Collaborating with artist Théodora Lecrinier under the moniker of Dyad Creative since 2014, our practice explores notions of making, performance, administration and curation. Dyad Creative exists at the intersection of these disciplines and encompasses the work made by us together as a duo, as well as the work achieved in collaboration with others and the residencies, events and projects we have facilitated as managers and administrators of various creative spaces.
At the heart of this shape-shifting activity is an ethos based on the friendship between the two of us.
Thanks to a continuous shuttling between the roles of practising artists, co-ordinators of spaces and collaborators on projects, we have experience in arts education, event co-ordination, artistic development and the organisation of community projects. This has provided insight and a keen interest in the means it takes to survive as an artist in the current landscape.
Alongside an ongoing exploration into the creative potential and dynamics of space, we allow the matter of what it takes to be an artist today to run through both our creative and administrative output as theme and as motivation, constantly seeking to perform every aspect of Dyad Creative’s work with a care for the interpersonal and interdisciplinary nature of art-making.
This collaboration is now shifting after we have each relocated, instead working towards a transnational dialogue between the UK and France that will see our practice morph into new forms.
Self-organised is a long-term research strand that seeks to explore self-organised activity as methodology. Concerned with what it means to survive as an artist today and the role of the artist in today’s society, this work investigates how models of collaboration and collectivsation might be tools for survival.
Current reading: Self-Organised - eds. Stine Hebert & Ane Szefer Karlson / Failure (Whitechapel Documents of Contmeporary Art) - ed. Lisa Le Feuvre