Rose Butler’s “The Fair” to be screened at Close-Up Cinema, London on Thursday 12 December 2024

Rose Butler’s experimental video The Fair will be screened as part of One Minute Volume 9, Close-Up Cinema on Thursday 12th December at 8.15pm. Over the past 16 years, artist-filmmaker Kerry Baldry has been curating and organising this innovative series of artists’ moving images, each precisely one minute in length. These experimental works thoughtfully engage with the concept of time in cinema, challenging traditional […]

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Rose Butler presents at the International Conference of Photography and Theory 2024

International Conference of Photography and Theory (ICPT 2024) Nicosia, Cyprus, 7-9th November Photography has been associated with death since its inception. The invention of photography influenced dramatically how people remember and mourn the dead. The technological advances of photography have also influenced – and are still influencing – how war, conflict, accidents, and atrocities are being documented, circulated and received. Following the […]

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Rose Butler presents at Improvising Care Conference – McGill/Montreal, October 5–9 2024

Chausseeestrasse; digital composite panorama, 4m x 1.2m

Improvising Care, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 5-9th October as part of Flux experimental music festival, Arts in the Margins, Montreal. “In a democratic society art should be the location where everyone can witness the joy, pleasure, and power that emerges when there is freedom of expression….” bell hooks, “Workers for Artistic freedom” “Healing can occur . . . when one’s inner experience is […]

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Rose Butler takes part in ‘Archiving Care’ hosted by NeMe – September 2024

Traditionally archives perform abstractions, suggest connections and compatibilities, and offer a perspective. Although our call for speakers asked for a critical re-interpretation of archives as historically infected collections with “‘politically dubious biases, patriarchal, colonial agendas, and represent ideological modes of control,” and discuss their new challenges n the age of AI, no submission touched these themes. The call though posed […]

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Rose Butler to present at Surveillance Studies Biennial in Slovenia May 2024

Rose Butler has been accepted to present at the Surveillance Studies Biennial, Ljubljana, Slovenia May 2024. The 10th Biennial Surveillance Studies Network/Surveillance & Society Conference #SSN2024 will be hosted by the Institute of Criminology at the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. #SSN2024 28-31 May Rose Butler will be presenting UNLAND – a collaborative⁠ exhibition of […]

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Rose Butler presents doctoral research at VIII Art of Research conference, Aalto University Finland

Film frame from archival footage at the Stasi Records Agency, Berlin depicting agents during briefcase camera training in the 1970s. Ref: MfS+HA_VIII+Fi+042. Image courtesy of Rose Butler

Rose Butler will be presenting now completed doctoral research at the VIII Art of Research 2023 conference at Aalto University, Finland next week. The theme of the eighth Art of Research conference is “Re-Imagining”, addressing the various gestures of going back, returning to take another look, or for starting anew. It suggests that research in the context of artistic and […]

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Rose Butler to present at Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives conference in July 2023

Rose Butler has been accepted to present at the Non-machines: Playground of Perspectives conference at the Bauhaus, Weimar in July 2023 (21st-22nd). Rose will be presenting her doctoral research and her recent collaborative exhibition UNLAND. For more information, please visit the conference programme here. Rose Butler is an artist, researcher and senior lecturer of Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.

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UNLAND: Undocumenting glitches in the Cyprus buffer zone

UNLAND presents both documented and fictional material of the Cyprus buffer zone, Varosha and British military bases, as well as areas located in the line of separation where communities from both sides of the border engage in activities such as common grazing grounds and mixed farming. While some of these spaces are defined by rigid military and surveillance architecture, others straddle […]

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UNLAND: Exhibition Opening Evening on 7th April 2023

UNLAND poster, featuring exhibition times and artists, courtesy of UNLAND

UNLAND has received coverage in Parathyro, the cultural edition of Cyprus’ Politis newspaper. Read more here. UNLAND: 18th April – 10th May 2023 at NeMe, Limassol, Cyprus. Opening Evening Friday 7th April 7.30pm – 10.00pm UNLAND presents both documented and fictional material of the Cyprus buffer zone, Varosha and British military bases, as well as areas of bicommunal activity and farming. […]

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Smizz gives lecture in Transmission series

Smizz at Transmission

Smizz will give a talk this afternoon as part of the Transmission Fine Art Lecture series. Lab4Living researcher and PhD student Smizz, a graduate of both Fine Art and Radiotherapy at Sheffield Hallam University, will talk about how collectives, collaboration and friendship can be the best transmission of (radical) care. “To transmit is to transfer, from communication, action sending a […]

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