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I'm finally Instagramming some of my Rocks & Fortresses adventures: tracking invisible empires along the Mediterranean. #rocks #fortresses and things that happen along the way. 

Posted @withregram • @other_objects This is Sam King (1926 - 2016). A decade ago, Sam was kind enough to grant me an interview at his home in Brixton. Sam was the first black mayor of any London borough. He fought in the RAF during WWII. He too
Posted @withregram • @other_objects This is Sam King (1926 - 2016). A decade ago, Sam was kind enough to grant me an interview at his home in Brixton. Sam was the first black mayor of any London borough. He fought in the RAF during WWII. He took citizenship seriously. He was also one of the passengers on the Windrush when it arrived at Tilbury in 1948. When I interviewed Sam, I was researching the cultural memory of the Windrush for a PhD. I knew the passenger log inside out, and I knew that there were far more migrants onboard than the 492 usually named. If anything, the Windrush was far more significant than was generally known. But archives weren’t enough; without talking to people who had been there, I knew the history was missing something essential. Although Sam had been asked to tell his story many times — I’d occasionally see him giving an interview when I lived in Brixton — he was very generous. He enriched with a vital personal narrative what would have otherwise been an amendment to a few facts and figures. The stakes of that story, for me as a white academic and Sam as someone who made that moment, would always be starkly different. But I at least had faith in the permanence of the Windrush as a monumental and celebratory symbol. I had deeply underestimated the racism of the modern Conservative party. When the news broke about the Windrush generation deportations, I was sickened in a way I still cannot articulate. The deportations, the denial of access to public services, were acts of vandalism to that generation and to people’s lives. I’m writing this now, provisional thoughts though there are, to say this: however terrible you believe the politics of the right to be, no matter what knowledge you arm yourself with, to be black in Britain is to risk discovering that they are far, far worse than you imagined. I don’t know how Sam would have responded to the recent demonstrations. But personally, public health aside, seeing protesters on the streets and Colston rolled into the river are some of the few hopeful political acts I’ve witnessed in recent times. Portrait by Corinne Silva (From War to Windrush, 2007, IWM collections).
Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Aerial View. Agnes Denes, 1982.⁣ ⁣ “My decision to plant a wheat field in Manhattan instead of designing just another public sculpture, grew out of the longs
Wheatfield – A Confrontation: Battery Park Landfill, Downtown Manhattan – Aerial View. Agnes Denes, 1982.⁣ ⁣ “My decision to plant a wheat field in Manhattan instead of designing just another public sculpture, grew out of the longstanding concern and need to call attention to our misplaced priorities and deteriorating human values,” Denes wrote. “Placing it at the foot of the World Trade Center, a block from Wall Street, facing the Statue of Liberty, also had symbolic import.... It represented food, energy, commerce, world trade, economics. It referred to mismanagement, waste, world hunger and ecological concerns.”⁣ ⁣ #conceptualart #contemporaryart #landart #climatejustice
⁣ Wheatfield – A Confrontation by Agnes Denes, Manhattan, 1982.
⁣ Wheatfield – A Confrontation by Agnes Denes, Manhattan, 1982.

Silva+Sajovic: Beating the Bounds, Walk Four

Beating The Bounds participatory walk
Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic with Revd. Dr. Peter Stevenson
Friday 7 October 2016, 5pm – 6pm

Meeting place: outside main entrance to London College of Communication

Elephant & Castle doesn’t exist as a political ward, yet it takes shape in the imaginations of people who live and work in the area. Artists Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic invite LCC students, staff and members of the community to join them for a participatory walk, led by Revd. Dr. Peter Stevenson, the minister of Crossway United Reformed Church. Peter will show us his personal boundaries of the Elephant & Castle, and share the story of the church’s one hundred year engagement with local people. 

Beating the Bounds is part of London College of Communication's public programme.

Artist in Residence at The Mansion, Beirut

5 - 20 September 2016 I'm in Beirut with writer Martina Caruso, staying as guests of artist-run space The Mansion, and travelling along Lebanon’s coastlines making new work for Rocks & Fortresses. I'm posting pictures on Instagram: corinne.silva.rocks 

Earth collected from each location I make a photograph in will be ground into paint pigment.

Earth collected from each location I make a photograph in will be ground into paint pigment.

Silva+Sajovic: Beating the Bounds Walk Three

Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 5.30 pm, led by Danny Hollowell

Elephant & Castle doesn’t exist as a political ward, yet it exists in the imagination of people who live and work in the area. Artists Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic invite students and members of the community to join them for a participatory walk, led by Danny Hollowell, who will show us his personal boundaries of the Elephant & Castle.

Beating the Bounds is an ancient English custom in which a priest and members of the community, armed with willow boughs, would beat the parish boundary markers, lest they be forgotten.

Walks will be digitally traced using an app. The artists will then superimpose the resulting drawings to identify a collective boundary of the area and produce a multi-media map.

Beating the Bounds is part of London College of Communication's public programme.

 

Chelsea Flower Fringe Cyanotype

Saturday, 5th June 2016 , 11.30am – 3.30pm

Join artists Melanie King, Corinne Silva, Eva Sajvoic and Alice Cazenave in a workshop to create a massive cyanotype print using sunlight, plant debris and salvaged flowers from New Covent Garden Market.

Silva+Sajovic: Beating the Bounds Walk Two

Friday, 15 April 2016, 2-3pm, led by artist Rebecca Davies.

Elephant & Castle doesn’t exist as a political ward, yet it exists in the imagination of people who live and work in the area. Artists Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic invite students and members of the community to join them for a participatory walk, led by artist Rebecca Davies who will show us her personal boundaries of the Elephant & Castle.

Beating the Bounds is an ancient English custom in which a priest and members of the community, armed with willow boughs, would beat the parish boundary markers, lest they be forgotten.

Walks will be digitally traced using an app. The artists will then superimpose the resulting drawings to identify a collective boundary of the area and produce a multi-media map.

Beating the Bounds is part of London College of Communication's public programme.

The walk is part of TCCE programme of walks.

 

Performance: Eating the Bones

6.30pm Wednesday 10th February 2016

Corinne Silva and Eva Sajovic will perform Eating the Bones within their installation Five Hundred Flowers and the Mother Plant at UAL/LCC's Lower Gallery installation as part of the WILD: ReNaturing the City symposium. The performance embodies a number of voices including memories of individuals collected during workshops held by Silva + Sajovic with the People’s Bureau at Tate Britain (October 2015).

Silva+Sajovic: Beating the Bounds Walk One

Tuesday 9 February 2016,
2-3pm, led by Alison Proctor of Siobhan Davies Dance.

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Elephant & Castle doesn’t exist as a political ward, yet it exists in the imagination of people who live and work in the area. Artists Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic invite students and members of the community to join them for a participatory walk, led by Alison Proctor of Siobhan Davies Dance who will show us her personal boundaries of the Elephant & Castle.

Beating the Bounds is an ancient English custom in which a priest and members of the community, armed with willow boughs, would beat the parish boundary markers, lest they be forgotten.

Walks will be digitally traced using an app. The artists will then superimpose the resulting drawings to identify a collective boundary of the area and produce a multi-media map.

Beating the Bounds is part of London College of Communication's public programme.

Symposium: Artists in the Field - Ephemeral Landscapes and Experimental Geographies

Parasol Unit, Saturday 16 January,  2 - 5 pm,  £8/6(conc.) Booking required

With itinerant artist network *TSOEG including Ignacio Acosta, Luce Choules, Andrew Ranville, Corinne Silva, and Emma Smith, and keynote speaker Dr Harriet Hawkins, Royal Holloway University of London. 

This symposium will consider the wider role of fieldwork in contemporary arts practice, including themes of exploration in Julian Charriere's work. A panel of artists will share insights into their research, personal fieldwork methodologies, and artist-led expeditions. A discussion will be opened up to examine artistic practice in the landscape, reflecting on the ways artists are redefining the geographic narratives of place, site and encounter.

*TSOEG - Temporal School of Experimental Geography is an itinerant network of artists sharing ideas and responses to landscape through fieldwork. The aim of TSOEG is to bring together artists working across a range of disciplines and geographic environments, to discuss fieldwork as methodology, parallel activity, art form, and research. 

Panel discussion: Royal Geographical Society

 ‘Artists in the Field’, Sunday 15 Nov, 3-4.30pm as part of
Explore 2015, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), London, UK

Artists: Luce Choules, Andrew Ranville, Corinne Silva, Ignacio Acosta with Jakub Bojczuk, and TSOEG guest artist Tuur Van Balen.

Before inviting questions from the audience, the panel will showcase various expeditions and/or fieldwork relating to recent work in a diverse range of geographical locations: French Alps, USA, Middle East, Poland/Chile, and Democratic Republic of Congo.

Exhibition: Silva+Sajovic: One Thousand Flowers From A Test Tube

Corinne Silva + Eva Sajovic, as part of In/Visible Cities - London, with Keith Piper, Dubmorphology, Ines Von Bonhorst, Yuri Pirondi and Fatima Bianchi, 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning. 

13 November to 19 December 2015. Closing party 18th December, 7pm till late, Eating the Bones performance 8pm.                                                                                            

Silva+Sajovic's installation opens with one thousand red geranium plug plants bought from an industrial plant nursery in Holland and a number of geraniums from the Red Jan Line. The installation, which will evolve over the coming months as it moves to different spaces in London provides the context to explore methods for disrupting prevalent human/plant hierarchies. In the Spring the artists will begin to hybridise the Red Jan Line with the nursery plants.