Circumstantial Avalanche: benaki museum

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contact: cressida.kocienski [at] gmail.com

PROJECTS

Architecture - LONDON/SHEFFIELD OPENkhana

Explores the use of digital techniques for mapping and representation that deal with social, cultural and political issues. The majority of our research deals with representing migrant agency in the city. With architects Nishat Awan and Phil Langley.

Architecture - TORONTO O[S]R (the Office for Spatial Research)

Currently working with Northern Ontario and Tbilisi, Georgia. With architect Suzanne Harris-Brandts.

BOARD MEMBERSHIPS

2013 Board of Directors for Images Festival

2012 - 2014 Pleasure Dome programming collective.

an archive of things here http://dotdotrhombus.tumblr.com/

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While my grandparents* were still alive they would take us to eat Sunday lunch in the local hospital canteen, because it offered an unbeatably reasonable all-you-can-eat buffet with bacon bitzTM. We would dutifully devour congealing potato salad and icecream with six kinds of sprinkles, wedged among the morbidly obese and rotting geriatrics with oxygen tanks plugged into their nostrils. In the corner an elderly gentleman wearing a glitter bowtie and visor hammered out showtunes on a Hammond organ. Grandma would sneak naked chicken legs into her handbag for the cats. She died with Walter Kauffman’s “Critique of Religion and Philosophy” on her shelf, probably unread, which I rescued and haven’t read either.

* (New Yorkers migrated to a shimmering intellectual vacuum in Florida)

Recent Works

2016
Residency: Geophilia
Border Topologies, Project Artist Filmmaker, Black Sea coast

2015
Performance: Peckam Lit Crawl, London

2014

Long Winter First Thursdays at the AGO, Toronto
Critical Juncture, Kalady
Srishti Interim, Bangalore
Screening: Centralia, South Kiosk, London

2013

Curator Pleasure Dome's New Toronto Works 2013, with Francisco-Fernando Granados

British Council // Anadolu Kültür residency in Diyarbakir, SE Turkey

COUGH*SNIFF audio work for radio station, Fogo Island, curated by Lucy Pawlak

FADO Performance Art Centre 2013 Emerging Artists Series, Toronto

Feature Article, FUSE Magazine, with Nishat Awan

2012

film, Switcheroo, with Ame Henderson, Toronto, Canada Screening/Installation, CENTRE, Trinity Square Video, collaboration with Francisco-Fernando Granados, Toronto, Canada Publication, Six Degrees of Separation, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France Publication, Points in Line, ed. Laura McLardy, Berlin Screening, New Toronto Works, Pleasure Dome, Canada Common Assembly DAAR show, The James Gallery, CUNY

Performance, Tenderpixel, London, UK Common Assembly DAAR show, Nottingham Contemporary, UK

2011 Common Assembly DAAR show, CAN, Neuchatel, Switzerland

Border Town, Detroit Design Festival, USA

DAAR residency, Beit Sahour, West Bank, Occupied Palestinian Territories

VASL research and teaching residency, Karachi, Pakistan

2010

Locus Solus, Benaki Museum, Athens

Fantasy Atelier with antepress, ICA, London

Art on the Underground, TfL Jubilee Line residency and publication

London Shiiin, Jet Stream, White Earphones:, David Roberts Art Foundation, with antepress

The Diagram, FormContent, with antepress

2009

Digestives, Resonance 104.4 FM, residency, London, with antepress

Known Unknowns, Whitechapel Gallery, London, with antepress

Word Play, Whitechapel Gallery, London with antepress

Sugar High, MOCCA, Toronto

South London Gallery Writers in Residency program, with antepress

Solo in Azione, Studio 28, Milan

21.5.10

New Work: The Chamber (a litany of the secant)

The Institute of Immaterialism

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