Ali McCann / Campus 2022From 8 September until 26 November 2022, resident artist Ali McCann will present her three month research project on-site Campus: A study of educational, domestic, and deep dark space (In perpetual flux), 2022. Comprising new photographic and video works, found images and objects, the project continues Ali’s longstanding inquiry into the constructed nature of photography and the possibilities of creating alternate visual and psychological realities. This first instalment is about research and ideas - a continuation of Ali's examination of the central theme of nostalgia. As her residency continues, she will create new works that extend her inquiries and expand the mode of her artistic field to encompass moving image, sound, sculpture, and performance. The project will build to its culmination in a special exhibit and event to be presented in November, what Ali describes as: A symbolic constellation of apophenia, or what the German psychiatrist Klaus Conrad describes as an “unmotivated seeing of connections (accompanied by) a specific feeling of abnormal meaningfulness. To read a fascinating interview with the artist conducted as part of an earlier project entitled A Room with a View, scan the QR below. To learn more about the found images and objects and new works, come along to Ali’s artist talk on 8 October 2-3pm.
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