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Partially Incorrect Answers ( △ )
At 0-eA residency, Yokusaku, Japan
“Silence, remains inescapably, a form of speech” Susan Sontag
The Ignorant Art School collective’s ‘Practising Duets’ is a series that invites two leading practitioners who have not yet met to share their reflections on knowledge verbally. However, when languages are not shared, and words are not the route of transmission, how might we use silence to speak? How might we use gesture to push our inner expression outwards, communicate in the spaces between words, build subtleties of interaction and intersection together?
For The Ignorant Art School’s 0-eA residency project, Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks (Forms of Circulation) have created the project Partially Incorrect Answers ( △ ) that takes the form of text, word sets, diagrams, scores, and structures as the basis of a film, performance and workshop.
This project has two events in Japan, the first uses the Partially Incorrect Answers ( △ ) word sets and films to activate a dialogue with Dawn Bothwell’s improvised live performance at Tokyo’s live gig venue ftarri on Mon 28 April. The second is a participatory workshop on Sun 28 April at our residency house in Yokosuka. This event is an invitation to join us at our residency house in Yokosuka to respond to our word sets, diagrams and short films with movement, meditation and gesture, to ask how might we use silence to speak? Together, in silence, we become a collaborative composition to engage in non-verbal forms of knowledge exchange.
Supported by MIMA Research Unit, School of Arts and Creative Industries at Teesside University (UK), and The Ignorant Art Schools Collective is a research group of the British Art Network (BAN). British Art Network is a Subject Specialist Network supported by Tate and the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, with additional public funding provided by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
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Until the End of The World
Developed through workshops, Until the End of the World is a new film commission by Sarah Perks and Paul Stewart for the Working Lives exhibition at MIMA, on show until Sun 29 September. This project invites publics to articulate the dreams of the collection and visualise them using machine learning, with a resulting AI-generated film offering an alternative view on the Middlesbrough Collection. Find out more via the project's website above.
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Salty Measures Workshops at IMT Gallery
A series of workshops curated by Paul Stewart and Sarah Perks that plunge into the pleasures and depths of art-making. Our inaugural season showcases the talents of Hamja Ahsan, Sophie Chapman, and Sarah Perks. Each workshop in this series offers a unique approach to engaging with art, whether through embodied experiences, delightful encounters, or shared narratives.
These experiences will involve collaborative art-making, and each participant will depart with a keepsake from their journey, whether it's a self-recorded EP, a concept for a fried chicken franchise, or a profound meditation that unveils a non-human connection.
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The Ignorant Art Schools Collective
Practising Duets is a series of events organised by The Ignorant Art Schools Collective, a research group of the British Art Network (BAN). The collective’s researchers are Sophia Yadong Hao (Cooper Gallery, University of Dundee), Dr Edgar Schmitz (Goldsmiths, University of London), Dr Paul Stewart and Prof Sarah Perks (both Teesside University). The Ignorant Art Schools Collective explores intersections of alternative art pedagogy and new forms of collaborative curatorial agency. The latter often developed inside of Global Majority countries then evident in recent European large scale art events such as ruangrupa’s curation of Documenta 15 in 2022.
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Forms of Circulation (16mm series)
The first film in our 16mm series shows test tubes and bottles, cabinets and pressure gauges, microscopes, freezers and 3D printers, pipettes and pipes are all captured hard at work at the biosciences and healthcare research facility: National Horizons Centre (NHC). In a unique collaboration between two of Teesside University’s flagship institutions, filmmakers from Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA) workshop stories with NHC staff to create a film that explores the wider impacts of the machine processes on human and non-human recipients, for example work on deadly mouth rot in seals, and fruit flies’ role in modelling for Parkinson’s disease cures.
Forms of Circulation #1 will next screen at Braziers International Film Festival on Sun 1 September 2024.
With thanks to amazing DoP Christo Wallers.
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