Who's who

Gillian Wylde

Senior Lecturer

‘My experience is that it’s better to explore life and make mistakes than to play it safe’
Sophia Loren 1979

PRACTICE

Gillian Wylde is a London-based visual artist working with video performance activities, installations and object-led work. Her practice alludes to instances appropriated from the unpopular popular, the extraordinary everyday and high vs. low art and things.

Comedy + trauma = traumedy as a rupture in aesthetics + little investigations/big ideas of the pathetic, poetics + shoddiness. Temporalities and timing vs the rubbishy within the composite live or mediated moment like maybe a rude smell or hairy logic.

MAIN RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FOCUS

(Susan Sontag, Morrissey, and Gertrude Stein in the same room at the same time).

Duration timing waiting boredom walking and nothing. Cinema and film video and super8 phenomenology editing as a metaphor television drawing and printmaking mark-making DIY tearing things.

Girl bands electricity and vibration noise and nowotony and the moment pataphysics repetition desire love chance and dirt trashy/ beauty aesthetics exchange and encounter.

Unbecoming animals/fur hair allergies dogness and pop poppy music/culture failure Mary Douglas & caves mountains un-natural histories/habitats Practical and conceptual excavations levitation and static switching things on and off things that revolve things that move up and/or down.

Language and text speaking and not speaking uncanny silences ur-languages writing and things

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Recent work includes;
2007 “Wintry” group show, Lounge Gallery London.

2007 Alytus Biennial 2 International Festival of Experimental Art Lithuania Organizers:? Artists Gathering Erdves & Alytus Art School Curator: Mantas Kazakevi?ius

2007 Spacex Exeter Summer Screen Programme Video works

2007 South Hill Park Bracknell commissioned artist practice-led development platform supporting 4 commissioned artists to create new work in response to rules that challenge habits and stimulate creativity’

2006 Taoh Residency Stavanger City Norway- “is kylling bogg bogg” series of video works and installation which emerged out of a 3 week residency in Stavanger City

2006 GeekFest Poole, Dorset ‘one million years bc-ac/dc’ site work commission for one of six beach huts in http://www.geekfest.org.uk/ - A durational performance exploration project investigating ‘success, deferred success and failure’ part 1. learning to play drums on a full drum kit using- 'Introducing the complete drums home video tutor' whilst making connections to the evolutionary notions of the 'missing link' a work in progress which sets up a situation to learn/fail at new skills within a performative and durational situation. includes very real instances of intellectual fields of escape, pre-historic feelings, ur-langauges and or forms and things- on-going project into 2007

2006 Lounge Gallery London, Midlands Art Centre Birmingham. ‘the story of my object (turdus merula merula)’ Video installation- the work developed out of an uncanny encounter with a real living blackbird and considers the uneasy and unromantic attitudes towards a bucolic and ‘abjected’ sublime nature