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EXPERIMENTAL SPACE COLLECTIVE
PROJECTS AND EXHIBITIONS
DISRUPTED RHYTHMS
Aya Hastwell, Ceyda Oskay, Ean Nicole Konopnicki, Linka Nowell,
Pragya Bhargava, Sally Stenton, Sandy Layton
Disrupted Rhythms is a work inspired by the open call Glitches, Blips and Bugs by Vienna Contemporary Art Space. Members of the Experimental Space Collective [esc] shipped a package from different parts of the world with one set of assembly and interaction instructions. When installed and activated, the work became a deliberate glitch in time, creating a new space for powerful emotions, hope, luck and fortune.
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Pragya Bhargava, Sally Stenton, Svetlana Atlavina
Project Potpourri reached out to other Artist Collectives around the world to contribute to an online publication illuminating vital artist led activity that is often below the institutional radar and celebrate the diversity of collective art practices. The project explored what it means to be a Collective, why collectives form, how they operate and the significance of collective practices in these current times.
INTIMACY: BEYOND ANNIHILATION
Aya Hastwell, Ean Nicole Konopnicki, Linka Nowell, Pragya Bhargava, Sally Stenton, Sandy Layton, Sarah Praill, Svetlana Atlavina
This project was inspired by The Annihilation of Space and Time open call by zerofeedback. The call sparked an unexpected relay of diverse creative gestures. There was the sense of a potency arising through the emptiness, and an insight into how annihilation allows a new kind of intimacy without edges.
Aya Hastwell, Ean Nicole, Ceyda Oskay, Judy Nakazato, Pragya Bhargava, Sally Stenton, Sandy Layton, Sarah Praill, Svetlana Atlavina
We began making doors in a workshop run by Ceyda Oskay. It became a collective group endeavour, a symbolic and tangible drive to overcome isolation…. to escape. We sent the Doors to each other and we exhibited them in our own spaces. Then we were given the opportunity for a physical exhibition at Watford Museum.
PORTAL WALKS
Aya Hastwell, Sally Stenton, Pragya Bhargava, Lalitha Bandaru
We walk in different places at the same time and stop to take photos in the same moment. The photos form Portals from one place to the other. The PORTAL walks have connected Kazakhstan, India, England, Bulgaria, Scotland, Turkey and the USA.
A GLASS ENVELOPE
Facilitated by Sally Stenton and Svetlana Atlavina
The international online artist residency held in November 2021, brought together artists from Turkey, the UK, Kazakhstan, USA and India for 3 weeks of collective, creative activity. Against the odds we managed to connect in a powerful way via the screen and generate a bond between us that has endured.