2024 Emerging Curators Group
2023–2024 Tate and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
Developing curatorial research on contemporary Scottish moving image practice and receiving professional development with a national co-hort of curators.
ECG Profile
Curatorial Research
Curatorial Research, British Art Studies, Artists’ Moving Image
2024 Venice Biennale Fellowship01–31–24 - 12-01-24British Council at the Venice Biennale
Represent the UK at the British Pavilion during John Akomfrah's exhibition at the 60th International Art Exhibition from and they develop my own curatorial research on sonic watery topographies
Venice Fellows 2024
Curatorial Research
Venice Biennale, John Akomfrah, Artists’ Moving Image, Curatorial Research, Fellowship
Turning the Tide Conference
24–04–24 Turning the Tide Conference, April 2024, EU Consortium
Invited to present research on artists’ role in reimagining urban spaces and curatorial research with 16NSt into the Govan Graving Docks for the 2024 Turning the Tide Conference
TTT Project
Research
16NSt Curatorial Collective, Urban Space, Artists’ Moving Image, Place & Memory, Watery Topographies, Curatorial Research
Awarded SGSAH/ AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership10-2022 - 03-2026Drawing from urban studies, postcolonial theory, and media/film theory, this practice-led curatorial project investigates how curating moving images can contest and unsettle the social, historical and material aspects of colonial urban spaces. The curatorial practice-led research aims to test and deliver situated methods of ‘spatial’ (Rendell, 2006) inquiry to reveal vital new understandings of Glasgow’s urban space in artists’ moving image. The project will analyze works of artists’ moving image from the past 5 years which have contested Glasgow’s spatial heritage by introducing new affects over and within its urban spaces and infrastructures, including works from Sulaïman Majali, Alberta Whittle, Anne-Marie Copestake, Winnie Herbstein and Tako Taal. Through curating these disparate forms of moving image together, the research asks if new affective, social, and historical understandings can be developed that shift post-industrial heritage.
SGSAH Researcher Page
AHRC Phd Studentship Award
Academic Research, Curatorial Research, Urban Space, PhD Research, Glasgow School of Art, Research Development, Artists’ Moving Image
Ethical Engagements in Community-Engaged Research09–2023 – 11-2023Co-Organised SGSAH PhD Researcher Training Series, Sept – Nov 2023 for researchers across the SGSAH Consortium of HEIs. Led and facilitated 'Practicising Ethics for Built Environment Research’ event with Dr. Jane Rendell, Dr. David Roberts and Dr. Yael Padan (Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL).
Research
Academic Research, Curatorial Research, Urban Space, SGSAH, PhD Research, Research Development
Making the Familiar Strange: Practice Research Symposium26–04–24Queen Margaret University, Practice Researcher Consortium
Invited to Present on curatorial practice-led research methodologies and participate in symposium panel.
Conference
Research
Practice Research, SGSAH, Curatorial Research, Symposium, Conference, Research Methods
Noughties Teenage Lullaby (2023) by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao) and Shae Myles 16–12–23 16NSt curatorial collective presents “Noughties Teenage Lullaby“ directed by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao) with Shae Myles @shae.guava. The live performance activates Myles' life-size sculptural installation, subverting the charming domestic space of the Polly Pocket compact. Costumes designed and produced by Femme Castratrice (Chao-Ying Rao).
Video Teaser
Curatorial, Performance
Curatorial, Performance, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
DEVOTION “Queer Play” Writing Workshop with Sophie Robinson 22–11–23“Queer Play” Experimental online writing workshop with DEVOTION! Wed, 22nd November, 2pm-4pm.
You are invited to a creative writing workshop expanding on the theme of play in Shae Myles’ upcoming exhibition “Hush lil baby.” The workshop will take inspiration from Queer Ancestral Writing Practices and queer literature to explore queer femme play, joy and “jouissance” (physical or intellectual pleasure, delight, or ecstasy) with writer/ poet Sophie Robinson, founder of DEVOTION writing workshops. In the workshop, Robinson will discuss a piece of writing by a beloved queer ancestor, and you can expect accessible explanations of prompts and techniques, in-class structured group writing time, and opportunities for optional discussion and sharing.
Workshop
Curatorial, Workshop
Curatorial, Workshop, Experimental Writing, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
Hush Lil’ Baby... Shae Myles’ Solo Exhibition
16–12–23 - 23-11-2316NSt curatorial collective presents the first solo exhibition of Glasgow-based emerging artist Shae Myles in ‘Hush lil baby’, inspired by the world of the 1990s Polly Pocket compacts. Myles’ exhibition displays an interactive sculptural installation that will act as a site for live intervention and performance directed by Femme Catratrice, along with a series of drawings. Shae’s sculptural work, which investigates play theories, femme aesthetics, secrets, obsession, and consumer culture, uses the immersive installation to posit the viewer at the intersection of these themes. The exhibition is hosted at partner venue Strange Field, and will take place in their French Street gallery space in Dalmarnock. Curating and collaborating with the artist, 16NSt are facilitating a month-long exploratory research and in-situ making period at Kiosk in Govanhill, which will invite the community into Myles’ creative process, asking them to contribute to our secrets hotline.
Conference
Curatorial, Exhibition
Curatorial, Exhibition, Feminist Curating, 16NSt Curatorial Collective
Closing Performance by Jen DeNike
16–09–23Cruated live performance choreographed and performed by Jen DeNike in the closing event of “Rupture, Rapture: Womxn in Collage” at Patricia Fleming Gallery. “Becoming Rain” is a performance activating DeNike’s multi-media collage installation, presented within the exhibition. The artist’s practice of collage and performance have always been inextricably linked; one is not a product of the other, but rather the two are positioned in a constant dialogue. The performance will explore embodied methodologies of movement, ecstatic dance and repetition with 9 accompanying dancers. “Becoming Rain” performance includes a musical score of selected tracks from Enyang Ha’s newly released debut album “Name of Your Light”.
Performance, Curatorial
Curatorial, Performance, Site Activation