This Thing We Call Art

Fiona Reilly, 2021

Since 2017, artist and researcher Kelly Lloyd has interviewed people in the arts about their livelihoods, documenting diverse stories of artists as workers. Join her discussion with the artist and writer Morgan Quaintance and critic Zarina Muhammad, part of writing duo The White Pube, on the issues and inequalities surrounding artistic labour.

The White Pube is the collaborative identity of Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad under which they publish reviews and essays about art, video games and food.

Morgan Quaintance is a London-based artist and writer. His moving image work has been shown and exhibited widely at festivals and institutions including: MOMA, New York; Mcevoy Foundaton for the Arts, San Francisco; Konsthall C, Sweden; David Dale, Glasgow; European Media Art Festival, Germany; Alchemy Film and Arts Festival, Scotland; Images Festival, Toronto; International Film Festival Rotterdam; and Third Horizon Film Festival, Miami.

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Hilary Powell works with hidden histories and overlooked techniques in acts of imaginative salvage -  valuing the seemingly mundane and highlighting and creating the extraordinary in the everyday. Her work is led by materials and places – working in partnership with them with contagious curiosity and experimentation and inviting others into the process – be this collective roller skating in urban precincts (Air/TFL commission) or creating alternative wild operas in industrial hinterlands (during the Acme Stephen Cripps Award at High House Production Park, Royal Opera House Purfleet).

Recent projects involve collaborative acts of making -  from a public production line making an erupting pop-up book history of the London Olympic site (collected by V&A and MoMA NY)  to pulling off a Bank Job- setting up a Bank, printing money and literally exploding debt (the feature documentary film of which is nominated for a Grierson and BIFA). The work is a constant process of deconstructing grand narratives and finding ways behind the scenes to both reveal and build new stories – during the pandemic this has led to examining the realities of manufacturing and container shipping with projects supported by Museum of London and Ffotogallery.

Her belief in the power and necessity of artistic and cultural action to challenge an increasingly unjust system and imagine another way of living has led to long term collaboration with Daniel Edelstyn. They have set up both a community interest company Optimistic Foundation dedicated to anarchic, joyful cultural production and a co-operative energy company in their new project POWER.

Powell completed a post doctoral AHRC Fellowship in the Creative and Performing Arts at the Bartlett, UCL and was Leverhulme ‘Alchemist in Residence’ with UCL Chemistry. She shares her work widely with academic institutions and arts and community organisations, most recently as visiting tutor in Visual Communication at RCA. 

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Voice over by Sandra Gayer.

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Leah Capaldi (b. 1985, Chertsey, UK) lives and works in London.

MA Sculpture, Royal College of Art (2010)

Represented by Matt’s Gallery, London

The crossover area between the disciplines of sculpture and performance are of particular interest to Leah Capaldi’s practice, with echoes of the seminal performance work of the late 1960s and early 70s. She explores the pivotal relationship between object or subject, encouraging the audience to question themselves in relation to the work and playing with notions of surveillance and spectatorship.

“It’s such a ‘safe’ space, the gallery space. Within a gallery, we can see the most horrendous images or we can be part of anything, and it’s diluted because of the confines of the art cathedral. If I can get people to experience the rupture or interruption of their viewing, I can shake them out of that. If they’re going around in a bit of a daydream, I wonder if there’s something I can do to prod them and draw them back, to realise that there’s something else happening that they weren’t aware of. There’s also a very accepted way of viewing work; why should there be?” Leah Capaldi in Interview with Ellen Mara de Wachter.

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Leah Capaldi, Matt’s Gallery

Eva & Franco Mattes

Sex and the City Season 6, Episode 12

ACME’s Fire Station Residency

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Nicole Morris is an artist working across gallery, education and community settings both in a solo and collaborative context. Her work uses textiles and film to explore themes of domesticity and labour and how these are performed or re-presented in new contexts. Her work has recently been included in exhibitions and projects at The Foundling Museum, London; Southwark Park Galleries, London; Royal Museums Greenwich, London; The Drawing Room, London; [SPACE], London; Baltic, Gateshead; South London Gallery; Bluecoat, Liverpool; G39, Cardiff; Jerwood, London and The National Gallery, Prague.

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Dear World Project

Sarah Jaffe, Work Won’t Love You Back, Bold Type Books (26 Jan. 2021).

Novara Media, Capital, Care and Crisis, 22 January 2021

Phyllida Barlow, Object for an Ironing Board, 1994

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Gordon Hall is an artist based in New York who makes sculptures and performances. Hall has had solo presentations at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, The Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, The Renaissance Society, EMPAC, and Temple Contemporary, and has been in group exhibitions at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Brooklyn Museum, The Hessel Museum, Art in General, White Columns, Socrates Sculpture Park, among many other venues. Hall’s writing and interviews have been published widely, including in Art Journal, Artforum, Art in America, and Bomb, as well as in Walker Art Center's Artist Op-Ed Series, What About Power? Inquiries Into Contemporary Sculpture (published by SculptureCenter), and Documents of Contemporary Art: Queer (published by Whitechapel and MIT Press.) A volume of Hall’s collected essays, interviews, and performance scripts was published by Portland Institute for Contemporary Art in 2019. Hall is Assistant Professor of Sculpture at Vassar College and will be the 2022 resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.

Hall’s Essay “Why I Don’t Talk About ‘The Body’: A Polemic”

Dana Kopel, “Against Artsploitation: Unionizing the New Museum”, The Baffler, September 2021

Gordon Hall’s Website

Center for Experimental Lectures

Hall’s Books Available at Printed Matter

Video + Transcript of Hall’s new short lecture “On Closed Boxes” at Dia: Chelsea, New York, NY (10 November, 2021)

Other People's Houses, book release event and reading, AIR Gallery / ZOOM, 13 February 2021

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Gregory Bae (1986-2021) was a multi-disciplinary artist based in Chicago. He received his BFA from RISD in 2007 and his MFA from School of the Art Institute of Chicago (S.A.I.C.) in 2012. He exhibited in Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee, New York City, Milan, Busan and Seoul. He won awards from the Chicago Artists Coalition, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, The City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events, and the Foundation for Contemporary Arts. He attended residencies in Miami, Cheongju, Seoul and Spartanburg. He was the co-founder and director of Chicago API Artists United (CAAU), the Asian and Pacific Islander Artist Collective, and the co-director for Bills Auto, an exhibition space in Chicago. He was a Lecturer in the Painting and Drawing and Contemporary Practices Departments at S.A.I.C., and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Art Department at the University of Illinois - Chicago.

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art.newcity.com/2021/08/04/gregory-bae-in-memoriam-a-blueprint-for-an-artistic-life

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Dominique White is a sculptor who recently relocated to Marseille after the first Covid wave in 2020. She’s been working nomadically since forfeiting her London studio at the beginning of the pandemic, and has since pondered how working nomadically has changed her health and her practice. Her practice is positioned within the theories of Black Subjectivity, Afro-pessimism and Hydrarchy (from below) as a space that she defines as the Shipwreck(ed). 

Recent and upcoming exhibitions include The Cinders of the Wreck at Triangle France, Marseille (2022), Hydra Decapita at VEDA Firenze, Florence (2021); Techno Worlds at Art Quarter Budapest, commissioned by Goethe-Institut (2021) and Blackness in Democracy's Graveyard at UKS, Oslo (2021).

She was awarded the ad occhi chiusi… prize by Fondazione Merz in 2021 and the Roger Pailhas Prize in 2019 in conjunction with her solo presentations with VEDA Firenze and has received awards from Artangel (UK) and the Henry Moore Foundation (UK) in 2020. White was in residency at Sagrada Mercancía (CL), Triangle France – Astérides (FR) and La Becque (CH) in 2020 and 2021. 

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