HELEN STRATFORD RULES and REGS application 2012
ARTIST STATEMENT / PERSONAL DATA NAME: HELEN STRATFORD CONTACT DETAILS: 73 CARTER STREET, FORDHAM, ELY, CB7 5JT, UK TELEPHONE: +44 (0|)7940773303 +44(0)1638 721475 HelenEMAIL: he Stratfordlenstratford@ho CVtmail.com WYSING ARTS CENTRE studio artist www.helenstratford.co.uk ESCALATOR live/visual arts artist 73ARTIST CARTER BACKGROUND: STREET, FORDHAM, loca ELY,ted CB7bet w5JTeen +447940773303performance [email protected], architecture and writing, my collaborative social practice researches the rhythms and routines by which people negotiate, Locateddefine betweenand performanceproduce art,e varchitectureeryday andspace writing,s. myI collaborativerealise socialprojec practicets tresearcheshat co mtheb ine rhythms/routinesperformance/ abyrch whichitec tpeopleure, p negotiate,ractice/ definetheory ,and in teproducerventi oeverydayn/lectu rspaces.e. To I darealisete, ouprojectstcom thates have combine performance/architecture, practice/theory, intervention/lecture, including performative walks, lectures, papersincluded and pe filmsrfo rmproducedative wthroughalks, lecsite-specifictures, pape researchrs and that f ilusesms theall pbodyroduced to explore th rtheough effects site of-s pecthe ibuiltfic environment;research tha itst influencesuses the onbod howy t opeople expl orest,re t hemove eff andect live.s of In t heanalysing built en thev irrhythmsonmen tof; idailyts i nlifefluence my practices on investigateshow peopl ehow re swet, mcanov rethinke and thelive power. In ana of ltheysi ngbuilt t heenvironment rhythms withinof da social,ily life political,my prac economictice inv eandstiga tes emotionalhow we caninfrastructures. rethink t heI am po currentlywer of undertakingthe built en a partviron timemen practice-ledt within s PhDocia l,in poLivelit iArtca l,and econo Performativemic and Architecturesemotional in atfr aSheffieldstructu rUniversity.es.
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LEIPZIG Movement in Urban Space, Conference and Festival (DE) 2009 Choreographing Knowledge urban (col)laboratory:performative walk and talk Murray Edwards College, Nightjar festival & Festival of Ideas, Cambridge www.nightjar.info Fissures in the Harbour of Knowledge urban (col)laboratory: lecture performance walk TANZ MACHT RAUM _ RAUM MACHT TANZ, Symposium, Ruhr University Bochum (DE) Home is where the piano is (How can you feel at home in orchard park?) urban (col)laboratory, CROP MARKS contemporary art trail, Cambridge 2008 In-between House and Home performative lecture walk , The Arts Theatre, Cambridge Cambridge University Festival of Ideas Blind Spots: Manchester performance lecture walk at Piccadilly Gardens, Manchester Get Lost! Festival, TRIP Psychogeography conference MMU 2006 In-between House and Home performative lecture walk “A question(ing) of gesture” exhibition and symposium, Leipzig Opera House 2002 taking place 3: ‘pater-noster-phobia ’ installation with artist Petra Marguc 2001 taking place 2: performances: ‘diffident voices’ and ‘washing up’ Helen Stratford 2013 Helen Stratford CV www.helenstratford.co.uk
Selected Event Curation / Organisation 2013 Liberty Belle: Floating Micro Cinema with Cambridge Super8, Ely 2012 A Day With A Duck live art events, Ely 2011 Performative Architectures discussion event the Showroom, London 2008 Feminism is on the Agenda* Follow up discussion ICA, London, Nought to Sixty Salon Feminism is on the Agenda Public works studio, London, co-hosted Friday Session 28 2005 taking place 5 at Technologies of Place Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, (DE) co-organisation of interdisciplinary symposium with judith Geisler, including international speakers: Beatriz Colomina, Francesca Ferguson and Jehuda Safran (DE) 2002 taking place 3 co-organisation of interdisciplinary event, University of Sheffield 2001 taking place 2 co-organisation of interdisciplinary event, School of Architecture, University of North London
Selected Event Presentations 2012 Beacon Bi-Monthly 12: Beacon Art Projects, Lincoln http://beaconartproject.org/events/ Gestures of Resistence: lecture: Architecture and the Paradox of Dissidence AHRA 2012 9th International Conference www.dissidence.org.uk 2010 taking place 7: performative lecture with taking place, Sexuate Subjects: Politics, Poetics and Ethics interdisciplinary event UCL, London, December 2010 Urban (col)laboratory work presentation/discussion, Metropolis Lab, Copenhagen (DK) 2009 Not Building lecture Škuc Gallery, Ljubljana December 09, www.obrat.org/archives/204 (SI) Mechanical Operations in Cambourne book launch & performance presentation, with Lawrence Bradby, ICA London Constructing Knowledge Faculty of Architecture, RWTH Aachen (DE) 2007 Form Trans Inform: the ‘poetic ’resistance in architecture presentation with Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, Sheffield University, Alternate Currents Symposium 2005 What kind of space is ‘taking place? Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, talk with Brigid McLeer 2004 Unpleasant Matters School of Architecture, UEL, conference: Material Matters 2003 taking place 4 Living Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, conference: Becoming Space (IS) 2001 Talking in assemblages performative lecture, conference: Immanent Choreographies, Deleuze & Neo-Aesthetics, Tate Modern, London. Presences: a user’s guide, performative lecture, Architecture Foundation, London Collective Assemblages, conference: Space Culture Power University of Aberdeen Collective Assemblages performative lecture, 4th Annual Conference of the Society for European Philosophy, MMU 2000 Collective Assemblages, Embodiment and Enunciations, Diver[c]ities advanced research seminar. School of Art and Design, University of Plymouth Observational Fragments, performative lecture, Kettle’s Yard Art Gallery, Cambridge, Collective Assemblages, Embodiment and Enunciations, conference: Barnard Feminist Art and Art History Barnard College, Columbia University, New York (USA) 1999 Details, Student Podiums, Roman House, London, Micromovements of Resistance, performative lecture conference: ‘Alterities: Interdisciplinarity and “feminine” practices of space,’ Paris École Nationale Supérieure Des Beaux Arts (FR)
Helen Stratford 2013 Helen Stratford CV www.helenstratford.co.uk
Residencies / Research Projects 2013 forthcoming: Time & Space METAL residency, Peterborough with Idit Nathan Birdland is Everywhere - 1-month residency - Poly-Technic, Soar Works, Sheffield AIR Celeia - 2-month residency - The Centre for Contemporary Art, Slovenia METAL Culture Lab, Peterborough with Idit Nathan 2012 A Day With A Duck - Arts Council England funded residency and gallery presentation, Babylon Gallery, Ely. 2011-12 Performative Architectures - Arts Council England funded practice development grant from Grants for the Arts via Escalator Live Art. 2007-12 taking place 6: The Other Side of Waiting: Routine Procedures curated public arts project, Homerton Hospital Hackney, London, www.takingplace.org.uk 2009-current Studio Artist Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2009 Communities Under Construction 9-month residency, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2004-05 9-month Residency Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany Publications Books 2009 Mechanical Operations in Cambourne with Lawrence Bradby, Marmalade London.
Chapters 2013 forthcoming: The Space(s) Between Us collaborative chapter written with Diana Wesser in Odyssee : Heimat, Natalie Driemeyer and Jan Deck eds. Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld. 2010 In Between House and Home in Verhaktene Beredsamkeit? Politik, Pathos und Philosophie der Geste, Veronika Darian ed., Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main. 2007 Micro-Strategies in Altering Practices: Feminist Politics and Poetics of Space Doina Petrescu ed., Routledge, London, pp. 125-139. 2006 Unpleasant Matters in Material Matters: Materiality in Contemporary Architectural Practice and Theory Katie Lloyd-Thomas ed., Routledge, London, pp.209-224. 2002 Collective Assemblages in Recoveries and Reclamations, Judith Rugg & Daniel Hinchcliffe eds.,vol.2 Advances in Art and Urban Futures, Intellect, Bristol UK & Portland US, pp. 107-117. Articles 2008 Form Trans Inform: the ‘poetic ’resistance in architecture in conversation with Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, ARQ Vol. 12/2, 2008, pp.149-158. 2002 Micro-Strategies of Resistance RFR Journal of Feminist Research, Fall/Winter. pp.223-232 2001 Enclaves Of Expression: resistance by young architects to physical and psychological control of expression in Romania during the 1980s, Journal of Architectural Education MIT (Los Angeles), pp. 218-228.
Artist’s pages 2013 forthcoming: Walking Through Walls in publication of the festival ‘play!LEIPZIG - Movement in public space’ (Ed. Dance Archive Leipzig) Fissures in the Harbour of Knowledge in publication of the symposium ‘DANCE MAKES SPACE – SPACE MAKES DANCE’ (Ed. Ruhr University Bochum) 2010 Mechanical Operations: Repetitive Actions as a Creative Force in New English Settlements in Surface, YH485 Press, www.YH485press.org with Lawrence Bradby 2007 Displacings and Technologies of Place in: Was Machen Sie Dort am Schloss? Jahrbuch 8, merz&solitude, Stuttgart.
Catalogues / Journals / Reviews 2008 In Between House and Home “A question(ing) of gesture” Fotohof edition catalogue 2007 Performing with Buildings: A review of the work of Diana Wesser Journal of Media Practice 8, Intellect Books. 2002 taking place 2 Scroope 14,Cambridge Architecture Journal. Helen Stratford 2013 Helen Stratford CV www.helenstratford.co.uk
Education / Training 2003 RIBA PART III University of Cambridge, School of Architecture 1998-02 MA Architecture and Critical Theory, Distinction University of Nottingham 1996-98 RIBA PART II / Diploma in Architecture, Pass University of Cambridge 1991-94 RIBA PART I / First Class BA Hons. Architecture, University of Sheffield
Consultancy, Education & Teaching 2012 Children Take the Lead: researching with children & their families how visitors can enjoy contemporary art: Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination: Kettle’s Yard Gallery /Wysing Arts Centre http://childrentakethelead.wordpress.com/ 2011 Wysing Arts Centre Young Artists Retreat Workshop with artist Rachael Barker, Kettles Yard Cambridge Contemporary Art Family Workshop, Kettles Yard, Cambridge Oxford Brookes University Gender & Space lecture, BA Architecture 2008 Arts Council England Creative Partnerships Enquiry Schools commission with artists Townley & Bradby, Bradfield Primary School, Manningtree 2007 Arts Council England Creative Partnerships From Little Seeds: commission with artist Sally Brown, Leicester Imperial Avenue Infants and Leicester City Gallery 2006 General Public Agency, London Creative Consultant: Aldegate Public Realm Strategy, 2005/6 Arts Council England Creative Partnerships Creative Constructions: commission, Ravenscroft Infants, Clacton Shape East/Arts Council England Creative Partnerships Talk about Tomorrow: commission, with artist Sally Brown Spring Meadow Primary School, Harwich 2003/04 Cambridge/Tate Modern, Inspirer: Immersive Learning Project, www.accessart.org.uk. 1999/00 Winchester School of Art lecturer ‘Architecture and Society ’ BA Visual Arts
Prizes/Grants/Awards
2013 RIBA LKE Ozolins PhD Studentship A-N Go & See Venice Biennale Bursary
2012 University of Sheffield Faculty of Social Sciences PhD Fees Scholarship Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award: A Day With a Duck, Babylon Gallery, Ely
2011 Arts Council England selected Escalator Live Art artist Arts Council England funded practice development grant from Grants for the Arts.
2010 Arts Council England selected Escalator Visual artist
2008 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award: Routine Procedures, The Other Side of Waiting curated public arts project,Homerton Hospital Hackney, London, www.takingplace.org.uk
2007 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award: Routine Procedures Reserach & Development.
2004 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts award for Extended Threshold project Cambridge.
1997 Royal Academy Summer Show, London, Special Award for Drawing
1996 Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851, Special Award
1994 Pilkington Prize, Robert Cawkwell Prize
Helen Stratford 2012