![]() Recent projects and performances have been presented at The Rijksakademie, Amsterdam, NL Raven Row, London, 2015 The Serpentine Gallery, London, 2015 David Roberts Art Foundation, London, 2014 Hayward Gallery, London, 2014 Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, 2014 and Flat Time House, London, 2014. She works in performance, drawing, video and installation. She studied Sculpture at the Royal College of Art. She is currently working on a feature-length documentary film that uses birds and bird migration to look at stories of human migration in the Middle East.Her work is represented in a number of public and private collections including Arts Council England.īeth Collar currently lives and works in Bristol, UK. She had a research residency in 2014 at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds and previous artistic residencies include the International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP, 2002 – 2003) and Cité des Arts in Paris (2009 – 2010). She has recently been shortlisted for the Paul Hamlyn Foundation award in the UK as well as the Artangel Open Commission, and she received a Bloomberg LP special commission in 2008. Her work has been shown in many museums, galleries and film festivals including: City States, Liverpool Biennale Les Rencontres Internationales, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Reina Sofia Museum, Madrid Eastern Standards: Western Artists in China, MASS MoCA, USA FIDMarseille International Film Festival LOOP film and video festival, Angels Gallery, Barcelona Vanishing Point, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio. Sarah Beddington is a British artist and filmmaker now based in London, whose work investigates the intersection between the historical and the contemporary, often in relation to journeys and migration, traces in the landscape, the power of the collective voice and walking as a means of affirming presence. Grant suggests broadening notions of what constitutes primary texts, and exploring more rigorous methods of interactional, inter-subjective, or interdisciplinary approaches to critical analysis, also for artists’ to broaden auteurial imaging. The exhibition title, Secret Agent, is inspired by artist Oreet Ashery and academic Catherine Grant, who describe feminist cultural production as an ‘invisible agent’ and generative informant for ‘different kinds of subjectivity and agency under patriarchy’. This consideration of the self in relation to, and together with others, draws away from the photographic as exacerbating difference or the implicated position of a directed camera, and generates an argument for collaboration and collectivity. The enabling of voice(s) of authorship whereby subjectivity is activated in order to challenge the ideology of individualism and the singularity of the art historical canon and history itself, is what Janet Staiger describes as the ‘technique of the self’. Representation of western history through both image and text, with the inherent parallels between historical and photographic truth – and the legacy of radical image/text practice in the 1970s and 1980s – are central to the development of this exhibition. Each artist utilises language and the literary in dialogue with image-making to harness the intertextual, as archival photographs and stock footage are transformed through repetition, re-staging and re-imagining. ![]() Acts of image-making, archiving, or guerrilla information tactics enable visibility and challenge relationships between author and authority. The artists in the exhibition actively challenge the institutional structure of history and patriarchal authority – and imagine alternative narratives, often through the specificity of lens-based media. Secret Agent is a group exhibition composed from the viewpoint of feminist authorship in contemporary art practices. Guest Projects | Sunbury House, 1 Andrews Road E8 4QL
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