Offsite9: SINGLEPOINT
SINGLEPOINT: Sian Macfarlane, Deborah Stone, Tegen Kimbley, Jasmine Morrison
Four female photographers explore how we navigate the reparative histories of our region when we document culture. Each artist’s practice focuses on framing place, space and community identity. The project is designed to allow for reactive documentation that responds to the city’s engagement with the touring BAS9 and its outcomes. This includes social media takeovers, blogs and tangible materials that allow for communities to engage with and exchange evidence of these shared experiences and transform them with their own participation. Curator Hannah Taylor tells us more.
How does the project bring together four different practices and perspectives?
The project is really about providing agency to the photographers to decide their own responses. Often photographers are given strict parameters when dealing with event photography. We want to provide space for these very different photographers to respond to what they are seeing in the city through their own gaze as women, as artists and as individuals, all with very different experiences and backgrounds of how different communities benefit or don’t benefit from cultural initiatives.
How will the project be manifest?
Each photographer is developing their own response which will appear in different manifestations around the city: some installations, some sticker bombs, some prints, some interviews but their focus is here and now - how does BAS9 and its themes correspond with what the city is and could be?
The process and outcomes will be available to track over social media and printed as bespoke and limited-edition postcards available to find in multiple locations. The idea is that the postcards will change, provide space for other conversations and experiences, to share, to travel and have a legacy of their own, shaped by those who pick them up.
What do you hope the legacy might be?
It's important if we are serious about how we imagine more successful futures together that we start first with creating opportunities for agency with our creatives, and trust that their experiences and histories don't need institutional interpretation.