i am here is produced by Fugitive Images, an artist
collaboration founded in 2009 by Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse
Johansson and Tristan Fennell.
This artist collaboration that grew out of a desire by the artists
to capture the peculiar moment of the place where they live and
work immediately prior to it being demolished. Haggerston Estate is
suspended somewhere between it first being occupied in the 1930's
and imminent demolition in 2009, a place in transformation, in
wait.
We recognize that working directly with specific contexts requires
a set of artistic practices distinct from those emerging out of the
studio and gallery nexus. Outside of the highly controlled
narrative environment of the white cube and exposed to a multitude
of social, economic and political forces it is no longer possible
to maintain the illusion of being in control of context. We
recognize that we are neither the sole originators of meaning nor
interpretation but rather an interlocutor in ongoing dialogue with
the context we are working within.
Andrea uses filmmaking, photography and text to explore the grey
zone between public and private memory. She is a founding member of
Vision Machine, which made The Globalisation Tapes,
Saltfish: The Soap Opera, Disaster Recovery Plan, The Delmarva
Chicken of Tomorrow, as well as work-in progress
presentations, interventions in public space, academic
presentations and gallery exhibitions. She is currently completing
"erase and forget", a documentary about a special forces commander
that inspired the Rambo films.
Lasse uses film and installation to explore the formation of public
spaces and the identities they give rise to. He has curated
large-scale public art works, most notably Contemplation
Room, Copenhagen. A major part of the project consisted of a
printed publication distributed across Copenhagen appropriating the
form of the now ubiquitous free daily newspaper such as Metro,
London Lite etc.
Tristan works with photography and installation to explore the spaces between individual and the surrounding urban landscapes. Tristan has just completed a two-year photography project investigating how objects in the green spaces in Tokyo are used by the homeless communities and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government, to enable or disable it as a dwelling space. His work has been exhibited in various festivals and galleries in Dublin, Tokyo and Singapore.
Andrea completed a practice based PhD at Central St. Martins College of Art in 2007 ["the spectral and spectacular performance of political violence"]. Lasse and Tristan are recent graduates of Goldsmith's MA at the Centre for Urban and Community Research, and have collaborated on previous projects.
email: info@fugitiveimages.org.uk
http://www.fugitiveimages.org.uk
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