Oreet Ashery’s Revisiting Genesis is a major online commission taking the form of a web-series in twelve episodes. Commissioned through the Stanley Picker Fellowships, the project premiered at Stanley Picker Gallery in Spring 2016 and led to Ashery winning the Jarman Award in 2017. The work was presented at The Wellcome Trust in 2019 as part … Revisiting Genesis
“The question is, is making art—and within that, I am a dancemaker—a self-congratulatory redundant practice, or—if there is a real pursuit of the nature of the beast to ground level, knowing there is no ground—a humble service?” Sarah Michelson Sarah Michelson stays clinging to the ice mountain of dance. She has served as associate director … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2016 at ICA London: Sarah Michelson
On resistance in painting “Personally I like the way that paintings can be so non-compliant – that it’s in their material nature to behave badly. You could say that paint is resistant; it seems always to want to change to rules, upset the status quo, to resist fixed interpretation.” For the first of the 2016 … Stanley Picker Public Lectures 2016 at ICA London: Ansel Krut
As the result of his Stanley Picker Design Fellowship research (2014-2016), Onkar Kular transforms the gallery into the Stanley Picker Creators Academy (SPCA). Over recent years there has been a global rise in new types of creative working environments, from co-working and creative office hub spaces as seen in Wework and Second Home, to large-scale … Stanley Picker Creators Academy
Public Event Saturday 25 June, 2-4pm Former Stanley Picker Fellow Martin Westwood presents Re-cut Piece (working title), a work of re-mediation, documentation, performance, technical support and materiality. Developed over a week-long residency in which the exhibition space is architecturally reworked while remaining open to the public, Re-cut Piece (working title) produces and stages the montage … Centre for Useless Splendour Residency
As a culmination of her Stanley Picker Fellowship research, Oreet Ashery presents Revisiting Genesis, a new major commission taking the form of a web-series in twelve episodes which remain on view online also after the exhibition. Written and directed by the artist, Revisiting Genesis explores the philosophical, sociopolitical, practical and emotional implications of the processes … Revisiting Genesis
Curated by Stine Nielsen Ljungdalh Founded in 1634 with the alchemical ‘union’ of Sir Nicolas and the legendary Lady Marianne – also named The Bull – the esoteric Hunting Society has remained, up to the present, undisclosed to the public eye. For The Hunters of the Invisible by Charlotte Bergson, the viewer is invited to … The Hunters of the Invisible