HELEN STRATFORD RULES and REGS application 2012 ARTIST STATEMENT / PERSONAL DATA NAME: HELEN STRATFORD CONTACT DETAILS: 73 CARTER STREET, FORDHAM, ELY, CB7 5JT, UK HelenTELEPHO NStratfordE: +44 (0|)794077330 CV 3 +44(0)1638WYSING 72147 ARTS5 CENTRE studio artist EMAIL: [email protected] www.helenstratford.co.uk ESCALATOR live/visual/digital arts artist 73ARTIST CARTER BACKGROUND: STREET, FORDHAM, loca ELY,ted CB7bet w5JTeen +447940773303performance [email protected], architecture and writing, my Locatedcollabo rbetweenative soc performanceial practice art, r earchitecturesearches andthe writing,rhythm mys andcollaborative routine ssocial by w practicehich peop researchesle nego thetia te, rhythms/routinesdefine and byp whichroduce people e negotiate,veryday definespace ands . produceI reverydayealise spaces.projec I trealises thaprojectst cothatm bine combine performance/architecture, practice/theory, intervention/lecture, including performative walks, lectures, performance/architecture, practice/theory, intervention/lecture. 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IMAGES:IMAGE (clockwiseS: (cloc fromkw itopse left):fro Am Day to Withp l eAf Duck,t): A Ely,D aBabylony Wi tGallery,h A D 2012uck (UK),, El yPractising (UK): firstsite6 mon (10t hways re stoi dencmisusey ,a visualBab yartslon centre) Gall ery, Firstsite,2012 ,Colchester Routine 2012 Pr (UK)ocedu & Pleaseres ,Wait Ho Here:mer Instructionston Hos pforit performingal, London a queue (U Kfor): ar pleasureesidenc piery train:200 artside:7-20 pause12, festival,Walk iSouthendng Thr ough2011 (UK) with Diana Wesser ; Mechanical Operations in Cambourne: Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge (UK): residency, exhibition, audio-walk, interventions, publicationWalls, S 2009,tadtt INTERVALS,heater B audio-ledremer performance:haven 200 Metropolis11/1 Biennale2, Lei pCopenhagen,zig Centr 2011,althea (DK)te withr 20 Diana10 Wesser: nigh &t Girafftim eGraff. audio walk for LINKSone (both in collaboration with Diana Wesser), Mechanical Operations in Cambourne: Communities www.helenstratford.co.uunder Construction, Wk ysing Arts Centre, Cambridge: residency, exhibition, audio-walk, interventions and www.wysingartscentre.org/about/studio_artists/helen_stratforpublication 2009, INTERVALS, audio-ld performanced: Metropolis Biennale Copenhagen, 2011, (DK) In www.urbancollaboratory.net www.takingplace.org.ucollaboration with Dkiana Wesser and Giraff Graff. www.vimeo.com/urbla b www.vimeo.com/29604599LINKS www.playleipzig.de/en/aktionewww.helenstratford.con.uk www.urbancollaboratory.net www.takingplace.org.uk www.vimeo.com/urblab http://vimeo.com/29604599 http://www.playleipzig.de/en/aktionen www.wysingartscentre.org/artists/studio-artists/87 Helen Stratford CV www.helenstratford.co.uk Selected Performative Tours Walks & Actions 2014 Things to do with Shopping Centres Cornhill Walk, Bury St Edmunds 2013 Sunder & Land On Walking conference Sunderland University & NGCA with Idit Nathan An Architectural Cleaning Cupboard Tour Cambridge Junction: Unfinished & Unleashed 2012 Practising Firstsite: 10 ways to Misuse a Visual Arts Centre, Colchester Please Wait To Be Served (How to Perform a Café) Cambridge, Edinburgh Fringe festival http://liveartcollectiveeast.com/hunt-darton-cafe/ Time to C&B with Idit Nathan, Cambridge Curiosity & Imagination & Aid&Abet 2011 Choreographing Knowledge Murray Edwards, Cambridge Festival of Ideas Walking Through Walls Stadttheater Bremerhaven www.stadttheaterbremerhaven.de (DE) Approaching Art performative tour Camberwell School of Art, commission Intervals audio-walk in Copenhagen metro: Metropolis Biennale, www.cph-metropolis.dk/en (DK) Please Wait Here: Instructions for performing a queue for a pleasure pier train a DIY performance: artside: pause festival www.artside.org.uk Walking Through Walls performative lecture Performance Studies International: PSi#17 Utrecht - Camillo 2.0 Technology, Memory, Experience www.psi17.org (NL) 2010 Walking Through Walls urban (col)laboratory: audio walk-for-one, Centraltheater Leipzig play! 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 & Home performative lecture walk, Arts Theatre, Cambridge 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 Selected Exhibitions & Installations 2014 Things to do with Shopping Centres Solo installation, Smiths Row Gallery, Bury St Edmunds. The Walking Encyclopaedia Group show, with Idit Nathan AirSpace Gallery, Stoke-on-Trent 2013 Eastern Approaches Open group exhibition, UH galleries at Museum of St Albans The Air of Songs Group exhibition, the Centre for Contemporary Arts, Celje (SI) A State of Unplay Group exhibition, Atelier 35, Bucharest, (RO) 2012 A Day With A Duck Solo curated gallery presentation, Babylon Gallery Ely Intervals Film Screening at Hotbed, The Cambridge New Writing Theatre Festival 2011 Manchester Blind Spots Film screening at Exhibition, Cambridge, Film Festival & Conference: MIRROR/LENS: WOMEN IN FILM & WOMEN MAKING FILM, Murray Edwards College, Please Wait Here: Instructions for performing a queue for a pleasure pier train A DIY performance and installation: artside: pause festival 2011 www.artside.org.uk 2010 CUBEOpen 2010 Manchester CUBE Gallery with Diana Wesser Wysing Arts Contemporary: Partnering with Diana Wesser 2009 Communities Under Construction Group exhibition, Wysing Arts Centre, Cambridge 2006 DiverCity Group exhibition, Royal Institute of British Architects, Cambridge /London Compendium Assistant curator, Royal Institute of British Architects, London 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 Helen Stratford 2014 Helen Stratford CV www.helenstratford.co.uk Selected Event Presentations 2014 Performing Cities: “Occupy” and Playgrounds. Presentation at CRAASH, (Centre For Research In The Arts, Social Sciences And Humanities) University of Cambridge METAL, Peterborough. Play the City Now or Never! with Idit Nathan 2013 Futurepark METAL Southend-on-Sea: Play the City Now or Never! with Idit Nathan 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 (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 Residencies / Research Projects 2014 AA2A 8 month residency, Sheffield Hallam University 2013 Time & Space METAL ongoing residency, Peterborough with Idit Nathan Birdland is Everywhere - 6 month residency - Poly-Technic, Soar Works, Sheffield AIR Celeia - 2 month residency - The Centre for Contemporary Art, Celje Slovenia METAL Culture Lab, Peterborough, 1 week residency 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