Why so Salty? (2023) 1440 X 1080 Video (4:3)
By @nataliedoyleartist as part of 𝘈 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘧𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵, displayed at @settlementprojects
Settlement Projects
34A Haddington Place
Leith Walk
10.04.23-08.05.23
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The Ultimate Material Gworl (2022) by @nataliedoyleartist
During the Bojo War in 1873 the Material Gworls were being wiped out by Roadman Bojo. Roadman Bojo took over the planet which had then been named ‘Bojo Bangers’ [one side of Planet Citizen] after him. Over 2 million material Gworls were killed by Bojo. Trisha was a material gworl living during this horrible war.
She was hiding for a year until she couldn’t take it anymore. She decided to create the M.G.A (Material Gworl Army). With her fellow Material Gworls, they walked through the most dangerous areas to get more recruits. They managed to get over 1 million Material Gworls to join. The M.G.A and Roadman Bojo had one of the biggest battles ever to be seen on Planet Citizen.
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The text above concieved and written by children from St Thomas Of Aquin's R.C. High School for the EIBF programme last year.
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Hey Folks, @samanthadickart_ here again.
Today I thought I would share with you a film I made at the end of my time with @new.art.school and which was recently part of the 2023 @alchemyfilmandarts film festival.
‘The Light Show’ is a development from an extended investigation of two Edinburgh tower blocks (my childhood home) and explores the relationship between self, community and environment. The result is a distillation of conversations with residents of these flats. Combining collaging methods used across moving image, performance, sound and photography with archival and queer research, I look to challenge negative perceptions of these types of communities and reimagine an alternative and honest perspective.’
This film distils conversations and memories shared of this space, setting a scene of the hi-rises at night and how they come alive. Through this work, I invite the viewer to look at these buildings from an alternative lens diverging from the negative portrayals and representation of these communities we often see in the media and public domain.
This film creates a sensory experience of this environment found in the chosen colour pallet, the environmental sounds, poetic thought, and how the film collages and transitions between shots. There is a connection between the architecture of the space and how I insert the imagery through the rectangular forms of the windows in the flats and its repetition structurally in the overlays of different layers.
I am interested in memories that we so easily forget or seem insignificant but relate to everyday existence and subjective experience of that place/time. This film relates closely to my memories of this space, and it means so much to me that so many people have connected with this work in particular.
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Hey, it’s @samanthadickart_ again currently not feeling too great, sadly, so I may take a slower pace to posting!
My practice has often centred on collective activity opposing the legacy of Thatcher’s age of individualism. As an artist, I have always had an intrinsic interest in people, social history/ issues, and my work often sought to underpin oppressive social structures within society to present and alternative and more cooperative narrative.
My recent work has involved an extended exploration of two Edinburgh tower blocks - my childhood home. Combining oral history interviews with archival and queer research, I explore personal and collective history and seek to blur the lines between research and visual practice. Through this work, I look to challenge negative perceptions of this community to represent an alternative and honest perspective.
Within an autoethnographic approach that is grounded explicitly in my lived subjective experience, my relationship with my mother and ‘proximity’ to her experience has been central to underpinning past work.
Today I share with you a clip of a very personal film made in collaboration with my mum, discussing our family life and memories within an Edinburgh tower block and the stigma and issues surrounding these communities.
Within my practice these types of collaborative exchange are something I continue to nurture and evolve as I look to develop this work through extended research.
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Ending today with a clip of my film ‘A Nation of Homeowners’ currently showing as part of the group show ‘Gatherings’ with @workingclasscreativesdatabase
Within the UK, class issues remain contentious and often neglected within broader public discourse resulting in the marginalisation of many working-class communities. The array of issues faced by these communities are exacerbated due to the low ‘proximity’ those making decisions have to the experience of whom it affects.
My investigation into hi-rise living began with a need to understand how these areas came to exist. Despite the negative connotations tower blocks and schemes now carry, these types of communities once originated from socialist ideologies and were one of the most popular implemented UK governmental policies to date. These post-war structures took working-class families away from inner-city private slums and into modern, sanitary public housing. So how can a place once a socialist utopia ultimately descends into a dystopian reality? In successive years, harsh, calculated governmental policy, negative media representation and shifting public opinion have been detrimental to public housing and working-class areas. The Right to Buy Policy (1980) brought into governance through Thatcher saw much of the social housing stock sold off and not replaced. And due to lack of public funding, maintenance and resources has meant that these areas have rapidly declined in the years since they were established, contributing to the housing crisis we know today and allowing history to repeat itself.
This film explores the rise and fall of social housing within the UK particularly hi-rise living and the social stigma surrounding these types of communities. Through this work, I document the history and events that lead to the decline of these once progressive communities and ultimately the housing crisis we know today.
View the full video at ‘Gatherings’ open until the Thursday 17th August 12-5pm
Still @izimaking with a shonky video clip of the audio that accompanies this Shield. The central boss is a waveform made from the Slits song Earthbeat, a loop of it throbbing underneath my first spoken word work.
some shadowey details from The Dance, I was really interested in what the shadows cast from the sculptures would look like, whether the sculptures forms would merge or look different than their physical form somehow. I ended up really liking the repetitive spinning motions they moved in and the hypnotic feel this gave.
‘The Dance’
This past year I took interest in ideas of feminist post humanism and the relationship between animals, plants and technology. In response I became interested in what sculptures might look like if they resisted categorisation and didn’t seek to make separations between entities. With really amazing help from the technicians at DJCAD I motorised these sculptures so that they could spin and form a sort of dance of amorphous forms negotiating their space.
I’d like to continue with this piece and develop it a bit further. It feels a lot like a starting point for another body of work.
Recent work from the CAP1 Printmaking workshop!
Our final preview Artist is Alice Snowdon who says of her practice: ”I’m an experimental artist who continually varies my use of media within my practice. I use this variety to generate new points of inquiry and avenues for my work. I often explore expressive or abstract visuals to create emotive pieces with a definite atmosphere. I usually follow themes of social inquiry, historical interests, personal or political.” Please join Alice and all the other CAPetc.. Graduate 2021 TONIGHT @7PM Live on YouTube links in Bio
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Our penultimate artist prior to our CAP-oot live launch is Martine Dos Reis whose work predominantly relates to nature, specifically natural patterns and structures. She tries to integrate these subjects into her work as much as possible.
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