Beatrice Jarvis: Choreography BA(Hons) graduate
BA(Hons) Choreography with Visual Art Practices, 2005 - 2008
My time at the University College provided me with a diverse artistic and academic skills base. As a student I exhibited in a range of locations and countries - including a multi-disciplinary arts festival in the South of France, Beyond the Bubble (funded by the British Council) in my first year, and spent time living and studying urban space in Berlin in my third year. These experiences really built my practice as an artist, which I now continue on a professional level.
I'm now in London, continuing the research I began during my degree. I'm an urban space creative facilitator, choreographer and curator, expressing my explorations in a diverse range of media - chiefly photography, performance, film and writing. I'm currently developing a model around the impact of the urban environment on creativity, activity and interaction in urban space, and contextualising this within the wider fields of town planning, social, political and historical theory.
I've also worked at T1+2, Sporevri, Frieze, Zoo and still work at Jerwood Space. I'm now funded by Arts Council (North Bank Gallery Project and West Kensington Arts) and the AHRC for my research studentship at Goldsmiths. This is a dream to me.
For her contextual enquiry project, begun at the start of her third year, Beatrice travelled to Ernst Busch Hochschule in Berlin, Germany as an exchange student. She explored the idea of making work in large disused spaces; sewing the seeds of an idea about art helping with regeneration.
During this time, Beatrice also wrote an article for Monu, a
magazine about urbanism and worked with sound artists whose area of
practice includes recording the sounds of the city. Beatrice also
documented her impressions and everything else in a massive series of
large black and white photographs.
Since completing her course, she has travelled in France and Spain taking pictures, giving performances and putting on exhibitions. Beatrice has also been documenting Venice. This documentary material was submitted to the Venetian Architectural Biennale in 2009. She has also been working on a public art strategy for a marketing company in Brighton and has been organising dance performances in London.
In May 2009, Beatrice was commissioned to provide a series of pieces for the Rough Guide and a London-based culture agency, comparing the cultural activity of the UK with remote areas of China.
Beatrice
describes her practice as "searching and questioning, using the city
street as inspiration; asking whether the nature of this inspiration
changes as cities expand, develop and are transformed". She says that on
the one hand she is constructing many different interventions in the
city, intuitively using it as her studio and, on the other hand, she is
creating a naturalistic choreography where performers do not know they
are performing and perhaps where she is the only member of the audience.
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