For the second Dream Actions artist Jade Montserrat will join Erica Scourti in conversation talking through some of her work across drawing, painting, performance, film, and text. Montserrat works at the intersection of art and activism, interrogating these mediums with the aim to expose gaps in our visual and linguistic habits. Together they will discuss recurring themes in her work, including her notion of Affectionate Movement, ecologies of care, critique of institutions and structural oppression and the demands placed on bodies within and outside the performance space.
BIOGRAPHY
Jade Montserrat lives and works in Scarborough, North Yorkshire and is the Stuart Hall Foundation practice-based PhD candidate at The Institute for Black Atlantic Research, The University of Central Lancashire (2017-). She graduated from the Courtauld Institute of Art in 2003 and Norwich University of the Arts in 2010.
Recent selected screenings, performances and presentations include: Arnolfini, and Spike Island, Bristol (2017), Alison Jacques Gallery (2017) and Princeton University (2016). Montserrat works collaboratively with artist and performance collectives including Network 11, Press Room, the Conway Cohort, Rainbow Tribe: Affectionate Movement and Ecology of Care. She is the recipient of the Jerwood Drawing Prize student award (2017).
LAST EVENT IN THE SERIES
Thu 18 Jan 2018 - Collective Responses: screening and discussion. Speakers to be confirmed.