About this Event
Tuesday 16 April | 1pm until 2pm | London College of Communication, Lecture Theatre C
This event is open to all UAL current students and staff. A live stream will be available and a link will be sent out prior to the event. Please select your ticket accordingly.
To coincide with the Art for the Environment exhibition at GroundWork Gallery (16 March – 8 June 2024), celebrating the 2023 AER residencies, Art for the Environment – Conversations at UAL offer a platform for generative encounters in which ideas and experiences are exchanged between exhibiting artists and former AER residents. Building on shared experiences, common lines of enquiry and resonances in practice and research, new and past residents come together to reflect on the impact and legacy of their practices and to reflect on their creative role in envisioning a world of tomorrow.
This series of conversations is curated by Camilla Palestra (Centre for Sustainable Fashion) and organised in collaboration with UAL's Post-Grad Community.
In conversation:
Beth Robertson (2023 AER resident, NAHR, Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, ITALY) with Magz Hall (2015 AER resident, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK)
Nicholas Holt (2023 AER resident, Joya: arte + ecología, SPAIN) with Daniel Ginsburg (2022 AER resident, Joya: arte + ecología, SPAIN)
Moderated by Camilla Palestra, Centre for Sustainable Fashion
Biographies
Beth Robertson (2023 AER resident, NAHR, Nature, Art & Habitat Residency, ITALY)
Beth Robertson is a sound artist based in London and Glasgow and a recent graduate of the Sound Arts MA at London College of Communication, UAL. Her intra-disciplinary practise seeks to queer the relationship we have with our environment through sound. With a background in Geography, Beth creates work that celebrates the hybridity of humans and uses activist listening in response to the climate crisis.
Through the use of field recordings, photography and composition she creates sound maps and installations that investigate entangled local ecologies and experiment with shifting place identities, she further explores these themes in a monthly radio show on Resonance FM. Beth was selected for the UAL Arts for the Environment Residency Programme at NAHR in 2023.
Nicholas Holt (2023 AER resident, Joya: arte + ecología, SPAIN)
Nicholas Holt is a UK based photographer and writer with a focus on the journey, nature and history. He holds an MA in Photojournalism and Documentary Photography with distinction from the University of Arts London (2022).
His photography has been recognised by the Sony World Photography Awards, The Royal Photographic Society and Arles Open Walls. Nicholas has worked with Geographical Magazine, Suitcase Magazine, JRNY Magazine and Bradt Travel Club Magazine.
He is a founding member of Collective 454, an international group of research-lead, environment-focused photographers. Nicholas’s residency was at Joya: Air, Spain.
https://www.nicholasholt.co.uk/
Daniel Ginsburg (2022 AER resident, Joya: arte + ecología, SPAIN)
Daniel Ginsburg is an Oxford-based photographer who works with camera-less and lens-based photography, both in digital and analogue mediums. Inspired by fiction, psychology, and the agency of nature, he uncovers human and non-human narratives in our age of mass extinction. Using experimental techniques, he playfully explores the unseen perspectives and unknowable ways of being of plants, fungi, and other overlooked critters by utilising the structures and processes of nature, teetering on a line between science, seance, and alchemy, in which the capturing of light becomes one tool of many, and the work can become itself wild.
His previous works have looked at our everyday urban relationship to nature, at grieving the ghosts of extinction, and at using photography to imagine new possibilities of interspecies communication. He is continuing to look to the future and imagine entangled worlds.
Camilla Palestra
Camilla Palestra is a curator, researcher, and educator whose work centres on multidisciplinary and collaborative practices that critically engage with urgent issues of contemporary society and their connection to the socio-political environment and diversity. With over fifteen years of experience in curating and developing research-led projects for museums, galleries, and higher education institutions, including the Venice Biennale, Devi Art Foundation, Royal Academy of Arts London, Fashion Space Gallery, and MART museum, Camilla has worked on solo exhibitions and commissioned projects for artists such as Lucy + Jorge Orta, Shezad Dawood, Rainer Ganhal, Wendelien van Oldenborgh, Annie-Marie Akussah, Hanae Utamura, among others.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
UAL London College of Communication, Elephant and Castle, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00