Clifford Sage talks about his work and what he’s exploring while on his residency with Vital Capacities – see more about his work in his studio: https://vitalcapacities.com/artists/clifford-sage/studio/
Angela Su talks briefly about her work and residency with Vital Capacities and Videotage (Hong Kong), where she’s exploring Minecraft as a creative space.
Find out more about Angela Su and her work in her studio: https://vitalcapacities.com/artists/angela-su/studio/
As the work I’m developing moves towards the print stage, it’s time to explain a little more about the risograph process.
My print and printmaking experience started with etching (particularly photo-etching), letterpress, and developed to include screenprinting, and various relief processes, before the transition to digital. Last year, I got the opportunity to develop some work with my friend and collaborator Ruth Jones, who suggested we learn to use the risograph process. This post uses images from developing that work.
Continue reading “So, what’s this risograph thing?”
Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency?
Jaene Castrillon: I am a 2Spirit interdisciplinary artist, activist, author & award winning filmmaker who explores my relationship to the world through Indigenous teachings, ceremony and the wisdom of the land. I describe myself as a settler to Turtle Island of mixed heritages (indigenous Colombian & Hong Kong Chinese) who was raised on the teachings of Elder Isaac Day of Serpent River First Nations.
Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Really great to have you as part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency?
Damien Robinson: Hi Jamie! Thank you for asking me to take part!
I’m Damien, I’m a visual artist working with mixes of digital and non-digital approaches. My practice was originally print-based and I used to make three-dimensional work; over time I began incorporating digital processes, particularly around using discarded technologies and open-source software. I was lucky enough to get the chance to work with Mediashed, which was really forward thinking in terms of artist collaboration and teaching us about free media concepts. As a deaf artist I’d had little access to formal learning; even during my degree I wasn’t allowed to learn about or use huge amounts of equipment because I apparently constituted a health and safety risk, so I went about a lot of things the “wrong way”. The Mediashed experience involved thinking differently about hardware and software, so I began enjoying mis-using processes and technologies, something I still do now.
Continue reading “Interview with Damien Robinson”
Jamie Wyld (Vital Capacities’ director): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency?
Clifford Sage: I’m Clifford, a CGI artist, currently working with moving image through animation and interactive worlds. My work is often sound-based and audio generative. I am interested in using game dynamics in my practice and the potential of virtual world building and non- linear narrative through story-telling. My hope is to use game mechanics to generate an immersive audio experience, utilizing and experimenting with alternate timelines.
Continue reading “Interview with Clifford Sage”
Seecum Cheung has launched a new studio, designed by Oli Pyle based on ideas from Seecum. The building represents a residential block in Shenzhen, and each window can be entered to find out more about each subject. Go to Seecum’s studio to find out more: https://vitalcapacities.com/artists/seecum-cheung/studio/
Our second residency programme on Vital Capacities brings together artists from the UK, Canada and Hong Kong, taking place between 2 Nov and 10 Dec 2020. Artists will be exploring ideas across the period, sharing work with audiences. Find out more about the artists in this programme…
Continue reading “Intro to latest artists in residence”
Find out more about this comic book and it’s development on my studio page: https://vitalcapacities.com/artists/daniel-locke/studio/
The models express the myriad of exquisite forms and mating practices found in the animal kingdom which are often invisible to the naked eye. We often imagine what life is like on other planets, other worlds, yet what is present right under our noses is stranger than we can imagine, far more ‘alien’.
Working with collage, internet scavenged images and constructed symbolism these lightboxes show a myriad of forms present within the natural world. Bodies of animals, fauna and scientific photographs are entangled together to represent the different ways in which humans percieve, understand and order lifeforms.
Park McArthur & Constantina Zavitsanos’ film, Scores for Carolyn appears in PRESENTS exhibition.
“Scores for Carolyn is a short open captioned video playlist of instructional scores for care with two or more people.
Continue reading “Watch ‘Scores for Carolyn’ in the ‘PRESENTS’ exhibition”
Panteha Abareshi’s film, Natural Disaster is included in the exhibition PRESENTS, which can be seen now.
Continue reading “PRESENTS, including Panteha Abareshi’s film”
Jamie Wyld (JW): Thanks for being part of the Vital Capacities residency programme! Can you say a little about yourself and your work, perhaps in relation to what you’re thinking about doing during the residency?
Seecum Cheung (SC): Hi Jamie, thanks for having me! I’m Seecum and I primarily work with film. I’ve never really known how to describe my work but often, I work with journalists and experts to conduct interviews with citizens, politicians and experts in a bid to understand and reflect upon certain political moments in time. My focus for VC in these months will be working from this same approach, a long-term study of the gentrification of my father’s ancestral village which began in April 2018.
Continue reading “Interview with resident artist, Seecum Cheung”
PRESENTS exhibition is now open and showing on the Vital Capacities site – you can visit the exhibition, which contains eight films by 11 artists, curated by resident artist, Romily Alice Walden and COVEN collective member, Frances Breden.
PRESENTS is a screening of short video works that don’t require an abled or physically present body in order to be performative. Ten sick and disabled artists come together to expand the idea of ‘performance’, presenting work that is embodied, immediate, and present without forcing bodies to conform to ableist norms of art-making.
See the exhibition: https://vitalcapacities.com/presents/
Accessing this site
Display settings
Artist login
