Alexandra Davenport
MA work
MA work
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#1 - elbow lever, 14.05.18
in rehearsal for 'Circuit Training' -
a gesture of delay, 2018-03-26 12.13.02
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#3 - knee joint, 14.05.18
in rehearsal for 'Circuit Training'
Circuit Training, (exercises in self-doubt)
The body as material and body as apparatus. 'Circuit Training' is a live choreographic work, which focuses on fragmented (parts of the body) via delineated exercise-style segments:
The body; (knee joints, elbow levers, hip-bones)
— fractious fragments
The circuit; (winding, weaving, coiling)
— suturing them back together
In conversation with 'To be confirmed: exercises in self-doubt' — a collection of three essays, ('Morphology of the Hit', 'Circuit Training' & 'Body Language') written by the artist and published on the occasion of The Royal College of Art Degree Show, 2018.
Info
Info
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MA Degree
School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
MA Photography, 2018
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Contact
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+44 (0) 7714 036861
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Notes on choreography:
Signalling back to my history in dance, I use the term ‘choreography’ quite specifically when framing my work. Staging and tableau are commonly used terms in relation to the photographic, (staging borrowed from theatre and tableau predominantly from painting) — but I use the term 'choreographic' as a means of bringing us back to the body and the performativity of the photographic gesture.
Image making as dance — dancing for around the image.
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a gestural image; — to be distilled
still
In search of the image.
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Degrees
- BA (Hons) Photography, London College of Communication, 2013
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Experience
- Studio Manager, Cloud & Horse Ltd, London, 2018 -
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Exhibitions
- Night Visions, Museum of London, London, 2018; Summer Showcase, Cloud & Horse Studios, London, 2017; Burning with Pleasure, Curious Duke Gallery, London, 2015; Emergency Meeting, part of Art Licks Weekender, SafeHouse 2, London, 2015; The London Art Book Fair (showing with Archipelago books), Whitechapel Gallery, London, 2015; Athens Photo Festival, Benaki Museum, Athens, 2015; Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast, 2015
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Awards
- Nominated for the Genesis Postgraduate Bursary Prize, 2018; Winner of the Belfast Photo Festival Open Submission Prize, 2015; Recipient of the Michael Wilson Printing Prize, 2013
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Publications
- Jessie Bond, 'RCA Photography Showcased at the Museum of London' [online], Interview, 2018; ‘Morphology of the Hit’ [online], Novelty Magazine, Spinning Stories Issue #10, 2017; Another Magazine [online], Study for Mime feature with TjejLand, 2016; 'Squashing Vibes', book curated by Emergency Meeting, published by Kiosk books, London, 2016; Quarter Magazine, Issue 1, featuring work from 'Exercises I-III’, 2016; Aesthetica Magazine, 'Unexpected Performances', Issue 55, 2014, pp. 124-127; Source Magazine, 'Source Graduate Photography', John Duncan Selection, 2013