Racialized Regime of Representation’ and KARA WALKER’S Fons Americanus
This article responds to Fons Americanus by Kara Walker to critically demonstrate the importance of studying visual representations using Michael Foucault’s concepts of discourse. The essay will critically highlight using discourse analysis to examine the powers of knowledge by following a visual sociological framework. The central focus seeks to demonstrate how Walker’s work contests the […]
Radical Self-Compassion: Sharing Personal Archives Through Performance and Assemblage Art
Workshop date: 29 November - 1 December 2024 Radical Self-Compassion: Sharing Personal Archives Through Performance and Assemblage Art In this recalibrating 3 session workshop, you will learn to listen to your body and engage with your personal archives to birth radical acceptance and joy, even in moments of rupture. "Yoυ doɴ'т ɴeed α woмв тo […]
Three visual artists Pauline Bailey, Joyce Treasure and Ola Brown have been involved in a collaborative artist residency to explore the Lapworth Museum's collection of fossils, rocks and minerals. They responded to specific items or themes in Lapworth's vast collection, and this exhibition shares installations the three artists have made in response to their brief […]
Following the launch of Stryx VR gallery space in 2020, Stryx ran SPOT VR Residency running between 4th December 2021 until 31 January 2022. Untitled Performance / The Little Girl Who Said ‘Hi’For my SPOT VR Residency, I explored the masquerade, characterised by masks, dances, and chants, I am interested in the Gelede performed by […]
The Dancer by Joyce Treasure responds to Kumo's album, inspired by dance rhythms, titled Slave Dances (Seven Portraits). Full colour 52-page A5 zine companion to the album: ”An essential accompaniment to the album, indeed a brilliantly educational document in its own right, is a full colour 52-page A5 zine, featuring soberly beguiling artwork by Joyce Treasure […]
In response to police brutality, Black Lives Matter, Covid 19 and extremist ideology, in December 2020, values forged a new Breakaway State. In this third space, technology moved race away from the biological and genetic historical systems towards questions of technological healing and agency... Read full document Subscribe to mailing list * indicates required Email […]
February 2019 - Jan 2020 Two Birmingham artists, who won free studio space for a year in a specially created facility at Bruntwood’s Cornwall Buildings, have moved into their new residence. Joyce Treasure and Suzi Osborn were among 25 applicants for Bruntwood-Grand Union’s artists-in-residence scheme designed to help kick start careers of young or emerging […]
It is striking about Amsterdam-North that women are underrepresented in the streetscape. Mothers spend time at the playgrounds, but the design of public space itself is mostly aimed towards men and younger children. Joyce will be investigating the social routes that women follow in this neighbourhood and the role public areas play in it.
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