A trace of a virtual residency in social practice (2020)

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Sarah Dixon and UNIDEE 2020

Virtual Residency Sketchbook - 'Oracles of UNIDEE' - intensive week peers Zoom portraits. Image credit: Sarah Dixon.

This is a guided Zoom tour of a Residency of socially engaged artists that met virtually in Italy, using Zoom, Gmail, Google Docs, Whatsapp, Facebook Messenger, Google Meet, Padlet, Hotglue, PDFs, screenshots, paper, ink, pencil, a decommissioned phonebox, letters, drawings and hand-copying (human as photocopier) - and more - to communicate with each other.

The film is made on Zoom and WeVideo. The Residency was UNIDEE 2020 - Embedded Arts in a Post-Pandemic Future. About 40 social-practice artists took part from around the globe with varying internet access and quality.

To watch a film about the residency, click the video below:

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Sarah Dixon

Born in London, raised in Cyprus and the Middle East, and now based in rural England, Dixon is a socially-engaged conceptual artist using primarily painting, participation, performance and installation. Her work explores collaborative art making and ideas around how the 'human social organism' can be reinvented. Self-taught, By training a biologist, she has worked in the Amazon, the Hindu Kush and elsewhere. As co-founder of The Women’s Art Activation System, with Sharon Bennett - she activates women’s art, specifically pushing at the limits placed on middle-aged women with children. Her work has been shown at the ICA, QUAD Gallery, Oblong Gallery and on a cyberbus in Moscow. During the 2020 pandemic lockdown, Dixon created a phone box community art show, performed via Zoom at Grace Exhibition Space New York, received an Arts Council England Emergency Grant and took part in UNIDEED 2020 virtual residency in Biella, Italy.

https://sarahdixonfineart.co.uk/