EURO—VISION, FRAUD (2021), euro-vision.net. Web design and development by Liebermann Kiepe Reddemann
Where: Online, via zoom
Booking: Booking required
Through art practice, how can we foster different cultural practices, political imaginations, networks of mutuality and relations, and even modes of world (un)making?
In this talk, artist duo FRAUD will present their ongoing project EURO–VISION, a research-led enquiry that explores how “extraction” can be understood beyond the removal and displacement of minerals, and instead, extend to include how policies, futures markets, international treaties and regulations anticipate interlocking chains of planetary dispossession.
To date, the project has produced a web platform-as-exhibition (euro-vision.net), exhibitions, public programmes, and a podcast series. The ongoing project, in conversation with academics, practitioners, economists, lawyers, activists and journalists, explores the extractive gaze of the UK and the European Union’s institutions and policies, focusing on the modalities in which Critical Minerals shape our material-infrastructural condition; it also gestures towards how art can be a tool to render cognitive maps which facilitate the apprehension of supply chain dynamics and their entanglements with financialisaton.
EURO–VISION was commissioned originally by RADAR Loughborough, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial and Arts Catalyst; the podcast series is edited by Canon Batur and hosted by the Nottingham Contemporary Journal.
About FRAUD:
FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Françîcco Gayardo) is an artist duo whose work has been exhibited internationally. Their artistic and investigate practice poses questions that aim to de-centre dominant legal and policy systems validating and perpetuating resource- and commodity-oriented relations.
Somerset House Studios alumni, the duo, currently Stanley Picker Fellows, has also been selected for Artangel’s Making Time (2023), as well as awarded the HBK Braunschweig Fellowship (2020), the King’s College Cultural Institute Grant (2018) and has been commissioned by Contemporary Art Archipelago (2022), the Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), RADAR Loughborough (2020) and the Cockayne Foundation (2018).
Audrey is a professor in More-Than-Computational Arts at l’École de Recherche Graphique. Francisco is an architect who was awarded the Wellcome Trust People Awards (2016) and authored Talking Dirty published by Arts Catalyst (2016). They are Studio Tutor in Architecture at Loughborough University and in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.
FRAUD’s current investigations can be explored through the EURO—VISION platform euro-vision.net
Access: If you have any access requirements that you'd like to discuss, or if there's anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you, please email associates@spikeisland.org.uk or call our reception on 0117 929 2266.
Kaleidoscope Network:
This is a private event for current members of the Kaleidoscope Network only.
This event has been organised by Primary for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects(Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). Primary residentsand members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network and can attend selected events programmed by each partner for free.
Eastside Projects makes art public. Based in Birmingham, they are an artist-run multiverse, commissioning, producing and presenting experimental art practices and demonstrating ways in which art may be useful as part of society. Extra Ordinary People is Eastside Projects’ Associate membership scheme. EOP works with artists, curators and art-writers to support the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities and projects.
Spike Island is a dynamic arts centre that supports, produces and presents contemporary art and culture. A short walk from Bristol city centre. Spike Island Associates is a dynamic network of artists, curators, designers, writers and thinkers at all stages of their career. Members span multiple disciplines and share a common interest in collaboration, experimentation and a desire to learn new skills and have new experiences.
The NewBridge Project is an artist-led space that supports artists, curators and communities through the provision of space for creative practice, curatorial opportunities and an ambitious artist-led programme of exhibitions, commissions, artist development and events.