Ruth Beale & Nicole Bachmann
Wednesday 26 March 2015, 6–7pm
Join us to hear current Micro Residency artists Ruth Beale and Nicole Bachmann talk about their current practice.
Ruth and Nicole work individually and have been developing new work during their Micro Residency at Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop and will talk about their individual practice and the collaborative project, Performance as Publishing.
Ruth Beale
Ruth Beale employs performance, discussion and archival processes to identify relationships between culture, governance, social discourse and representation. She gained a BA from Edinburgh College of Art and an MFA from Goldsmiths, London. Recent solo exhibitions include Bookbed, Peckham Platform, London, Bikes, Caves, Raves, Trade, Nottingham, and Lindgren & Langlois: The Archive Paradox, Grand Union, Birmingham. She runs The Alternative School of Economics with Amy Feneck and All the Libraries in London with Simon Elvins.
Nicole Bachmann
Nicole Bachmann works in performance, sculpture, sound and writing. The idea of language as material manifests itself with her latest piece Says She Said where the making of a carpet is linked to language and the construction of sense. In the accompanying performance the rhythmicality of speaking refers back to the making but also creates its own musicality. It was shown at Objective Considerations MOT INTERNATIONAL project, London and Space in Between in 2014. She graduated from Goldsmiths with an MFA in Fine Art, and was shortlisted for the Swiss Art Awards in 2014. Recent exhibitions include Control / Shift / Plus, Museum Bärengasse, Zurich and Say it in words, Coleman Project Space, London.
Performance as Publishing
Nicole Bachmann and Ruth Beale formed Performance as Publishing in London in 2010. It is an artist-led research project which investigates overlaps in performance practice, events, discourse and writing. Performance as Publishing explores the work of contemporary artists who use text and writing/speaking as a basis for their performance. Past events and exhibitions have taken place at Kunsthalle Basel; MoMA Ps1 for the New York Art Book Fair; Het Veem Theater, Amsterdam; Turner Contemporary, Margate; South London Gallery; Rowing, London; and Modern Art Oxford.
Their collaborative project is Performance as Publishing
http://performanceaspublishing.com/
