Jerome Harrington

The Edge of Our Thinking - Royal College of Art

18–19 November 2011

I am presenting at the forthcoming The Edge of Our Thinking conference at the RCA, here is the abstract for my presentation:

Plasticine, Ekphrasis and imagined making is a combined workshop and presentation, where narrative presentation and making process are integral elements. This method of presentation aims to collapse together a reflection of existing work, with new evidence generated live through the workshop.

Participants will engage in two making processes, with the aim of turning participants into stakeholders, the evidence that they produce providing a personal experience and knowledge to view / engage with the wider project’s contextualisation.

The workshop / presentation will creatively explore information ‘in’ the object, examining how the partial and incomplete nature of visible evidence of process, leaves potential for us to form subjective positions, fueled by a gap in our understanding of making process.

Further information:
The Edge of Our Thinking

S1 Members Show 2011

Testing Space - S1 Artspace, Sheffield

S1 Artspace
Tuesday 17th May 2011 - 6-9pm

S1 Artists welcome you to join us for a drink at S1 Artspace and view our open studios, which are now (almost) finished and fully functioning as working spaces, followed by Testing Space, a selection of performance and screenings developed by S1 artists James Price, Alison J. Carr, Jerome Harrington and Peter Martin. Testing Space allows the artists to invite an audience into their working process, experiment with formats, stage new works and reconfigure elements of past projects; the event will take place in the new S1 Artspace gallery.

FIFTEEN - S1 Artspace, Sheffield

Inhabiting any new premises requires its potential occupant to conduct a survey and inspection of the building to test its condition and value. For an artist-led space, this survey involves more than an assessment of bricks and mortar, it has to be tested in other ways. To mark the inauguration of its new premises and the occasion of its 15 year anniversary, S1 Artspace has invited over 30 artists to survey its new space, to test it out according to the criteria of their specific practices.

The exhibiting artists have already played a key part in S1’s history, they include previous and current studio holders as well as artists who have contributed towards S1’s programme over the last 15 years. The exhibition attempts to address the notion of the survey show: it is not an occasion of looking backwards, a retrospective survey that simply attempts to celebrate what has already been. Rather, the exhibition itself is presented a s a testing space, where selected artists have been invited (back) based on their capacity to both reflect and test out key concerns and issues considered intrinsic to S1’s programming (past, present and future).

Some works act as support structures for presenting the work of other artists, elsewhere collaborative approaches are made more central, where the line between individual and collective practice is wilfully blurred. The critical concerns of the exhibition (and issues relating to artist-led activity more broadly) will be further addressed through a series of talks, panel discussions and events, collectively entitled S1 Assembly. Together the exhibition and events programme operate both as a survey of S1’s (past) activity and for surveying its new premise s and the potential therein; where the past is drawn upon as a way to test the conditions of the present, as a point of provocation against which to develop and debate possibilities for future action.

FIFTEEN is curated by Louise Hutchinson and George Henry Longly.

The Pursuit of Happiness

I am showing a piece of work in the Pursuit of Happiness exhibition at the Arsenal Gallery in Poznan in Poland from 7th May to 6th June 2010.

The Pursuit of Happiness is a curatorial project aiming to encourage creative discussion on the phenomenon of happiness and its pursuit in a contemporary, global context.

Curators: Tekla Woźniak, Zbigniew Kotkiewicz

Further information:

http://happinessexhibition.blogspot.com/

‘What Happens if... ?’ at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster

I am showing work called 'Investment, Benefits, Dividends' (2006) in a group show called ‘What Happens if... ?’ at the Storey Gallery in Lancaster from 30 January – 3 April 2010.