Dialogues with People.
Citation Summary:
Stidworthy, I. T. (2018), Dialogues with People, Exhibition, Würtemburgischer Kunstverrein, Stuttgart (DE). (26.10.18 - 13.1.2019), with accompanying guide. Revised second edition, Dialogues with People […], Netwerk, Aalst (BE) (6.4.19 - 8.6.2019,) with accompanying guide and text: Fite-Wassilak, C. (2019), ‘Invisible Architectures’. Including (both iterations) a new art work: Stidworthy, I. T. (2019), Iris [A Fragment], 2-screen video installation, Würtemburgischer Kunstverrein, Stuttgart (2018) andpresented at Bergen Assembly 2019, ‘Actually the Dead are not Dead’, Bergen Kunsthal, Bergen (NO) (8/09/19 - 10/11/19); and presented in Survival Kit II International Festival of Contemporary Art, LCCA (Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga), Latvia (04/0920 - 04/10/20). New version (both iterations of Dialogues with People): Stidworthy, I. T. (2018-19) Balayer - A Map of Sweeping v. 2018, 3-screen video installation with ambisonic soundtrack; originally, Balayer - A Map of Sweeping v. 2014, installation with ambisonic soundtrack, Sao Paolo Bienal 2014, Bienial Pavilion, Ibirapuera Park, Sao Paolo, Brazil (6/09/14 - 7/12/14).
- Submitting institution
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Liverpool John Moores University
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 32IS1
- Type
- M - Exhibition
- Venue(s)
- Würtemburgischer Kunstverrein, Stuttgart, Germany & Netwerk, Aalst, Belgium.
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of first exhibition
- October
- Year of first exhibition
- 2014
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
- Research group(s)
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1 - Contemporary Art Lab
- Proposed double-weighted
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- Double-weighted statement
- The outputs developed by Dr. Stidworthy from 2014-2019 are framed by the notion of 'voicing on the borders of language’ and engage with non-verbal modes of being. Balayer - A Map of Sweeping v. 2014 involved non-verbal autistic adults. This led to working with Iris Johansson (once non-verbal, autistic) for Iris [A Fragment] (2018), and a radical re-edit of Balayer … (v. 2018), which became a curatorial map for the major solo exhibition ‘Dialogues with People/[…]’ (in two iterations). The exhibition included these and seven large-scale works concerning long-term research into different forms of voicing, creating new relationships and readings.
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- A solo exhibition in two iterations, Dialogues with People (audience 25,000) and Dialogues with People […] (audience 8,000), with an innovative curatorial/technical format for presenting multiple large-scale sound and video installations together, playing sequentially, in a programme of 100 minutes. The work contributes to contemporary debates around autism, neurodiversity and attitudes to difference, and asks how curatorial and artistic practices can engage and potentially change perceptions of them. Eight existing installations and a new commission, Iris [A Fragment], were presented, related to long-term research into ‘voicing on the borders of language’: investigating relationships between people who exist in different forms of language, and how this affects selfhood, social relationship and sense-making. They involve people whose relationship with language is affected by experience, or conditions such as aphasia, or PTSD. Iris [A Fragment] figures renowned Swedish therapist Iris Johansson who is autistic and was non-verbal as a child. It builds on earlier research with non-verbal autistic people through which I developed Balayer - A Map of Sweeping v. 2014, for Sao Paolo Bienal (audience 700,000). This installation featured a then-pioneering soundtrack, as one of the first ambisonic artworks, globally: a ‘landscape of voicings’, which later served as the sonic blueprint for the curatorial format of Dialogues with People. Research for this exhibition resulted in a radical re-edit of the installation, and remastering in third-order ambisonics (v. 2018). The exhibition constellated verbal and non-verbal voices, embodied in multi-part installations, with/between which visitors engaged in multi-sensory ways. The technical programme (developed by Stefan Kazassoglou/Eidotech, Berlin) drew visitors from work to work as a group, over time evoking dialogue between them. Public events drew large, diverse audiences: a two-day international conference, in-conversations with renowned therapist Iris Johansson and Ruth Noack (international curator), several curator’s talks and two specially devised workshops by invited artists.
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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