Stickyweeds, Nicola Singh, Image credit: Sarah Boutell, 2019
nicola singh
Nicola Singh has been selected as one of two exceptional UK artists selected to take part in our transnational project CONTESTED DESIRES. Nicola’s current work is concerned with the way in which art and culture contribute to social definitions, understandings and attitudes towards race and racism.
As part of Contested Desires, she will create and facilitate collective moments of being with and discussing these topics – through the use of autobiography, via improvised writing, movement and vocal practices and in workshop and conversation settings.
Nicola began developing this approach through a D6 research residency which took place from March to April 2019 as part of There is Beauty in this Journey. Whilst with us, she explored ideas of honesty and autobiography through her performance practice, focusing on her own lived experience in relation to the intersection of race and migration within contemporary art and arts education.
Nicola devised specific methods within her expanded writing practice, using automatic and durational writing, drawing, movement and improvisation to articulate and check in with her own subjectivity around these themes. At the end of the residency, she shared her thinking in a live, improvised performance for an invited audience, filmed by Sarah Boutell.
Nicola used our interactive platform Mural to present an edited section of this performance, which is part of Nicola's ongoing research project into the way in which art shapes our politics on and around race.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nicola makes work that is rooted in performance and moves across disciplines, as she responds to contexts of feelings and chance, encounter and dialogue and to location and place. She prioritises performative, discursive and physical approaches to her practice, research and pedagogy. Recent performances and exhibitions include the 3-Phase Commission with Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Jerwood Visual Arts, London and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2017 - 2018), selection for the UK/KOREA Residency in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK and Hongti Art Centre, South Korea (2018) and presents of new work at IMT Gallery, London (2018), Caustic Coastal, Salford (2018) and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (2018).
For more of her work visit Nicola's website: www.nicolasingh.co.uk
As part of Contested Desires, she will create and facilitate collective moments of being with and discussing these topics – through the use of autobiography, via improvised writing, movement and vocal practices and in workshop and conversation settings.
Nicola began developing this approach through a D6 research residency which took place from March to April 2019 as part of There is Beauty in this Journey. Whilst with us, she explored ideas of honesty and autobiography through her performance practice, focusing on her own lived experience in relation to the intersection of race and migration within contemporary art and arts education.
Nicola devised specific methods within her expanded writing practice, using automatic and durational writing, drawing, movement and improvisation to articulate and check in with her own subjectivity around these themes. At the end of the residency, she shared her thinking in a live, improvised performance for an invited audience, filmed by Sarah Boutell.
Nicola used our interactive platform Mural to present an edited section of this performance, which is part of Nicola's ongoing research project into the way in which art shapes our politics on and around race.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Nicola makes work that is rooted in performance and moves across disciplines, as she responds to contexts of feelings and chance, encounter and dialogue and to location and place. She prioritises performative, discursive and physical approaches to her practice, research and pedagogy. Recent performances and exhibitions include the 3-Phase Commission with Eastside Projects, Birmingham, Jerwood Visual Arts, London and Workplace Gallery, Gateshead (2017 - 2018), selection for the UK/KOREA Residency in partnership with BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, UK and Hongti Art Centre, South Korea (2018) and presents of new work at IMT Gallery, London (2018), Caustic Coastal, Salford (2018) and Sidney Cooper Gallery, Canterbury (2018).
For more of her work visit Nicola's website: www.nicolasingh.co.uk
