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Sonia Boué and Ashokkumar D MistryLas Gemelas: Arrival (a lexicon of unmaking)

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Sarah PierceScene of the Myth

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The Blue Description Project

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What's in a name? 💭⁠ ⁠ We're delighted to be hosting Sarah Pierce's multimedia exhibition Scene of the Myth. The exhibition's title stems from one of Pierce’s essays, in which the artist describes social infrastructures such as academies and museums as moments through which the narratives and conventions of a historical past are re-constituted in the present.⁠ ⁠ The ‘scene of the myth’ is not an actual location; it is an occasion where knowledges, both inherited and invented, come into play. An exhibition is one such occasion with the potential to mark out specific “scenes” in and around Pierce’s practice: Institutes and Protests, Legacies and Exercises, Communities and Migrations.⁠ ⁠ This is the third iteration of the exhibition, offering opportunities for re-telling and re-shaping; not only of Pierce’s work itself, but through the personal reflections and resonances it provokes in ourselves.⁠ ⁠ Scene of the Myth is on show until 11 January 2025. Find out more and plan your visit on link in bio 🔗⁠ ⁠ #JHGPierce #SarahPierce #ContemporaryArt #Exhibition #Southampton #SotonArts⁠ #NowShowing @artsunisouth @uni_southampton_wsa @visit_soton @southamptonforward @your_southampton @visualartssw @cvan_se @cvanetwork @aceagrams
Space to Create! 🎨⁠ Saturday 19 October, 11am–1pm⁠ ⁠ In this week's session, we'll be continuing to explore Sarah Pierce's exhibition Scene of the Myth. The show asks us what it means to work together, both in art and in learning and this is the question we'll focus on today. ⁠ ⁠ Using the Activity Pack provided, you'll spend some time in the space looking at the artworks in different, guided ways before documenting your findings in a handmade notebook.⁠ ⁠ FREE, just drop in!⁠ ⁠ –⁠ ⁠ Space to Create! is our weekly creative workshop, inspired by our current exhibitions. Suitable for everyone aged 4 and over, join us to draw, make, and build together!⁠ ⁠ #JHGSpacetoCreate #FreeFamilyEvents #ArtForKids #JHGEngagement⁠ #Southampton #SotonEvents #FamilyEventsSouthampton⁠ ⁠ 📷: @nosamalcolm
NEWS UPDATE: Announcing our new Guest Curator of Organisational Development, @jackkytan. 20 September 2024 Dear Diary, I’ve just come away from my second meeting in my new role as Guest Curator of Organisational Development which I am going to do part-time until 2027! The team say that through my artistic practice, it’s an opportunity for John Hansard Gallery (JHG) to explore emerging forms of organisational futurities and their place in art and art activist history. But it’s also a chance for JHG to reflect on how this new knowledge can enrich and transform its own systems. This is music to my ears! It’s actually a new experience for me to be engaging as a staff member (i.e., viewing Institution from within) as opposed to my usual role of being a consultant (viewing from the outside) or on a Board of Trustees (from above). It is an act of trust and openness I think for an institution to receive and hold an artist in this way, and to expose its insides. Maybe a big part of the trust comes from the unexpected pleasure of encountering a very familiar vibe at JHG. It feels almost as if I am back in art school doing a group project or in an art collective. Discussions so far feel responsive, creative and empathetic. Right now, I’m not sure what ‘curating organisational development’ fully means. Nor does the team 😅. But the uncertainty and possibility is what’s exciting! Mainly I want to encounter organisations out there who use ‘art thinking’ as a way of doing governance and operations. And by ‘art thinking’, I mean a form of holistic intelligence where logic, reason, instinct, experience, aesthetics and ‘spirit’-uality (‘spirit’ for me in both the Hegelian and Daoist senses) are used in balance. I’d love for us to walk together for a short time, or indeed for the full 3 years of my guest curatorship. And to have verbal and visual conversations about the types of organisations and organising we need right now in order to bring about a sustainable and equitable future for our sector, our communities, and beyond. Write again soon, Jack Ky Read the full Press Release on link in bio 🔗