L/Webb
"A LIFELESS digital CONTRADICTION."
I am an artist, researcher, and curator, my practice currently explores communication, miscommunication, misinterpretation and mistakes. I have recently been researching the importance of listening spaces in communities and I am interested in alternative learning spaces. Through a multidisciplinary practice, I have been investigating the intimacy of electronic devices and digital hospitality observing how new social histories and fictional realities are being created through shared technologies. I am interested in how these inevitable formats of communication can be used to share collective joy, resistance, and hope while being faced with the difficulties of privacy, false news and hidden algorithms. This correlates with my involvement in facilitating workshops inspired by accessible and collective learning.
I am influenced by work ethics, AI, digital, communication, Neurodiversity, peripherals, language and myth through a multidisciplinary practice.
Education-
Associate at Open School East, Margate (January to December 2018)
BA Fine Art- Norwich University of the Arts (2014- 2017)
Foundation in Art and Design, University of the Arts Canterbury (2013 - 2014)
Latest events and projects
Art Coordinator and co-curator for Folke Fest 22 a contemporary folk festival in Folkestone https://www.folkefestival.org/about-us
DDF21 - "Listen Spaces" A salon hosted by Louise Webb
https://www.mixcloud.com/DoverArts/ddf21-listen-spaces-salon-hosted-by-louise-webb/
Supporting Dover Arts Development with the DDF21 - working on the new contributor search system with Louisa Love, collecting and analyzing social media data for the festival. Co-curating DAD radio, hosting a salon.
DAD RADIO on DCR 2021 -2022 Co-creator and Co - Host
https://www.dadonline.uk/projects/dad-radio/
Completely Aimless - Virtual Exhbition - 25/12/ 20 - 01/01/2021
Digital Disconnections and Intimate Artificial Realities working with Greg Ireland - Normal Festival of the Brain - 11/12/20 - 18/12/20
Folkestone Pride Fundraiser - XMAS HOUSE PARTY ONLINE - Disconnected, Please Try Again - 12/12/20
SOCIAL ART LIBRARY BY AXIS - 2020
https://www.socialartlibrary.org/library/to-change-75ntb-ffjbj-7lka7?rq=Louise
Co-Host of WHAT NEXT? SALON #2: Fair Exchange and the ethics of invitation with Dover Arts Development - online salon - 23/06/2020
Dover Studio Open Online Exhibition -30/05/20-31/05/20
Stone Beginnings - St Edmunds Chapel Dover June 2020 (Postponed)-
Axis Web Highlights -https://www.axisweb.org/highlights/2019/new-art-highlights-15-21-july/
Antiuniversity 2019: No More Miserable Monday Mornings - 18/06/19 - Co-organised workshop with Katie Fiore - Well Projects, Margate
The Parliament of Schools - Co-presenting a talk with Anna Colin on Alternative Education, being part of discussions with multiple participants from Alternative institutions - Bauhaus, Dessau 20-24/03/19
Gut Feelings, OSE End of Year Show, 2018 -
50 Athelstan Road, CT9 2BH Margate, Kenthttps://www.facebook.com/events/314983242427390/?active_tab=about
Abstract phone films, storytelling & social media workshop
- Pie Factory - Analogue Ensemble commission with Art Council Funding - 28/03/19
Strong Currents - OSE associates in collaboration with Marguritte Humeau21/04/18
Open School East at Guest Projects 26/05/18
Contemporary Excorcism - Whitstable Biennial 08/06/18
Threads Residency - Big Dover Local, 11/07/18
Dover Arts Development in collaboration with Norths Down Way writers Walk with Chris Poundwhite- 05/08/18
Limbo Residency - July 2018
Art in the Park: Kearney interpreted, Residency - July 2018
OSE Feedback, Art Licks, Croydon Arts Centre and continuing online platform - September 2018
Play Co-organised the Big Draw for Dover for Dover Arts Development- 23rd October 2018
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Previous exhibitions -
Free Range - The Old Truman Brewery, Brick Lane, London - July 2017
We: You, Me, (Narrative Whispers) - Firstsite, Colchester, Essex. October to November 2017
Reflections on the Tide - Against the Landscape (Curator) - River Garage Gallery, Dover, Kent March 2018
U2Opia : The Collaborative Exhibition Of Tomorrow - Nunns Yard, Norwich, May 2018
Preivous Exhbitions
Paint- Norwich University of the Arts 2014
Quotidian- Norwich - 2015
"Painting"- Co-Curator/Exhibitor -Norwich - 2016
Pop-Up First-site Gallery, Colchester- 2016
Feminist Rot Studio 20, Norwich, Norfolk - 2016
Live Performance piece as part of CHA|RADE in collaboration with students from Camberwell UAL- March 2016
"Expanded Field of What?!" V1 and V2 in collaboration with Drew Burrett - 2016
Red Herring (part of the Co-Op) - Norwich
Bad party music, Muffled Speech and Party Treats Norwich - 2016
The Space Between Your Mouth and My Ear Norwich - 2017
Formation - Nunns Yard, Norwich - Part of Pop My Mind
Untitled-Backwards Nunns Yard, Norwich - Co-Curator - 2017
NoN - Diagetic - Nunns Yard, Norwich- Co-Curator 2017
Down in One - Frittenden, Kent -2017
Marmalade- Cyprus School of Art - May 2017
Norwich University of The Arts Degree Show- June - July 2017
Relevant Information -
British Art Show 8 Live Guide - Norwich - June - September 2016
Volunteer Mentor for Photography at City College, Norwich - 2016 and 17
Gallery Assistant - East Gallery - Norwich - September 2016-2017
Volunteer at Houghton Hall - Assisting with workshops in relation to Richard Long's Installations- July 2017
Folkestone Triennial Host - 2017
Collaborations/Group Member-
Open School East- Associate, Margate
Incidental Unit - Worked with on RADMIN project 2019 and attend regular meetings.
CHA|RADE- Group Member
Dover Studio Collective - Member
Gunton's CO-OP - Group Member
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"It's like a broken record on repeat"