Curating Contemporary Art (MA)
Louise Nason
So remember the liquid ground is conceived as a programme of meditative and sensorial experiences across the digital, physical and spiritual realms. The immersive programme features newly commissioned live sound streaming, moving images and performances, contributed by Soundcamp collective, Myriam Lefkowitz and Julie Laporte, Zoë Marden, Eduardo Navarro, Anna Nazo, Himali Singh Soin and Linda Stupart. Responding to and expanding from the forgotten social histories and ecologies of Vauxhall in London, the programme has been inspired by the secret and suppressed River Effra, which flows underneath the area. The river acts as a way to re-imagine, navigate, feel, and find ways in which we connect and synchronise with our surroundings.
The programme also includes a Reading Room that acts as a circadian space for collective imagining and reflection on the body beyond authoritative representation, with contributions from Clay AD, Chus Martínez, Helga Schmid, Ignota, PaperWork Magazine and NXS. So remember the liquid ground is curated by Benjamin Darby, Yoojin Kang, Akis Kokkinos, Angelina Li, Lenette Lua, Louise Nason as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects 2020, Royal College of Art in partnership with Gasworks.
It is also generously supported by Vauxhall One.
Image: Watershed video, Linda Stupart, 2020. Copyright of the artist.
Sponsors
Vauxhall One
Louise Nason is a print specialist and independent curator. Her practice focuses on the notion of care, empathy and the ethical responsibilities of curators and their relationship between artist, audience and place. Louise is actively engaged in heightening inclusivity for both artists and audiences, through dismantling inherent hierarchical structures in the cultural sector.
Her particular interests lie in exploring and investigating local, social histories with the intention to reveal quietened voices and silenced stories; to bring attention to the hitherto suppressed, both human and more-than-human, in order to develop new conversations and knowledge production.
Louise is increasingly focused and committed to bringing into her practice more sustainable working methods for exhibition-making.
Her dissertation, Seeing the Unseen explored and raised questions around the ethical implications of displaying photographic images of war, cruelty and human suffering in an exhibition context. The dissertation investigates and unpacks the often-uncomfortable issue of the aestheticisation of images depicting atrocities and humanitarian crises.
The graduate project which Louise co-curated was called So remember the liquid ground, with partner Gasworks artist residency in Vauxhall, London. The online programme showcased the work of seven artists, including live performances, sound and video. The artists commissioned were invited to think of water not just as a metaphor “water has a nearly unlimited ability to convey metaphors” (Illich, H2O and Waters of Forgetfulness, 1986), but to consider water as a medium for communication and connection; for holding local stories, memories, reflecting layered histories and for being a reservoir for silenced voices.
Prior to the RCA, Louise was a senior print specialist at Christie’s, London, specialising in 18-20th Century prints.
Louise studied the History of Drawing and Printmaking at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL, graduating with honours.
She has a Diploma in Art and Design from Christie's Education and an Art Foundation from Wimbledon College of Art.
Louise is Founder and Creative Director of Melt, London and Co-Founder of Collectionet.
Image: by Charlotte Nason. Copyright of the artist.
