Alembic II: Chrominance – Maggie Roberts & Ayesha Tan Jones in conversation [online]
Thursday 12 April 2018 7pm
Live broadcast here
In the context of the current exhibition ‘Alembic II: Chrominance’, Res. hosts an in-conversation between Maggie Roberts and Ayesha Tan Jones with artist and researcher Uma Breakdown and Res. curators Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky and Lucy A Sames.
This is an online event only. Viewers will be able to ask questions during the talk using the YouTube live chat window. Additionally, if you would like to submit questions in advance, please email contact@beingres.org and we will try and accommodate as many as possible.
You can view the recorded conversation here.
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Alembic II: Chrominance
Maggie Roberts & Ayesha Tan Jones
24 March – 28 April 2018
Friday 27 April 6-9pm closing event with performance by Ayesha Tan Jones
The second exhibition in Alembic brings together a newly commissioned video work by Maggie Roberts and new sculptural works by Ayesha Tan Jones, to form a post-anthropocene ecocide narrative. Here the artists share an approach that amounts to a ritual transmutation of mainframe data and earthly substance.
Further info on ‘Alembic II: Chrominance’, available here or email contact@beingres.org
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Artist bios:
Maggie Roberts (London, UK & Capetown, ZA) is member of the hive mind media project 0rphan Drift. The work of Roberts (aka Mer) is science fictional and immersive. It complicates the distinctions between material and immaterial phenomena and dimensions, both in content and media. The work uses digital formats – video, animation and photoshop – fused with watercolour, photographic collage, oil paint and sheen mediums. It coalesces out of an often intricate remixing process, onto paper, canvas and video screen. Roberts is currently Research Fellow at Goldsmiths University London. www.orphandriftarchive.com
Ayesha Tan Jones (b.1993, London, UK). Exploring energy, form and identity of the ‘Femxle Spiritual’, Tan Jones places this archetypical figure at the centre of a radiant and humming cosmic world view. Pop music, sculpture, digital image and video mix collage manipulation are combined to express a political consciousness traversing the universe on a quest for adventure. In June 2016, Tan Jones was awarded the Yorkshire Sculpture Park’s graduate residency, giving them space and materials to research and make work on the grounds. This culminated with a show in March 2017. www.ayeshatanjones.com
Uma Breakdown is a researcher and practitioner concerned with the ways in which waste allows a playspace for queer becomings. Their current research interests include Nemesis the Warlock, political refusal, and dog-technology. Their solo exhibition Creature of Havoc was recently shown at Serf (Leeds, 2017) and their digital work is featured in the forthcoming online interactive issue of Worm. Their Buffyverse-fishkin-swim-team erotica is due to be published later this year as part of The Body That Remains, Punctum (New York, 2017). www.umabreakdown.com
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Alembic is co-curated by Sarah Jury, Helen Kaplinsky and Lucy A. Sames. For further information: contact@beingres.org www.beingres.org
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
