£5.00
Artist Talk – Sam Skinner
Continuing our Artist Talk series, we are excited to invite local artist Sam Skinner to talk about his work.
The Artist Talk series takes place each month and is an opportunity to hear artists and arts professionals talk about their practice. It is also an opportunity to network with other artists with time set aside for questions and conversations.
19th March 2024
6:30 pm – 9pm
£5
Description
Continuing our Artist Talk series, we are excited to invite local artist Sam Skinner to talk about his work.
The Artist Talk series takes place each month and is an opportunity to hear artists and arts professionals talk about their practice. It is also an opportunity to network with other artists with time set aside for questions and conversations.
Sam Skinner Biography
Sam Skinner is an Oxford-based artist, curator and publisher whose current work and interests focus on the materialities and modalities of natureculture and the digital. After employed positions in a commercial gallery, museum, and performance art venue, and a period working as an art director and animator, he has worked as a freelance artist and curator for over 10 years. He co-directs Torque Editions, an itinerant publisher which has published a number of edited volumes and artist books on the intersecting themes of language, mind, and technology, and subjects such as reading and blockchain. Recent books include Frankenstein Reanimated: Creation & Technology in the 21st Century, Radical Friends: Decentralised Autonomous Organisations & the Arts, and the forthcoming BiblioTech: Rereading the Library. Torque Editions often host symposia, workshops, and book launches, with previous events held at Tate Liverpool, Serpentine Gallery, and KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin and have curated exhibitions at NeME, Cyprus and Exhibition Research Lab, Liverpool. Sam co-curated The New Observatory exhibition at FACT, Liverpool and also runs the art/nature curatorial project Fig Studio in Oxford, which has included projects with RESOLVE Collective, Greenpeace, and Natural England. Many of his projects are site specific, participatory, and involve archival and community research. He had a solo exhibition at TACO!, London in 2018 entitled RTM – A Community Radio Station, which presented an archive of the historic Thamesmead Community radio station alongside a new incarnation of radio station, including a functioning studio, which ran for 1 month in the gallery and the station continues to operate today.
Sam also teaches on the BA in Fine Art and MFA at Oxford Brookes, leading professional experience and critical theory modules. He is a co-editor of the Almanac section on Matter: Journal of New Materialist Research and had published work in Back Office, APRJA and Data Browser journals.
Websites for Sam’s projects:
https://fig.studio // https://torquetorque.net // https://samskinner.net
For the talk at art-sauce Sam will present his practice via the prism of a series of projects which have manifested different kinds of community-embedded ‘institutions’, including the observatory, library, radio station, and allotment. He will also reflect on how he uses and brings together a range of processes, for example printmaking and papermaking, archival research and community organising, curating to publishing, to support the emergence of these alternative visions of the institution.
