UCL Trellis 2021 -2022
Exhibition experience film for UCL Trellis 2021-2022
The exhibition for UCL Trellis 2021 -2022 took place at the Art Pavilion in Mile End from the 29 April - 10 May 2022. The exhibition, curated by Rosie Murdoch, showcases collaborative commissions grown from UCL research, and I was commissioned to create a film that captured the experience of visiting the exhibition, and some of the stories within it from the six projects that were exhibited:
Tailor Made: Artist Kassandra Lauren Gordon and researcher Ayse U. Akarca // Tailor-Made is an active participatory project that looks insight into individuals have a relationship with cancer through wearable art.
Material Design Meets AI: Artist Ella Bulley and researcher Amy Widdicombe // Material Design Meets AI is a collaboration which explores the use of materials as learning tools to teach about elements of AI and bring it to a new audience.
Patterns of Connection: Artist Marysa Dowling and researchers Catherine Perrodin and Liam Browne // As we wake up from an unsettling year marked by a brutal shift to virtual communication and over-reliance on our small “bubbles”, how do we use all of our senses to reconnect with each other and build new bridges across communities?
Another Provision: Artist Johann Arens and researcher Dr Hanna Baumann // During the Covid crisis, the food insecurity long plaguing communities across east London has come into sharp relief. We will be exploring ways to work towards food justice by examining the networks needed to sustain it as an essential service and a basic human right.
Bubble Words: Artist Duncan Paterson and researchers Azadeh Shariati and Helge Wurdemann // Our collective vision is: “to explore, through a process of intense collaboration and co-creation, how we can use our respective skills as researchers and artists to meet challenges faced by disadvantaged people in this pandemic era.”
Material Conversations: Artist Caroline Wright, researchers Maryam Bandukda, Tim Adlam , Youngjun Cho and Ben Oldfrey // This project brings together researchers, artists, disabled and non-disabled people to explore and discover new perspectives into enablement empowered by technology and creativity.
Commissioned as part of the UCL Trellis: Public Art project. Trellis is a knowledge exchange programme between researchers from UCL, artists and communities connected to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park where UCL East opened in 2023. It’s part of the wider vision for UCL Public Art and Community Engagement.
Trellis was conceived by Sam Wilkinson, Head of Public Art at UCL, Lizzy Baddeley, UCL East Community and Engagement Manager and Curator Rosie Murdoch.