Orient Ornament Order
FL*OOOW: Orient Ornament Order explores differing perspectives on freedom of movement and transience through a series inter-disciplinary collaborations and invites musings upon ecology of practice as ways to address a loss of common orientations within ourselves, our world and shared futures on this planet. We are seeking sustainable ways of artistic research through processes and speculative progressions across collaborations, curation, exhibiting, performing and discussion. Where traditional disciplinary boundaries are permeable and new coordinates, or orders of being can address phenomenal, biological, political and cultural diversity as ecological forces.
– Orient explores the body’s movement and boundaries, addressing connections and relation to space, people and objects;
– Ornament pushes the sphere wider into localised patterns of (sometimes) instinctual behaviours of collecting, assembling, arranging and adorning cultural value systems;
– Order considers wider social borders – personal (abstract, imaginary, socially imposed) identity, politics, ways of being through communities and shared landscapes in an ecological crisis.
All three spheres overlap, unravelling purposeful lines of thinking, emotionally and physically as a lateral progression in creative, adaptative, knowledge and movement practices that incite questions over the ecology of practice as artistic research, asking what we can do to motivate, educate or catalyse more people to become more adaptive to unknowns and uncertainty, mediating climatic conditions to find our flow whilst not withdrawing or retreating away from hardship of truth.
The end of residency exhibition has brought together aspects of the work-in-progress produced during the residency through film, photography and collated research drawings from conversations that occurred during the residency. The artworks are responding to our understanding of ‘freedom of movement’ and consider what is an ecological practice and how this can help address a loss of common orientations within ourselves, our world and shared futures. These explorations hope to derive key critical questions for change and recovery within our current social climate as collectives working together.
NOVEMBER Orient residency featured Gail Mahon (Visual Artist & CAAKE coordinator) Jane Talbot (Writer, NLP master Practitioner) Marketa Formanova (Dancer, Choreographer)
DECEMBER Ornament residency featured Tara J Murphy (Jewellery Artist & CAAKE coordinator) Simon Mills (Film, Photographer) Kerri Nì Dochartaigh (writer, poet)
JANUARY Order residency David Blackmore (Visual Artist/CAAKE Associate) Alice Clark (Visual Artist & Performance Artist, participant) Stella Hulston (Visual artist & Performance participant) Laurie McClelland (Performing Arts Student, Performance participant)
* CAAKE’s approach as a catalyst culture is to:
– Bring together a mix of ideas, actions and voices
– Represent multidisciplinary practices across arts, aesthetics, health and physical wellbeing
– Provide opportunities for the public to engage with creative arts at the centre of our programmes, to learn from dialogues
and active practices focussed on in facing adaptive challenges within our local and global environments.
Tacit experience of the material world, in which we inhabit and belong to, proposes that movement is a fundamental way to support and encourage freedom of expression and deepen connection. Currently there are many reasons causing people to experience disorientation, from themselves and/or others, in our cultural and natural world. CAAKE develops collaborations which aim to generate creative and physical research that addresses and responds to these rising social issues.
CAAKE is a long-standing collaborative project currently being developed into a not-for-profit organisation (CIC) originally founded by Gail Mahon and continues as co-founded with Tara J Murphy. CAAKE focusses on providing platforms for experimental approaches to practice, creative explorations and responses as a research catalyst for education and intensive learning programmes. It offers the time and space for practitioners and individuals to progress, regress and play within improvisational processes. A testing ground for making grand failures and teasing out complexities and concerns, enabling progression and practice development by advancing shared knowledge between communities and groups. Projects comprise of curated collaborations and educational events through workshops, intensive residency programmes, exhibitions and discussion events.
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CAAKE Winter Residency – January reflections Part 5 DAVID BLACKMORE
I have always been intrigued with the limbo status of...
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CAAKE Winter Residency – December reflections PART 4 SIMON MILLS
The past year has been, for a variety of reasons,...
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CAAKE Winter Residency – December reflections PART 3 KERRI NÍ DOCHARTAIGH
There is a line that knows neither ending nor beginning....
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CAAKE Winter Residency – December reflections PART 2 TARA J MURPHY
This participatory workshop took place on the Winter Solstice, acknowledging...
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CAAKE Winter Residency – December reflections PART 1 TARA J MURPHY
CAAKE’s second month of its winter residency for FL*OOOW Orient_Ornament_Order...
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CAAKE Winter Residency – November reflections PART 3 MARKETA FORMANOVA
Being in creative process of our collaborative residency with visual...
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CAAKE Winter Residency – November reflections PART 2 JANE TALBOT
As a writer and performance storyteller, I’m used to collaborating....
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CAAKE Winter Residency- November reflections PART 1 GAIL MAHON
When thinking about chaos and what it means- it can...
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Alessandra Giacinti
Alessandra Giacinti
the ghost floor
Lockdown Residency
April 2020
rome, italy
Alessandra Giacinti
In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, in April 2020 we moved all our activities online. We invited artists living in countries affected by the pandemic to share with us their experience and coping mechanisms by means of a Blog and Instagram Takeover. At Art Arcadia we don't do escapism.
As Italy entered its fourth week of lockdown, we started our journey in Rome, where Alessandra Giacinti lives with her young family.
Alessandra Giacinti studied at Accademia di Belle Arti Rome and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf and she has exhibited internationally.
You can find out more about her work on her website http://alessandragiacinti.com
Art Arcadia Lockdown Residencies are in partnership with St Augustine's Heritage Site and kindly funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council.
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The naughty girl
To conclude my Art Arcadia lockdown residency I’d like to...
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The wall drawing
We are finally ready to install the wall drawing we...
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The Ghost Floor
In this time of social distancing, this abandoned space turned...
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Kitchen Interview
The imagery that informs my work comes mainly from the...
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Who would win between Indominus Rex and T. Rex?
This and similar questions have been repeatedly asked by my...
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Abridged
Abridged
in abridged ergo
Lockdown Residency
April 2020
derry, Northern Ireland
Abridged
So why are we using Google Earth as the basis of this residency? Because all artistic activity is abridged by something, by social, economic, political, religious forces or even by just luck. Sometimes this turns it into something wonderful. Sometimes it just destroys it. We’re just going to see where malediction and a corporation lets us go. The rest is all talk.
Art Arcadia Lockdown Residencies are in partnership with St Augustine's Heritage Site and kindly funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council.
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In Abridged Ergo…
Many people, ignoring historical precedent and human nature, are hoping...
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Still Looking for a Face that Shines…
They say you eventually become the person you were meant...
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The Abridged Earth
Abridged has never had a great relationship with nature. Sure,...
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In Abridged Ego
There’s a classic Peanuts cartoon in which Lucy looks up...
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Ciara Finnegan
Ciara Finnegan
public service broadcast
Lockdown Residency
may 2020
heemstede, netherlands
Ciara Finnegan
A brief interruption to our Lockdown Residencies with three pertinent and entertaining Public Service Broadcasts: A Guide to Covid-19 Protocol Ciara Finnegan is a visual artist from Northern Ireland who has been living and working in The Netherlands since 2008. She is also the director of The Dollhouse Space, a non-profit, experimental, bilocational contemporary art space with a virtual presence here: www.thedollhouse.space and a physical presence in her home in Heemstede, North Holland. Art Arcadia Lockdown Residencies are in partnership with St Augustine's Heritage site and kindle funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council.
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A Guide to Covid-19 Protocol (Part 3)
The final video in this Public Service Announcement trilogy, prompted...
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A Guide to Covid-19 Protocol (Part 2)
The second video in this Public Service Announcement trilogy, by...
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A Guide to Covid-19 Protocol (Part 1)
Invited by Paola Bernardelli to contribute to Art Arcadia’s ‘lockdown’...
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Adam Sébire
Adam Sébire
in the lighthouse
a modern-day marooning
Lockdown Residency
may 2020
utsira, norway
Adam Sébire
Adam Sébire is an Australian artist-filmmaker and PhD researcher. Whilst filming in the melting Arctic, borders suddenly snapped shut: behind him in Svalbard and ahead of him in Greenland.
On 9 March 2020 Adam found himself marooned en route: on a small, rocky, windswept island in the Norwegian North Sea called Utsira. Locals let him quarantine in the isolated lighthouse keeper’s quarters which seemed an archaically apt place to ride out the Covid-19 storm.
From 14 May Adam will be posting photographs and small video vignettes for Art Arcadia from his solitary existence in the lighthouse station. A cultural signifier of rugged isolation, the lighthouse has offered a rich mythology ever since Pharos but as Adam discovers as his isolation wears on, the mesmeric qualities of the lantern’s beams rely on darkness and light in unequal measure.
As documentary filmmaker & photographer, Adam’s works have been shown widely, in international film festivals, museums and TV broadcasts. Since a shoot on Tuvalu for Film Australia in 2003 Adam's work has gravitated towards climate change.
He jumped streams to the video art world in 2013; some of Adam’s Arctic video art can be found here
Art Arcadia Lockdown Residencies are in partnership with St Augustine's Heritage Site, kindly funded by Derry City & Strabane District Council.
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Id, Ego & Superego do social distancing – II
Getting the three Adams in the same place at the...
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Wind to light
There’s something apt about the island’s two tallest structures being...
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Self-portraiture & split-screen : some coronavirus aesthetics
Back in week 5 of my marooning Id, Ego and...
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