Work In Common Residencies 2023
DATES: 28 August – 24 September 2023
ARTISTS: Chiemi Shimada, Matthew Arthur Williams and Nwando Ebizie.
Work in Common is a series of short residencies that encourage artists to experiment with different ways of working – either testing out a speculative idea or developing new collaborations. Each artist will use the spaces at Primary to produce and present work to the public, through screenings, rehearsals, performances, workshops, and meals.
Artist Bios:
Chiemi Shimada is an artist-filmmaker currently based in London. Working with both analogue (8, 16mm film) and digital materials, her films and installations explore memory, in-between states, and filmic spaces. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the ICA London, New Art Exchange, Nunnery Gallery, Museum of Modern Art Gunma, LUX, Typography Center for Contemporary Art, and Image Forum, among others.
Matthew Arthur Williams (he/him) (b. London 1989) is a visual and sound artist, photographer and DJ based in Glasgow. He completed his BA at Manchester Metropolitan University in 2012.
His work has recently been exhibited at Dundee Contemporary Arts (2022), Jupiter Artland and Johnson Terrace Gardens both as part of a commission for Edinburgh Art Festival (2021) with a forthcoming solo show due at Stills, Edinburgh (2024).
He has further developed exhibition projects and commissions with the Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow (2022), Teile2o46, Berlin (2022) Viborg Kunsthal (2021), Street Level Photoworks (2019) and Transmission Gallery (2017).
An unclassifiable polymath, British-Nigerian multidisciplinary artist Nwando fabulates speculative fictions and alternate realities at the intersection of live art, experimental music and multi-sensory installation. She proposes new myths, rituals and provocations for perceptual change, radical care and transformation of the self and community, drawing from science fiction, Black Atlantic ritual cultures, biophilia, neuroscience, her own neurodivergency and Nigerian heritage.
Awards include: An Ivor Novello nomination, an Oram Award, and the Steve Reid Innovation award. Her debut album was released in 2022 on Matthew Herbert’s Accidental Records to critical acclaim.
Commissions include compositions for London Sinfonietta, Aurora Orchestra, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Opera North and Sky Arts.
Her work including live art gigs, sound art installations and curated happenings, has been performanced at Barbican, Rewire Festival, Southbank Centre, Wellcome Collection, Tempo Festival (Rio de Janeiro), Hepworth Wakefield, Melbourne Science Gallery, Tate Britain, Art/Science Museum, Singapore.
