{"id":4750,"date":"2018-04-25T16:32:17","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2018-07-26T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2018-07-26T11:03:04","slug":"rachel-smith-interrupteur-residency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.shu.ac.uk\/c3riimpact\/rachel-smith-interrupteur-residency\/","title":{"rendered":"Interrupteur: C3RI PhD Candidate Rachel Smith’s residency at the University of Sheffield – Featuring events in April & May"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interrupteur<\/strong>
\ninterrupteur<\/em> holds both the mistaken notion of the interruption and the actual translated sense of the word \u2013 switch<\/em>: as exchange, shift, or transformation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

C3RI PhD Candidate, Rachel Smith<\/a> has just undertaken the role of artist-in-residence in the Humanities department of the University of Sheffield. As part of this residency she has announced a series of events during April and May that will forge collaborations between artists and academics: working, making art, and being interrupted by conversations and the unexpected encounter.<\/p>\n

Smith uses drawing, photography, and writing to explore the materiality of the peripheral details in the acts of reading, writing, and listening. The grasping action of finding sense in the face of the excesses of language sometimes pushes the work towards wordlessness. Equally gaps, voids, misunderstandings, and errors are opened in the work, containing the potentiality of that which has yet to happen. Producing these generative spaces allows room for other voices. These gaps in the practice may contain no visible language, but they are not empty \u2013 they possess a latent energy. These are the spaces inhabited by the other, the as-yet-unwritten, the as-yet-unread, the as-yet-unspoken, or the as-yet-unheard.<\/p>\n

Beyond producing her own work Smith will host conversations, events, performances, staged dialogue, and even accidental occurrences. The project explores how artists might open spaces for dialogue and collaboration between and beyond expected outcomes, engaging across disciplines and inhabiting liminal and in-between spaces. In her occupation of the foyer at Jessop West, other artists will move through the space, stopping to collaborate, discuss, perform, and workshop ideas. Not-knowing, error and misrepresentation, hybridity, constraint and improvisation, are some of ideas explored during the conversations and work in progress during the residency.<\/p>\n

Quotations selected for each day of work will act as provocation or a filter through which to work and think.<\/p>\n

You are welcome to interrupt, join in, exchange ideas, observe, listen in, or merely glance and walk by. See the whole schedule of events here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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We must begin wherever we are<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 11 April, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith will be present all day in the foyer at Jessop West, setting up the residency, working in the space \u2013 please do interrupt her.<\/p>\n

An ERRANT, or Improper Form<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday 17 April, 1.30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

For their live film-projection\/writing performance \u2018An ERRANT, or Improper Form\u2019, artist-writers Emma Bolland<\/a> and Rachel Smith will produce a speculative narrative by writing directly into the timelines of projected films \u2013 films they have not seen, in languages they do not understand.<\/p>\n

The copyist remained anonymous; now he claims authorship. Once copying was an act of reproduction; now it is nominated as an act of creation<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday 24 April, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Following Simon Morris\u2019 example of copying out Jack Kerouac\u2019s novel On The Road, Rachel Smith and Madeleine Walton<\/a> will use manual typewriters to copy out Herman Melville\u2019s novella Bartleby the Scrivener<\/a><\/em>.\u00a0Come along and interrupt to become part of the typed distraction in the work, or join in and take over the typing process.<\/p>\n

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Wednesday 25 April, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith and Clee Claire Lee<\/a> will be discussing common interests and collaborative possibilities while making work.<\/p>\n

We live in a world where there is more and more information and less and less meaning<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday 08 May, 10AM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith will be interrupting the process of Bryan Eccleshall<\/a> making additions to his Digital Rain collages<\/a> live in the foyer. Images made, reworked, and passed between the two artists to spark a discussion.<\/p>\n

I fight for improvisation, but always with the belief that it is impossible<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday 09 May, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith and Jo Ray<\/a> will collaborate (possibly remotely) on timed diversions to explore the area within a 10-minute radius of the foyer, bringing back fragments of footage and digital images which will provoke the making of further impromptu responses.<\/p>\n

There is freedom in Constraint<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Tuesday 22 May, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith and Helen Frank<\/a> will be working under a range of constraints as they explore compliance, misrepresentation, and error within any given system.<\/p>\n

Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday 23 May, 10AM-12.30PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

Rachel Smith and Andrew Conroy will discuss photography, image making, and other common interests \u2013 come and join them to find out more.<\/p>\n

Insolent in that it interrupts the text, and smitten in that it keeps returning to it<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Wednesday 23 May, 1PM-3PM<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Roland Barthes<\/a> reading group will read from and work with \u2018The Desire for Haiku\u2019, a chapter in Barthes\u2019s The Preparation of the Novel<\/em>, the series of lectures he gave at the Coll\u00e8ge de France between 1978 and 1980, completed shortly before his death in 1981. He declared his intention to write a novel, and explored the process it might take, while his novel remained unwritten.<\/p>\n

an experimentation in contact with the real. The map [\u2026] constructs the unconscious<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tuesday 29 May, all day<\/strong><\/p>\n

Louise Finney<\/a> and Rachel Smith engage in a collaborative mapping process of the Jessop West foyer and beyond. They will employ a range of drawing techniques, archeological mapping methods, rhizomatic mapping, and notations of interruptions experienced while working in the foyer. This will result in constructing a record of the space that is beyond the expectations of the traditional map or territory<\/p>\n

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There is a blog associated with the residency which will be regularly updated with work in progress – see here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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