Event overview
We invite you to an evening with Sophie Chapman (2023 WAL/FR: Art in the Archive Bursary Award) introducing her new drawing work SLUG in conversation with Abi Palmer
"From this came the understanding that our histories, our futures were everywhere.” - from @emhesse ‘Black Birds Born from Invisible Stars’
We'd like to invite you for an evening hosted by the Women's Art Library to see the culmination of Sophie Chapman's residency as the recipient of the 2023 Women's Art Library/Feminist Review Art in the Archive Bursary. See Sophie's new drawing work SLUG for the first time, hear about her time in the archive and reflections since, and join an in conversation with artist and writer Abi Palmer (author of 'Slugs: a Manifesto') where together they will discuss the slug as anti capitalist desire and crip informed interloper.
Open from 6.30pm
In conversation with q&a at 7pm
Finish 9pm
The WAL is wheelchair accessible and there are wheelchair accessible toilets.
We will be taking a low fi video too!
Artist Bios:
Sophie Chapman is an interdisciplinary artist and organiser from Newcastle, living in London. She follows sprawling resonances across pseudo science, linguistics, internet philosophy, queer theory, black feminist practices, somatics, pop culture, music and the trickiness of community organising - to make experimental performances, films, sculptures, drawings, texts and sounds. Sophie is Managing Director of the queer, community choir - F*Choir, recently she's presented work at Kunsthall Ghent, Eastside Projects Birmingham and London Conference of Critical Thought. She runs the experimental WIP sharing night MINCE. Previously she was in a duo with artist and agitator Kerri Jefferis.
Abi Palmer is an artist and writer. She uses film, text, sculpture and sensory intervention to explore sick bodies, viscous textures and ecological landscapes. She is the author of Slugs: A Manifesto (Makina Books, 2024) and Sanatorium (Penned in the Margins 2020). Artworks include mixed-media solo exhibition Slime Mother (Chapter, Cardiff, 2024); film series Abi Palmer Invents the Weather (Artangel 2023); and interactive gambling arcade Crip Casino (Tate Modern, Somerset House, Wellcome Collection, Collective Edinburgh.
Supported by the Feminist Review.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 10 Oct 2024 | 6:30pm - 9:00pm |
Accessibility
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