MEMBRANES, 2024
Hypha Studios, Stratford
Group Show curated by Jennifer Crouch

Kindly supported by Get Living

MEMBRANES: Interactions and Intentions between Bodies, Biomes and Technologies is a presentation of painted, woven, film-based and sculptural works by six artists, curated by art-science practitioner Dr. Jennifer Crouch. Exhibiting artists include Becky Lyon, Georgina Hopkin, Molly Bonnell, Fawziyah Rahman, Ella Justine Frost and Jennifer Crouch.

https://membranes.cargo.site/



MERGER

film installation






I installed a film called MERGER.

Merger (05:31) is made using granular synthesis, images of the artist's body with the mirror effect in Photobooth and quotes submitted from (self-defining) women and non-binary folk in intimate situations with their partners. The quotes in the video are what they heard.

Science fiction was a substantial influence on the project. The film seeks to highlight the alienation one can feel with another but also touches on the arbitrary nature of sex, the comedy of it and if we are lucky, the beauty of it.

The film debuted at a sold-out show with Hysteria Collective at Hackney Picturehouse in London in 2015. Stills were shown in the V&S Gallery in Mexico City in 2016.

     


BLACK VAMPIRES
workshop 20th & 27th March 2024






This event will feature a basic introduction to ‘Soucouyants’: Black vampiric depictions in Caribbean folklore and Western media. Through the workshop, we will embark on an exploration of how these vampiric traits may inspire, distort, and allow for freedom in our everyday lives. Hibiscus tea, dark chocolate, salad, and bread will be shared with participants.

We will discuss how membranes are a boundary and border, and an interface for connections. We will discuss how #membranes relate to the physical, sexual, geographical and social aspects of the figure of the vampire. And how the vampire transgresses boundaries between self and other, as AN OTHERWISE…AN UN GOOD.






BLOOD BAG
collaborative  sculpture


Found materials
Organic matter
Potato sacks
Vegetable nets
Suction packs





I co-created ‘BLOODBAG’ sculpture with
Ged  Boden and Robbie White.

Skin is a boundary that separates the bodies physically, divides us spatially and lets one feign security in knowing where one body ends and the other begins. Blood that expels cyclically is less easy to stabilise. Menstrual blood is a site for a multitude of attitudes both societally influenced and deeply personal that can range from realignment, relief, frustration, disgust and curiosity among many. Expanding from a personal questioning of the potential uses of menstrual blood, this collaborative sculpture between Ged Boden, Robbie White and Ella Frost experiments with associations between blood, soil, nourishment, and collective rhythms and symbiosis. Agitating anxieties of blood mixing and how that relates to gender fuckery, sexual intimacies and rejects the ‘pure’ ludicrousy of race.