Sadie Edginton
MA work
MA work
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Editing interview footage from the Bureau of Disengagement project, Sadie Edginton 2018
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Film still from the Looking/ Knowing Project, Sadie Edginton, made with collaborators from of The ROSE Art Club 2018
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Film still from the Looking/ Knowing Project, Sadie Edginton, made with collaborators from of The ROSE Art Club 2018
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Student-ran-School Project, Saatchi Gallery Education, Sadie Edginton, made with collaborators from three secondary schools 2017
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Student-ran-School Project, Saatchi Gallery Education, Sadie Edginton, made with collaborators from three secondary schools 2017
Bureau of Disengagement
For Show RCA, Sadie exhibits her research around the politics of disengagement, which displays differing approaches to the 'problem' of resistance to the parallel streams of education, productivity and labour.
With the term engagement now recognised as a trope in art-institutions, we must ask, 'what behavior does it endorse, and who is being identified according to their lack of activity?'. By contrasting current government engagement literature with resistance theory, the display follows multiple trajectories. Do the public institutions we inhabit daily, allow enough space to incubate the freedoms they communicate, or is behavior policed in line with visions of a perpetually trained and labouring body?Â
Texts and interviews are situated within a display structure that combines the aesthetics of schooling apparatus with gallery audience feedback displays. The form of the playful, exercise framework is one introduced from childhood. It hints at a dual engagement, both of the student body, as well as the gallery-visitor’s mental faculties, absorbed in the pseudo-democratic opinion-sharing that the art-viewing experience may offer.
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MA Degree
School
School of Arts & Humanities
Programme
MA Contemporary Art Practice, 2018
Specialism
public-sphere
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Contact
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Sadie's practice is concerned with unraveling the politics of engagement in both education and the arts, as well as promoting a collaborative pedagogical process as a mode for art practice.
For Show RCA, Sadie exhibits her politics of disengagement research project, which displays multiple approaches to dealing with resistant behaviour in education, questioning notions of productivity and labour.
Sadie’s MA dissertation project, ‘Another way of thinking: towards the educational’ was focussed on the ongoing practices continuing from the ‘pedagogical turn’ identified ten years ago. Writing through the process of a six-month gallery project with three secondary schools, the lack of criticality in gallery education was analysed through critical pedagogy. Deconstructing the negotiations between institutions and participants, the position of a critical art educator became possible. The text was concerned with problematising the artist-educator scenario, the effects of neoliberalism and future alternative and feminist educational practices.
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Degrees
- BA Sculpture, Camberwell College of Art, 2007
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Experience
- Artist, Art Hoppers, London, 2016–current; Learning Activity Assistant, Geffrye Museum, London, 2016–2018); Artist Team Workshop Assistant, Project Art Works, Hastings, 2015–2016; Administration Assistant, Primary Schools, London, 2016; Resident Artist, Kids Tent, Farm Fest, Somerset, 2016–2017; Technician, Somerset House, White Wall Company, 2016–current; Curator, Post Workshop day, OSE and Gasworks International Artists, Guest Projects, 2015; Producer, NAVIGATE, Artist development workshops, London, 2013; Workshop Artist, Autism + Me, Chisenhale Dance Space, 2013
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Exhibitions
- Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, 2018; Equal Voices, Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2018; The Student-run-School, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2017; Alt MFA Annual Residency, Guest Projects, 2017; AltMFA: States of Flux, Art Licks, London, 2017; Burlington Gardens Summer Festival, Royal Academy, London, 2016; Gallery KUB, Leipsig, 2015; Launch Pad 4, Espacio Gallery, London, 2015; Hackney Wick Takeover, V & A Lates, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, 2014; Rhizome, Camden Image Gallery, London, 2014; Berlin Month of Performance HUB and DA*14, Berlin, 2014; SALON, Bryggergaarden, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2013; Unperforming, Departure Foundation, London, 2013; A Table, Arbeit Gallery, London, 2013; What Audience?, (Co-Curated with Leonora Aunstrup), The Old Dentist, London, 2013