Helen Cammock lives and works in North Wales and London. Her interdisciplinary practice spans film, photography, print, text, song and performance, and engages with historical and contemporary narratives around oppression and resistance, wealth and power, poverty and vulnerability. Moving fluidly across time and geography, her works often layer multiple voices and perspectives to explore the cyclical nature of history through poetic, visual and aural assemblage.
This talk is an introduction to the way Cammock approaches projects; how she uses archives to activate conversations across histories and geographies; how she brings herself into the work as both catalyst and conduit and how she works with communities and individuals to develop intersectional woven narratives.
The talk will use extracts from three films to explore these themes:
– Che Si Può Fare, 2019
– The Long Note, 2018
– Bass Notes and SiteLines: The Voice as a site of Resistance and the body as a site of resilience, 2022
Helen Cammock was awarded the Max Mara Art Prize for Women in 2017 and was a joint recipient of the Turner Prize in 2019 and has exhibited and performed worldwide with recent solo shows including Bass Notes and SiteLines, Amant, Brooklyn, USA (2023), Helen Cammock: I Will Keep My Soul, Art + Practice, Los Angeles, and UNO Gallery, New Orleans USA (2023), They Call it Idlewild, Oakville Galleries, Ontario, Canada (2023), behind the eye is the promise of rain, Kestner Gesellshaft, Hannover, Germany (2022), Concrete Feathers and Porcelain Tacks, The Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK (2021), Beneath the Surface of Skin, STUK Art Centre, Leuven, Belgium (2021), Che Si Può Fare (What Can be Done), Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (2019), Che Si Può Fare, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy (2019) and The Long Note, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (2019); VOID, Derry, Northern Ireland (2018).
The event is not hybrid. You’re welcome to attend in person—no registration is needed, and access is free. The recording of the talk will be accessible on our YouTube page.
