Proposals
Alexis Zelda Stevens CV 2018 .pdf
Statement
At a time when there is increasing focus and daily exposure to virtual and simulated experience, I am interested in foregrounding physicality and its role in our experiences as both expressive and structural, especially where our relations to others are concerned. I am interested in the relationship between the real and the artificial, materiality and scale. Touch is the building block of our ability to imagine and understand the three-dimensional world. It’s a corner stone of child development and a human need. All my work begins from an improvisation through touch.
Live work is fundamental to my practice as both a medium and a generator of ideas for static works. The work is informed by research into the experience of physicality on a micro level carried out through dancing (contemporary Limón and Cunningham techniques, and partner dancing) exploring: gravity, contact/partnering, how one thing can lean on, impact on or give weight to another, and qualities of energy, what happens when these qualities meet also. My work is increasingly exploring psychological states and processes, and the recent performance work Contents in Touch (SPACE, June 2017) explored the halting, and sometimes failed, momentum of loss and mourning.
Contextual research includes a series of essays exploring the conversation between visual art and dance in Autumn 2010, as it first sparked across the London arts scene. Written for a dance readership it was published by Dance UK, then the national advocacy body for dance, and a-n's Artist Blogs. Included are interviews with Siobhan Davies and Stephanie Rosenthal; and a longstanding study of Lacanian approaches to psychoanalysis, Carl Jung, Julia Kristeva and popular phsychology.
Thank you for taking the time to review my application.
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Tensile Gestures: Hidden, all these things my voice will disguise, 2017
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Fold Study
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I am still finding grass everywhere since I saw you
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Tensile Gestures: Hidden, all these things my voice will disguise, 2017
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Tensile Gestures: Hidden, all these things my voice will disguise, 2017
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Tensile Gestures: Hidden, all these things my voice will disguise, 2017
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I am still finding grass everywhere since I saw you, 2017
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Fold Study, 2017
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Research, clay and paper prints of photographs of my hand
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Research, clay and paper prints of photographs of my hand
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Grass folding neatly, 2017
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Grass folding, neatly, 2017
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The grass left marks on the back of my legs, 2017
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Contents in Touch, 2017
Directed and devised by me in response to a text of mine, exploring the failed momentum of mourning a significant loss, made in collaboration with Francesco Migliaccio, Marta Polak and Robyn Ann Holder.
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Contents in Touch, 2017
Directed and devised by me in response to a text of mine, exploring the failed momentum of mourning a significant loss, made in collaboration with Francesco Migliaccio, Marta Polak and Robyn Ann Holder.
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Contents in Touch, 2017
Directed and devised by me in response to a text of mine, exploring the failed momentum of mourning a significant loss, made in collaboration with Francesco Migliaccio, Marta Polak and Robyn Ann Holder.
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Counterpart Series, 2016
VIsual art work, collage based installation showing enlarged images collaged into the work.
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Counterpart Series, 2017
Current installation showing enlarged images collaged into the work.
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Research sketch
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Squash, 2015
Art work- image made from collaged images of objects and my body.
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Large Shrub 3- commissioned by Metal Culture for the Artist's Village at Village Green, a one day multi arts festival in Southend.
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Large Shrub 3- commissioned by Metal Culture for the Artist's Village at Village Green, a one day multi arts festival in Southend
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Large Shrub 3- commissioned by Metal Culture for the Artist's Village at Village Green, a one day multi arts festival in Southend
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Interior Landscape, 2005
Two room installation at ArtSway, exploring deconstructing my paintings
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Confronting the Gaze, 2006
Large scale commission for a temporary installation at Phoenix Arts Association
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Under the Thrift; As if the warriors were a dream, 2007
Site-specifc installation in response to Wheal Francis tin and copper mine, Minerals and Tramways Festival
