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Our guest speaker for this month’s Creative Network is Charlie Tweed. Charlie works in video, text and performance, his recent works have drawn attention to the complex impacts of global capitalism in terms of resource extraction, ecological destruction and the deployment of digital technologies to manage populations and environment. The event image featured - Film still from Notes From the Subsurface (2020)
After the discussion with Charlie here will be an activity for attendees to respond to a particular site using speculative fiction to draw out a plan for its future.
Join us in person at The Engine Room or watch online. Doors open at 6pm. Creative Network will start at 6.30pm.
Biography:
Recent solo shows include: Notes From the Subsurface, EarthArt Gallery, Bristol (2020); “Soon we will become output” (2017), Stanley Picker Gallery, London; “i am algorithm” (2013) at Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth and Exeter Phoenix; “Notes I, II & III” (2010/11) at Spike Island, Bristol; Animate Projects and Alma Enterprises, London.
Recent group shows include: Visions in the Nunnery 2020, Nunnery, London; Silent Signal, Daejeon Artist House, South Korea; VAEFF, Tribeca Film Centre, NYC; Kew Gardens Film Festival, Queens Museum, NYC; “Selected VI” (videoclub touring programme); “Both Sides Now III: Screenings in East Asia” (videoclub); “Silent Signal” (multiple venues); Oberhausen Short Film Festival; “Cold Bodies, Warm Machines”, NRW-Dusseldorf; Inland Art Festival; “dragged down into lowercase” (Sommerakademie) at the Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland; “The Box Season 5”, Aberystwyth Arts Centre, Wales; “The London Open”, Whitechapel Gallery.
Residencies and awards include: EarthArt Fellowship 2019-20, Earth Sciences, Bristol University; Wellcome Trust Large Arts Award (2015-17); AHRC Funding award (2011-17); Grizedale Arts Residency Programme (2005 and 2011); Sommerakaedemie, Zentrum Paul Klee (2008); Aspex Emergency 5 Winner 2011; Startpoint European Academies Award (2008); Whitstable Biennale (2008).
His films have been screened internationally at venues including: ICA, London; CCA, Glasgow; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Watershed, Bristol; Plymouth Arts Centre; CAFA, Beijing; Quad, Derby; Eastside Projects, Birmingham; Castlefield, Manchester.