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English spoken

Through her fascination with recorded material Helen Dowling creates video installations, images and sculptures that engage with the language of editing, emotion, mimesis, anthropomorphism and the empathic capacity of moving image.

She studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Slade School of Fine Art, London and participated in residencies at Via Farini (Milan 2013) the 2 year residency program at the Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten (Amsterdam 2010/11) and Fondazione Antonio Ratti (Como, 2009).

Her work is currently exhibited in ‘Close-Up A New Generation of Film and Video Artists in the Netherlands’, EYE Filmmuseum (Amsterdam 2016) for which she was also selected as a guest artist to curate a series of videos for TheOneMinutes.

Recent presentations include ‘The Burning Time Slideshow’, Kazachenko’s Appartment (solo, Oslo 2015) Original Remix, Artericambi, (solo, Turin 2015), ‘The Story of the Stone’, Tale of a Tub (Rotterdam 2015, curated by Suzanne Wallinga), ‘Flesh of the World’, University of Toronto (Toronto 2015) and ‘VISIO’, Villa Romana (Florence 2014).  Dowling has received awards from The Henry Moore Foundation (GB), Fellowship Cees en Inge de Bruin-Heijn (NL) and Cecchi as part of VISIO – European Workshop on Artists’ Moving Images in Florence (2014).

This summer she will be in residence at Kunsthuis SYB, NL.

About Extra Academy :

‘Extra Academy’ is the spontaneous alliance of Extra City Kunsthal Antwerpen and the two art schools of the city, the Royal Academy of Fine Arts and Sint-Lucas Antwerpen. It involves close collaboration with a network of guests and students.

‘Extra Academy’ is a structural service ‘in progress’, offering different tools and trajectories as a supplement to – or disturbance of – academic models and reflexes. Its open program of lectures, performances, workshops, exhibitions and screenings is designed to trigger alternative questions about modes of knowledge production, of research and practice. It probes gaps and unexpected solutions, teasing out the point where ideas materialise, where they are confronted with their palpable consequences. It believes that theory is not an allegory of practice.

‘Extra Academy’ listens, looks, asks and wonders. It collects and distributes conversations, it inquires about the educational turn in the arts and about the turn that will dislodge it, while providing time and space for a plasticity of ideas to manifest themselves.

Language English