Artist duo FRAUD present their project EURO–VISION, a research-led inquiry that explores the concept of ‘extraction’, through art practice.
Kaleidoscope Network
Online Event
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Artist duo FRAUD present their project EURO–VISION, a research-led inquiry that explores the concept of ‘extraction’, through art practice.
Thursday 16 May 2024
6pm – 7.15pm
Online
Free – booking through Spike Island’s Eventbrite
Through art practice, how can we foster different cultural practices, political imaginations, networks of mutuality and relations, and even modes of world (un)making?
In this talk, artist duo FRAUD will present their ongoing project EURO–VISION, a research-led enquiry that explores how “extraction” can be understood beyond the removal and displacement of minerals, and instead, extend to include how policies, futures markets, international treaties and regulations anticipate interlocking chains of planetary dispossession.
To date, the project has produced a web platform-as-exhibition (euro-vision.net), exhibitions, public programmes, and a podcast series. The ongoing project, in conversation with academics, practitioners, economists, lawyers, activists and journalists, explores the extractive gaze of the UK and the European Union’s institutions and policies, focusing on the modalities in which Critical Minerals shape our material-infrastructural condition; it also gestures towards how art can be a tool to render cognitive maps which facilitate the apprehension of supply chain dynamics and their entanglements with financialisaton.
EURO–VISION was commissioned originally by RADAR Loughborough, the 5th Istanbul Design Biennial and Arts Catalyst; the podcast series is edited by Canon Batur and hosted by the Nottingham Contemporary Journal.
Image credit: EURO—VISION, FRAUD (2021), euro-vision.net. Web design and development by Liebermann Kiepe Reddemann
About FRAUD
FRAUD (Audrey Samson and Françîcco Gayardo) is an artist duo whose work has been exhibited internationally. Their artistic and investigate practice poses questions that aim to de-centre dominant legal and policy systems validating and perpetuating resource- and commodity-oriented relations.
Somerset House Studios alumni, the duo, currently Stanley Picker Fellows, has also been selected for Artangel’s Making Time (2023), as well as awarded the HBK Braunschweig Fellowship (2020), the King’s College Cultural Institute Grant (2018) and has been commissioned by Contemporary Art Archipelago (2022), the Istanbul Design Biennial (2020), RADAR Loughborough (2020) and the Cockayne Foundation (2018).
Audrey is a professor in More-Than-Computational Arts at l’École de Recherche Graphique. Francisco is an architect who was awarded the Wellcome Trust People Awards (2016) and authored Talking Dirty published by Arts Catalyst (2016). They are Studio Tutor in Architecture at Loughborough University and in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins.
FRAUD’s current investigations can be explored through the EURO—VISION platform euro-vision.net.
If you have any access requirements that you’d like to discuss, or if there’s anything we can do to make this event more accessible for you, please email associates@spikeisland.org.uk or call our reception on 0117 929 2266.
This is a private event for current members of the Kaleidoscope Network only.
This event has been organised by Eastside Projects for the Kaleidoscope Network, a collaboration between Eastside Projects (Birmingham), Primary (Nottingham), Spike Island (Bristol), and The NewBridge Project (Newcastle). NewBridge members are automatically part of the Kaleidoscope Network.
Thursday 16 May 2024
6–7.15pm
This event is accessed remotely online.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
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