Event overview
The Department of Art Public Talks Programme Autumn 2016 welcomes artist Joey Holder.
Joey Holder’s multimedia installations explore the structures and hierarchies of the technological and natural world. Mixing elements of biology, nanotechnology and natural history against computer program interfaces, screen savers and measuring devices, Holder see’s no object or substance in any fixed state or with any permanent definition, identity or order; everything is transforming and morphing into something else; everything is a mutant and a hybrid.
As she describes, “Connecting forms which have emerged through our human taste, culture and industrial processes I investigate complex systems that dissolve notions of the ‘natural’ and the ‘artificial’. GM products, virtual biology and aquatic creatures are incorporated into an extended web; challenging our perception of evolution, adaptation and change. By contrasting so-called ‘organic’ and ‘man-made’ substances and surfaces through a series of abstractions, I create a world of manifold layers, none more unified or natural than the next. These hybridities may suggest a particular function or natural form but remain elusive through their odd displacement.”
Joey Holder received her BA Fine Art from Kingston University in 2002 and her MFA from Goldsmiths in 2010. Her recent solo/duo exhibitions include 'Lament of Ur', Karst, Plymouth (with Viktor Timofeev), 'TETRAGRAMMATON', LD50, London (with John Russell), 'BioStat.', Project Native Informant, London, all 2015 and 'HYDROZOAN', The Royal Standard, Liverpool, 2014. Recent group exhibitions include 'The Uncanny Valley', Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge; 'Sunscreen', online and at Venice Biennale; 'A Plague of Diagrams', ICA, London; '#WEC - Whole Earth Catalyst', The Composing Rooms, Berlin, all 2015; 'h y p e r s a l o n', Art Basel Miami, 2014; 'Vestige: The Future is Here', Design Museum, London and 'Multinatural Histories', Harvard Museum of Natural History, Massachusetts, USA, both 2013.
Image: 'Lament of Ur', installation view at Karst, Plymouth, Joey Holder, 2015. Courtesy the artist.
This event is free. No booking is required. All welcome.
Dates & times
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| 19 Oct 2016 | 5:30pm - 7:00pm |
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